Harry Truman: “I thought the press had been extremely kind to me, and that the young…”

On the recordApril 16, 1947

I thought the press had been extremely kind to me, and that the young men who represent you gentlemen here had done a good job of reporting.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at a Meeting With the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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