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Harry Truman: If we permit its use, our constitutional form of government can be destroyed.

On the recordSeptember 16, 1952
If we permit its use, our constitutional form of government can be destroyed.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address Before the National Conference on Citizenship

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