The President's News Conference
03/28/1951
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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 is a living force--it is a growing thing.
The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...
He is just talking on his suspicions. That is the usual thing in a turnover.