Harry Truman: “You are trying to get a concrete answer from me, and you are not going to get it.”

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 am happy to join with you in the recognition of the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of the Federal Civil Service merit system.

We built the Bureau of Reclamation's great new Hungry Horse Dam in Montana not as an isolated structure, but as a part of the Columbia Basin system.

We have discovered that the Constitution does not prevent us from correcting social injustice, or advancing the general welfare.