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U.S. Most Guarantee Civil Liberties, Truman Tells National Citizens Conference

February 7, 1949
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President Truman this week-end told the National Citizens Conference on Civil Liberties, which will open a two-day national conference here soon, that America “must provide a solid foundation for the future growth of our country” by guaranteeing civil rights to all its people.

“Of great importance to the present and future generations of America is the development of a program of civil liberties guaranteeing to all people the heritage of freedom which we have received from the founders of this nation,” the President said in a letter to the chairman of the conference, E. Raymond Wilson. “A free system can endue only when there is freedom of opinion, expression, and conscience,” Truman said

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