Harry Truman actually said...

Those things have to be done very deliberately. I meant what I said when I said I would pursue the correspondence.

It is the business of the President of the United States to carry out the mandates of Congress and that is the way this will be handled.

It is my earnest hope that the men involved will comply with your request that they return to work while the matter is before the Board and ...

Thus, the strike has an immediate and very serious impact on the defense program.