Harry Truman actually said...

The Government has thus incurred a moral obligation to these workers and to those who have stuck faithfully to their posts in the past.

Special Message to the Congress on Unemployment Compensation.

05/27/1945

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The Stabilization people are working on that now, and I have done everything I can at the present time.

The message speaks for me.

I think that would be a good appointment, if we can get him to do it.

I say that letter still stands.