The President's News Conference
07/24/1946
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It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time...
I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.
We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they ...
This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.