“What do you mean "helped create"? I am Cyrus. I am Cyrus.”

— Harry Truman

Response to being described by his friend Eddie Jacobsen as "the man who helped create the state of Israel." (November 1953); as quoted in "With Eyes Toward Zion" (1977) by Moshe Davis

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