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On the recordJanuary 9, 1951
I was in a field in July 1912, driving a binder and binding wheat, and there was a little telegraph station about a quarter of a mile from one corner of that field which, being 160 acres, was half a mile long on each side--2 miles altogether--and when I had driven around it each time, I would go to the telegraph station to see how the convention in Baltimore was coming along.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award Ceremonies

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