On the recordApril 23, 1952
We simply cannot afford a penny-wise-pound-foolish attitude about the cost of adequate civil defense.
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presidency.ucsb.eduHarry Truman: “We simply cannot afford a penny-wise-pound-foolish attitude about the cost of adequate civil defense.”
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Message to the Congress Transmitting the first Annual Report of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.
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