The President's News Conference
02/17/1959
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My speaking will be always on this subject, as I have always done, urging Americans to recognize what America is.
I don't see any particularly constructive step that we can take at this moment.
I want to say a word again about this thing of mutual security.
I have come to believe that a very fine and adequate defense for the United States can at present prices be sustained with an expenditure pr...