Harry Truman: “A quarter of a million dollars came from the big bankers.”

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.

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.

I am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.

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