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Trump always stops short of saying "The buck stops with me", 'cause he is a patsy ... "
Harry S. Truman


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On January 10, 2019, 19 days into a federal government shutdown, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if "the buck stops with you over this shutdown." Trump responded with "The buck stops with everybody."
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the buck stops here idiom used to say that one accepts a responsibility and will not try to give it to someone else

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Buck passing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Buck passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes (playing) the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility. It is often used to refer to a strategy in power politics whereby a state tries to get another state to deter or fight an aggressor state while it remains on the sidelines.

Etymology
The expression is said to have originated from poker in which a marker or counter (such as a knife with a buckhorn handle during the American Frontier era) was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal, the responsibility could be passed by the passing of the "buck," as the counter came to be called, to the next player.

In international relations
Passing the buck in international relations theory involves the tendency of nation-states to refuse to confront a growing threat in the hopes that another state will. According to John Mearsheimer, Thomas Christensen and Jack Snyder, buck passing is particularly common in multipolar international systems whereas it is rare in bipolar international systems. Examples of buck passing include:

The delay in forming a balancing coalition against Napoleon until 1813
The refusal of the United Kingdom, United States, France, and/or the Soviet Union to confront Nazi Germany effectively in the 1930s. With the Munich Agreement, France and the United Kingdom passed the buck to the Soviet Union, which then avoided armed confrontation by signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
The failure of European great powers to balance against Bismarck as he unified Germany.
Similarly, Mearsheimer argues that the delay of the Normandy Invasion shows that a buck passing state can shift the balance of power in its favor: "There is no question that the United States benefited greatly from delaying the Normandy invasion until late in the war, when both the German and the Soviet armies were battered and worn down. Not surprisingly, Joseph Stalin believed that the United Kingdom and the United States were purposely allowing Germany and the Soviet Union to bleed each other white, so that those offshore balancers [the United States and the United Kingdom] could dominate postwar Europe."

"The buck stops here"

At the recreation of the Truman Oval Office at the Truman Library in 1959, former President Truman poses by his old desk which has the famous "The Buck Stops Here" sign.

"The buck stops here" is a phrase that was popularized by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who kept a sign with that phrase on his desk in the Oval Office. The phrase refers to the notion that the President has to make the decisions and accept the ultimate responsibility for those decisions. Truman received the sign as a gift from a prison warden who was also an avid poker player. It is also the motto of the U.S. Naval Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75).

President Jimmy Carter arranged to borrow the sign from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Footage from Carter's "Address to the Nation on Energy" shows the sign on the desk during his administration.

The reverse of the sign reads, "I'm from Missouri." This is a reference to Truman's home state as well as Willard Duncan Vandiver's statement: "I'm from Missouri. You've got to show me."

On January 10, 2019, 19 days into a federal government shutdown, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if "the buck stops with you over this shutdown." Trump responded with "The buck stops with everybody."

In 2019, in his first speech as U.K. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson vowed to "take personal responsibility for the change" that he would advance, saying "The buck stops here."

In 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden said in his statement regarding his affirmation of the Afghanistan withdrawal, "The buck stops with me."

See also

Look up buck passing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Button (poker) – Marker used to signal the dealer or last player in poker
Bystander effect – Social psychological theory
Command responsibility – Doctrine of hierarchical accountability
Outsourcing – Contracting formerly internal tasks to an external organization
Peter principle – Management concept by Laurence J. Peter
Scapegoat – Animal which is ritually burdened
Somebody else's problem – Dismissive figure of speech
Tragedy of the commons – Self-interests causing depletion of a shared resource
References
 John, Mearsheimer (2001). The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 157–58. ISBN 9780393076240.
 Mitford M. Mathews, ed., A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1951), I, pp. 198–99.
 Mearsheimer, John J. (2001). "Chapter 8". The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-34927-6.
 Christensen, Thomas; Jack Snyder (1990). "Chain Gangs and Passed Bucks: Predicting Alliance Patterns in Multipolarity" (PDF). International Organization. 44 (2): 137–68. doi:10.1017/S0020818300035232. S2CID 18700052. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 7, 2008. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
 John, Mearsheimer (2001). The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 160. ISBN 9780393076240.
 ""The Buck Stops Here" Desk sign". Truman Library.
 Jan R. Van Meter, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History.
 "'Buck Stops Here' To Be Sign of Carter". The New York Times. 6 February 1977. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
 President Jimmy Carter – Address to the Nation on Energy. YouTube. 28 March 2008. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
 "President Trump: 'The buck stops with everybody' | The Week".
 "Boris Johnson: First speech as PM in full". BBC News. 2019-07-24. Archived from the original on 2019-08-25.
 "New PM Johnson's arrival speech in Downing Street". Reuters. 2019-07-25. Archived from the original on 2021-08-17.
 "Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan". White House. 2021-08-16. Archived from the original on 2021-08-17.
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To 'stop short of' something means to say or do something in a way that is not complete

A golf ball has stops short of the hole because it almost went in

Stop short of
Today’s expression is to “stop short of” something. If you stop short of something, you don’t quite do it. But you get really close. This is often used with statements. And we use it with statements when we almost say something definitively, but we don’t quite go there.

Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going well. Russia has not made the kinds of advances it has wanted. Then, Ukraine captured back a lot of cities it had lost early in the war. The Russian government can lie all it wants, but it can’t hide the basic truth that the war is not going well. So a lot of people in Russia are criticizing the war effort, but they are stopping short of criticizing Vladimir Putin.

People are criticizing the military leadership. They’re criticizing the strategy. They’re criticizing the execution. But they’re stopping short of criticizing the person at the very top. They don’t quite go there. They get right up to the line, but they don’t cross it.

So you can see the pattern here is all about statements and what you say. Princeton stopped short of “calling” its investment decisions “divestment.” Police stopped short of “saying” that a serial killer is on the loose. Critics stopped short of “criticizing” Vladimir Putin directly. All this is about statements.

And that is how I used it earlier today in the lesson about Magnus Carlsen , the number-one chess player. After the American teenager Hans Niemann beat Carlsen, Carlsen made it clear to the world that he thought Niemann had cheated. But he stopped short of directly accusing Niemann.

He made a big show of withdrawing from a game after making just one move and he immediately said that cheating needs to be addressed in the game. There is no doubt what he was thinking, but he still stopped short of directly making an accusation. That was in the first few weeks of the controversy. Carlsen did later release a statement that made the accusation explicitly. But in those first few weeks, he stopped short of making an accusation directly.