On the Matter of ‘Buck-Stopping’…

Jokes and stories attributed to US Presidents—true or not—have to make some of them blush with embarrassment. File drawers of the late President Harry S. Truman must have bulged nigh unto disintegration. He was arguably the most plain-spoken president of the 20 th century. (Admittedly, in the 21 st century, he probably would have been a distant second to President Donald Trump.) Truman may have…