Harry Truman actually said...

Thomas Jefferson has been endlessly praised for adding 827,000 square miles to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase.

Address at the State Capitol, Raleigh, North Carolina

10/18/1948

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You had better ask him. I don't know.

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