Harry Truman: “I do like Ike, but I like him in the Army.”

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

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…

The ultimate responsibility is mine in any event.

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.