Harry Truman: “I wonder who is trying to do that? I hadn't heard of it.”

I feel it is necessary for me to exercise the final authority in the coal case.

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.

It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be.

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