After his accession to the Presidency on the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt:

When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.


13 April 1945


When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.