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Harry Truman: Study these things, and then you can't do but one thing.

On the recordOctober 20, 1952
Study these things, and then you can't do but one thing.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

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