The President's News Conference
04/20/1949
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We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general ...
It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.
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 can't see any good purpose to be served by that.