Harry Truman actually said...

This growth in the productive sector of our economy indicates that neither the size of the military build-up, nor the high level of taxation enacted to finance that build-up, has repressed business investment initiative.

Context

Annual Message to the Congress: The President's Economic Report

01/15/1952

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