The President's News Conference
10/17/1951
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That is his duty. That is his duty.
He is just talking on his suspicions. That is the usual thing in a turnover.
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...
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...