Harry Truman actually said...

It is therefore essential that the expenditures of the Federal Government stay within the estimates of expenditures transmitted to the Congr...

Accordingly, it is my desire that all postponable public works be deferred until private demands for goods and services slacken off.

I must request your assistance in a most serious fiscal situation.

In order to carry out the above program of curtailment of public works, the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion will issue a direc...