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Harry Truman: All I do is to tell them the truth, and that hurts a lot worse than giving them hell.

On the recordOctober 3, 1952
All I do is to tell them the truth, and that hurts a lot worse than giving them hell.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco

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