Harry Truman

We have here tonight, Mr. President, what you might call enough representation to be the whole Government of the United States.

There is, happily, a long history of friendship between the Philippines and the United States.

Both nations are dedicated to curing justice and liberty and to promoting the general welfare of their own citizens.

With pride in our common traditions, strength in our beliefs and faith in our future, we dedicate ourselves anew to the cause of all free men.

You know, there isn't a man in the United States who can't tell the President how to do his job better than the President knows how to do it; and I am sure that you feel the same way about it.

I think our form of government--and I have make some study of the question--is the greatest in the history of the world, and I want to see it continue for another thousand years.

I direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to assist in arousing public awareness of the need for active participation in this crusade against the frightful toll of life and property resulting from fires.

I earnestly request that during that week all of us undertake a year-round campaign against destructive fires in our homes and in our communities.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 9, 1949, as Fire Prevention Week.

There is hereby established an Advisory Committee on Management Improvement.

The Committee shall assist the President in creating a government-wide program for management improvement.

Department and agency heads shall review the programs under their respective jurisdictions to assure themselves and the President that such programs are being carried out with maximum effectiveness and economy.

The Bureau of the Budget shall review department and agency plans for management improvement in conjunction with requests for funds, and at other appropriate times.

I don't think faith has anything to do with a Justice of the Supreme Court.

My best guess is, of course, that they will accept.

You're welcome. Don't break your legs now!

I don't know anything about any such picket lines.

I didn't know he made it, and I am sorry he did.

They came in here this morning.

I never want to have to use it again.

No comment. I don't intervene in State politics.

It's Tom Clark, the Attorney General.

Done at the City of Washington this 27th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth.

The immigration quotas proclaimed above are designed solely for the purpose of compliance with the pertinent provisions of the said Immigration Act of 1924 and are not to be regarded as having any significance extraneous to such purpose.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim and make known that the annual quotas of the nationalities…