Harry Truman actually said...

It is now time for us also to look ahead and assure ourselves that our own policies are those which will serve best to reinforce our economic strength and that of the other free nations of the world.

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Letter to Gordon Gray Regarding His Appointment as Special Assistant to the President

04/02/1950

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