The President's News Conference
03/04/1953
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Republican conviction, since the days of Lincoln, has always held that people are supreme.
I have often stressed the need to increase the functions and responsibilities of the States as a safeguard against exces...
I know that you share with me the hope that more such steps to expand State responsibility will be taken in the future.
I expect to go; put it that way.