Harry Truman: “We are too apt to forget how long it took, and how difficult it was…”

On the recordNovember 14, 1949

We are too apt to forget how long it took, and how difficult it was, to get the States to unite in the United States as we know it now.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Address at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.

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