“The Committee is authorized on behalf of the President to examine into the rules, procedures and practices of the Armed Services in order to determine in what respect such rules, procedures and practices may be altered or improved with a view to carrying out the policy of this order. The Committee shall confer and advise the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force, and shall make such recommendations to the President and to said Secretaries as in the judgment of the Committee will effectuate the policy hereof.”

—  Harry Truman

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The Committee is authorized on behalf of the President to examine into the rules, procedures and practices of the Armed…" by Harry Truman?
Harry Truman photo
Harry Truman 119
American politician, 33rd president of the United States (i… 1884–1972

Related quotes

Arthur Li photo

“in the mainland, a university has a party committee secretary (黨委書記). Do they want a party committee secretary at HKU? Is he a party committee secretary? They want to put him here as party committee secretary.”

Arthur Li (1945) Hong Kong politician

Leaked recording: Arthur Li speaks against Johannes Chan, EJ Insight, http://www.webcitation.org/6cfxbjx4k, 30 October 2015 http://www.ejinsight.com/20151028-leaked-recording-arthur-li-speaks-against-johannes-chan/,

“I should like to stress that the party is alive, not because Gorbachev is general secretary of its central committee. If he ceases to be general secretary, another leader will come.”

Gennady Yanayev (1937–2010) USSR politician

In an interview, February 1991 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8060046/Gennady-Yanayev.html

Harry Truman photo
Warren G. Harding photo

“Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. … I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U. S. Marines.”

Warren G. Harding (1865–1923) American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923)

Speech during Warren Harding's 1920 presidental campaign, critizing Woodrow Wilson's Haitian policies; quoted in Democracy at the Point of Bayonets (1999) by Mark Penceny, p. 2. (The Assistant Secretary of the Navy he refers to is Franklin Roosevelt, who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1920).
1920s

Harry Truman photo

“The Committee shall continue to exist until such time as the President shall terminate its existence by Executive order.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Calvin Coolidge photo
Tina Fey photo
Bobby Fischer photo

“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia… The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense are dirty Jews.”

Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer

Source: Radio Interview, May 24 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_07_2.MP3

Harry Truman photo

Related topics