
It's just a change of scenery with the usual amount of work.
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It's just a change of scenery with the usual amount of work.

I am very happy, due to the fact that I am here on vacation, to present these diplomas to these able and distinguished young men from Maine to California, literally.

It is a very great pleasure for me today to present these diplomas to these young men who have spent some time becoming experts in their lines.

I never comment on legislation that is not before me on the desk, and that hasn't been passed by the Congress as yet.

I have been in touch with the leaders in Congress all the time since I have been down here.

No comment. He is in the Congress and I am not.

I made the announcement of the train ride, if you remember, on the 24th of February, and no details have as yet been worked out.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (5 U.S.C. 631), and as President of the United States, Executive Order No. 9 of January 17, 1873, as amended, prohibiting with certain…

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid section 411 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, do hereby proclaim that the effective…

In Witness Whereof,I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

I also invite the medical profession, the press, the radio, the motion-picture industry, and all organizations and individuals interested in a national program for the control of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite…

The following-described lands, comprising a part of the United States Naval Reservation at Hanapepe, Kona, Kauai, together with all improvements located thereon, are hereby restored to the jurisdiction of the Territory of Hawaii.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1949 as Cancer Control Month;

I invite the Governors of the several States and the Territories and possessions of the United States to issue similar proclamations.

A soundly conceived Federal scholarship program in our colleges and universities is a necessary step in attaining this goal.

In the conflict of principle and policy which divides the world today, America's hope-our hope--the hope of the world, is in education.

That Constitution gives us the ability to live together in peace.