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On the recordApril 21, 1949
I felt it my duty to bring to your attention that the expenditures that are being made for peace are in the hope that we won't have to make a war expenditure, and that they have to be made unless we want to begin to prepare for war.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at a Meeting with the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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