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41 " You know as long as a country is one of that kind, people are more independent and make better citizens. When it is made up of factories and large cities it soon becomes depressed and makes classes among people. Every farmer thinks he’s as good as the President or perhaps a little bit better. "
― David McCullough , Truman
42 " Harry S. Truman, said Krock, might seem to many a controversial figure. But to those who had the chance to talk with him intimately, his faith in the future had a “luminous” quality. He sits in the center of the troubled and frightened world. . . . But the penumbra of doubt and fear in which the American nation pursues its great and most perilous adventure . . . stops short of him. Visitors find him undaunted and sure that, whether in his time or thereafter, a way will be discovered to preserve the world from the destruction which to many seems unavoidable. . . . "
43 " David G. Truman/David McCullough. "
44 " The answer reached the President at five minutes past four that afternoon, Tuesday, August 14. Japan had surrendered. At 6:10 the Swiss chargé d'affaires in Washington arrived at the State Department to present Secretary [of State James] Byrnes with the Japanese text, which Byrnes carried at once to the White House."(The document would have arrived ten minutes sooner but for the fact that a sixteen-year-old messenger, Thomas E. Jones, who picked it up at the RCA offices on Connecticut Avenue to deliver to the Swiss legation, had been stopped by the police for making a U-turn on Connecticut.) "
45 " reputedly consulted with the spirit of a dead Sioux Indian chief. "
46 " Truman said simply, “Brave men don’t belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it. "
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50 " The historic fact remains, and must be judged in the after-time,” Churchill wrote, “that the decision whether or not to use the atomic bomb to compel the surrender of Japan was never an issue. There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table; nor did I ever hear the slightest suggestion that we should do otherwise. "
51 " Inwardly Truman was an extremely frustrated, resentful, and angry man, worn thin by criticism, fed up with crises not of his making and with people who, as he saw it, cared nothing for their country, only their own selfish interests. "
52 " California Congressman "
53 " In his own state in 1935, nine out of ten farms had no electricity. "
54 " the, situation still "
55 " An economist,” he told them, “is a man who wears a watch chain with a Phi Beta Kappa key at one end and no watch at the other. "
56 " Truman had been sitting in a chair in the bedroom with several new books stacked on a table beside him. Did the President like to read himself to sleep at night, McCormick asked. “No, young man,” said Truman, “I like to read myself awake.” Thomas "
57 " locomotive, Special trucks "
58 " The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know - Harry S. Truman "
59 " Another problem we have . . . is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon. "
60 " looks. "