'Then the President said, 'You're God damned right you did. 'I told President Truman, 'I didn't do much thinking about it. The President asked him how he felt about the awesome responsibility of dropping mankind's first atom bomb. It was Harry Truman who gave the final order for unleashing the bomb. The authority began with Franklin Roosevelt, who gave his stamp of approval to the project but died before it could be carried out. I was following orders from competent authority.' I had to do this in the best interests of my country.
'I would be hypocritic if I said I suffered remorse. After seeing 'Enola Gay' earlier this week, Tibbets said, 'The movie straightens out the misconceptions about my personal reactions to being the first man ever to drop an atom bomb.
