The President's News Conference
07/20/1949
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There are some who foolishly say that religion is dead or dying in this country.
My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.
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.