Give em' hell Harry!!

[BornagainDUer]

I think Harry Reid got the job because he looks like Harry Truman and shares his first name.
He ain't no Harry Truman and never could be.

A favorite rejoinder of Senator Harry S. Truman, when a member of his war contracts investigating committee objects to his strenuous pace: 'If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen'."

He used a version slightly nearer the one most often used nowadays, in 1949, after becoming president, when warning his staff not to concern themselves over criticism about their appointments:

"I'll stand by but if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."

Truman was well-known as a plain-speaker, in a way that politicians in our more media-sensitive age rarely are. This was celebrated by Merle Miller, who published a set of interviews with him - called Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, in 1974. It includes this unambiguous gem, which would hardly get past the presidential spin-machine these days:

"I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three quarters of them would be in jail."

[Faygo Kid]

1. “I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.”

Harry Truman:

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”

Wise words indeed.

[monmouth]

2. I was a little kid when Harry was Pres. I learned how to say "haberdasher." ...n/t