Harry Truman: “We will cross that bridge when we get to it.”

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.

I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late.

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.