Harry Truman: “I can't--I haven't read it-I can't make any comment on it, because I don't know.”

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

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.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

I made a 14,400-mile trip to get a lot of misinformation.