Harry Truman: “I imagine it has been within 30 days.”

Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized to wear the medal and the ribbon symbolic of the award, as may be authorized by uniform regulations approved by the…

The decoration established by this order shall be awarded by the President of the United States or, under regulations approved by him, by such person or persons as he may designate.

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 longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.