Harry Truman: “They are still in conference, and I have no comment to make on that.”

No, there's no reason for me to see him.

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

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.

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…