Harry Truman actually said...

I urgently request that this rider be eliminated before the Congress completes its action on this bill.

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on Appropriations for Atomic Energy.

07/04/1952

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If we let Europe go cold and hungry, we may lose some of the foundations of order on which the hope for world-wide peace must rest.