truman was a practical man. after he stopped laughing, he said to usher west, you had better get some engineers in here to take a look around. that is how my book starts and that is how i just started. i will move faster now. truman had harbored suspicions about the white house's integrity almost since he moved in. he would work in his oval study late at night and he was troubled by the sounds he kept hearing. they were creaking noises and curtains would sway on their own even though the windows were closed. at one point, he wrote, i sit here and work on foreign affairs and speeches while listening to the ghosts walk up and down the hallway. the floors pop and the drapes move back and forth. this was the hallway. i have looked. if you see any ghosts, can you talk to me when i finish? over time, truman heard so many sounds coming from this hallway that he stopped thinking ghosts might be the reason. at one point, the chandelier's shaking and trembling started to get to be a regular thing, which was troublesome. a

that happened with best truman. --bess truman. gerrish floral curtains. i saw picture of the curtains in the white house, they were the same flowers. obviously, that was her touch. they are given a considerable degree of latitude but the important thing -- to give miss , she came from an upper middle class background. a merchant class background. mrs. eisenhower was a military wife. men would not have come off park avenue. they brought their tastes with them. jacqueline kennedy was fancy. she did something, it baffled me why the commission did not do this. they had almost no money for decorating. wealthy and cultured people were writing it and saying we will give you things. would you like this secretary? this chesterfield? the answer was no. they said they did not want things accumulating. they made the second floor look like the park hyatt and they could have done better. was what mrs. kennedy did. she deployed the private sector to give gifts that were tax-deductible to the white house and imbue them with this wonderful sense of patriotism house with t

interview kristin truman daniel, harry truman's grandson. this is just under 15 minutes. the last time you and i talked, you had just come back from japan. you are with a group of survivors of the atomic bombing there. your grandfather's legacy. you've been up to something else associated with his legacy. to me about your project. >> people were beginning to say things like, you are starting to look like your grandfather. i must've had that play in the back of my head. i mentioned it to a few people. they encourage that. a friend of mine in north carolina said, let's do it. we did the play in october last year. eight shows and had a successful run. now i have an agent. i'm going to try to sell it. my retirement may be playing my own grandfather. >> which is kind of spooky. >> it is weird and spooky. it is also fun. it has been fun doing the play, trying to sound like him, trying to be like him. it's a good show. >> this is not your first acting experience. >> no, this is not my first rodeo. was my social life when i was a journalist in north carolina. that's what i did in

truman says she had been shot? >> exactly. >> so after a ten-month investigation the orem spsz pd arrested conrad truman and charged him with the murder. >> my mom called me and i fell to the ground finally that he was behind bars. >> going to trial, what did you think? >> i felt we had a strong circumstantial case. >> at trial the prosecution argued homicide. the defense, self inflicted gunshot wound. the jury sided with the state, conrad truman was convicted of heidi's murder. >> it was like, finally got him. finally got him. >> as far as you knew, that was it? >> that was it. >> did you think that was it? >> i did. >> but if you think that was it, well, then you haven't been watching enough "dateline." >>> coming up, heidi's heart break. >> she did not know her dad and she had always wanted that. that really bothered her. >> and conrad truman's hope. >> this is going to work out. it has to, because i didn't do this. . >> when "dateline" continue>> . >> when "dateline" continues. >>>. >> it's the final stretch fo

the truman library institute is our not-for-profit partner. they funded the truman library teacher conference i just mentioned and also this program tonight. the national world war i museum and memorial, which i'll introduce a member of their staff in a moment. all responsible for our program tonight. we're really glad you could be here. i'm going to be saying a few remarks about our speaker. before i do that, i'd like to introduce one of our partners. that's laura vote who is the curator of education at the national world war i museum and memorial. on a variety of programs between the truman library and the world war i museum. she is the curator of education. under her leadership, they've broken records for public programs and educational participation at the world war i museum and memorial. she has been responsible for both online and on site educational and exhibit programs through her leadership. it's my pleasure to work with her as a partner and i'm going introduce her to the stage to say a few words to you. laura. >> good evening. as mar

harry truman, succeeded as president. you can see how weary fdr looks and how shocked does harry truman. and even more profound upheaval occurred in july of that year, 1945, when winston churchill was booted out of office as the war-time prime minister. that was during negotiations with stalin, outside of berlin. what occurred was a shock to the americans as much as to the russians. because the replacement for winston churchill was a socialist labor government. and during the war-time negotiations with stalin, both fdr and churchill had been pretty accommodating. when labor came in 1945, it was an utterly different story. recall that the socialist british labor party, these were tough guy unionist bully boys who had faced down the communists in street battles during the 20s and 30s to defend their unions. they had no allusions whatsoever. about stalin. and it was the british labor party and the tough labor leaders he from the get-go that summer of '45, started calling our russian allies nazis. they started calling stalin

