Harry Truman actually said...

"A universal training program would eradicate that situation, and I hope that you gentlemen, my friends in the National Guard, will put everything you have behind the idea of a training program for the..."

"It is not the martinets that make an army work, it's the morale that the leaders put into the men that makes an army work."

"I think that the backbone of the defense of this country is in its civilian components."

"I hope you have a most successful meeting here, and that you will work out a constructive program, and that you will support the universal training program which I have been working on ever since 1935..."