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Harry Truman: “This great country of ours is the hope of the free world, and we must make good on that hope.”

On the recordNovember 4, 1951
This great country of ours is the hope of the free world, and we must make good on that hope.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to Members of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

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