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On the recordJanuary 9, 1948
The remarkable thing about the budget to me is the fact that we have been able to hold it well below the 1948 fiscal year budget, and had it not been for our requirements for foreign aid and things of that sort, we would have been $3 1/2 billion below the 1948 budget.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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