nothing drives me crazy or when a republican says they are like harry truman. i say, if you was here he would have choice words for you and probably take off his jacket. our state is very proud of him. he did do some courageous things. whether the creation of israel or integrating the armed services. even though he had a background, one might assume one is not tolerant. he made decisions that showed he did. >> did anyone in your family meet him? sen. mccaskill: he was a graduation speaker when my mom graduated from college. i was probably at events and i don't recall meeting him. i wish i had been old enough that i would have had a conversation with them. >> when you ran for reelection you are not a crazy democrat, what did you mean? sen. mccaskill: that was one of those things that everybody took it for what they wanted it to be. i was watching people walk in restaurants and scream at people in restaurants. i don't think that helps the cause at all. we had a state senator in hopedri that said she president trump would be assassinated. extreme of confrontation.

. >>> american history tv also interviewed clifton truman daniels, harry truman's grandson, he recently attended the presidential site summit hosted by the white house historical association for descendents of former presidents. this is 15 minutes. >> clifton truman daniels the last time we talk to just come back from japan with a group of survivors of the atomic bombing there. you have been up to something else associated with this legacy, tell me about your project? >>? if you're talking about playing my own grandfather on stage, it is, it must be 40 years old now, a play called give them harry a play which originated 1945. giving speeches about my grandfather for the past few years, people are beginning to say you're starting to look for your grand like your grandfather. and i must've had that play in the back of my head i mentioned this to a few people and they encouraged that. and a friend of mine in wilmington north carolina at the center for the performing arts said let's do it. and we did the play in october of last year, each show and had a successful run and now i have an agen

been occasions like this harry truman and lyndon johnson died a month rah part in '72 and '73. truman opted not have a state funeral. instead his body lay in state in independence, missouri and nixon was the first person in line to pay respects that day. and then at funeral funeral held at national city church nixon presided over the affair but did not speak. so, unusual in recent days but not unheard of and, of course, these circumstances are a bit more extraordinary to those to which we have been accustomed. >> again, very unusual for a sitting president to not speak at the funeral of a former president. the 2016 campaign left a lot of bad blood between the trumps and the bushes. there was actually some question as to whether or not the president would go to the funeral given the fact that he went to barbara bush's. i don't think there is any way you cannot have a

[applause] >> harry truman says not every reader will be a leader but every leader has to be a reader. [applause] and that was true of fdr and great presidents in american history because sometimes i talk to college students, if you are not interested in history that is up to you. if that is true your life experience will be limited to what you experienced personally and what friends of people tell you. if you tap into history in some way, look at movies or read books, don't care how you do it, you are tapping into the collective wisdom of billions of people who walk the earth before you. it is your choice. at is the same choice for presidents. harry truman said i don't know how i could have been president without being such a reader of history. he knew more than anyone else. and thick glasses, and can't afford to replace them. i read every book of the independent missouri library which i thought was an exaggeration. truman's favorite book was, i apologize, horrible title, called great men and -- the subtitle from nebuchadnezzar, to sarah bernhardt. covered a wide swath of human exper

clifton truman daniel is the grandson of the 33rd president harry truman and the honorary chairman of the truman library institute. linda johnson robb is the first child of our 36th president, lyndon johnson. she lived in the white house during the last years of had her father's tenure in office from 1966 to 1969. and for over two decades has served as a trustee of the lbj foundation. and susan ford bales is the fourth child and only daughter of our 38th president, gerald ford. she lived in the white house during the -- a bulk of her father's presidency and since 1981 served as a trustee of the gerald ford presidential foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein, the co-founder and co-executive chairman of the carlyle group and our country's leading patriotic philanthropist. generously contributing to the preservation of our nation's history and culture. he is also the host of bloomberg the david rubenstein show. peer to peer conversations. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to this stage matthew mckinley, tweed roosevelt, linda johnson robb, susan ford bales and david rube

