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