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Harry S. Truman
Birthday:
8 May 1884
Height:
173 cm
Biography
I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years.
I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years.
My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
[on Douglas MacArthur] I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son-of-a-bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.
[on Douglas MacArthur] I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son-of-a-bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.
[on unexpectedly becoming President in 1945] I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.
[on unexpectedly becoming President in 1945] I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.
[jokingly to Eisenhower who had asked before they toured the White House whether he should sign the guestbook] Definitely. Then if anything is missing we'll know who to blame.
[jokingly to Eisenhower who had asked before they toured the White House whether he should sign the guestbook] Definitely. Then if anything is missing we'll know who to blame.
Most Presidents don't seem to want to talk to former presidents. And from my experience, I know that's pretty natural behavior. A new president wants to be president on his own hook, and not have a former president around, trying to give him advice. But the really terrible thing is when a president sets out to actively discredit the politics of a former pres...
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Most Presidents don't seem to want to talk to former presidents. And from my experience, I know that's pretty natural behavior. A new president wants to be president on his own hook, and not have a former president around, trying to give him advice. But the really terrible thing is when a president sets out to actively discredit the politics of a former president. And that's what happened when I was succeeded by Dwight Eisenhower.
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It's interesting that a single thing, that great smile of Eisenhower's, gave him the worldwide and lifelong reputation of being a sunny and amiable man., when most of us who knew him well were all too aware that he was essentially a surly, angry and disagreeable man.
It's interesting that a single thing, that great smile of Eisenhower's, gave him the worldwide and lifelong reputation of being a sunny and amiable man., when most of us who knew him well were all too aware that he was essentially a surly, angry and disagreeable man.
[on in-coming President Eisenhower] This fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
[on in-coming President Eisenhower] This fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
[to a friend, the day after FDR died] I'm not big enough. I'm not big enough for this job.
[to a friend, the day after FDR died] I'm not big enough. I'm not big enough for this job.
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan. I know he's going to vote against me.
Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan. I know he's going to vote against me.
[on father/mother] Since a child at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics, and right living for its own reward.
[on father/mother] Since a child at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics, and right living for its own reward.
[on criticism] He who cannot stand the heat should stay out of the kitchen.
[on criticism] He who cannot stand the heat should stay out of the kitchen.
[on James Stewart] If Bess and I had a son, we'd want him to be just like Jimmy Stewart.
[on James Stewart] If Bess and I had a son, we'd want him to be just like Jimmy Stewart.
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.
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 don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
A president cannot always be popular.
A president cannot always be popular.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
[his journal entry after visiting Berlin shortly after VE Day.] Never have I seen such a sorrowful sight. I hope for a swift end to this war but I fear that the machines are ahead of morals by some centuries.
[his journal entry after visiting Berlin shortly after VE Day.] Never have I seen such a sorrowful sight. I hope for a swift end to this war but I fear that the machines are ahead of morals by some centuries.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for Universal Newsreel (1945), Le syndrome du Titanic (2009) and Missouri : A Living Portrait (1960). He was married to Bess Truman. He died on December 26, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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