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On the recordNovember 14, 1949
Let us not be too impatient at the seemingly slow progress we are now making toward the goal of world peace--a goal which, despite all difficulties, we shall certainly attain.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.

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