Harry Truman: “The elimination of overlapping and the simplification of relationships which will result from the transfer will make it…”

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.

The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.

Of course I would. I wouldn't be discourteous to anybody. I never have been.

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.