The President's News Conference
02/27/1947
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With pride in our common traditions, strength in our beliefs and faith in our future, we dedicate ourselves anew to the cause of all free me...
We have here tonight, Mr. President, what you might call enough representation to be the whole Government of the United States.
There is, happily, a long history of friendship between the Philippines and the United States.
Again our two peoples will be found on the same side in the struggle, which they must accept as a challenge rather than as a threat.