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On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:00:14 +0000, William Hyde wrote:

> Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:32:17 +1300, Titus G Trump <noone@nowhere.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 14/12/24 05:30, Paul S Person wrote:

>>>> [1] This is a common trope, whether by Pres Truman ("The buck stops
>>>> here", pointing to his desk or perhaps the Oval Office) to Star Trek
>>>> VI, where Kirk agrees that, as Captain, he is responsible for what
>>>> happened. So why does the buck /not/ stop at the top dog in these
>>>> cases?
>>>
>>> Perhaps because one is fiction with a message and the other is reality?
>>
>> Truman isn't fiction.
>
> We could start a Harry Truman denialism movement.  When FDR died (if
> indeed he did!), Eleanor hired an actor to play Truman while she ran the
> country until 1952 before ceding power to FDR's illegitimate son.

The only thing fictional about Harry "S" Truman was his middle initial.

But, on the other hand, the television show Star Trek was fiction, and I
think
that was what was being referred to.

John Savard