Word: truman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unhappy time in the new White House, and his dyspeptic ghost seemed to linger there for years. Thomas Jefferson groused about "a splendid misery." Mary Todd Lincoln understandably called the place "that whited sepulchre." Calvin Coolidge once said, "Nobody lives there. They just come and go." And Harry Truman called it "the great white jail" but loved the place for its grace and meaning...
...their imagination to accept certain possibilities. In 1901, two years before they took off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur Wright told his brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years. Not long before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Admiral William Leahy advised President Harry Truman, "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done . . . the bomb will never...
...Quayle: "I can see right now the reason this nation's in gridlock." ."Don't always believe what you see on television." ."Has anyone been reading my press clippings for the past four years?" ."Take a breath Al, inhale." ."If you don't try to compare Bush to Harry Truman, I won't compare you to Jack Kennedy." A Few of our Favorite Quotes "Who am I? Why am I here?" ."I didn't have my hearing aid on; tell me again ."You can overdue environmental cleaning up." ."I'm out of ammunition on that." ."It's in your book...
...Harry Truman...
...Harry Truman...