now one of the letters the truman wrote home. ammunition was fired from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. earlier in the day. after his unit reached the hill, germantery wade the harassing fire for most of the rest of the day. the hill, was nothing but a bog. when his battery was ready to fire on the hill, they realized the guns when raise high enough to reach it you forced to improvise, the men placed the tale of one gun in a shell hole and fired several rounds of us test at the extreme elevation in the general direction of germany. one of truman's men was sitting in the shell hole when it went right through that right between his legs. -- right between his legs. this monument has many of the state memorials. the state of missouri will pay to have someone make sure that it is cleaned up. after the war many of the states just like pennsylvania wanted to honor the troops from the area who fought throughout the western front. let's head toward the chevy woods. the 36th division headed in that direction. they ran into trouble in the woods. here, mile away from that's where the germans had so

and truman by 1950, we've forgotten had gotten full of himself. and i don't have to go to congress. >> why not? >> because you saw the way that they were with james polk. so he did not bother going to congress for a war declaration and we got involved in this war and americans did not understand it and his aides said, why don't you want to ask for war declaration and truman says, so help me this is true, if i go to congress for a war declaration, there be an acrimonious debate and damaging to me and five months from now i have to deal with midterm elections. political reasons, bad thing for politics and war to mix and it was a very good example because since the time of truman, no other president has ever asked for a war declaration which i think has been a bad they think for the country. >> and yet it's paradoxical because as you pointed out last night at the texas professional gala, there's no bigger student than harry truman. he said there's nothing new in the world except the history you don't know. why didn't he learn his lesson? why was harr

truman. the 35th division fought directly in this area. about four miles back of the front, they were firing toward the hill. can you point us about the significance why the americans attacked that hill. guillaume: it is an observation position used by the germans. finally, the frontline will stabilize just on top and we will switch into a mine war. for three and a half years, we have a heavy battle going on, especially an underground war. then the french were relieved. by soldiers of the 35th. the first ground they had to takeate, of course to dominating ground, and then they could see what's going on. some small woods including the wood of cheppy. mitchell: finally making their -- captain harry s. truman wrote home to his fiancee, telling her about the battle and that he was involved in his experience in war. in one of his more vibrant letters, it involves the first day attack on september 26, when his artillery was supporting the american attack on the hill. now one of the letters the truman wrote home. "75 millimeter ammunition was fir

truman. the 35th division fought directly in this area. about four miles back of the front, they were firing artillery toward the hill. can you point us about the significance why the americans attacked that hill. guillaume: it is right behind us. about two miles from here. it is an observation position used by the germans. finally, the frontline will stabilize just on top and we will switch into a mine war. for three and a half years, we have a heavy battle going on, especially an underground war. then the french were relieved. by soldiers of the 35th. the first ground they had to liberate, of course to take dominating ground, and then they could see what's going on. some small woods including the wood of cheppy. and finally making their way into varennes. mitchell: captain harry s. truman wrote home to his fiancee, telling her about the battle and that he was involved in his experience in war. in one of his more vibrant letters, it involves the first day attack on september 26, when his artillery was supporting the american attack on the

even harry truman, 1950 he took us into korea without asking for a war declaration from congress. that opened the door for later presidents to do the same thing which wasot not a great thing fr the united states in my opinion. >> host: let's hear from one more caller. paula, washington, d.c. you're on with michael begs los. be thet: i'm honored to last caller. michael, mr. beschloss, i really am ready to get this book and read it. my question to you is in doing your instead of research which i know it -- you can start with this book, do you feel that most wars are predicated on a lie? >> michael: are predicated on a lie? i must tell you with huge regret having written this book and i write about this all the way through there has been much too much lying and president's have taken us into many too many nknecessary wars and i think one of the ways to stop that is to read history and see where people -- look at the presidents through bold-faced lie to congress, polk, to some extent, mckinley, wilson, lbj, who mean i love for civil rights, and voting rights and medicare, but in the v

