Harry Truman said...

The head of each agency shall designate, or provide for the designation of the officers or employees whose duty is shall...

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...

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, conforming to our hallowed custom, and in...

He is just talking on his suspicions. That is the usual thing in a turnover.