Harry Truman: “No. The Gray report is not ready yet. It has not been presented to me.”

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.

I am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.

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 feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.