The President's News Conference
02/04/1948
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The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
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...
This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.
I am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.