Harry Truman: “Every slice of bread, every ounce of fat and oil saved by your voluntary sacrifice, will keep starving people alive.”

The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.

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.

This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.