Harry Truman actually said...
The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy are authorized to provide appropriate assistance including the furnishing of available Government-owned motor transportation and other Government-owned and operated facilities which can be spared to enable the Committee properly to perform the tasks entrusted to it.
Context
Executive Order 9682—Providing for the Furnishing of Information and Assistance to the Joint Anglo-american Committee of...
01/17/1946