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Harry Truman: “But I don't think anyone ought to take his complaints about the Government spending too seriously until he has gone to…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 1951
But I don't think anyone ought to take his complaints about the Government spending too seriously until he has gone to the trouble of finding out what it is all about.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Cornerstone Laying of the New General Accounting Office Building.

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