this is going to be hot stuff. I said last week I would quote from battling Harry Truman. Everybody wants to be Harry Truman if they are coming from behind in an election, and I said that Harry Truman was tough on adultery, loyal to his Bess. My dad was Harry Dornan, D Artillery Battalion, World War I, 30th Division. Harry was 34th Division, Battery D, Artillery. Harry. Harry. Listen to this on adultery, Mr. Speaker, and I bring this up during a Presidential race period for obvious reasons. ``Harry Truman said, `Any man who was dissolute with women,' Truman believed, `was not a man to be trusted entirely. He discovered that''--two names from the past-- ``both loved the ladies and kept telephone girls on the payroll. `I'll say this for the big boss,' '' referring to the Tom Pendergast of Pendergast machine fame, `` `he has no feminine connections.' '' This is the book called ``Truman'' that won a Pulitzer Prize for an author and biographer of some note, David McCullough. David McCullough. Listen to this paragraph. It seems that Harry Truman was plagued with headaches, as was my mother, as I was at one point studying for exams, but lucky in my later years. ``Harry Truman says he worried always about possible entrapment with women,'' would have saved a lot of careers in the Senate and this body if people had taken this advice, ``an old device for destroying politicians.…
Robert Dornan: “this is going to be hot stuff. I said last week I would quote from battling Harry Truman. Everybody wants to be Harry…”
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Discussing Harry Truman's views on adultery during a speech related to a presidential race.
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