A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

US President, atomic bomb decision

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Speech in 1958

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1958

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https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/trivia/presidential-quotes

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