Harry Truman: “I wish you would ask that question again.”

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…

I do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.

That is his duty. That is his duty.