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Harry Truman: No nation can afford this needless peacetime waste of the lives of its citizens in traffic accidents.

On the recordJune 1, 1949
No nation can afford this needless peacetime waste of the lives of its citizens in traffic accidents.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address to the President's Conference on Highway Safety.

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