Harry Truman: “I have just returned from Wake Island, where I had a very satisfactory conference with Gen. Douglas MacArthur.”

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.

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

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 140 I64 Stat. 107, 145); and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Defense the…