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Harry Truman: “And I hope the time will come when you will expire from old age, because there won't be any foreign wars.”

On the recordFebruary 4, 1952
And I hope the time will come when you will expire from old age, because there won't be any foreign wars.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Veterans of foreign Wars Dinner.

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