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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 23, 1950

On this day of prayer and religious dedication and for the coming New Year, I want also to extend to our friends in other lands the best wishes of the people of the United States and my own personal wishes on this holiday which has come to…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 23, 1950

Let us pray at this Christmastime for the wisdom, the humility, and the courage to carry on in this faith.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 23, 1950

We should ask for courage, wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to them who place their lives in His hands.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 23, 1950

I want to say to you that I never have a day when one duty constitutes all I have to do.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 23, 1950

I don't want to see a tavern or anything of the sort go on this corner where that church has been, and if I can prevent it, it is not going there.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 22, 1950

I hope that you have a most prosperous year, and that everything goes as well in the future chapters as it did in 1913.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 21, 1950

I am going to address you on Sunday afternoon, on Christmas and what I think it means, particularly this one.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 20, 1950

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of August 8, 1950, Public Law 673, 81st Congress, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make without the approval of the President such regulations with the force and effect…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 19, 1950

In lieu of the payment of actual expenses of transportation, packing, crating, drayage, and unpacking of household goods and personal effects in the case of transfers between points within the continental United States, reimbursement shall…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Dec 19, 1950

The actual costs of transportation of the household goods and personal effects of the employee, not in excess of 7,000 pounds net, and of the packing, crates, boxes, lift vans, or other temporary containers required for the shipment, shall…

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