Harry Truman: “I must request your assistance in a most serious fiscal situation.”

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.

It is my fervent hope as I leave the Office of the Presidency that recent reckless attacks which can destroy that great asset will subside and that we will continue to go forward in creating a skilled corps of men and women with a public…

I am glad that the Bill of Rights is at last to be exhibited side by side with the Constitution.

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.