Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Does Your Favorite Plainspoken President Have The Buck?

"The buck stops here." - Harry S. Truman.

"An American U-2 spy plane was shot down in the U.S.S.R. in May 1960. The Soviet Union captured the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, who confessed he was a spy. Eisenhower accepted personal responsibility for the flight. He admitted that U-2 planes had been flying over the U.S.S.R. taking photographs for four years." - The World Book Encylopedia on Ike.

"Mistakes were made." - Ronald Reagan on the Iran-Contra scandal.

"I can't recall." - The Great Communicator again on the same subject.

"I gave a speech to the nation that was cleared by the intelligence services." - George W. Bush.