The President's News Conference
08/29/1951
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We simply cannot afford a penny-wise-pound-foolish attitude about the cost of adequate civil defense.
Instead the Congress provided only $75 million.
It was a message from me to Stalin to get out of Persia.
We need all these things and need them fast before we can begin to feel reasonably secure about the defense of the United States.