The President's News Conference
09/07/1949
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I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.
I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.
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...
I enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of the laws thereof the utmost diligence in p...