Harry Truman: “You need it too badly here in the Northwest to have it go out in the Pacific Ocean and go to waste.”

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.

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

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…