Harry Truman: “I have been answering some questions for him and helping a little bit, but you will have to wait until the book comes…”

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

There is hereby established a medal to be known as the National Security Medal with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances.

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.

The people of the United States have a very great asset in this force.