The President's News Conference
09/19/1951
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The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
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.
I made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.