Harry Truman said...

I hope I will always deserve it.

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 Dep...

The Secretary of the Navy shall award the Purple Heart, in the name of the President of the United States, to any person...

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...