Sunday 4 November 2012

The Wit and Wisdom of... Harry S. Truman

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with

President Harry S. Truman, 1950. Two years earlier, Truman had pulled off a spectacular election victory for the Democrats, despite being miles behind in the polls throughout the campaign.

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