the truman administrations preoccupied with other things and let it go by the wayside. humphrey in 1954, pushed through public law 480 which was sale of our culture produce a below-market prices to nations in need and he became known around the senate as the senator from india. he pushed through in 1957, the first civil rights act since reconstruction. there had not been civil rights act in the united states from the time of post civil war reconstruction until humphrey pushed through a 1957 the first civil rights act that made it illegal-- federal offense to interfere with someone's right to vote and although robert carroll gives credit to lyndon johnston it was hubert humphrey who push that through. in 1961, during the days of the kennedy administration he pushed through the food for peace program. 1961 the arms control and disarmament agency, which was the first time in american history that they set up a body to think about the problem of nuclear weapons in the world. p push through legislation that became the foundation for the peace corps. he pushed through the lan

only harry truman and the american people disagreed. they refused to accept the philosophy of tom doyle on the southern mandate, a third-party candidate of j strom thurmond. 1968 is beginning to look like 1948 all over again. hubert humphrey has stepped into harry truman's boots while technics and and george wallace are wearing the boots of julian strom thurmond. the choice seems very much the same. the democratic campaign began one humphrey clearly and firmly told his staff where he stands on the issues. >> i want somebody to say that humphrey's ideas are good and i guess i disagree with you and argue about my ideas. because when they start arguing about my ideas, they will do so with respect. they may not vote for you, that you have them on the argumentative line, and that is what i want. not whether he is old hat, new hats, whether he can be his own man and all that cheap journalistic bunk, but let's get on -- let's get this argument elevated. we just got to make it crystal clear that the president of the united states and his ambass

interview kristin truman daniel, harry truman's grandson. this is just under 15 minutes. the last time you and i talked, you had just come back from japan. you are with a group of survivors of the atomic bombing there. your grandfather's legacy. you've been up to something else associated with his legacy. to me about your project. >>

those warnings that harry truman put up in the 1940's are still with us. and in many cases, the issues have not changed. but transforming business, as president truman envisioned, means transforming our human resource system, our finance system, and more importantly, our supply chain. last year, the department of veteran affairs engaged in 4 million credit card transactions, buying everything from x-ray machines two boxes of tongue depressants. the cost was in billions. we can no longer afford to afford a haphazard supply chain that, as some of you of for it in here, has forced doctors to run across the street from one hospital to another to get the equipment that they need. it doesn't happen often, but only one time is enough if it involves the life and death of an american veteran. so that is business transformation. the other thing that i found out when i addressed the alaska federation of natives a few weeks ago is that in a state like alaska, more than half of the veterans in that state are not part of the v.a. system. i asked the alaska natives to do

those warnings that harry truman put up in the 1940's are still with us. and in many cases, the issues have not changed. but transforming business, as president truman envisioned, means transforming our human resource system, our finance system, and more importantly, our supply chain. last year, the department of veteran affairs engaged in 4 million credit card transactions, buying everything from x-ray machines two boxes of tongue depressants. the cost was in billions. we can no longer afford to afford a haphazard supply chain that, as some of you of for it in here, has forced doctors to run across the street from one hospital to another to get the equipment that they need. it doesn't happen often, but only one time is enough if it involves the life and death of an american veteran. so that is business transformation. the other thing that i found out the other thing that i found out when i addressed the alaska federation of natives a few weeks ago is that in a state like alaska, more than half of the veterans in that state are not part of the v.a. system.

those warnings that harry truman put up in the 1940's are still with us. and in many cases, the issues have not changed. but transforming business, as president truman envisioned, means transforming our human resource system, our finance system, and more importantly, our supply chain. last year, the department of veteran affairs engaged in 4 million individual credit card transactions, buying everything boxes ofy machines to tongue depressants. the cost was in billions. we can no longer afford to have a haphazard supply chain that, as some of you of for it in -- some of you have reported in here, has forced doctors to run across the street from one hospital to another to get the equipment that they need. it doesn't happen often, but only one time is enough if it involves the life and death of an american veteran. so that is business transformation. the other thing that i found out when i addressed the alaska federation of natives a few weeks ago is that in a state like alaska, more than half of the veterans in that state are not part of the v.a. system. i

one by douglas macarthur about harry truman and it's in the book. which is a letter written to someone whom he trusted describing president truman's volcanic temper and inability to focus and how dangerous his temper was. to the country in the world. i also quote from "time" magazine article written early in the presidency. a teeny little picture of bill clinton at the bottom that says the incredible shrinking presidency. a noble office that had no discipline where people could walk in and out. no focus on issues. no expertise in the process. everything was running amok. okay. the only reason i went through that exercise them like i said i could have probably found historical references. i make references to the final paranoid days the presidency. though this feels so very different and i understand that no might industry as part of the reason i feel so differently in because we are constantly brushing you this breaking news in these other sorts of things. there are elements of our past that are not comparable at least tell us this is not the first

