The President's News Conference
07/31/1946
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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...
I am appreciative of the privilege that General Smith has offered me, to come over here and make a few remarks to this o...
I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.
You can't run the Government without it.