The President's News Conference
08/31/1949
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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...
I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.
The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
I hope I will always deserve it.