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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 31, 1945

They hope that our desire to see our soldiers and sailors home again and the temptation to return to the comforts and profits of peace will force us to settle for some compromise short of unconditional surrender.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 31, 1945

It will be good business for the Government, because every dollar we spend in collection and enforcement will produce $20 or more in revenue.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 31, 1945

The reasons which moved him are the same as those which now prompt this action by me.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 30, 1945

Dear Steve: I am very loath to see June first come around because, as you state in your very kind letter of the twenty-eighth, it means that you are definitely leaving your official post at the White House.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 30, 1945

My best wishes go with you in your new venture and in anything you undertake.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 30, 1945

You have given me the benefit not only of your long experience in the White House, but of your innate wisdom and sound judgment; and I am sure that, without you, my task would have been much more difficult.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 30, 1945

You know that it is no mere politeness for me to say that I hate to see you go.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 30, 1945

I know from the lips of President Roosevelt how much you meant to him, and how much he relied upon you.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

Let us observe this Flag Day by raising our Flag and beside it the flags of the United Nations.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

We must provide maximum security to those who have given so fully of themselves on the fighting and production fronts.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

It is our custom each year to set aside a day on which to render special honor to our Flag.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

Our Flag will be planted in the heart of the empire of our last remaining enemy.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

I urge the people of the United States on that day to fly the American Flag from their homes.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

We celebrate Flag Day this year with a fresh sense of our strength as a nation.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

The Government has thus incurred a moral obligation to these workers and to those who have stuck faithfully to their posts in the past.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

Adequate unemployment insurance is an indispensable form of prosperity insurance.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

The transition from war to peace is part and parcel of the war and we cannot shirk our obligation to those temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· May 27, 1945

Decent unemployment benefits would serve as a bulwark against postwar deflation.

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