Harry Truman said...

I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.

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 Dep...

My decision should not be interpreted as establishing any new pattern or policy.

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...