Harry Truman actually said...

He performed his duties as Secretary of Defense with vigorous leadership, fearlessness, integrity, selflessness, and unstinted expenditure of physical effort.

Context

Citation Accompanying Distinguished Service Medal Awarded to James Forrestal.

03/27/1949

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