Harry Truman actually said...

"I wouldn't take any, now. It's a little late."

"It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time."

"No, there's no reason for me to see him."

"It was suggested, and I decided that it wouldn't serve any good purpose, it would be just a piece of demagoguery; and that is what it turned out to be."