Harry Truman: “Our foreign policy as established by the Congress, the President, and the Secretary of State, remains in full force and…”

The decoration established by this order shall be awarded by the President of the United States or, under regulations approved by him, by such person or persons as he may designate.

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.

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.