Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure Quotes

“Kofi Anan, who was once asked why God was able to create the world in seven days while it has taken the UN more than sixty years to achieve what it has. “The good Lord,” replied Anan, “had the advantage of working alone.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

“Truman said. “They cheered as if I were still president. So I pretended I was still president and waved back.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

“he said anybody who voted for his bitter enemy Richard Nixon “ought to go to hell.” John Kennedy was asked about the comment in one of his famous televised debates with Nixon. “Well,” he said, “I must say that Mr. Truman has his methods of expressing things…. I really don’t think there’s anything I can say to President Truman that’s going to cause him at the age of seventy-six to change his particular speaking manner. Maybe Mrs. Truman can, but I don’t think I can.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

“He spoke of how he enjoyed reading the morning papers now, “without having to make plans for handling the problems that appear there.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

“In 1962 less than 2 percent of all motels were affiliated with a national chain. Today more than 70 percent are.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

“politics has changed since 1953, how it seems to have become more personal and less personable.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

“Harry replaced all the fifty-cent words with much cheaper ones.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

“Harry called Bess “the Boss.” Margaret was “the Boss’s Boss.”
― Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip