Harry S Truman
Harry S Truman
Harry S. Trumanwas the 33rd President of the United States, an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States Senator from Missouriand briefly as Vice Presidentbefore he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth8 May 1884
CountryUnited States of America
The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
It sure is hell to be president.
This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.