Harry Truman actually said...

"I think they should have a salary commensurate with the work they do, and I have always thought that."

"This time the job is to be done in ten months."

"I extend to you my own gratitude and that of a grateful people for the masterful way in which you have accomplished this monumental task."

"It required every transportation ingenuity to assemble our armies in Europe over a period of four years."