Harry Truman: “I am deeply aware of the concern that women feel over the danger of Communist aggression.”

Mrs. Beth Campbell Short may be appointed to a permanent competitive position in the classified civil service of the United States without regard to the competitive provisions of the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.

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.

As far as I am concerned.

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.