Harry Truman

I hope you gentlemen will completely inform yourselves on these matters before you come to any conclusion as to what your policy should be with regard to the policy of the United States.

It hasn't been under my consideration.

I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

I will make an announcement on that very soon.

The matter is under consideration, and is still under consideration.

I can't comment on that at the present time.

Oh yes, the matter will have to be finally submitted to me, and I will make the decision on it whenever it comes up, as I always do.

I will answer that question when I get ready to send the request to the Senate.

We believe in freedom of expression, in freedom of worship, and the right to go where we please, if it does not injure anybody else when we do that.

We are working for permanent peace in the world.

Nobody. Tom Clark is going to stay where he is.

We have no ambitions to control any country or to tell any country how it ought to run its internal affairs.

The burdens of this office are so great that I have to put in an average of 16 or 17 hours a day in order to keep abreast of what is going on.

I haven't been able to as yet.

Not my way. I have no comment on that.

I cannot comment on any leaks.

The situation will automatically take care of itself, until somebody is appointed.

No--and the only comment on the thing is right here now.

Not yet, no. I will announce it just as soon as I can.

Has it been laid? Has the keel been laid officially?

I can't answer that, because I really don't anticipate any serious change--any further major changes immediately.

That has not been decided as yet.

I go because I want to go and because I think I ought to go, and not for the purpose of making a show.

We have had it under consideration, and it is still under consideration.

I know nothing about it, and anyway that's a matter that would have to go through the State Department and the Communications Commission.