Harry Truman

Toward this end, I am directing that a continuing review of such activities be undertaken within the Executive Office, in order to coordinate planning, to keep the various types of activity and their geographic distribution in proper…

The less harmony in the Republican Party the better suited I am.

This principle of wise selectivity is particularly applicable to procurement and construction activities, but it is also relevant to other grant of loan programs designed to stimulate private enterprise or to effect public improvements.

I think that Judge Kaufman is a good judge.

It is expensive to keep up the forces necessary to prevent war, but in the long run it could be a lot more expensive not to have them.

If we were in a depression, I would be the first person to tell you.

Our goal is maximum employment and production.

The history of the United States is a story of constant economic growth and expansion.

I want to talk to you tonight about our country, about its future, and about its importance to the hopes and aspirations of all mankind.

We must therefore expand our programs of social security, education, health, and housing.

We are not in a depression.

These are the facts.

What we face today is not a depression, and if we follow the right course, it will not become a depression.

We cannot stand still.

I hope and believe final agreement can be reached within the sixty day period.

Our national economy is protected by important economic reforms which the Government has adopted over the last 16 years.

Thank you for your telegram informing me of the action of your policy committee in accepting my proposal to continue work and present your side of dispute to the board I am appointing.

I hope these recommendations can form the basis for final agreement between the parties.

Surely you are not afraid to have your side of this dispute examined in the public interest.

I earnestly request all parties to the dispute to accept this proposal and will appreciate a prompt reply.

The adjustment process has been rendered less difficult by the prudent actions of many groups and individuals in our business system.

To introduce this principle in the case of a single industry would not only give effect to an unsound principle and establish an unfortunate precedent but it would give rise to an unjustifiable discrimination.

Under present economic conditions, we cannot immediately correct the tax mistakes of the past or the conditions which led to a lower level of national income and lower Federal revenues.

The United States economy is the strongest and most productive the world has ever known--and we have the resources and the skills to make it still stronger and more productive.

The principle that the Government should compensate war contractors, and volunteers acting without contracts, for losses sustained by them in activities related to the war has not generally been accepted.