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Old August 3rd 08, 12:21 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default (OT) : The Buck Stops Here -a-la- Harry Truman

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:34:48 -0700, RHF wrote:

On Aug 2, 12:35Â*pm, Dave wrote:
RHF wrote:

- I have no fondness for the Kennedys; they hounded - Lenny Bruce and
Martin Luther King Jr.


That would have been J. Edgar Hoover that did the 'hounding'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

J._Edgar_Hoover#Response_to_Mafia_and_ci...
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- What ever happened to "The buck stops here"?

AFAIK - Harry Truman said that -and- no US President since him has
repeated those words . . . ~ RHF
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_buck_stops_here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
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If you claim ultimate authority you must accept ultimate responibility.