The President's News Conference
01/21/1948
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It is even more true of 1952 than of 1951 that we cannot have business as usual, consumer enjoyments as usual, or Government programs and se...
An expanding economy has paid particularly rich dividends, in helping us to assume new burdens of world responsibility.
Without continued economic growth, the defense burden could make us weaker year by year.
This growth in the productive sector of our economy indicates that neither the size of the military build-up, nor the high level of taxation...