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Harry Truman: You will have to learn to write shorthand.

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The President's News Conference

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I am glad that the Bill of Rights is at last to be exhibited side by side with the Constitution.

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

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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 venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.

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