And I know very well that is exactly what we are going to do.

It didn't come. It didn't come.

We have got to make up our minds to one or the other.

I have been President of the United States since the 12th of April 1945, about 4 years and 3 months--a little over--and that's the 'derndest' introduction I ever heard.

On the 2d day of September, on the battleship Missouri--a battleship which was christened by my daughter Margaret--the Japanese Government signed an unconditional surrender.

The formation of foreign policy on the part of the democratic nations may be a slow and painful process, but the results endure.

The world longs for the kind of tolerance and mutual adjustment which is represented by democratic principles.

This plan is designed to make urgently needed changes in the administration of the National Military Establishment and other agencies created by the National Security Act of 1947.

I again urge the Congress to strengthen our defense organization which is so vital to the security of this Nation and the peace of the world.

On March 5, 1949, I recommended to the Congress that the National Security Act of 1947 be amended to strengthen and clarify the position of the Secretary of Defense.

In the event that the changes I recommended to the Congress in March are not effected by statute at this session, then those changes which can be put into effect by reorganization plan should be made.

The Secretary of Defense as the head of the Department of Defense will exercise authority, direction and control over the department.

I am primarily interested in achieving some worthwhile results in improving the organization of the defense establishment at the earliest possible time.

He asked himself here, and I was glad to see him.

This principle of wise selectivity is particularly applicable to procurement and construction activities, but it is also relevant to other grant of loan programs designed to stimulate private enterprise or to effect public improvements.

It isn't true. That is one out of the whole cloth.

I have no opinion to express, at the present time.

Toward this end, I am directing that a continuing review of such activities be undertaken within the Executive Office, in order to coordinate planning, to keep the various types of activity and their geographic distribution in proper…