Harry Truman: “We have no ambitions to control any country or to tell any country how it ought to run its internal affairs.”

I am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.

I feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.

We have learned that the mark of a well-managed land lies in the care a Nation gives to its rivers.

The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.