Frases de Harry S. Truman

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Fuente: Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)

Fuente: Entrevista con Margaret Truman, entrevistada por Edward R. Murrow, en Person to Person, CBS Television (27 de mayo de 1955)

Fuente: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: "Address in Atlantic City at the Convention of the United Auto Workers (174)" 8 de mayo de 1962, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1962.

Fuente: Discurso ante el Women's National Democratic Club, 6 de marzo de 1944, Congressional Record, XC, 8, (1944), A1156

Fuente: Truman H.S.: Discurso ante la Mississipi Valley Flood Control Association, Nueva Orléans, Luisiana, 19 de diciembre de 1942, Congressional Record, LXIX, 9, 1943: A29

Fuente: H. S. Truman: Memoirs, Garden City, Doubleday and company, Nueva York, 1955. Vol. I, 161

Durante una rueda de prensa en la Casa Blanca, el 4 de abril de 1950.
Fuente: Las declaraciones de hombres políticos y personalidades http://www.ldi5.com/e/ovni/e_declar_pol.php. Les Découvertes Impossibles.

Third Radner Lecture, Columbia University, New York City (29 April 1959), as published in Truman Speaks : Lectures And Discussions Held At Columbia University On April 27, 28, And 29, 1959 (1960), p. 111

Harry Truman at Chicago, 17 March 1945, as recorded in Good Old Harry

Quoted by Richard Neustadt in Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership http://books.google.com/books?id=-rxEAAAAIAAJ&q="I+sit+here+all+day+trying+to+persuade+people+to+do+the+things+they+ought+to+have+sense+enough+to+do+without+my+persuading+them"+"that's+all+the+powers+of+the+President+amount+to" (1964)

Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)

Letter to Mary Jane Truman (14 November 1947)

On General Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech, as quoted in The Fifties (1993) by David Halberstam

Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=DVVffTwVVy4C&q=%22One+of+the+difficulties+with+all+our+institutions+is+the+fact+that+we've+emphasized+the+reward+instead+of+the+service%22&pg=PA166#v=onepage to Harold E. Moore (27 September 1949)

Comment on his World War I experience after an assassination attempt on (1 November 1950) as quoted in Bess W. Truman (1986) by Margaret Truman

Interview with Edward R. Murrow on CBS Television (2 February 1958)

Letter to George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania (received 28 February 1947); reported in The New York Times (3 April 1947), p. 17, quoting Earle.

Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44

Regarding nuclear weapons, as quoted in Harry S. Truman: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=7UXSMj3OF4oC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=%22It+is+used+to+wipe+out+women+and+children+and+unarmed+people,+and+not+for+military+uses.+So+we+have+got+to+treat+this+differently+from+rifles+and+cannon+and+ordinary+things+like+that.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=xoePU9q9JU&sig=Lxl_x7toU7Y3oD_zKKSZQ2zD29k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCgQ6AEwA2oVChMIw7D1wb6dxwIVSjI-Ch3ibAd2#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20used%20to%20wipe%20out%20women%20and%20children%20and%20unarmed%20people%2C%20and%20not%20for%20military%20uses.%20So%20we%20have%20got%20to%20treat%20this%20differently%20from%20rifles%20and%20cannon%20and%20ordinary%20things%20like%20that.%E2%80%9D&f=false, by Robert H. Ferrell, p. 344

Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Responding to a question at his press conference (February 28, 1947); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, p. 191

Statement to a group of four congress freshmen (2 July 1947), as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44

Personal diary 6:00 P. M. Monday (21 July 1947) https://www.trumanlibrary.org/diary/page21.htm

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Letter to critic Paul Hume, as quoted in TIME magazine (18 December 1950)

Statement to Richard Nixon and his wife Pat in 1969, as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44

Letter to Walter F. George (October 1946); as quoted in Great Jewish Quotations (1996) by Alfred J. Kolatch, p. 463

As quoted in TIME magazine (10 February 1958)

Address to the Democratic National Convention (15 July 1948) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/33_truman/psources/ps_convention48.html; this has often been paraphrased as: "They are wrong and we are right and I'm going to prove it to you!"

This saying, also popularized by Truman, was on a sign on his desk https://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm, but did not originate with him. According to the Truman Presidential Library, it was sent to him nearly two months after the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
Misattributed

Get that: "The Next Steps" … They're going even further! … The Republicans favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better.
Harry Truman at Akron (11 October 1948), Good Old Harry

Fuente: News Conference at Key West, March 30, 1950

Letter to George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania (received 28 February 1947); reported in The New York Times (3 April 1947), p. 17, quoting Earle.
Fuente: [McCullough, David G., Truman, 2003, Simon & Schuster, 978-0-7432-6029-9, 655, 869432463]