12/23/1948
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"The record will show that for the past five years I have repeatedly recommended that the Congress enact legislation of this character."
"Their reports were most satisfactory and highly gratifying to me."
"I am just as strongly in favor of it today as I have ever been."
"It is clear that we could not possibly make available the installations and trained military manpower to put a universal training program into operation at this time or in the immediately foreseeable ..."