Harry Truman: “I always try to answer your questions straight from the shoulder, try to tell you the truth, and when I can't answer…”

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.

I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 140 I64 Stat. 107, 145); and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of Defense the…