Harry Truman actually said...

I have just finished vetoing a bill which was intended to emasculate the Labor Department, and the Congress has just passed it over my veto.

Rear Platform Remarks in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio

06/16/1948

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I wish I deserved everything he said.

I can say categorically that they were not.

Then came along an old man from Tennessee, and he took a hickory stick and he put it into practice.

This is right where I expected to be.