Harry Truman

I urgently request the Congress to give him its support by enacting this necessary legislation.

Every day that this strike is prolonged constitutes a threat not only to the welfare of our domestic economy but also to our national defense.

It is therefore essential that he be given the power of subpoena, the power to compel testimony by granting immunity in appropriate cases and the power to administer oaths.

I am just as sure as I stand here that we can win this peace, just as we won the war, if the people of this great Republic of ours will get behind the program which we are trying to carry out.

I CONSIDER it a privilege to be here tonight to do honor to two wonderful men.

My only objective, and my only hope, as President of the United States, is peace in the world.

I have said to the kids that come to see me--the future farmers, the Boy Scouts-that I would give anything in the world if I were a 16-year-old boy now, because then I could live to see the next 50 years.

I don't want to be in a position of having to cause the destruction of whole populations.

I can't tell you about it until I know what is in it.

The Medal for Humane Action may be awarded to any person who distinguished himself by meritorious participation in the humane military effort to supply necessities of life to the people of Berlin, Germany.

I don't make snap judgments on these things at all.

I had a report on him which I was having investigated.

The Secretary of State.

I have been answering some questions for him and helping a little bit, but you will have to wait until the book comes out.

The vote in New Hampshire wouldn't have anything to do with my decision.

I recommended that, but that won't cause any river in the United States to run our way.

I don't know anything about General Eisenhower's statement because I didn't see it.

Such regulations shall be uniform for all military departments insofar as practicable and shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense.

We sincerely hope so. I can't promise it.

I shall do everything I possibly can to help elect the Democratic nominee no matter who he is.

I think he is a good Senator.

I sometimes put a few walls and sometimes put a dam across the river, too.

I haven't seen the bill.

Just let the river take its course.

I will take care of that.