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Harry Truman: In putting in gas and electric lights, and fixtures and things in the house, the supporting timbers had been sawn…

On the recordAugust 21, 1952
In putting in gas and electric lights, and fixtures and things in the house, the supporting timbers had been sawn through in places--taken wedges out of them.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks to a Group of Students from Kansas High Schools

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