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Harry Truman: I stand by my friends.

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Address in Hartford, Connecticut

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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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We built the Bureau of Reclamation's great new Hungry Horse Dam in Montana not as an isolated structure, but as a part of the Columbia Basin system.

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It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

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