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Harry Truman: I don't see any sense in increasing the Federal national debt when we have got a prosperous country such as we have now…

On the recordJanuary 12, 1951
I don't see any sense in increasing the Federal national debt when we have got a prosperous country such as we have now, and we ought to pay as we go.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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The President's News Conference on the Budget

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