those warnings that harry truman put up in the 1940's are still with us. and in many cases, the issues have not changed. but transforming business, as president truman envisioned, means transforming our human resource system, our finance system, and more importantly, our supply chain. last year, the department of veteran affairs engaged in 4 million credit card transactions, buying everything from x-ray machines two boxes of tongue depressants. the cost was in billions. we can no longer afford to afford a haphazard supply chain that, as some of you of for it in here, has forced doctors to run across the street from one hospital to another to get the equipment that they need. often, buthappen only one time is enough if it involves the life and death of an american veteran. so that is business transformation. the other thing that i found out when i addressed the alaska federation of natives a few weeks ago is that in a state like alaska, more than half of the veterans in that state are not part of the v.a. system. i asked the alaska natives to double the num

corporalsgrandfather, needham roberts and william johnson, and captain harry s truman. to thee the testament millions of ordinary americans called from every walk of life to perform extraordinary deeds, and from them, to allow the american nation to erupt onto the world stage in a place that we have never left since those dark days. this day is for them, but it is also for the members of the press. in world war i, correspondents were called upon to achieve extraordinary things as well, but they were stopped from telling the truth by the impenetrable censorship of their government and the clutter of propaganda. the armisticeter that they were allowed to come home to tell the real story of what happened to those valiant americans during that time. reporting what dickey chapelle once said was the wreckage resulting from man's inhumanity to man. covered was the one who open now and iwo jima. die, iays said, when i want to die in the company of united states marines. she died in vietnam, alongside those marines. she was the first american female war correspondent to give her

there is a reason presidents roosevelt and truman, eisenhower work to call the rules-based or liberal international. the truman secretary of state that generation had lived through world war ii but also world war i and that left them with the recognition that they are left with good power politics and unbridled competition that you are likely to get through not once but twice. and the notion of american leadership spring from that cold-blooded calculation. it's tied to the security of others. there's what others will do to that proved right over the past. it undergirded the american security and prosperity. >> trumps bark is worse than his bite. yes people out of paris but he hasn't pulled out of nato or the wto. we were not really expecting the united states to withdraw from the treaty and the president decided over the weekend that that is probably a good idea and apparently didn't tell our allies but that is what he was going to do, but that is what he is going to do. >> it is a threat like threatening to terminate nafta. >> we will see if that is the case. the other part of it, we

his name was harry truman. when the united states entered the war in 1917 the army was not prepared to fight in an international war. one of the things that they were lacking besides the number of men was artillery. world war i was a war of artillery. 60 % of the battlefield deaths was caused by artillery and the projectiles fired over the battlefield and when the americans went over to france, they primarily used french artillery pieces. the french 75 millimeter gun. it was advanced for its time pick an incredible recoil system. when the gun was fired, the barrel actually moved and the gun state in place. it did not have to be readjusted. when the americans started using these, they used these four guns and a battery. a battery was commanded by a captain. one of the batteries in the hundred 29 field artillery inference was the independence more -- missouri. harry f german. harry truman went on to become the president of the united states and he said what he learned during world war i helped him throughout the

in fact, the truman presidential library says: truman sometimes indicated to reporters that the turkeys he received were destined for the family nner table. truman was actlly the first naesident to receive a turkey from the natturkey federation 71 years ago. so, who was the first president to pareydon a tu lincoln, it appears, was the first on record. but it was a christmas turkey that his son had taken a liking to. in 1963, president john f.ke edy was the first to pardon a thanksgiving turkey. despite a sign hanging around the turkey's neck that read, d ood eating, mr. president," kennedy sent the bck to the farm. richard nixon also gave the birds a reprieve, sending his turkeys to a nearby petting zoo. ronald reagan was the first to use the word "pardon" when he was talking turkey in 1987. the turkey pardoning became formalized in 1989, with prident george h.w. bush. >> let me assure you, and this fine tomurkey, that he will not end up on anyone dinner table. not this guy. >> alcindor: exactly.e thrkeys are no sitting ducks. they rode 1400 miles for their freedom this year, from south

the truman presidential library says: truman sometimes indicated to reporters that the tueys he received were destined for the family dinner table. truman was actually the first president to receive a turkey from the nationaturkey federation 71 years ago. so, who was the first president to pardon a turkey? lincoln, it appears, was the first on record. but it was a chrisurkey that his son had taken a liking to. in 1963, president john f.e kennedy was rst to pardon a thanksgiving turkey. despite a sign hanging around the turkey's neck that read, "good eating, mr. president," kennedy sent the bd back to the farm. richard nixon also gave the birds a reprieve, sending his turkeys to a nearby petting zoo. ronald reagan was the first to use the word "pardon" when he was talking turkey in 1987. the turkey pardoning became formalized in 1989, with president geor h.w. bush. >> let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that up will not enn anyone's dinner table. not this guy. >> alcindor: exactly. these turkeys are no sitting ducks. they rode 1400 miles for their freedom this year, from south da

