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He popularized the expression "The Buck Stops Here" (meaning that he'd take full responsibility for all actions of the Executive Branch.).
 
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== Truman in fiction: ==
 
* The one-man play and film ''Give 'Em Hell, Harry!'' feature James Whitmore as Truman.
* ''Truman'', a 1995 [[HBO]] feature starring [[Forrest Gump|Gary Sinise]] in the title role.
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* In the ''[[That 70s Show]]'' episode "Prank Day", Red says to Eric that his punishment for putting a bucket of oatmeal over the door (intended for Kelso) will be "the kind of thing that Harry Truman might order to end the war!" Fez asks who's Harry Truman and Kelso responds that he "invented electricity".
* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Snoopy as the [[World War One]] Flying Ace claims to have met Truman when he was serving as a US Army captain in that conflict.
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