[laughter] did she lobby harry truman to get her post at the u.n.? mary jo: no. in fact when he first called, she turned it down. she said i cannot do that. i'm not a lawyer. i don't know anything about mass international law. this is 1945. nobody knew what the u.n. was going to be. there were people on both sides of the atlantic he thought it would be a failure like the league of nations. so this is not exactly a plum job. he was not offering to make her ambassador. he was sending her into the jaws of the line. -- lion. upy were going to try to set what she would call the machinery for the effective use of the united nations. interested andly followed all of the preparatory work. the dumbarton oaks agreement and all of that stuff. she had been involved in promoting it. lived, he wanted her to go with him in san francisco in may of 1945 for the u.n. conference where they would sign the charter. .o she was and it -- in it one of the last thing she did in the white house, the day franklin died, she was meeting with state department officials about the question of t

harry truman was correct when he said that in the love of god and the love of mab will be found a solution to all the ills that afflict the world today. as much as we may wish to make our nation strong, it will never happen without observing the truth in proverbs. ighteous news exalts a nation. in a world of strife, we could use some peace and encouragement. christ said, quote, these things have i spoken to you that in me, you may have peace and in the world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer. wife overcome the world. we could use some love. jesus said, quote, this is my commandment. that you love one another as i have loved you, unquote. in a world that tells us there is no hope, we can find it in christ's commitment. quote, tribulation produces perseverance and per serverns and character and hope. now hope does not disappoint us because the love of god has been powered out in our hearts by the holy spirit who was given to us, who when we were without strength, christ died. in tarted 2,000 years ago bethlehem. luke 2. . 11. it is born to you this say a afer who is christ the l

and you didn't argue with harry truman so we sat down in the open the book and he started to read and my mother came down a few minutes later and stopped cold at the bottom of the steps. neither of us were moving. and we were just sitting there on the arms of the chair while he read to us from a book that didn't have any pictures in it. and my mother said what in god's name are you reading to those children? any shoulder. the history of the peloponnesian war i believe at 6:00 the morning to a four-year old and a 2-year-old. so, now, is it true this is urban legend true that somebody went to your grandmother and said can you get your husband to stop using the word manure? and her response was you don't know how long it's taken me to use the word manure. [ laughter ] as far as i can tell, yes it's true and even if it is and i'm going to keep telling it. >> you sometimes have played and father? >> i have there's a 40-year-old leavitt james whitmore originated that was called give them harry. i was trying to think of a good line from that store so he starts up online by saying i never saw

harry truman was probably read about in presidential history than almost anyone else. when he was a kid he had these classes, parents said we can't afford to replace them so truman said i, therefore, read every book in the independent missouri public library which i thought was an exaggeration but it was a small library. so we probably did. what truman said when i was having to make tough decisions like firing macarthur of whether not to use atomic bomb, i thought back to appropriate presidents that it never ann exact parallel but there were enough similarities that i have a bit of insight to make the decision. prep something after jackson get something that abraham lincoln did. one thing truman said was not all readers would be leaders but he said every leader has to be a reader. because this is my language not his, but why would you if your president for all of us as voters what ever would you want to deny yourself the collective wisdom of billions of people who have walked the earth and find out what mistakes they madee and what successes they had, particularly prev

he started in the white house for harry truman and went all the way up to president reagan. so he had quite a epic life. >> host: author wil haygood thanks for your time. >> keep an eye out for more interviews from the national press book fair to air in the future. you can watch them and any other programs in their entirety at booktv.org. type the author's name in the search bar at the top of the page. >> here are some of the best selling fiction books. according to publishers weekly. topping the something like this "becoming" michelle obama's reflections on her life. after that it's a collection of the late columnist charles krauthammer's essays in the the won't of it all. followed by a picture book on president trump and his response to hurricane florence by the staff of the late show with steven coal bear. in killing the ss, bill o'riley and martin dugard provide a history of the capture or nazi fugitives am and looking at the best selling non-fiction books, tara westover growing up in the idaho mountains and her introduction to formal education at 17, in "educated" some

truman was sworn in as our next president of the united states. now we're inside the on the s import cabin missouri. it's for the captain of the issouri when the ship is in port specifically or when he's got visiting dignitaries and he to act as a diplomat in a foreign port. a memorial association has large historic collection. the collection is all the way to uss n day with the current missouri submarine. e've pulled out some artifacts for display the two you see here are two important pieces of the ship's history. hey are both fragments of the plane, kamikaze plane that hit the missouri in 1945. right was taken by a crew member and fashioned painted. paint and you've got two very different pieces of the plane but they on the ed up back here missouri. the next two things that we have are, play here today again, from the kamikaze attack on the missouri in the 1940s. these two artifacts are actually largerces from something and they were both recovered by h division which division of the missouri. body down ook the below, to the dispensary, they br

