Harry Truman actually said...

The Big Four now works under the direction of the United Nations because the United Nations Charter takes the place of all those things.

The President's News Conference

01/03/1951

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And then I had this inscription put on the gavel.

I never sit on any problem.

He happened to be at the White House for a conference and I brought him over.

To commemorate that event, I had the White House carpenters make this gavel of wood that was put into the White House in 1817.