Harry Truman actually said...

"I am confident that this was not the intention of the Congress and it is for this reason that I am withholding my approval of the legislation."

"As I have said time and again here to the young men who represent you here in the White House, that I didn't care much what was said on the editorial page if I got the facts on the front page!"

"I was exceedingly happy that this country had a press that could say and do what it pleased under the law."

"The political matters have to speak for themselves in actions, and they do, I think, most of the time."