Longhand Note of President Harry S. Truman

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In this diary entry, President Truman expresses his opinion on a variety of subjects, asserting that the courts should stay out of policy matters; that the FBI must be prevented from becoming a Gestapo or secret police force; that the Constitution should be amended to remove r...

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ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AND
THE WHITE HOUSE
May 12. 445
WASHINGTON
The Courts should
he truthy judicialand
not stable in poley - ex-
cept interpritation of
the Constitution
It is not at all
proper for counts to try
to make laws or toread
lan school theories into
the law laiddon
by the
We mast no ges tap.
Congress and porting
or secret Police. F.B.J.
HST

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