Harry Truman actually said...

I recommend the enactment of legislation which would permit the posthumous appointment of the late Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker to the grade of General in the Army of the United States.

Context

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Recommending the Posthumous Appointment of General...

12/28/1950

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