Harry Truman actually said...

"It is unreasonable and unfair that they should also have to pay for postal costs which should be borne by those who receive the direct benefit of postal service."

"I went up with the airborne people and wanted to jump out, and I almost got arrested by the major general because he said he would be court-martialed if I jumped out."

"The general taxpayer has been giving large subsidies to certain users of the postal system."

"Second-class mail should be brought gradually toward self-sufficiency in postal revenues."