Harry Truman: “I cannot emphasize too strongly the importance which should be attached to the reorganization plan that I am now…”

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.

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.

It is my fervent hope as I leave the Office of the Presidency that recent reckless attacks which can destroy that great asset will subside and that we will continue to go forward in creating a skilled corps of men and women with a public…