Rear Platform and Other Informal Remarks in New York
10/07/1948
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Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.
I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.
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...
The course of action you recommend has my approval.