Truman on firing General Douglass MacArthur –
“I fired him because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the President. 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.”
Truman on Washington bureaucracy-
“A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.”
Truman on his upset victory in 1948-
“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
Credit: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
Accession Number: 64-822
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