Harry Truman said...

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 ...

I hereby direct all departments and agencies of the Government to cooperate with the Secretary of State in the execution...

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...