in somebody said humphrey is going 1948, to come back like truman did. well, i just don't believe it. matter of fact, a lot of things are different. it's one thing to give them hell. it is something else to give them humphrey. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] during the cold war the u.s. information agency produced a number of films promoting american democracy. next, autumn and cardboard narrated by actor lee marvin. this uses the california governor's race between ronald reagan and pat brown to show how every two years autumn is the season of campaigns and elections in the united states. ♪ >> october begins, the color in the competition. leaves compete with leaves, while men at the beginning of a political season compete with men. ♪ >> of the thousands of men who run for office across the nation, there's always one competition that becomes the star of the season. [applause] ♪ >> thank you. i thank all of you for coming out here today

without independence, there is no steel seizure case, where the court held that the truman subject to the constitution, even in a time of war. >> you can watch the chief justices remarks in their entirety at 8:00 eastern. georgetown law school and the chief justice at the university of minnesota as they discuss public perceptions of the court and the importance of an independent judiciary. spending thanksgiving at mar-a-lago today, president trump tweeted justice roberts can say what he wants, the ninth circuit is a disaster. ♪ jordan: you got your camera crew. what is that all about? in the days of uber 1.0, the

now that was certainly true for the period of truman to kennedy and even arguably through lbj. it doesn't seem to have been to me at least it central for the period after 1968. when along with other institutions as the democratic party fell under the square and the same development happened in europe. so at the end of the cold war, people were claiming credit for victory for the freedom of liberty which many of them had been at the very least members of the peace movement, for example. and didn't that agreement in a sense, not to be honest about how the war had been one and by whom, doesn't that disable some of the peace now? isn't that partly responsible for the disappointing developments that have occurred in europe since then? mr. edwards: you know, john, i'm an optimist. i'm a reagan optimist. i worked at the memorial for 20 years. [applause] mr. edwards: thank you very much. they said for 20 years it cannot be done. i said it can be done and it will be done. with the bipartisan approach, i am happy to remind you scoop jackson and jackson-vanik made a tremendous difference.

that was certainly true for the period of truman to kennedy and through lbj arguably. it doesn't seem to have been to me at least it central for the period after 1968. when along with other institutions as the democratic party fell under the square and the same development happened in europe. people were claiming victory for the freedom of liberty which many of them had been at the very least members of the peace movement. didn't that agreement in a sense not to be honest about how the war had been one and by whom, doesn't that disable some of the peace? isn't that partly responsible for the disappointing developments that occurred in europe since then? mr. edwards: i am an optimist. i may reagan optimist. i worked at the memorial for 20 years. [applause] thank you very much. they said fort 20 years it cannot be done. they said -- i said it can be done and it will be done. with the bipartisan approach, i am happy to remind you scoop jackson and jackson-vanik made a tremendous difference. believe it or not, the number two democrat in the house of representatives is an a

certainly true for the period of truman to kennedy and through lbj arguably. it doesn't seem to have been to me at least it central for the period after 1968. when along with other institutions as the democratic party fell under the square and the same development happened in europe. people were claiming victory for the freedom of liberty which many of them had been at the very least members of the peace movement. sense that agreement in a not to be honest about how the war had been one and by whom, doesn't that disable some of the peace? isn't that partly responsible for the disappointing developments that occurred in europe since then? i am an optimist. i may reagan optimist. i worked at the memorial for 20 years. [applause] thank you very much. they said fort 20 years it cannot be done. they said -- i said it can be done and it will be done. with the bipartisan approach, i am happy to remind you scoop jackson and jackson-vanik made a tremendous difference. the numberor not, two democrat in the house of representatives is an anti-communist and did except our

truman may likely be the most diligently unfashionable first lady we have ever had. she insisted on wearing a basic uniform of plum and navy blue. it was pretty much unvarying. you see her during her ceremonial role as first lady and she has never smiling. almost never smiling. she especially hated movie cameras but she was always in dark clothing and she were grays and browns and she did that for a reason. she did not want press attention. she knew that if she wore something very plain and similar to what she wore the last time that reporters would have nothing to say about her. in contrast is mrs. eisenhower. she had lived in europe and been the wife of a five star general but who thought of herself as a neighbor and really was in many ways neighborly. she cut of course, helps unwittingly to make pink the most popular color according to the color institute at the time in textiles and homes and refrigerators and tiles and spatulas. everything was being made in first lady pink. what she ended up doing, also unwittingly is generating a miniboom in the economies of spe

