Harry Truman: “Step by step we are discarding old discriminations; we must not adopt new ones.”

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

I hereby direct all departments and agencies of the Government to cooperate with the Secretary of State in the execution of his authority under this proclamation and any subsequent proclamation, rule, regulation, or order issued in…

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

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.