When Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright became critical of the administration’s policies, Truman lost his temper and called Fulbright an “overeducated s.o.b.” He also told reporters that Fulbright’s report on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was “asinine.”
Afterwards he confessed to his staff that “the madam [his wife] thinks I shouldn’t have any more press conferences.”
Source:
Boller, Paul F. "Bess W. Truman." Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History. New York: Oxford UP, 1988. 329. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Robert J. Donovan, The Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953 (New York, 1982), 333.
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