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Harry Truman: Just the other day, Mr. Leslie Biffle, in cleaning out an old dust-covered bookcase in the Senate Library, found some…

On the recordJune 17, 1952
Just the other day, Mr. Leslie Biffle, in cleaning out an old dust-covered bookcase in the Senate Library, found some original documents signed by Washington and Jefferson and Polk, Madison, and Monroe.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks to Members of the Eighth Annual Institute on the Preservation and Administration of Archives.

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