The President's News Conference
06/06/1945
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I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.
It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.
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...
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.