Harry Truman

This plan will enable the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to bring about a basic simplification and improvement of the government of the District of Columbia.

It has been my hope that these two much-needed reforms could be accomplished in one measure.

I think very highly of Brier McMahon.

I don't know anything about it at all.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to observe Thursday, May 22, 1952, as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes or other…

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that the national emergencies declared to exist by the proclamations of September 8, 1939, and May 27, 1941, terminated this day upon the entry into force of the…

Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to affect Proclamation No. 2914, issued by the President on December 16, 1950.

The powers of the President are derived from the Constitution, and they are limited, of course, by the provisions of the Constitution, particularly those that protect the rights of individuals.

The closed shop and the union shop are actually quite different.

I realized that the action I was taking in this case was very drastic, and I did it only as a matter of necessity to meet an extreme emergency.

The Taft-Hartley Act simply would not have prevented a shutdown of essential steel production in this case.

I know the American people will make the proper judgment if only they get all the facts and see the issues.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 411), as amended, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered…

Executive Order No. 8389 of April 10, 1940, as amended, and Executive Order No. 9989 of August 20, 1948, and all delegations, designations, regulations, rulings, instructions, and licenses issued under such orders are hereby continued in…

There is no economy in spending less than we can afford on our efforts to stop these disastrous floods.

I firmly believe that to cut below the Budget estimates would lose us far more than would be 'saved.'

I am convinced that a careful study of the long-range effect of this provision would indicate that it would increase cost to the Government because it would complicate emergency recruiting and would result in amounts of overtime at premium…

After extensive hearings and careful study of the subject of annual leave, the Congress enacted a new leave program expertly designed to meet the needs of the Federal Service.

It strikes me as particularly unfair to Federal employees and to those who were heard in Congress on their behalf, to remove the accumulation privilege and thus deprive these employees of their fair consideration for the cutback in the…

We must stop these rampaging floods and this terrible damage to farms and farm buildings, to homes and business districts in towns and cities.

But it is not nearly enough.

I am transmitting herewith for the attention of the Congress the first Annual Report of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

We need extensive training of our people in areas vulnerable to attack.

The Congress itself has a real responsibility here.

We simply cannot afford a penny-wise-pound-foolish attitude about the cost of adequate civil defense.