The President's News Conference
03/28/1951
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The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as ame...
The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...
He is just talking on his suspicions. That is the usual thing in a turnover.