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Harry Truman: “I always call him boss, because he was the Floor Leader of the Democratic Party all the 10 years that I was in the…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 1949
I always call him boss, because he was the Floor Leader of the Democratic Party all the 10 years that I was in the Senate, and I never did call him any other way but the man who knows where he is going, and what he is doing--and he does.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Remarks at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner

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