Harry Truman actually said...

The major expansion in our defense expenditures is one part of our total program to enable us and the other free nations to save the world from another and more frightful global war.

Context

Letter to the Speaker Transmitting the Budget for the Military Functions of the Department of Defense.

04/29/1951

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