The President's News Conference
07/20/1949
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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 am appreciative of the privilege that General Smith has offered me, to come over here and make a few remarks to this o...
Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized...
Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.