Remarks at a Dinner of the Presidential Electors Association
01/18/1949
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I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.
The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.
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...
This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.