The President's News Conference
01/26/1949
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The only assured way of maintaining the Army and the Navy at their required strengths during the Fiscal Year 1948 is through resort to Selec...
These requirements are absolute, and we must not divest the War and Navy Departments of the means of meeting any material shortages.
It is the application of the Golden Rule.
Because of my belief that the peoples of the world have peace as a common objective, I refuse to be discouraged by apparent difficulties.