The President's News Conference
01/06/1949
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He exerted his distinguished advocacy to rally his fellow citizens in favor of the delivery of American destroyers to beleaguered Britain.
The lack of adequate housing marks a glaring gap in our achievements toward fulfilling the promise of democracy.
We must make the Federal Government a friendly, vigilant defender of the rights and equalities of all Americans.
We must not tolerate such limitations on the freedom of any of our people and on their enjoyment of basic rights which every citizen in a tr...