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OCR Page 1 of 9RELEASE UPON DELIVERY
AT 12:00 NOON MONDAY
AUGUST 7, 1944.
REPORT OF THE HONORABLE SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
ON THE TRUMAN COMMITTEE TO BE DELIVERED TO THE
SENATE ON MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1944.
Mr. President, one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had
to make was that to resign as Chairman of the Special Senate Committee
on National Defense. I consider it a very great privilege to have
served with that Committee.
In the last war I had an opportunity to observe the waste and
confusion that always exists in a period of great emergency when many
important decisions have to be made overnight and have to be carried
out by inexperienced staffs.
When the President advocated a program for preparedness over the
opposition of many of our isolationists, I wholeheartedly supported that
program. It was another and perhaps the greatest instance of that ability
which he has so frequently shown to see into the future and determine the
right course for this nation.
But as a soldier who had deplored the waste and confusion in the
last war I believed that our preparedness program should be subjected from
the very first to intelligent and honest investigation so that mistakes
could be caught before the damage had been done,
The old saying that it doesn't do any good to lock the barn door
after the horse has been stolen properly could be amended to read: "It
does not do much good after the horse has been stolen to find out why
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