Harry Truman actually said...

I have said to the kids that come to see me--the future farmers, the Boy Scouts-that I would give anything in the world if I were a 16-year-old boy now, because then I could live to see the next 50 years.

Context

Remarks at Dinner Honoring Michael V. DiSalle.

02/12/1952

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