The President's News Conference
04/13/1949
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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 Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.
The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general ...