Harry Truman

It is important to start this program quickly, in order to profit from the lessons we are already learning.

For these reasons, I should like you to establish a Federal history program for all the agencies engaged in emergency activities.

I am confident that this program will be useful in improving operations.

I believe that we should analyze the development of our present activities while the problems are fresh in the minds of the participants.

I don't intend to investigate investigating committees.

The Senate committee has a right to work on anything that the Senate itself authorizes them to do.

$37,800,000 are withdrawn from the Economic Cooperation Administration and are transferred to the Department of Agriculture to be administered under the said Yugoslav Emergency Relief Assistance Act of 1950 as directed by the Secretary of…

You will have to learn to write shorthand.

This is a time for clear thinking and firmness.

The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to perform the functions and exercise the powers and authority vested in the President by the Yugoslav Emergency Relief Assistance Act of 1950.

I will appoint the Commissioner as soon as I am ready, and I will let you know right away.

If they want to 'ball' themselves up, that's all right, that's their business, but they can't do that to me while I am in office.

I think Senator Ferguson is slightly mistaken in his statement.

I don't think the country is anywhere near disaster.

I believe in calling an aggressor an aggressor.

You finish that education and get yourself a degree from a standard college--I don't care which one it is--because nobody can take that away from you.

And I am still out of jail, they haven't caught up with me yet.

I never had any fear of bankers.

Always be kind to your poor relations, some of them may suddenly become rich some day, and it will be hard to explain.

I enjoy a meeting like this.

It has been a pleasant evening.

Thirty days after the presentation of its final report to the President, the Commission shall cease to exist unless the President shall otherwise direct.

There is hereby established in the Executive Office of the President a commission to be known as the President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights.

We must guard our freedom well--guard it from armed assault, guard it from subversive infiltration, guard it from internal suppression and the deadly imposition of conformity.

The Commission shall take appropriate measures to protect the security or confidential character of any security-classified information or information of a confidential nature submitted to it or examined by it.