Harry Truman: “It is a pleasure on my part to have you here.”

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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.

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

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.