Joseph Biden actually said...

I wasn't around when Harry Truman was around. But I remember my grandfather saying, when they yelled to Harry Truman, 'Give them hell, Harry,' he yelled back: 'I'm not going to give them hell. I'm going to tell them the truth, and they're going to think it's hell.'

Context

Biden references a quote from Harry Truman to emphasize the importance of truth in political discourse.

09/04/2008

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