The President's News Conference
10/25/1950
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Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.
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...