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Harry Truman: They can't tell me what to do. Taft-Hartley is a permissive piece of legislation to be used in peacetime.

On the recordJune 18, 1952
They can't tell me what to do. Taft-Hartley is a permissive piece of legislation to be used in peacetime.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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