The President's News Conference
04/13/1949
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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...
We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general ...
We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they ...
My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.