Harry Truman: “The statement clarified it entirely, and I have no further comment to make on it.”

I am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.

I have great faith and confidence in our civil servants.

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 feel the Committee has done a thorough job of investigation and I wish to call your attention to these suggestions, some of which, I am sure, would be helpful.