Harry Truman: “Mr. McDonald has not yet presented me with his resignation, and I have not considered his successor as yet.”

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.

The experience of this early period of public action showed that constant vigilance and competent professional guidance are essential to prevent irreparable losses.

I am glad that the Bill of Rights is at last to be exhibited side by side with 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.