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Harry S. Truman bol 34. viceprezident a v rokoch 1945 – 53 bol 33. prezident Spojených štátov.

V dobe, kedy zastával prezidentský úrad, došlo k množstvu zásadných udalostí. Tesne po nástupe, v auguste 1945 dopadla na Hirošimu prvá atómová bomba, v rokoch 1945 – 1947 začala „studená vojna“ a bol to Truman, kto „Trumanovou doktrínou“ vytýčil základný postoj USA voči rozpínajúcemu sa komunizmu. USA sa Marshallovým plánom aktívne podieľali na hospodárskej obnove Európy a zároveň z Európy sťahovali svoje vojenské jednotky. V roku 1945 vznikla Organizácia Spojených národov, USA prešli v rokoch 1947 – 1955 obdobím panického strachu z komunizmu .

Truman pochádzal zo strednej vrstvy a v mladosti prešiel na rozdiel od Roosevelta strasťami bežného Američana. Počas celej kariéry si zachoval ľudový imidž a napriek počiatočnej nedôvere v jeho schopnosti si dokázal získať rešpekt a povesť silného a rozhodného štátnika. Bola pre neho typická tiež veľká usilovnosť a zodpovednosť, ktorú voči svojej práci pociťoval.

Týždeň po invázii Hitlera do ZSSR v roku 1941 Truman na pôde senátu prehlásil: "Kým bude víťaziť Nemecko, mali by sme pomôcť Rusku. Keď budú mať navrch Rusi mali by sme pomôcť Nemcom aby sa ich medzi sebou pozabíjalo čo najviac, hoci nechcem vidieť Hitlera zvíťaziť za žiadnych okolností. " Wikipedia  

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“What do you mean "helped create"? I am Cyrus. I am Cyrus.”

Response to being described by his friend Eddie Jacobsen as "the man who helped create the state of Israel." (November 1953); as quoted in "With Eyes Toward Zion" (1977) by Moshe Davis

“It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts.”

As quoted in Bush's Brain : How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential (2003) by Wayne Slater and James Moore, p. 173

“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

This saying was popularized by Truman after he publicly used it in 1952. It was soon credited to his aide Harry H. Vaughan in TIME (28 April 1952) but apparently originated with a Missouri colleague of Truman, Eugene "Buck" Purcell, according to The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, And When (2006) by Ralph Keyes. Truman himself later made reference to his popularization of the remark in his book Mr. Citizen (1960), p. 229:
: There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Misattributed

“Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.”

Attributed without citation in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1992) by Angela Partington, disputed in The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 224, as something Truman is not known to have said, nor was likely to have said.
Disputed

“He’s one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.”

On Richard Nixon, as quoted Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman (1974) by Merle Miller, p. 179

“No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook.”

Varianta: Similarly on pg. 136: "About this getting rich in politics. Like I said, you just can't do it unless you're a crook." And earlier: "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics." - Truman's diary, 24 April 1954.
Zdroj: Harry S Truman, quoted in Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman by Merle Miller, 1973-1974 SBN 425-02664-7 LOC 73-87198, Berkeley Medallion Edition, October, 1974, Chapter 10. "The Only Defeat − and Then Victory", pg. 134.

“Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. I've got the most terribly responsible job a man ever had.”

Comment to reporters on having become president the day before, after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, (13 April 1945) as quoted in Conflict and Crisis : The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948 by Robert J. Donovan, p. 17; also quoted in "Thoughts Of A President, 1945" at Eyewitness to History http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tru.htm, and TIME magazine (12 April1968) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838136-9,00.html

“Tell him to go to hell; I'm for Jimmy Byrnes.”

Upon hearing that Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted him to be his vice presidential running mate (21 July 1944), as quoted in Choosing Truman : The Democratic Convention of 1944 (1994); also quoted in "Harry S. Truman : America's last great leader?" in USA Today magazine (January 1995) by the Society for the Advancement of Education http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2596_v123/ai_16399945

“My forebears were Confederates… but my very stomach turned over when I had learned that Negro soldiers, just back from overseas, were being dumped out of Army trucks in Mississippi and beaten.”

As quoted in Harry S. Truman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#CITEREFTruman1973 (1973), by Margaret Truman, New York: William Morrow, p. 429

“There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people — the 150 or 160 million — is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.”

As quoted by John F. Kennedy in an address in Atlantic City at the Convention of the United Auto Workers (8 May 1962) As reported in the Ready Reference: John F. Kennedy Quotations of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx

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