Letter to the Chairman of the Air Coordinating Committee.
07/17/1947
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The National Security Medal may be awarded to any person, without regard to nationality, including members of the armed ...
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...
I am concerned that the program outlined above be initiated at the earliest practicable date.
I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.