Harry Truman

I am familiar with your problems, and I am familiar with your organization, having been a member of it since 1919.

I think myself, personally, that the situation is nothing to be alarmed about.

None at all. That is a matter for Pennsylvania to handle.

The Constitution should follow the flag wherever it goes, and trials should be conducted as we usually conduct them in this country.

My ideas were very clearly and specifically expressed by the Secretary of State yesterday after an interview with me.

I think the Loyalty Board undoubtedly heard all the evidence and made the proper decision.

It was handled strictly according to law.

There's nothing further, after that message.

Safety, not only of the President and his family, but of the many persons visiting the Executive Mansion, is involved.

I am in favor of preserving our outstanding historical structures.

Within the last year I became gravely concerned with what appeared to be unsafe conditions in the Executive Mansion.

That is not true. Not a word of truth in that.

It will be noted from the report that structural conditions in the Executive Mansion are more critical than was anticipated, and that it cannot be used for residence or other purposes without the completion of major repairs.

No reason in the world why he should be criticized.

The Ways and Means Committee have been proceeding exactly as I have requested them to proceed.

This led me to recommend to the Congress an appropriation of $50,000 to permit a thorough-going survey of the building, and the preparation of plans and estimates of costs for overcoming the unsatisfactory conditions.

As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the Board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement shall be made by the carriers represented by the…

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 160), I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate said dispute.

I urge every citizen to respond during that month as generously as possible to the humanitarian appeal of this organization.

I hereby designate and authorize the Honorable Luis Negron-Fernandez, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, to perform and discharge the duties of Judge of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico, and to…

This order shall not become effective to change the status of the land until 10:00 a.m. on the thirty-fifth day after the date of this order, at which time the land shall, subject to the provisions of this order, become subject to disposal…

Subject to valid existing rights and to the provisions of existing withdrawals, the following-described land in the Angeles National Forest, California, is hereby opened to location and entry under the mining laws of the United States:

Warning is hereby expressly given to any unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, deface, or remove any feature of this monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

I hereby further exempt the said John Monroe Johnson from compulsory retirement for age for an indefinite period of time

Provided, that for the purposes of this order his further term of office shall be considered as expiring upon the appointment and qualification of his successor