Proclamation 2705—Columbus Day, 1946
09/24/1946
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We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general ...
I am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.
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 hope I will always deserve it.