Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union
01/04/1949
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Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.
As far as I am concerned.
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, conforming to our hallowed custom, and in...
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...