The President's News Conference
07/27/1949
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The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
I am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.
The same reasons which keep other workers from wishing to become coal miners also keep them from expecting---or their em...
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...