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Harry Truman: We are going to get the truth to those people, and we won't have to do it with guns, I am sure.

On the recordOctober 12, 1950
We are going to get the truth to those people, and we won't have to do it with guns, I am sure.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Pearl Harbor at the Commissioned Officers Mess.

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