The President's News Conference
03/30/1949
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It is now time for us also to look ahead and assure ourselves that our own policies are those which will serve best to reinforce our economi...
This approach must have as its final goal a practical and forward-looking course of action.
It is hardly necessary to emphasize again that economic security is an essential element of political security.
Our basic purpose has been, and must continue to be, to help build a structure of international economic relationships which will permit eac...