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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 24, 1949

I hope that your Committee and the Congress will act favorably on legislation to carry out these recommendations.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 24, 1949

I believe that these recommendations will provide for the achievement of the greatest possible benefits for the people of California and the Nation from the multiplepurpose use of the waters to be controlled by the Dam.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 23, 1949

They believed us when we said that is what we are intending to implement, and they are going to stay with us while we do it.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 23, 1949

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, April 6, 1949, as Army Day

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 23, 1949

Thomas Jefferson first enunciated the principle that the source of power is in the people, and that the people are to be trusted in the conduct of their government.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 23, 1949

So I have to go over to the Statler, and with Senator Barkley reiterate those same principles on which the Senator and I were elected.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 23, 1949

I always call him boss, because he was the Floor Leader of the Democratic Party all the 10 years that I was in the Senate, and I never did call him any other way but the man who knows where he is going, and what he is doing--and he does.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 23, 1949

Within several weeks I expect to have a message on health insurance and the health situation generally.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Feb 23, 1949

What I feel tonight is not personal pride or elation; it is a deep satisfaction that our party has served its country so well that the people have endorsed it for the fifth consecutive time.

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