Harry S. Truman Quotes
Why, this fellow [Dwight D. Eisenhower] don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
Harry S Truman, 1884-1972, 33rd President of the United States (Democrat, MO), 1950, Quoted in Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, 1978
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Roosevelt promoted Eisenhower over more than 300 more senior generals and put him in charge of the American Forces invading North Africa—the first American combat in the war. In addition to commanding the American forces, he was also responsible for dealing with many leading politicians from Winston Churchill to the very difficult French General Charles De Gaulle. That is why Eisenhower was picked, and a brilliant pick it was.
The senator was participating in a televised hearing on nightclub and restaurant taxes, during which the expensive and famous 21 Club was discussed. The senator referred to it as the "22 Club" and the "23 Club." A friend asked him about his errors recalling that they had dined together at the 21 Club many times:
Referring to the Bush administration:
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Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53). He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before 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, and approved the plan to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
