06/06/1947
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"You are hereby authorized to use officers and enlisted personnel of the U.S. Armed forces and civilian employees of the U.S. Government, on your staff as you consider appropriate in numbers and grades..."
"I want to call your attention to those two citations--among the most remarkable I have ever read."
"Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if in our civil affairs we had fighters for the right like these two young men."
"I hope that their example will be enough to cause more people to take the responsibility for government that they should take, and to fight for the right as these two young men fought for liberty and ..."