Proclamation 2654—Flag Day, 1945
05/27/1945
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Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
I made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.
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 weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.