Harry Truman: “I think it is an issue in Ohio right now.”

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.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

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