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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 20, 1947

He will be Chief of Staff as soon as General Eisenhower goes to the Columbia University.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 20, 1947

Lt. General Littlejohn is supposed to be liquidated by next June, and that is due to the efforts of General Littlejohn.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 20, 1947

They have been allowed to purchase those things that are necessary for the rehabilitation of Russia's electric dams that were destroyed by the Germans, and some farm machinery.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 19, 1947

I call on the American people, the state and local committees, and all the organizations and groups, to continue their vigorous efforts in carrying out this program.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 19, 1947

The voluntary efforts inaugurated by your Committee will continue to be necessary to supplement the program which I have asked the Congress to authorize.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 16, 1947

The housewife who goes to buy food today must spend $10 to buy what $7 bought a year and a half ago.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 16, 1947

We should all ponder the following questions: What would it avail the farmer, in the long run, if farm prices should go substantially higher only to be followed by a disaster such as occurred after the first World War?

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 16, 1947

We cannot allow the strength of this Nation to be wasted and our people's confidence in our free institutions to be shaken by an economic catastrophe.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 16, 1947

Emergency aid is no substitute for a long-range recovery program, but it is a vital prerequisite to such a program.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Nov 16, 1947

Our people know that our influence in the world gives us an opportunity--unmatched in history--to conduct ourselves in such a manner that men and women of all the world can move out of the shadows of fear and war and into the light of…

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