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On the recordOctober 7, 1952
John Sparkman was the son of a tenant farmer in Alabama; and if there's anything he doesn't understand about agriculture, I can't imagine what it is.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address in Shenandoah, Iowa

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