The President's News Conference
01/06/1949
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Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
This order shall supersede Executive Order No. 9277 of December 3, 1941, entitled 'Award of the Purple Heart to Persons ...
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 wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.