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Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

— Harry S. Truman

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Harry S Truman, Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks (October 10, 1952) Batvia, New York; Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. "Did Harry Truman Denounce the Use of 'Socialism' as a 'Scare Word'?", Snopes.com (accessed November, 2019)

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