The President's News Conference
02/19/1952
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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...
I am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.
I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.