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U.S. president Harry S. Truman had a sign with this inscription on his desk. This was meant to indicate that he didn't 'pass the buck' to anyone else but accepted personal responsibility for the way the country was governed. Truman didn't originate the phrase, although it isn't likely that we would ever have heard of it had he not adopted it. The phrase is thought to have been spawned by the phrase "pass the buck", which means to pass off responsibility to someone else.
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It came from Truman, but it's a shame GW Bush hasn't heard it yet.
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Some card games use a marker called a "buck" and as the players take their turns dealing, the buck is used to mark the current dealer. So when the buck has been passed to the next player so has the responsibility for dealing. Stopping the buck is to accept responsibility for dealing. Trumann had this sign on his desk as a rebuttal to the older phrase - "passing the buck"
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