The President's News Conference
08/17/1949
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We have not retreated in the face of this threat.
The time has come now for you to choose our successors and to elect a Congress to serve with them.
Provided, that such lands shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the Department of the Army for purposes of natio...
You can't run the Government without it.