Harry Truman actually said...

"I AM withholding my approval from S. 2794, an act 'To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to prescribe the rates of pay for certain positions at field installations'."

"It would have set no standards or limits to guide the Administrator except the single provision that he could not set rates of pay lower than those prescribed by the Classification Act."

"Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby proclaim that, as a perpetual symbol of our patriotism, the flag of..."

"The capacity of many low-income States to contribute out of their own funds to the support of the blind has already been reached."