The President's News Conference
11/20/1947
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Those who have died or suffered wounds in defense of law and order and of democratic government deserve the gratitude of the Nation no less ...
We have no ambitions, only world peace.
Such men as this make it possible.
I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act...