The buck stops here?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Sam. I had forgotten.

  JL

Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM> wrote:
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From: "Charles Doyle"
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 6:48 PM
Subject: The buck stops here?


>> According to Keyes's Quote Verifier, a friend of Truman's saw the saying
>> on a sign on an Oklahoma prison warden's desk; the friend gave Turman a
>> replica of the sign in Oct. 1945.
>
> --Charlie
And don't forget that a 1942 picture of a US serviceman with such a sign on
his desk was found on N'archive.

Sam Clements

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