The President's News Conference
02/16/1949
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It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...
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...
I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.