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President Harry S. Truman's remarks at the Armed Forces Day dinner. The President spoke at 10:15 p.m. in the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel in Washington. During his remarks he referred to Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Robert A. Lovett, Secretary of Defense, frank Pace, Jr., Secretary of the Army, Dan A. Kimball, Secretary of the Navy, Thomas K. Finletter, Secretary of the Air force, General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Chief of Staff of the Air force, and Adm. William M. Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations.