Harry Truman: “To suggest the contrary is to slander our institutions and defame our…”

On the recordApril 3, 1949

To suggest the contrary is to slander our institutions and defame our ideals and our aspirations.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Address on the Occasion of the Signing of the North Atlantic Treaty

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Harry Truman: “To suggest the contrary is to slander our institutions and defame our ideals and our aspirations.”