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“Only eleven days after Truman signed the bill authorizing the Marshall Plan, the victory ship John H. Quick, named after a marine who won the Medal of Honor at Guantánamo Bay in the Spanish-American War, set sail from Galveston, Texas, loaded with grain. The Quick was the first in a fleet of five American ships owned by the Luckenbach Steamship Company to carry fifty-four thousand tons of grain, fertilizer, and a variety of other Marshall Plan necessities across the”
― George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
― George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
“Truman awoke on Wednesday morning, November 6, in his private railroad car with "a bad cold and a Republican Congress.”
― Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
― Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
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