Harry Truman actually said...

You know, I pinned a medal on General Montgomery out here in the yard one day, shortly after the war, and he inquired of me why that building is called the White House.

Context

Remarks to the Foreign Delegates of the Inter-American Bar Association.

06/01/1949

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