You’re in good company misinterpreting Truman’s famous desk sign: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/10/buck-stops-here-clinton-obama-truman.html https://nym

You’re in good company misinterpreting Truman’s famous desk sign: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/10/buck-stops-here-clinton-obama-truman.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/10/buck-stops-here-clin... Or directly from Truman’s library: “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.” Funny enough, Trump gave his own version of the phrase around the looming 2019 shutdown with “the buck stops with everyone”.