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On the recordJune 3, 1947
On October 23, 1945, I recommended to the Congress the enactment of a system of universal training.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting Report of the Advisory Commission on...

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