Harry Truman: “We are happy to join with them in this tribute to one of the greatest Americans of all time.”

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.

I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

The course of action you recommend has my approval.