Harry Truman actually said...

I very carefully was trying to avoid it, because I don't know how to pronounce it: Louis St. Laurent-L-a-u-r-e-n-t--I don't know how to pronounce it--that's a French pronunciation.

Context

The President's News Conference

01/26/1949

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