Longhand Note of President Harry S. Truman

In this diary entry, President Truman expresses his opinion on a variety of subjects, asserting that the courts should stay out of policy matters; that the FBI must be prevented from becoming a Gestapo or secret police force; that the Constitution should be amended to remove r...

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ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AND THE WHITE HOUSE May 12. 445 WASHINGTON The Courts should he truthy judicialand not stable in poley - ex- cept interpritation of the Constitution It is not at all proper for counts to try to make laws or toread lan school theories into the law laiddon by the We mast no ges tap. Congress and porting or secret Police. F.B.J. HST