THE BUCK STOPS HERE!
May 9, 2007
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Israel will need a great leader when the final war to end The Age of the Gentiles does eventually begin in the Middle East between the forces of Islam and
Israel. President Harry Truman came into the office of the American presidency initially from the office of vice-president when the famous President Roosevelt died during World War II. I look upon the little man from Missouri as perhaps the best President this country ever knew. Israel is going to desperately need such a man in the mold of Harry Truman in the time of trouble she is scheduled to endure during the coming years.
Zechariah 13:8 to 14:1 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
[1] Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. [2] For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. [3] Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. [4] And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. [5] And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. [6] And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: [7] But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. [8] And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Ezekiel 39:21-29 – And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. [22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward.
[23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. [24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. [25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. [27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
[29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
The quote which follows was extracted from *Mitford M. Mathews, ed., A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1951), I, pages 198-199.
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The sign “The Buck Stops Here” that was on President Truman’s desk in his White House office was made in the Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma. Fred M. Canfil, then United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri and a friend of Mr. Truman, saw a similar sign while visiting the Reformatory and asked the Warden if a sign like it could be made for President Truman.
The sign was made and mailed to the President on October 2, 1945.
Approximately 2-1/2″ x 13″ in size and mounted on walnut base, the painted glass sign has the words “I’m From Missouri” on the reverse side. It appeared at different times on his desk until late in his administration.
The saying “the buck stops here” derives from the slang expression “pass the buck” which means passing the responsibility on to someone else. The latter expression is said to have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used
to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the “buck,” as the counter came to be called, to the next player.
On more than one occasion President Truman referred to the desk sign in public statements.
For example, in an address at the National War College on December 19, 1952 Mr. Truman said, “You know, it’s easy for the Monday morning quarterback to say what the coach should have done, after the game is over. But when the decision is up before you — and on my desk I have a motto which says The Buck Stops Here’ — the decision has to be made.” In his farewell address to the American people given in January 1953, President Truman referred to this concept very specifically in asserting that, ” The President–whoever he is–has to decide.
He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That’s his job.
The sign has been displayed at the Library since 1957.
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I am hoping that out of all the current indecision among politicians in the State of Israel there will come a man who will not “pass the buck.” Israel and the US have plenty of liberal politicians expert at skillfully “passing the buck” to their opposition, rather than doing their own job. Such parties and men rule by continually blaming other men and other parties, while in reality they remain in office by making the opposition appear to be more corrupt than themselves, which causes the public to vote for what they consider the lesser of two evils.
President Truman, like all of us, had his flaws, and again, like all of us, his motivations always involved some elements that directly benefited his own political career, but he did respect Israel and stood up for them in an era of time when it was desperately needed. The following article by Michael Beschloss is an excellent read.
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President Truman and the Birth of Israel
Michael Beschloss (Newsweek)
From Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 (2007)
Truman’s ultimate decision about a Jewish state – one of the most significant foreign-policy decisions in U.S. history – emerged from a storm of cross-pressures and motives.
He was besieged by Zionists, anti-Zionists, Democratic politicians eager to court the Jewish vote in an election year, and diplomats afraid to rile the Arabs.
He felt compassion for the Holocaust survivors still in European camps and reverence for biblical history.
But he feared as well that the new state might require defense by U.S. troops and dreaded that respected leaders like Gen. George Marshall would accuse him of warping American diplomacy to his own political needs.
Truman also had to rise above his own lingering small-town parlor anti-Semitism.
In the end, Truman recognized Israel for many different reasons.
The Jews’ display of military strength in Palestine had convinced him that U.S. troops would not be needed to defend them.
He feared that letting the Russians recognize Israel first would give them a foothold in Palestine.
Truman also realized helping to found a Jewish state was a historic act that might qualify him for some future edition of “Great Men and Famous Women.”
By recognizing Israel, Truman knew he would be forever damned by people who did not want the Jews to have their own state – or who did not want it in Palestine. But as Truman always told himself, the ultimate test of any presidential decision was “not whether it’s popular at the time, but whether it’s right….If it’s right, make it, and let the popular part take care of itself.”
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