The President's News Conference
09/07/1949
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I want to express my appreciation for the time and effort you are putting in, to help us with the defense program.
The women of this day and age have that same spirit, and I want you to arouse them and see if you can't get them to come help us.
This great country of ours is the hope of the free world, and we must make good on that hope.
I don't think a large number of the people really appreciate that we are in the midst of one of the greatest crises we have ever faced, and ...