The President's News Conference
02/14/1951
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The time has come now for you to choose our successors and to elect a Congress to serve with them.
The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...
Say in about 6 months.
It is an office that is without parallel in the history of the world.