“ I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
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“ I wrote a thing for myself called A Short History of The Truman Show about how it all came to be, and who Christof was I wrote it as if it were a press release from the show. ”
- Peter Weir- Copy
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“ Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima… ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ Still other respected writes, such as Rufus Miles Jr. and Stanford Univerity's Barton Bernstein, have effectively refuted Truman's oft-repeated argument about the number of American lives saved by the bomb. Citing the most recently de-classified materials, Bernstein could not find a worst-case prediction of lives lost higher than 46,000-even if an invasion had been mounted, which, as noted, was deemed highly unlikely by July 1945… ”
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