Harry Truman: “Medical science has won victory after victory over the deadliest diseases of a generation ago.”

We built the Bureau of Reclamation's great new Hungry Horse Dam in Montana not as an isolated structure, but as a part of the Columbia Basin system.

The decoration established by this order shall be awarded by the President of the United States or, under regulations approved by him, by such person or persons as he may designate.

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

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