#truman

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

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Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently. ↗

— Billy Graham

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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done. ↗

— Ed Harris

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I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

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At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

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I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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