Harry Truman actually said...

The Constitution is a living force--it is a growing thing.

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

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 do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to...