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Harry Truman: “The program has been carefully reviewed in order to bring its total cost down to a practicable minimum.”

On the recordMay 28, 1952
The program has been carefully reviewed in order to bring its total cost down to a practicable minimum.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to Senator Maybank on the Atomic Energy Program.

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