Harry Truman: “By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Army and…”

The course of action you recommend has my approval.

No, there's no reason for me to see him.

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.

We know that large reserves of generating capacity are vital to economic health and to national security.