Harry Truman: “We are not arming ourselves and our friends to start a fight with anybody.”

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.

No, there's no reason for me to see him.

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.