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On the recordJune 5, 1948
Again, I hope that when I come here I can talk to you straight from the shoulder on certain things that confront this country.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in Nebraska and Wyoming

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It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.

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Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.

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