Harry Truman: “I urge the members of the Congress to consider this report carefully over the next few weeks as a basis for the…”

The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.

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.