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Harry Truman: “To raise that standard should be, and is, the constant aim of your Government and the underlying basis of its policies.”

On the recordMarch 5, 1946
To raise that standard should be, and is, the constant aim of your Government and the underlying basis of its policies.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address in Columbus at a Conference of the Federal Council of Churches.

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