Harry Truman: “The Taft-Hartley Act simply would not have prevented a shutdown of essential steel production in this case.”

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

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

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

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.