I heartily concur in your proposal as Chairman of Collier's Congressional Awards Committee that the dinner scheduled for April sixth be cancelled.

In taking this step you are setting an excellent example to Washington and to the country as a whole.

I could not take the action which you request without reiterating these convictions with all of the emphasis at my command.

So, you stand before your countrymen after vicious and unwarranted attacks with integrity unscathed, with ability unquestioned, with honor unsullied.

With this pledge of full confidence in you I shall reluctantly withdraw your nomination.

My faith in your integrity and ability has been strengthened.

I appreciate the motives which prompt your request for the withdrawal of my nomination of you as Under Secretary of the Navy.

The disclosure of all the evidence has vindicated my confidence in you.

And I urge Federal, State, and local officials and patriotic, civic, and educational organizations to plan and hold, on or about May 19, exercise designated to help our new citizens, both native-born and naturalized, to understand more…

I trust that the Congress will find that this proposed wool program constitutes a sound and adequate basis for constructive legislation.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225 (U.S.C. title 16, sec. 431), do revise the land…

In closing I wish to express my agreement with you that cooperation between the Executive and the Congress is essential to the establishment of an effective wool program.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the aforesaid public resolution do hereby designate Sunday, May 19, 1946, as 'I Am An American Day'

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Public Health Service Act, approved July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682), and as President of the United States, I hereby prescribe the following regulations relating to the medical care of certain…

All other provisions contained in the said Proclamation of March 17, 1932, shall remain in full force and effect.

Please wire me promptly of your acceptance.

JOHN MONROE JOHNSON, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the United States as Director of the Office of Defense Transportation.

Mr. Pelley has been an unfailing source of wise counsel and advice to the military establishment on all phases of railroad transportation.