Harry Truman: “I am very pleased that you have agreed to serve as the Chairman of the President's Materials Policy Commission.”

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.

I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.