The President's News Conference
07/20/1949
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I also invite the Governors of the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United States and the appropriate officials of the va...
He performed his duties as Secretary of Defense with vigorous leadership, fearlessness, integrity, selflessness, and unstinted expenditure o...
He courageously and with statesman-like skill led in the resolving of vast, complex and innumerable problems in the manifold and unexplored ...
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Thursday, April 14, 1949, as Pan American ...