Harry Truman: “I can't comment on them.”

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.

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.

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.