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Harry Truman: Were we to do it in the Russian style we would drink 21 toasts.

On the recordApril 1, 1951
Were we to do it in the Russian style we would drink 21 toasts.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

The President's Toast at a Dinner for the Foreign Ministers of the Pan American Union

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