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Harry Truman: Nothing more contemptible has ever occurred in the long history of human spite and envy.

On the recordOctober 6, 1952
Nothing more contemptible has ever occurred in the long history of human spite and envy.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address at Colorado Springs

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