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Harry Truman: “I read the preliminary part of the letter, and I was very happy to find one sentence in which Senator Byrd said he…”

On the recordDecember 27, 1950
I read the preliminary part of the letter, and I was very happy to find one sentence in which Senator Byrd said he wanted to cooperate with the Government of the United States and with the President in particular.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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