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Harry Truman: “The primary responsibility for meeting housing needs rests, and must continue to rest, with private industry, as I have…”

On the recordMay 26, 1947
The primary responsibility for meeting housing needs rests, and must continue to rest, with private industry, as I have stated on other occasions.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 3 of 1947.

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