To raise that standard should be, and is, the constant aim of your Government and the underlying basis of its policies.
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
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Address in Columbus at a Conference of the Federal Council of Churches.
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