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PRICE / with JDE changes Sixth Draft January 13, 1972 Word Count 2557 STATE OF THE UNION, 1972 ADDRESS It was twenty-five years ago that I came here as a freshman Congressman -- along with Speaker Albert, and with 25 other mem- bers of the House and Senate now serving. As all of you are aware, I had some vigorous differences of opinion with President Truman, as he did with me. But on the day he addressed that joint session just 25 years ago, he was a leader, speaking for the Nation; not as a partisan -- calling on the Congress to put aside partisan considerations in the national interest. In foreign policy that year the President received overwhelming bipartisan support from a Republican Congress. The Greek-Turkish aid program, the Marshall Plan, the great foreign policy initiatives