Harry Truman actually said...

The decision is that we will eventually go ahead with the merchant marine program.

The President's News Conference on the Budget

01/09/1948

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I direct that the flag be displayed on that day on all Government buildings.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe May 22, 1947, ...