The President's News Conference
07/16/1947
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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 wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.
The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Cons...
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...