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Harry Truman: We will have to take risks during the coming year--risks perhaps greater than any this country has been called upon to…

On the recordMarch 16, 1948
We will have to take risks during the coming year--risks perhaps greater than any this country has been called upon to assume.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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St. Patrick's Day Address in New York City

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