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Harry Truman: It would require us to expand the medical organization in the Veterans' Administration to provide extra services at a…

On the recordSeptember 5, 1950
It would require us to expand the medical organization in the Veterans' Administration to provide extra services at a time when the country's medical resources are already strained to the point that has made it necessary to ask for legislation to induct medical personnel into the Armed Forces under Selective Service.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Veto of Bill Relating to Spanish-American War Veterans.

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