Harry Truman: “Our aim is peace--a just and lasting peace.”

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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 National Security Medal may be awarded to any person, without regard to nationality, including members of the armed forces of the United States, for distinguished achievement or outstanding contribution on or after July 26, 1947, in…

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.