My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. — Rich Little Copy Share Image
Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
“Buy only what you really need and cannot do without,” President Harry Truman once said on TV.” — Thomas H Naylor Copy Share Image
“Truman's version was: "The only new thing in the world is the history we have not learned." And, in the House” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Truman thought. “I don’t know. Frankly, I identify with them quite a bit. I remember what it was like to be that… — Kendra Elliot Copy Share Image
President Truman made his name by looking into contracting. And that's how integrity within the military procurement started in the United States. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“Is so-and-so a bigger asshole than Truman?” Few could compare—in fact, so far, officially, there was only Donald Trump and cannibals.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, then, why are you dressed like an usher? Will Truman: Im not. Im Captain Von Trapp. I have seven singing children… — Will & Grace Copy Share Image
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
“The job was “a graveyard of politicians” in Washington parlance, traditionally disparaged by the men who held it. The VP before Truman,… — A.J. Baime Copy Share Image
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“the weeks following the war’s end, Truman announced a redesign of the presidential flag—the first since the Wilson years. Chief among the… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII,… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
President Obama's Justice Department won less than half of its total cases before the Supreme Court, which is the lowest presidential win… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“The loyalty of those around Truman was total and would never falter. In years to come not one member of the Truman… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“In that war, the United States had created military forces so enormous as to defy description, yet now, when the nation’s greatest… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Then, one night, while daughter Margaret played the piano upstairs, the floor indeed gave way and the piano crashed through, sending plaster… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
“The modern Presidents Club was founded by two men who by all rights should have loathed each other. There was Harry Truman,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Generally the Truman Doctrine had been pursued passively, though in 1949 a secret joint American-British operation had parachuted trained Albanian exiles back… — Alex von Tunzelmann Copy Share Image
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