The President's News Conference
02/14/1951
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the only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
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.
We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.