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Harry Truman: “What we must do instead--what we are doing--is to make use of every opportunity we have to advance the arts of peace and…”

On the recordJune 13, 1952
What we must do instead--what we are doing--is to make use of every opportunity we have to advance the arts of peace and respond to human needs.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in Groton, Conn., at the Keel Laying of the first Atomic Energy Submarine.

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