More from Harry S. Truman
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Look- “Exchange of Messages With Pope Pius XII,” American Presidency Project (August 28, 1947)
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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.