The President's News Conference
06/25/1947
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In this celebration let us join with the peoples of the other free nations of the world in recognition of our common pur...
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...
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
We are grateful for the privileges and rights inherent in our way of life, and in particular for the basic freedoms, whi...