BOB2 Wrote:
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> Purportedly, this was the basis for the speech he
> gave a famous speech from the back of the campaign
> train at Mojave, when running for re-election in
> 1948. Where the story goes, "given "em hell
> Harry" supposedly started with the words, "I hear
> some of you railroad men don't like me....." And
> then, proceeded to lecture them, telling them he'd
> do it again to get the troops home, and then, on
> what would happen to the Railway Labor Act and
> Railroad Retirement Act, if his oppoenent won.....

When a reporter asked Truman about his give em hell Harry tag he replied .I don't give em hell I just tell them the way it is and they think it's hell.