Harry Truman actually said...

We simply cannot afford a penny-wise-pound-foolish attitude about the cost of adequate civil defense.

Message to the Congress Transmitting the first Annual Report of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

04/23/1952

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I am always hopeful for peace.

I can't give you any details of the campaign yet.

They will not get any confidential information on him.

No comment of any sort on any of these foreign questions at all, except the one about General Clay.