The President's News Conference
07/11/1951
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The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.
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...
There are some who foolishly say that religion is dead or dying in this country.
I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.