Harry Truman: “We will fight for the repeal of that good-for-nothing Taft-Hartley Act.”

The experience of this early period of public action showed that constant vigilance and competent professional guidance are essential to prevent irreparable losses.

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.

It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.

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