Harry Truman: “I am most grateful to those who signed the petitions in my behalf.”

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

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.

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.