Harry Truman: “I said it would not bring peace.”

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.

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

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.

We venerate these documents not because they are old, not because they are valuable historical relics, but because they still have meaning for us.