All who are familiar with your record recognize your devotion to the public welfare and the constructiveness that has characterized your leadership in the Federal Reserve System.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States, in their homes and churches, in the schools and hospitals, in social welfare and health agencies, in enforcement agencies…

This decision, as I assured you, reflects no lack of complete confidence in you, or dissatisfaction in any respect with your public service, or disagreement on monetary or debt-management policies, or with official actions taken by the…

Therefore, I urge you to remain as a member of the Board and to accept the Vice Chairmanship so that the benefit of your long experience and judgment will continue to be available.

I further urge them, as the most direct means to this end, to respond promptly to the call of the national Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency by carefully preparing for, and holding, wherever possible during the…

There was no one I desired to appoint in your place.

It is now my preference to appoint a new member of the Board to fill the vacancy created by the death of Vice Chairman Ransom.

Yes, indeed.

I have never heard of it.

Oh, eventually of course there will be one before the Democratic convention meets in Philadelphia, but I don't see that there is any hurry about any announcement.

I am not for Mr. Hoover's recommendations.

I think Mr. Wilson is living in 1890, I am sorry to say.

I think they should be paid commensurate with their responsibilities.

I have made that perfectly clear in my statement on the tax proposition.

I wouldn't say back porch. It's front porch--front porch.

He would have a better chance, however, if he were on the ticket of the other old parties.

I just don't approve of Mr. Hoover's statement.

This order shall become effective as of January 1, 1948.