Harry Truman: “It is your Government.”

The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.

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.

The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.

Members of the armed forces of the United States who are awarded the decoration established by this order are authorized to wear the medal and the ribbon symbolic of the award, as may be authorized by uniform regulations approved by the…