“The buck stops here!”

—  Harry Truman

This saying, also popularized by Truman, was on a sign on his desk https://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm, but did not originate with him. According to the Truman Presidential Library, it was sent to him nearly two months after the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
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