Harry Truman actually said...

I am directing the Veterans' Administration, the War Department and the High Commissioner to the Philippines to give consideration to a practicable method of providing some educational opportunity for the Philippine veteran and of assuring, so far as possible, employment for him.

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting Bill on Philippine Veterans'

05/17/1946

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