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Harry Truman: We need all these things and need them fast before we can begin to feel reasonably secure about the defense of the…

On the recordApril 23, 1952
We need all these things and need them fast before we can begin to feel reasonably secure about the defense of the United States.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the first Annual Report of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

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