Harry S. Truman Quotes
What Congress needs is a trochar.
A trochar was a medical instrument commonly used with cattle when they would become very bloated with gas. The farmer would insert the trochar into the the animal and all the gas would come out with a loud noise. The insult was understood by farmers, ranchers, and rural folk but went over the heads of must city people and journalists.
Harry S Truman, 1884-1972, 33rd President of the United States (Democrat, MO), Referring to the “Do Nothing Congress” against which he campaigned, 1948
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His admonition did little good. That Congress passed fewer bills than any other in history.
On the possibility of term limitations on members of Congress:
The freshman Congresswoman objected to the Congress playing a secondary role to the President.
Huntington and his associates were used to bribing Congressmen to vote for favorable railroad legislation.
Ex HEW Secretary John Gardner, the founder of the citizens' lobby, Common Cause, was testifying before Hays' committee: Gardner, considered an excellent Secretary by most, was a reformer who was making some suggestions not to Hays’ liking. This quote was Hays’ reposponse to Gardner. Hays was not only a bully but his lack of tact caused the State Departmemt much trouble. See {622348}.
This is the reason that it is so hard to reform Congress.
Harry S. Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53). He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, and approved the plan to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
