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Harry Truman: “We have Government principally to act as, say, an umpire, to see that everybody gets a square deal.”

On the recordSeptember 12, 1946
We have Government principally to act as, say, an umpire, to see that everybody gets a square deal.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at a Meeting With the National Conference of Business Paper Editors

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