one of these things you discover as president is that the post-world war ii order that was fdr, truman, and ,isenhower, and george marshall that that basic notion of liberal -- not liberal in partisan terms, but a pluralistic, liberal, law-baseded, rule of democracy and those sets of universal principles and republican leaders believed in those things. and that was the running thread 1945, all the way through reagan. mete were certain ideas jim, regardless of how it was viewed, whether it was far right or right, there were certain ideals you assumed you had to follow because that was part of american leadership in the world and it was part of what made us a great country. those are now being contested, in part because of the fact that we don't have this common base of information, and i think the biggest challenge we will have over the next 10, 15, 20 years is to return to a civic conversation in which if i say this is a chair, we agree that it is a chair. [laughter] we can disagree on -- [applause] >> we can disagree on whether it is a nice chair, whether you would like to replace the

truman said it was time for the europeans to pay more. this is not a new thing. it is time that more of that burden is taking up. the one thing that makes us different from everybody else, the one thing that allows us to have a role -based system is to be leaders allies in france. it's true that the united states is not as powerful as it was militarily or economically as it was in 1945. if you take our allies and added to a half, we are more powerful. economic terms, military terms and we are in value terms. i think number one is, understanding how important it is to work with other countries. all over the world. our friends are not just formal military islands, they are in africa, all parts of the world. it makes that part of who we are. then sometime during diplomacy. torch talks about diplomacy as grounding. going over to make sure the weeds were no longer growing over and taking out the plants. spending time there. how can you do it crisis management in turkey and saudi arabia? you don't have an ambassador. it's not the democrats in the senate's fault because

baker: everybody expects us to lead and we won the cold war because every president, from harry truman through george h.w. bush was steadfast, whether they were democrats or republicans. we won the cold war, because we had alliances that leveraged our power and that we could rely on. and those alliances were evidenced by nature, of course, -- by nato of course, but by our , security agreements with japan and korea, in the economic sphere. the world bank, the imf, so on and so forth. those institutions were created by americans in order for us to do what the rest of the world needed to have done, and what was good for america. and i think it is still good for america. i don't think we ought to be denigrating those institutions, or attacking them. do they need some of them, reformation? absolutely. as someone who spent a lot of time working with the imf -- there is a good one, the u.n. -- there is another good one, even nato, this president is right in one respect, for sure. nato -- our european allies need to pay their way. what they have agreed to pay. we should not be required onever

great ideas be popular with the european voters but it's going to get me into deep water with president truman trump in the us he's going to he's going to counterattack against the german car industry another one that's happened so that's a problem shared eurozone budget that's another idea that i'm going medical thinks is in principle quite good bush has now said she wanted to be negotiated with the overall if you budget which means negotiating with twenty seven e.u. members it means it's not going to happen anytime soon and then she also talks about the european army both of the both leaders talked about a european army uncle america however talking about a long term proposal. definitely looking at this in the much more in the short term and they also both talked about briggs it and having a common position on bragg's it who can have a common position on bragg's when it's so divided and so divisive and see clearly of a lot of issues where they may differ we know that the relationship between france and germany has also faced considerable strain in recent years so what we've seen today are th

things you discovered as president is that the post world war ii order that was constructed by fdr, truman and eisenhower, and george marshall, that that asic notion of liberal -- basic notion -- in partisan terms but pluralistic liberal market-based role of law based democracy, and those sets of universal principles, democratic and republican leaders believed in those things. and that's the running thread basically from 1945 all the way through reagan. there were certain ideas that jim, regardless of how was viewed, whether this was far right are right, it were certain ideals that you assumed you had to follow because that was part of american leadership in the world and it was part of what made us a great country. those are now being contested in part because of the fact that we don't have this common base of information. and i think that the biggest challenge we are going to have over the next ten, 15, 20 years is to return to a civic conversation in which, if i say this is a chair, we agree this is a chair. [laughing] [applause] we can disagree on -- [applause] we can disagree on what

