This order shall be effective as of March 4, 1951.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the united States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Congress through Public Resolution 767, approved May 3, 1940 (54 Stat. 178), do hereby designate…

He happened to be at the White House for a conference and I brought him over.

No, it did not.

I had a very pleasant conference with General Romulo and the Ambassador.

You are trying to get a concrete answer from me, and you are not going to get it.

Sometime back, I declared a national emergency.

To the Vice President of the United States, Alben W. Barkley, to commemorate 38 years of continuous service in the Congress of the United States.

To commemorate that event, I had the White House carpenters make this gavel of wood that was put into the White House in 1817.

Well, let me tell you something.

And I will leave it to the gentlemen of the Senate as to whether it is the truth or not.

I never sit on any problem.

On March 4, which is Sunday, your Presiding Officer, the President of the Senate, the Vice President of the United States, and the former Leader of the Majority, will have been here longer than any other man in the history of the Senate.

So you can pack your grips and get ready to go on Friday.

They can make any number of speeches they want, on any subject they want to, but that does not mean that it helps the relations with the rest of the world.

Not at all--so you can pack your grips and get ready to go on Friday.

And then I had this inscription put on the gavel.

The situation is one of collective bargaining, and the President ought not to interfere with collective bargaining.