i'm sure i drive wilson scholars crazy but --e even harry truman he took us into korea without asking for a war declaration from congress. that opened the war -- that opened the door for later presidents to do the same thing which was not a great thing for the united states, in my opinion. >> let's hear from one more caller, paula in washington, d.c. you're on with historian michael beschloss. >> caller: well, an honor to be the last caller. >> the last will be first. >> caller: i really am ready to get this book and read it. my question to you is, in doing your extensive research which i know just started with this book, do you feel that most wars are predicated on a lie? >> 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 presidents have taken us into many too many unnecessary wars, and i think one of the ways to stop that is to read history and see where people went astray. look at the presidents who bold-faced lied to congress. polk to some extent, mckinley, certa

harry's moved his worldly possessions into the truman home, what we now know of as the truman home, and there they stay. this is a photo of harry and bess and margaret around may of 1928, about the time harry was county judge. margaret is 4-years-old. of course, things had changed a little bit. again, it is interesting. you can know what they are doing and trace it through what is going on in their letters. after world war i, harry joined the army reserves and so every summer, for two weeks, he would go to the army reserve camp, and that is when the letters start showing up again. of course, when he was not there, they were together. we don't have that kind of correspondence but you can trace it. two weeks in july for 1924, 1925, 1926, on and on through the rest of the 1920's and some of the 1930's. it is interesting because he becomes a little bit more affectionate. they are married now. this was a letter written july 8, 1926, and he mentions margaret. he says i never wanted to come home so badly in my because he becomes a life as i did last night when the young lady said she cried, an

i had a choice i could have found a new president like harry truman, i think the world of harry truman. or i could decide to keep my guys. i could not let them go. each time i left one as i went from lincoln to fdr to teddy and taft, i would have to move the books out of the room. i felt like i was leaving an old boyfriend behind. [laughter] i figured take the guys i know the best. who i have spent so much time with. i spent 10 years with abraham lincoln and another five years on the movie with abraham lincoln. i spent seven years on teddy roosevelt and i took longer than it took world war ii to be fought with fdr. i knew lbj. i decided i wanted to look at them through the lens of leadership asking a question , that i have not fully asked myself. where does ambition come from? does the man make the times or the times make the man? are leadership qualities born or -- inborn or not? i spent so much time with them that i felt it was weird to spend days and nights with them and think about them so much. my only fear was in the afterlife there will be a panel of the presidents i ever studie

you can see how weary fdr looks and how shocked does harry truman. and even more profound appeal occurred in july of that year. 1945. when winston churchill was booted out of office as the wartime 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 wartime negotiations with stalin, both fdr and churchill had tended to be very accommodating. when labor came in, 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 the unions. they had no illusions whatsoever about stalin. and it was the british labour party and the tough labor leaders who, from the get go that summer of 45, started calling our russian allies "nazis". they started calling stalin a massacre maker. they pointed to a whole series of stalinis

. >>> american history tv also interviewed clifton truman daniels, harry truman's grandson, he recently attended the presidential site summit hosted by the white house historical association for descendents of former presidents. this is

you know, think of harry truman. harry truman left the presidency in 1952, '53, with a job approval rating of 22%. one of the worst -- the lowest measure at that particular time. he is now considered one of the best five presidents or ten presidents depending on the list you see. so in retrospect looking at harry truman's presidency, he could have run for reelection in 1952, but chose not to because he was so unpopular. so he wasn't term limited out because it didn't apply to him when they changed the term limit law, but he didn't run because he was so unpopular, but history looks back and sees how did he do, he comes out pretty well. >> did you want to make a point? >> well, you know, ford -- ford, i think, was very unpopular with the press because he pardoned nixon and there was a lot of criticism of ford and he was probably our most athletic president, as i've said, and i remember one time there was all these stories about him tripping and falling or something like that. >> right. >> and ford said, those reporters

