The President's News Conference
02/20/1946
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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 experience of this early period of public action showed that constant vigilance and competent professional guidance ...
The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.
I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.