Truman (1995 TV Movie)

Colm Feore: Charlie Ross

Quotes 

• Harry S. Truman : Charlie, Bess thinks you'd make a hell of a press secretary.

  Charlie Ross : Oh, Jesus, no, Harry.

  Harry S. Truman : Oh, you can't say no to Bess. I'm appointing Frank here secretary.

  Frank Vassar : Secretary of what?

  Harry S. Truman : Just secretary. Franklin's staff all look at me like a skunk at a wedding. I need some Missouri around me real quick.

• Harry S. Truman : If I don't drop the bomb, so many more of our young men will die in the invasion of Japan. Their men, too, and women and children. How can I face the people when it's finally over, and say that I had the power to possibly end the war, long ago, spare the lives of their loved ones, and I chose not to use it?

  [pause] 

  Harry S. Truman : How could I look them in the face and tell them that?

  Charlie Ross : Harry, you didn't come to me for common sense, you came to me for forgiveness. Do what you have to do. I'll still be your friend. But this is changing the course of history. You clinch the victory in the Pacific, but you sow the whirlwind.