All I do is to tell them the truth, and that hurts a lot worse than giving them hell.
Harry Truman: “All I do is to tell them the truth, and that hurts a lot worse than giving them hell.”
On the recordOctober 3, 1952
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Address at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco
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