The President's News Conference
07/04/1951
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This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.
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 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...
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.