This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

Davis met his wife Florence in England. Then in 1941 his colleagues persuaded President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appoint Davis director of the newly created United States Office of War Information a sprawling organization with over 3000 employees. Davis has been termed one of the "unsung forefathers" of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team an all-Nisei combat unit in the war.

Elmer Davis (January 13 1890 – May 18 1958) was a well-known news reporter author the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.