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Harry Truman: “That is a mistake on my part. I dictated that letter and I said Quebec. It should have been Ontario.”

On the recordJune 18, 1952
That is a mistake on my part. I dictated that letter and I said Quebec. It should have been Ontario.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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