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Harry Truman: “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…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 1952
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.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at Dinner Honoring Michael V. DiSalle.

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