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Harry Truman: We cannot afford to follow that course again.No person can be harmed in any way by furnishing the information required.

On the recordMarch 17, 1950
We cannot afford to follow that course again.No person can be harmed in any way by furnishing the information required.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2876—Seventeenth Decennial Census

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