Harry Truman

Competent and unbiased experts have always come to the conclusion that the construction of a deep water channel connecting the Great Lakes with the Gulf of St. Lawrence will be of great importance to the strong and expanding transportation…

The parties of these disputes should cooperate fully in maintaining normal work and production schedules while the disputes are before the Board.

I am referring the disputes to the Wage Stabilization Board and asking that the Board investigate and inquire into the issues in dispute and promptly report to me with its recommendations to the parties as to fair and equitable terms of…

The transfer of jurisdiction over the lands described herein shall be effective as of January 1, 1952.

In the opinion of the Service, it is entirely unlikely that further bargaining or mediation and conciliation could be successful in time to avoid serious production loss throughout this vital industry.

I am asking the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to provide the Board with a record of the issues in dispute.

I am sure that the Board will proceed as rapidly as possible in the task of recommending to the parties fair and equitable terms of settlement of the disputes.

It is hereby ordered that any income, excess -profits, declared value excess-profits, capital stock, estate, or gift tax return for any period to and including 1950 shall, during the Eighty-second Congress, be open to Inspection by the…

There is no work that shows more clearly what we stand for, and what we want to achieve.

I expressed my conviction that there is nothing of greater importance in all of our foreign policy.

I am confident that under your leadership the Board will achieve continued success by bringing wide knowledge, varied experience, and intense interest to bear upon the administration of the Program.

I should like you to join with me in carrying this work forward.

The Board was created in accordance with the mandate of the Act for International Development to advise and consult with me on the planning and operation of the Point 4 Program.

I cannot urge too strongly that the Congress take action on these bills at once.

The miners and their families are entitled to protection by their Government.

It is our plain duty to keep the coal mines just as safe as human skill and effort can make them.

These changes however do not go the full way to meet the Prime Minister's objections to the original arrangements.

Nevertheless the Prime Minister, while not withdrawing his objections, expressed his readiness to allow the appointment of a Supreme Commander to go forward in order that a command structure may be created and enabled to proceed with the…

He reserved the right to bring forward modifications for the consideration of NATO, if he so desired, at a later stage.

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

The expansion of our economy has occurred because the American people have never lost faith in progress.

If we succeed in the effort for peace, our productive ability will enable us to achieve a material well-being never before known.

The decision to resist aggression in Korea was not the first postwar evidence of American strength which confounded the communist imperialists.

The meaning of this is simple: In order to accomplish what we cannot afford to do without, we must give up many of the things that we can afford to do without.

It is a fundamental fact that the defense program itself, and our aid to friendly nations, must be related to the capacity of our economy.