The President's News Conference
08/09/1950
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There are some who foolishly say that religion is dead or dying in this country.
I am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.
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...
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.