The President's News Conference
09/13/1950
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I am convinced, therefore, that we must and that we can accomplish the proposed expansion in our atomic energy program.
The vast quantities of oil and gas in the submerged ocean lands belong to the people of all the States.
The Democratic convention is going to do that.
Lands under the open sea are not owned by the coastal States, but are lands belonging to the United States--that is, they are lands of all t...