The President's News Conference
12/10/1952
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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...
My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.
This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.
The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.