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Harry Truman: I regard it as most unfortunate that Congressional failure to waive legal technicalities will deprive the Nation of the…

On the recordOctober 26, 1951
I regard it as most unfortunate that Congressional failure to waive legal technicalities will deprive the Nation of the kind of objective study which would have helped all of us in our task of keeping our democratic standards high at home while we are engaged in resisting the thrust of Soviet Communism.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to the Chairman, Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights.

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