The President's News Conference
04/27/1949
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The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Dep...
He is just talking on his suspicions. That is the usual thing in a turnover.
The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Cons...