The President's News Conference
10/05/1949
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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...
The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.
I made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.
It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and th...