The President's News Conference
05/07/1952
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The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...
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 made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.
This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.