A universal training program would eradicate that situation, and I hope that you gentlemen, my friends in the National Guard, will put everything you have behind the idea of a training program for the youth of this country, to make them better citizens, to make them able to defend their country when it is necessary.
Harry Truman: “A universal training program would eradicate that situation, and I hope that you gentlemen, my friends in the National…”
On the recordOctober 24, 1950
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Remarks to Members of the National Guard Association
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