The President's News Conference
05/23/1951
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Mrs. Beth Campbell Short may be appointed to a permanent competitive position in the classified civil service of the Uni...
No, there's no reason for me to see him.
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...
You can't run the Government without it.