09/06/1950
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"I made my position perfectly clear in the message, and the whole legislative end of the thing is with the Congress."
"It has been customary all during the war--if you remember, the Defense Plant Corporation built $20 million worth of plants, most of them integrated with private industry plants."
"The message speaks for itself."
"I urge their passage in their present form."