The President's News Conference
11/12/1947
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Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if in our civil affairs we had fighters for the right like these two young men.
I hope that their example will be enough to cause more people to take the responsibility for government that they should take, and to fight ...
I want to call your attention to those two citations--among the most remarkable I have ever read.
We should join in constructing the seaway, first, because it is important to our national security.