Harry Truman: “I created the Civil Rights Committee because racial and religious intolerance began to appear after World War II.”

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.

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.

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

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