St. Patrick's Day Address in New York City
03/16/1948
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As far as I am concerned.
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...
We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.
This case presents a unique situation.