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Stuart Symington has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out…
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Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but…
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My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot…
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Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do…
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If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
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In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out…
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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense,…
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The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough;…
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But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had…
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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I…
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It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing…
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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
— Jim Carrey
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It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar…
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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
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Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.…
— Unknown Author
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Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.
— Kanye West
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect…
— John F. Kennedy
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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.
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I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
— Lord Mountbatten
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
— Joseph Epstein
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