Remarks to Representatives of the American Legion.
03/03/1949
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It's a little too soon to tell you that.
It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.
The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.
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...