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
Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar. . . . .He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.
It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
When you've done the best you can, you can't do any better
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it
That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based on the honor of the man in the office.
When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties
A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics.