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People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo... the country is perfectly safe so far as Communism is concerned—we have too many sane people.

— Harry S. Truman

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Letter to George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania (received 28 February 1947); reported in The New York Times (3 April 1947), p. 17, quoting Earle. Reported in David McCullough, Truman (Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 655

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