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Harry Truman: This is one issue which is bipartisan, and that partisanship should stop at the water's edge; and it has stopped just…

On the recordJune 17, 1948
This is one issue which is bipartisan, and that partisanship should stop at the water's edge; and it has stopped just there.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Rear Platform Remarks in Pennsylvania and Maryland

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