"the buck stops here" said by President Truman what does..?

Question

it mean? does it have anything to do with communism?

Answer 1

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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Answer 2

Nothing at all to do with Communism. It was a sign he kept on his desk in the Oval Office. It meant that he had to make the final decisions on everything, and expressed his willingness to accept the responsibility.
The reference is to poker, a game Truman was fond of and played well. As may be familiar to some through the current fad for televised poker, a marker was/is passed around the table to keep track of which player is in the "dealer" position. In Truman's day, this markr was known as "The Buck".

Answer 3

The buck stops here was a retort to the common expression "Pass the Buck" which is the practice of transferring blame. The idea is that truman would accept all responsiblities as president and stop making excuses like politicians before him did.

Answer 4

No... it means that he is ultimately responsible for everything.... It's a reference to the way bureaucrats "pass the buck" of responsibility around so that no one takes the blame for mistakes... Truman was saying that he is the last stop.. he had the guts not to try to pass the blame on to someone else.... I don't agree with everything that he did, but I admire him for that

Answer 5

It means he felt responcile for whatever the US government needed to do, about anything. Im a conservative, and I think TruMAN was a great MAN, even though not a RepubliCAN.

Answer 6

Nothing to do with communism, no. It meant that he wasn't going to pass the blame for anything on to anyone else. He accepted the blame, whether it was his fault or not, as Commander in Chief, everything was ultimately his responsibility.

Answer 7

Er, no. He meant that he was willing to take ultimate responsibility for the issues of government, and wouldn't pass on the responsibility/blame on to someone else for anything that came his way.

Answer 8

what he meant was all the politician's passing the buck or blameing someone else stopped at him. so what he was saying is calm down kids ive got the helm

Answer 9

the saying means he will take responsibility, as opposed to "passing the buck" on to someone else.

Answer 10

Not a thing. It was a card-playing allusion. Meant he took ultimate responsibility for what happened in his White House.