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Harry Truman: “I have never seen a bunch of newspapermen who were backward.”

On the recordApril 17, 1946
I have never seen a bunch of newspapermen who were backward.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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The President's Special Conference With the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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