but harry truman was in world war i as an artillery officer. so the industrial revolution changed the calculus quite a bit. and one of the things they did is they created new technologies that had already brought women out of the home, at which women were especially good. in world war i there was only one technology the united states actually had an edge in over its rivals. the united states did not, unlike today it was no arsenal , for democracy, let me tell you. the united states sent iron and food and blood and muscle, bone, men to france, fighting in world war i, primarily on the western front. because it did not have the planes,es to make guns, and tanks, or even trucks being made in france at the time. but there was one thing the united states was good at and that was telecommunications. this picture i am showing you was a world war i poster, trying to recruit men to operate telegraphs, telephones and radios. the size on the fonts makes you think it is important, but in fact the primary instrument was the telephone. now of course it had b

things you discover as president is that supposed world war ii order that was constructed by fdr and truman and eisenhower and george marshall, the basic notion of liberal partisan terms but a pluralistic market based rules of law democracy and of those universal principles democratic and republican leaders believed in those things and the running thread from 1945 all the way through ronald reagan. there were certain ideas regardless whether it was far right or right you assumed you had to follow because the part of leadership in the world and what he has a great country. those are now being contested because we don't have a common base of information and i think the biggest challenge we are going to have the next ten, 15 years is to return to a civic conversation in which i say if this is a chair we agree it is. we can disagree on whether it is a nice chair or whether we should replace it or whether you want to move it over there, but we can't say that it's an elephant. [laughter] >> we were against obama chair. [applause] [laughter] that was a good chair by the way. [laughter] they tried

truman would have fit into wilson's group of presidents with unusual sagacity. delegated a great deal of power to the president. albeitften with many -- many with misgivings. the expansion of government power in a speech to the american bar association. the arguments of would be explored by professor maximin -- will be explored by professor waxman one week from tonight. not all of them came up before the court. did theyone exception involve members of the court. we should keep in mind that until fairly recently, presidents often spoke with members of the court about policy matters. and world war ii, franklin roosevelt consulted with three members of the court. hlix frankfurter, robert jackson, and william douglas. wilsonfirst world war, only had one member of the court whose advice he trusted. justice brandeis became one of his closest confidant. picking up our story from that late afternoon, the matter that concerned wilson involved railroads. a seeming inability to move raw materials to plants or desperately needed supplies to atlantic ports so they could go t

the harry s truman presidential library and museum hosted this hour-long program. >> evening everybody. my name's mark adams. i'm the education director here. welcome to our program. [cheers & applause] >> thank you. as you can tell, we've got excited people in our audience. i should explain that to the

truman when he was listening to his advisers said am a please bring me a one-handed economist. he got tired of them sang on the one hand this, on the one hand this. can you tell me when the next recession will happen? alan: sometime. david: sometime. we have had recessions every seven years on average since world war ii. alan: alan greenspan it will be -- it will be driven because death is rising dramatically. it will feed on itself. ,e talk about stagflation stagflation happened in the 1980's, a situation where unemployment and inflation were high, something which the original kinsey and model said modelas -- kinsey and said was not possible. we are going into that period now if you look at the guidelines. david: if you are worried we are going into recession at some point, do you invest in a certain way to protect against that? alan: you can't protect anything. the point is you can't forecast very accurately. aght now we have been in period of extremely low long-term interest rates. they are moving up, and will continue to move up. that will cause a turn in the market. david:

you know, there was a great president many years ago, harry truman. the american public got a little thing to let him know how much they appreciated him. it was something called, like, give them hell, harry, give them hell, harry. and i'd like you to join with me in saying something -- oh, he's already given them hell. [cheering] coach knight: i want you to join me in saying something else. just like they said it to harry truman, who was a great president, and so is he. and what i want you to say is very simply this -- go get 'em donald! one, two -- go get 'em donald. three! go get 'em donald! [crowd chanting "go get 'em donald"] coach knight: one thing i would have done, it takes great defense to win in basketball, great defense. i think i'd have had to wait on donald for a little while until he became a great defender. and that's what he's been. he's been a great defender of the united states of america. [cheering] [crowd chanting "u.s.a."] president trump: what a great guy, what a great guy. winner, he's a winner. we like winners, right? governor,

classified department of defense files revealed that since one thousand nine hundred forty five presidents truman eisenhower kennedy and johnson had misled congress and the public about unconstitutional military actions those beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know is to sit in much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war ask the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without

david: harry truman when he was listening to his economic advisers said, "please bring me a one-handed economist." they always said on the one hand this, on the other hand this -- he got tired of that. can you tell me when the next recession will happen? alan: sometime. david: sometime. we have had recessions every seven years on average since world war ii. alan: it will be driven by the fact that debt is rising dramatically. there will be some curtailments coming from that and it will feed on itself. we talk about stagflation, stagflation happened in the 1980's, a situation where both unemployment and inflation were high, something which the original keynesian model said was not possible. we are going into that period now if you look at the guidelines. david: if you are worried we are go into a recession at some point, do you invest in a certain way to protect against that? alan: you can't protect everything. the point is you can't forecast very accurately. right now, we have been in a period of extremely low real long-term interest rates. they are beginning now to move up and will co

