The President's News Conference
11/12/1947
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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...
the only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
I feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, so...
The course of action you recommend has my approval.