Address in Miami at the American Legion Convention
10/17/1948
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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...
The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
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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...