The President's News Conference
07/09/1947
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There are some who foolishly say that religion is dead or dying in this country.
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 made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.
I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.