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Harry Truman: It is a basic and enduring purpose of the foreign policy of the United States to play the part of the good neighbor in…

On the recordFebruary 20, 1949
It is a basic and enduring purpose of the foreign policy of the United States to play the part of the good neighbor in that community.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Bill Extending the Institute of Inter-American Affairs.

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