The President's News Conference
12/10/1947
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
He is another good man. He would make a good President.
Why certainly. Unimpeded. I have no ambition to be a dictator.
I have had no official communication on the subject, so I can't comment on it.
The denial of self-government does not befit the national capital of the world's largest and most powerful democracy.