The President's News Conference
07/10/1946
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We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.
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 feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.
I hereby direct all departments and agencies of the Government to cooperate with the Secretary of State in the execution...