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Harry Truman: There could be no more useful expenditure of the taxpayers' funds.

On the recordJune 21, 1951
There could be no more useful expenditure of the taxpayers' funds.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Dedication of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

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