The President's News Conference
09/26/1951
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The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...
As far as I am concerned.
It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...