Harry Truman: “Mr. Ross will answer that question.”

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This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.

As far as I am concerned.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.