The President's News Conference
06/06/1951
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It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...
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...
The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...
My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.