On the recordApril 24, 1952
I firmly believe that to cut below the Budget estimates would lose us far more than would be 'saved.'
Source
presidency.ucsb.eduHarry Truman: “I firmly believe that to cut below the Budget estimates would lose us far more than would be 'saved.'”
Editor's note · Context
Letter to Senator McKdlar on the Need for Restoring Funds for Flood Control.
Share
More from Harry Truman
Dec 14, 1952
The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
Jan 19, 1953
The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.
Dec 10, 1952
I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.
Dec 10, 1952
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.
Other voices in this conversation
