Harry Truman: “It would involve the Government in the free processes of our economic system to a degree unprecedented in peacetime.”

Mrs. Beth Campbell Short may be appointed to a permanent competitive position in the classified civil service of the United States without regard to the competitive provisions of the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.

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

The Constitution belongs to no one group of people and to no single branch of the Government.

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