The President's News Conference
12/10/1947
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And they are simply a 'red herring' to keep from doing what they ought to do.
They will not get any confidential information on him.
No comment of any sort on any of these foreign questions at all, except the one about General Clay.
Using this as a 'red herring' to keep from doing what they ought to do.