Harry Truman actually said...

You need it too badly here in the Northwest to have it go out in the Pacific Ocean and go to waste.

Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Washington

06/08/1948

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The disarmament program is before the United Nations...

I think it is a perfectly absurd opinion.

Well, since April 12, 1945, I have been making a crusade--a continuing crusade--for peace...

I have been invited on several occasions. I hope sometime I will be able to make a visit there.