Harry Truman actually said...

It seems to me that it is entirely improper for any Senator, no matter what his politics or his rank in the Senate may be, to attempt to put the heat on one of the Executive Departments.

Context

Letter to the Associate General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, Concerning a Meeting in Senator Taft's Office.

09/13/1948

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