teapot dome, harry truman naming a special assistant to the attorney general looking at the bureau of internal revenue. 162 staff fired, no indictments. truman then fired the attorney general who had fired a special assistant looking into this. , noill go back and forth doubt, today. the watergate resignation, saturday night massacres. the topics pick up quickly in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. with that we have come to today's subject, which is at various moments and increasingly so capturing the attention of the nation. with that, allow me to introduce our panel. carter'sresident jimmy chief domestic policy advisor and the author of a recent well reviewed book which touches on .he subject of today's program in the clinton administration, he was u.s. ambassador to the european union, deputy secretary of the treasury and special representative of the president on matters pertaining to holocaust issues. in the trump administration, she continues. ey, assor jonathan turl scholar and legal analyst who is frequently appearing on network programs, has had a distinguished career as a lawyer . t

yes, harry truman, after the attorney general fired the special counsel fired the attorney general. it goes with the territory, if an individual is going to be investigating the president of the united states, half the nation will think they are a skunk at a lovely garden party. so why are you doing this? you are exceeding your man died, you're out of control and you are on a witchhunt. these kinds of things are said from time to time, and then of course, famously, as we heard, the rancor, anger, and angst in respect to the saturday night massacre. the whole system actually did work, and the system is working again with bob mueller, and hopefully we will understand that. the second thing i want to say -- i will be very brief about this -- in contrast to the traditions of the country, just our life as we experience it, the famous dictum that the life of the law is not logic, but it is experienced. we have a historical experience. in his dissent to the opinion morrison versus olson, upholding the constitutionality of the independent counsel provisions, the special counsel provisions j

harry truman, our president who may have been in one or two or even all three of the audiences in kansas city speeches i mentioned. harry who was himself a declared with sony and carried in his wallet for most of his life, a copy of the passage envisioning the power of man. of course, he helped inaugurate the united nations plant made of. security and environment great powers 14 points. patricia has written a wide biography of teddy roosevelt. mark twain, most of the 19th century presidents. it was a surprise. the astounding medal for outstanding teaching at the juvenile doing would say. ladies and gentlemen, patricia o'toole. [applause] i'm never happier,. >> when i was about six. i was walking on main street and i saw this what i was thought was a store. this is quite exciting to me. i went in and the librarian, i looked around and i had never seen so many books. i looked around and wondered, how you could buy them. hockey you could figure which one you wanted to buy. this woman sitting at a desk explained to me that you didn't have to buy them. you could borrow them. i said, how do yo

truman, harry truman left the presidency in 1952, 53, with a job approval rating of 22%. one of the worst measures. the lowest measure at that particular time. he's now considered one of the best five presidents or ten presidents. then on the list, in retrospect, looking at harry truman's presidency, he could have run for re-election in 1952, but chose not to, because he was so unpopular. and so he wasn't term limited out, because it didn't apply to him hen they changed the term limit law, but he didn't run because he was so unpopular. >> bus history looks back to see how did he do, and he comes out pretty well. >> do you want to -- >> well, ford, you know, ford i think was very unpopular with the press because he pardoned nixon. and there was a lot of criticism of ford. and he was probably our most athletic president. and as i said, and i remember one time, there was all of these stories about him tripping and falling or something like that. >> right. >> and ford said, those reporters, they get their exercise sitting on a bar stool. >> he liked the bar stool. that was hi

why didn't you include harry truman among your presidents? the korean war which is similar to other wars, and he was a president of change and certainly he was a president of humility. it seems to me he was ideal for inclusiveness. doris can only spend time with so many of these presidents. doris: when i was deciding what to do next after i finished the book with teddy and taft. i had a choice i could have found a new president like harry truman, i think the world of harry. i could decide to keep my guys, i could not let them go. each time i left one as i went iom fdr to teddy and taft, would have to move the books out of the room. i felt like i was leaving an old boyfriend behind. i figured take the guys i know the best. i spent 10 years with abraham lincoln and another five years on a movie with abraham lincoln. on teddyeven years roosevelt and i took longer than it took world war ii to be fought with fdr. i wanted to look at them through this lens of leadership asking a question that i have not fully asked myself, where does ambition come

truman. that is what is alarming to some of these senate republicans so you have that plus him suddenly trying to figure out if he n fire the fed chair, the erratic behavior, it's been an issue for many republicans for a long time and they've compartmentalized it. it's getting harder and harder for them to do that and you can t we in the interview dwoiews t this morning. >> anything else that stands out? >> i will promise you one thing --fe have one the most fantastic montages of the president and the wall you'llia appr. you have to watch it all. it's a good treat. good easter egg. >> ahead of christmas. >> perfect hutiming. >> todd, we appreciate it. you can catch that treat at 10:30. >> after 11:20. [ laughter ] >> if you're back timing it, my little treat for you there is 11:20. >> just hang in there. >> we'll stick around for >> lauryn has a treat when it comes to today. if you haveuto getde for last-minute shopping. >> it's going to be beautiful. okay, see you later, chuck. it will be be

