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Harry Truman: It takes years and years, you know, for a man to drive a steam engine down the tracks which it can't get off, yet we let…

On the recordJune 1, 1949
It takes years and years, you know, for a man to drive a steam engine down the tracks which it can't get off, yet we let anybody get a driving license for an automobile whether he knows front from back or right from left.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address to the President's Conference on Highway Safety.

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