Harry Truman: “The security and welfare of each member of this community depend upon the security and welfare of all.”

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…

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.

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.