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By Harry S. Truman
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
- Source
- Special Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Truman's special message to Congress on March 12, 1947, asking for aid to Greece and Turkey. This sentence became known as the Truman Doctrine.