Harry Truman: “I haven't talked to the Secretary of Agriculture about it.”

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

I enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of the laws thereof the utmost diligence in preventing violations of section 215 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and this proclamation, including the…

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.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 140 I64 Stat. 107, 145); and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Defense the…