Harry Truman actually said...

It is our plain duty to keep the coal mines just as safe as human skill and effort can make them.

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Urging Action on Mine Safety...

01/21/1952

More Harry Truman Quotes

Certainly. I always have.

The Constitution, containing the Bill of Rights, was the only document considered in the writing of that message.

I don't know enough about the situation, only just what I read in the papers.

They are both--I say they are both without foundation.