The President's News Conference
05/28/1952
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I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.
You can't run the Government without it.
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...
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, conforming to our hallowed custom, and in...