Harry Truman said...

I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.

That is his duty. That is his duty.

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 Dep...

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...