presidency, harry truman presidential library archivist talks about harry and bess truman, and a life together from childhood in missouri to the white house. she discusses their 53-your marriage. -- 53-year marriage. the truman library hosted this event. it is 45 minutes. >> today's special guest is our -- archivist tammy williams. she has been with us for many years. she started here as an intern, if your children, grandchildren, kids next door the something to do next summer, encourage them to look into our internship program. tammy is going to share with you the story of the trumans' love and devotion to one another, using their love letters back and forth to share that story. without further ado, i will welcome tammy williams to the stage. tammy? [applause]

>> harry truman was out in the public. it was a bloody battle. lyndon johnson the same thing. what they will do, fed will raise rates 25 basis points next week. so they can say we didn't give in to pressure. plus verbiage next year will be instead of four rate increases we'll do it step by step depending on conditions. that will be their way of surrendering. connell: in some ways from the market perspective if they didn't raise next week also, people would say boy, maybe it is worse than we think. >> you would see the gold price pop up. people worry about inflation. connell: right. >> this way fed has face saving, donald trump knows he has a victory. connell: that brings up argument is for federal reserve not raising interest rates. i think it was peter navarro on our network earlier talking about inflation. what is the concern for fed, is it inflation which we haven't seen yet, future inflation or growth, slowing economic growth? >> that's the key thing and where i wish the white house would make a distinction. the fed thinks prosperity causes inflation. monetary policy cause

it was a gesture of friendship we all know harry truman famously said, if you want a friend in politics, buy a dog. well, that has not been the way bill nelson took on politics. we have had friendships and it has worked for florida and the united states. bill, it has been privilege to work with you and i look forward to continue to work with you in the years ahead in your next chapter. it's an honor to serve with you, and i yield the floor. mr. menendez: so, thank you for joining us. we're joined in a bipartisan group of members who have

and then he said i'm going to the education and then i'm going to get harry truman's medicare through. and it during the first 18 months he figured out a vision of what the country would be like with the foundation of what the new deal was. so i don't know that they all had that. i'm just going to go back to what you were talking about james. we talk about we forget about the anxiety of these people and how they sleep at night. and lincoln, the way he could sleep in the midst of that terrible worry about the war was he would be reading a funny shakespeare comedy and he would go to his aid and read it aloud so he could laugh when he went to sleep, thinking about something funny, rather than thinking about the anxiety of the war. when teddy was worried about winning an election and what he might lose or not, he would write dozens of letters to his friends and family and say don't worry if i lose i have had the best run of anybody. so he wouldn't have to feel pity from the people if you lost. fdr, when he couldn't sleep at night, finally he had this amazing ritual where he would imagine

why didn't you include harry truman among your presidents? after all, the korean war which is similar to other wars, and he was a president of change and certainly he was a president of humility. it seems to me he was ideal for inclusiveness. david: doris can only spend time with so many of these presidents. doris: when i was deciding what to do next after i finished the book with teddy and taft. i had a choice i could have found a new president like harry truman, i think the world of harry. i could decide to keep my guys, i could not let them go. each time i left one as i went from fdr to teddy and taft, i would have to move the books out of the room. i felt like i was leaving an old boyfriend behind. i figured take the guys i know the best. i spent 10 years with abraham lincoln and another five years on a movie with abraham lincoln. i spent seven years on teddy roosevelt and i took longer than it took world war ii to be fought with fdr. i wanted to look at them through this lens of leadership asking a question that i have not fully asked my

david: now, harry truman, when he was listening to his economic advisers, said "please bring me a one-handed economist." because they always said "on the one hand this, on the other hand this." and he got tired of that. let me ask you a direct question -- can you tell me when the next recession is going to happen? alan: sometime. david: sometime. alan: sometime. david: but we have had recessions every seven years on average since world war ii. alan: it is going to be driven by the fact that debt is rising dramatically. and it is going to be some curtailments occurring, and it is going to feed on itself. what i'm saying -- we talk about stagflation, stagflation is something that happened in the 1980's, when you had a situation where both unemployment and inflation were high, something which the original keynesian model said was not possible. and we are going into that type of period now if you look at all the guidelines. david: if you are worried we are going to go into recession at some point, do you invest in a your money in a certain way to protect against that? alan: oh, you can't protect

