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On the recordApril 16, 1947
And another thing I want to say to you gentlemen is that the fact that we have a bipartisan foreign policy is due to the fact that Cordell Hull, way back in the early part of his administration, began calling in the members of the Foreign Relations Committees of the House and the Senate and explaining to them the things that were before the country in foreign affairs.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at a Meeting With the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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