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Harry Truman: “Anything you want to get done in reclamation and public works, you had better see Carl Hayden, for he knows everybody in…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 1951
Anything you want to get done in reclamation and public works, you had better see Carl Hayden, for he knows everybody in the Budget, he knows every Senator on this committee, and he knows every Representative on the same committee in the House.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at a Luncheon Given in His Honor by the Secretary of the Interior

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