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Harry Truman: “Let the questioners tell me the sense in which they were using it, and then I will explain it to you.”

On the recordMarch 10, 1948
Let the questioners tell me the sense in which they were using it, and then I will explain it to you.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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