The President's News Conference
08/10/1949
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The course of action you recommend has my approval.
The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Cons...
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 do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Dep...