Harry Truman: “I hope that your Committee and the Congress will act favorably on legislation to carry out these recommendations.”

I believe that the report is of great value.

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.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.