Veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill.
06/19/1947
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The course of action you recommend has my approval.
The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.
I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.
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...