Management Quote by David Halberstam

“Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.”

— David Halberstam

“And it was no accident, in the late forties, that the makers of American policy, unwilling to backtrack with the public, began to try…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

— Stephen Ambrose

“As Truman saw the presidency, the chief responsibility was to make decisions and he made some of the most difficult and far-reaching of any…

— David McCullough

“was significant that every historic decision of the Truman Cabinet was debated by Congress only after it had been made irreversible.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them do…

— David McCullough

“Roosevelt loved the subtleties of human relations...He was sensitive to nuances in a way that Harry Truman never was and never would be. Truman,…

— David McCullough

“Even amid an avalanche of meetings with aliens in the years to follow, Truman referred to the aliens as “Space Monkeys”. Truman was a…

— Maximillien de Lafayette

“The surprise pointed up a continuing of American Intelligence. The various intelligence agencies poured a vast amount of information into Washington; they knew the…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House,…

— Stuart Symington

“correspondent in the Middle East, attaché William Yale. With that dispatch he was establishing a tradition of fundamentally misreading the situation in the Middle…

— Scott Anderson

Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished…

— H. W. Brands