Harry Truman: “The military assistance program is to prevent aggression.”

On the recordAugust 21, 1949

The military assistance program is to prevent aggression.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Address in Miami at the Golden Jubilee Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.

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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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That is his duty. That is his duty.

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