The President's News Conference
02/14/1951
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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...
You can't run the Government without it.
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 can't see any good purpose to be served by that.