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Harry Truman: Well, don't you know that it's a solid rule that the economy must always be in the other fellow's district and not mine?

On the recordAugust 24, 1949
Well, don't you know that it's a solid rule that the economy must always be in the other fellow's district and not mine?
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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