Harry Truman: “The 80th Congress had been hitting sledge-hammer blows at the very…”

On the recordSeptember 4, 1949

The 80th Congress had been hitting sledge-hammer blows at the very foundations of farm opportunity.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Labor Day Address in Des Moines at the Convention of the American Veterans of World War II.

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Harry Truman: “The 80th Congress had been hitting sledge-hammer blows at the very foundations of farm opportunity.”