The President's News Conference
07/06/1949
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I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Dep...
The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
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 wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.