Veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill.
06/19/1947
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The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Dep...
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 can't see any good purpose to be served by that.