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On the recordJanuary 9, 1948
The policies on which this budget is based, therefore, mean that under present conditions of high costs, it is even more realistic and hard boiled than the 1948 budget was.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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The President's News Conference on the Budget

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