Harry Truman: “The cancellation of lend-lease began as soon as the war ceased. It was not a cancellation, it was a readjustment because…”

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.

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 do not. General MacArthur is in the Army, and on active duty, and if he has anything that is of use to the Defense Department, he ought to tell them so they can make use of it.