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Harry Truman: “We must face the fact that we have forever put behind us the false security of isolationism.”

On the recordAugust 21, 1949
We must face the fact that we have forever put behind us the false security of isolationism.
Said by
Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in Miami at the Golden Jubilee Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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