The President's News Conference
04/20/1949
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Without multiple-purpose river basin development, I believe that few of these accomplishments would have been possible.
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...
No, there's no reason for me to see him.
The experience of this early period of public action showed that constant vigilance and competent professional guidance ...