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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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