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Harry Truman: It is important to start this program quickly, in order to profit from the lessons we are already learning.

On the recordJanuary 30, 1951
It is important to start this program quickly, in order to profit from the lessons we are already learning.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Letter to the Director, Bureau of the Budget, on the Establishment of a Federal History Program.

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