Harry Truman actually said...

Certain local and special interests in our country who fancy they would be adversely affected, have until now succeeded in blocking Congress...

It is a plain matter of national self-interest for us to join in its construction.

I will be working for somebody else in 1952.

From the standpoint of the national interest of the United States, this procedure is only second-best--and a poor second-best at that--to th...