Harry Truman

I don't want to have that hearing here.

Is cotton a commodity? Is wool a commodity?

I call on the American people, the state and local committees, and all the organizations and groups, to continue their vigorous efforts in carrying out this program.

The voluntary efforts inaugurated by your Committee will continue to be necessary to supplement the program which I have asked the Congress to authorize.

When the American people have faced decisions of such magnitude in the past, they have taken the right course.

The American people are becoming more and more deeply aware of their world position.

The Congress has been convened to consider two problems of major concern to the citizens of the United States and to the peoples of the world.

We cannot allow the strength of this Nation to be wasted and our people's confidence in our free institutions to be shaken by an economic catastrophe.

We should all ponder the following questions: What would it avail the farmer, in the long run, if farm prices should go substantially higher only to be followed by a disaster such as occurred after the first World War?

We must make the most of that opportunity.

The future of our own economy is in jeopardy.

The housewife who goes to buy food today must spend $10 to buy what $7 bought a year and a half ago.

Our people know that our influence in the world gives us an opportunity--unmatched in history--to conduct ourselves in such a manner that men and women of all the world can move out of the shadows of fear and war and into the light of…

Emergency aid is no substitute for a long-range recovery program, but it is a vital prerequisite to such a program.

I didn't think they would need to borrow any money.

I say I wish I could go, but I can make no appointments.

No, there is not. I do not have that under consideration at all.

The Budget Director has never said anything about resigning and has never discussed it, and he is not going to resign; and that's positive and final.

Pursuant to requests by the Board, all Federal departments and agencies shall furnish the Board such information, reports, statistics and other data or documents in their possession or under their control or obtainable by them.

Of course. That's what you have to do.

I will make that announcement at a later date.

I have one announcement to make.

I would like to go, but I can make no firm appointments now, because of this special session coming on next Monday.

Not immediately, no.

No I am not. Whenever we are ready I will make that announcement.