Harry Truman: “I am going to keep telling Congress just what the situation is, and the Congress will have to act itself.”

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

I am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.

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.

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…