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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 22, 1948

I recommend that the Congress enact at the present session legislation directed toward five objectives.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 22, 1948

The Virgin Islands Company is our greatest hope for the stabilization of the economy of St. Croix, and I sincerely hope the Congress is going to recharter it.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 22, 1948

In conclusion, the program of action I have recommended is designed to meet the immediate housing needs of the Nation and at the same time to lay a sound basis for the years ahead.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 22, 1948

The vigorous program of research to develop new building materials and more efficient building methods, on which the building industry has made an encouraging start, can be aided by the Government, particularly through such research…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 4, 1948

It seems to me that I heard a question like that last year, about what they were going to do to my budget.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 4, 1948

I am going to keep telling Congress just what the situation is, and the Congress will have to act itself.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 4, 1948

I don't know enough about the situation, only just what I read in the papers.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 4, 1948

The Constitution, containing the Bill of Rights, was the only document considered in the writing of that message.

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