The President's News Conference
07/16/1947
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I hope I will always deserve it.
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...
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of April 30, 1900, 31 Stat. 159, as ame...
I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.