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On the recordSeptember 7, 1949
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your interest in this, by your presence here, and I hope that the next conference in 1950 will be the most important and most forward-looking and successful one that we have ever had.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks to Members of the National Committee for the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth.

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