The President's News Conference
02/12/1947
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I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.
I am glad that the Bill of Rights is at last to be exhibited side by side with the Constitution.
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...
My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.