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Harry Truman: “We cannot allow the strength of this Nation to be wasted and our people's confidence in our free institutions to be…”

On the recordNovember 16, 1947
We cannot allow the strength of this Nation to be wasted and our people's confidence in our free institutions to be shaken by an economic catastrophe.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress on the First Day of the Special Session

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