The President's News Conference
08/31/1949
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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...
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...
You can't run the Government without it.
The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.