
It is urgent that we modernize our price support laws or we shall face unmanageable surpluses.
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It is urgent that we modernize our price support laws or we shall face unmanageable surpluses.

Good incomes for farmers are good for the workers who make the things the farmers buy.

I am happy to be here today with the American Veterans of World War II.

The 80th Congress had been hitting sledge-hammer blows at the very foundations of farm opportunity.

If we want a healthy and prosperous economy, there must be economic opportunity, not just for the fortunate few, but for all of us.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and proclaim, on the basis of the investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the further…

I hadn't heard anything about it, so I can't comment on it.

I think that the Secretary of Defense, in the long run, probably will have the final say on that.

It has not finished the first session yet, and it still has the other session to go. I think its record will be all right when they are finished.

I can't answer that question until after the primary, if they have a primary. I don't know whether they have a primary there or not.

No, I have no announcements to make on that.

It will be elaborated on at a later date, not now.

I think it is slacking off very much. Very decidedly slacking off.

Certainly -- certainly. That was absolutely the wrong way to go about it.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55(a), 508, 603, and 729(a) of the Internal Revenue Code...