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On the recordAugust 10, 1950
While I have felt obliged, for the foregoing considerations, to withhold my approval from this measure, I recognize that there will, perhaps, be many occasions when users of population data for cities would like a convenient source of information concerning areas for which official boundaries have been changed.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Veto of Bill Relating to the Census in South Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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