classified department of defense files revealed that since one thousand nine hundred forty five presidents truman eisenhower kennedy and johnson had misled congress and the public about unconstitutional military actions those beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know is to sit in much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the work. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war asked the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war withou

the pundits were asking what was going on, was this rebellion against truman or a popular fad? there was something significant going on. the material culture of the confederate flag that many of us knew growing up. all of the stuff i knew as a child and is part of the enormous output of confederate kitsch is all a function of the 1950's through the 1980's. at one point in the 1950's and 1960's, if you had a business with dixie or southern in your name, almost certainly would use the confederate flag as part of your symbolism. this one still exists at dixie trailer sales in newport news, virginia, that has been there many decades. it was a natural marriage during the height of the confederate flag in american popular culture, as was this marriage to nascar. they were born almost at the same time with the popular of racing insion the south and the use of the confederate battle flag in the official symbolism of the races. what was happening with nascar and beyond is another widening of the symbolism of this flag, from confederate soldier to confederacy, south and white south, to a

bess truman may likely be the most diligently unfashionable first lady we've ever had. she insisted on wearing a basic uniform of plum and navy blue. it was pretty much unvarying. you see her during her ceremonial role as first lady, she is never smiling. almost never smiling. and she especially hated movie cameras. but she was always in the dark clothing. she wore grays and browns and she did that for a reason. she didn't want press attention. and she knew that if she wore something very plain and similar to what she wore the last time, that reporters would have nothing to say about her. in contrast is mamie eisenhower who, you know, had lived in europe, had been the wife of a five star general, but who thought of herself as a neighbor and really was in many ways neighborly. she, of course, famously helps unwittingly to make pink the most popular color according to the color institute at the time in textiles and home goods and refrigerators, you know, tiles, spatulas. everything is being made in mamie pink or first lady pink as it was called. what she ended up doing al

question: dewey or truman. 23 truman, dewey, none. it -- one doesn't have to, one doesn't really have to recite data of this kind, because it's sort of uniformly known that, by and large, the academic media and the television and the journalists are liberal, democrat versus republican. >> you can watch this and all other booktv programs from the past 20 years at booktv.org. type the author's name and the word "book" in the search bar at the top of the page. >>> each yearbook tv tapes hundreds of author programs throughout the country. here's a look at some of the events we'll be covering this week. on monday we'll be at the national churchill library and center in washington, d.c. to hear british historian andrew roberts recount life of winston churchill. that same evening at the strand bookstore in new york city, bookseller and publishing executive james mustic will highlight his list of 1,000 books to read before you die. and we're back many new york on wednesday at the vera institute of justice where journalist fox butterfield will

so i'm pretty sure truman and eisenhower both -- and probably kennedy finish both sent him our -- >> not kennedy, but -- >> not kennedy, but truman and eisenhower. >> yes. >> and i wanted to point out that in your imperial war museum you only have one book on general montgomery, and it's comparing him with rommel -- [laughter] and could you expand upon his relationship with general montgomery? thank you. p. >> well, first of all, the imperial war museum has undertaken the most terrible disbursement of books. they've sold their library, basically. and it's one of the great historical tragedies. and that's why they'll only have one book there. if you'd asked that question five years ago, there would have been well over 300 books in the imperial war museum on montgomery. his relationship with montgomery was subject to fluctuations. he admired him very much in the beginning, made him a field martial very early on in 1944 to the fury of patton and omar bradley and various other people who wanted to be five-star generals at the time but weren't. he then thought that monty got too big for h

and -- >> andrew: not kennedy. >> guest: not kennedy but truman and eisenhower. in your museum you only have one book on general montgomery, and it's comparing him with rammel, and could you expand upon his relationship with general montgomery. >> andrew: well first of all the imperial war museum have sold their library basically. and it's one of the great historical tragedies and that's why they only have one book there. if you ask that question five years ago there would be have been well over 500 books in the imperial war on montgomery. his relationship was subject to fluctuations with montgomery. he admired him at the beginning, made him feel marshal very early on in 1944 to fury of patton and omar broadly and various other people that wanted to be five-star generals at the moment that weren't. he then thought that monte got too big for his boots, which he most definitely had, had befriended moonty in the post-war period, and then to a great degree i think monte went stayed at chatwell, 78 times in the course of the postwar and then he fell out with monte aga