Richard Nixon actually said...

I do further appoint December 28, 1972 to be a National Day of Mourning throughout the United States.

HARRY S TRUMAN will be remembered as one of the most courageous Presidents in our history, who led the Nation and the world through a critic...

In launching the Marshall Plan, he began the most farsighted and most generous act of international rebuilding ever undertaken.

Like all political leaders, he had his friends and his opponents.