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OCR Page 1 of 121PRICE / with JDE changes
Sixth Draft
January 13, 1972
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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
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