Harry Truman: “That was a difficulty between a foreign nation and the United States, and we met it.”

It is my fervent hope as I leave the Office of the Presidency that recent reckless attacks which can destroy that great asset will subside and that we will continue to go forward in creating a skilled corps of men and women with a public…

The longer I live, the more I am impressed by the significance of our simple official oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.

I can't see any good purpose to be served by that.

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.