david: now, harry truman, when he was listening to his economic advisers, said "please bring me a one-handed economist." because they always said "well, on the one hand this, on the other hand this." and he got tired of that. let me ask you a direct question -- can you tell me when the next recession is going to happen? alan: sometime. david: sometime. alan: sometime. david: but we have had recessions every seven years on average since world war ii. alan: it is going to be driven by the fact that debt is rising dramatically. and it is going to be some curtailments occurring, and it is going to feed on itself. what i'm saying -- we talk about stagflation, stagflation is something that happened in the 1980's, when you had a situation where both unemployment and inflation were high, something which the original keynesian model said was not possible. david: ok. alan: and we are going into that type of period now if you look at all the guidelines. david: if you are worried we are going to go into recession at some point, do you invest your money in a certain way to protect against that? alan: oh,

david: now, harry truman, when he was listening to his economic advisers, said "please bring me a one-handed economist." because they always said "on the one hand this, on the other hand this." and he got tired of that. let me ask you a direct question -- can you tell me when the next recession is going to happen? alan: sometime. david: sometime. alan: sometime. david: but we have had recessions every seven years on average since world war ii. alan: it is going to be driven by the fact that debt is rising dramatically. and it is going to be some curtailments occurring, and it is going to feed on itself. what i'm saying -- we talk about stagflation, stagflation is something that happened in the 1980's, when you had a situation where both unemployment and inflation were high, something which the original keynesian model said was not possible. and we are going into that type of period now if you look at all the guidelines. david: if you are worried we are going to go into recession at some point, do you invest your money in a certain way to protect against that? alan: oh, you can't protect anyt

and presidents may be above all, harry truman said he couldn't understand how anyone could be president of the united states who did not know history. truman always said, not every reader will be a leader but every leader has to be a reader. >> brennan: you write as well though that in some ways founders fathers probably put a bit too much power in the presidency. >> they expected that the first president would be george washington, every later president would be like him. as we've seen not everyone turned out to be that way. but the thing the founders worried about most of all was that presidents would try to grab too much power. and through history that has sure turned out to be the case. one of the ways they have done that which i've written about is in war times, because war if you're looking for a president who gets more power in some cases abuses power, war is the quickest way to do it. i think the founders would have been very worried about the fact that a president nowadays can get america involved in war almost single-handedly. >> brennan: and get us out as well. >> absolutely.

thousands of sailors aboard the "uss harry truman" pulled into port in norfolk, virginia on sunday to a crowd of smiling friends and family. the ship had been deployed for eight months around the eastern mediterranean, arctic circle and the norwegian fjords. >> those homecomings get me every time. >> every time. >> thanks for waking up with us. i'm marlie hall. >> and i'm pllip hi >>> presidential predictions for the year ahead. what's still to be done before christmas, and will negative polls on the president's trustworthiness put coal in his stocking? >>> record rainfall in many parts of the u.s., this following a weekend of coast-to-coast storms. >>> to america's infrastructure problems. bridges closed because there's no money to fix them. and worse, those not closed but n desperate need of repair. below 24,000 after a dismal week on wall street. cnbc's steve sedgwick will tell us what's ahead. >>> and the latest on "snl" cast member pete davidson after a weekend scare over his well-being. "early today" starts right now. good monday

george bush was not harry truman but there is one parallel. that is when truman let tft the white house in 1953, one poll found his approval rating somewhere in the low 20s. here we are over a half century later and most of us would say truman was the guy who allowed about ten cold war presidents up to george h.w. bush win the cold war. and even more than that, truman showed modesty and decent si and good judgment. in light of our current times, george h.w. bush looms as an even greater man. >> again, the uncommon grace he showed his successor bill clinton, who had just talked about him as a relic of a different age. and yet the grace there to say we're here for you, we're rooting for you, good luck. >> the morning he wrote that he was dictating into his diary his last morning in the oval office. he reflected on how wonderful barbara was, how essential she had been. he said people say i'm disconnected but i never naefel that way and i have the same reverence for this office as when i came in. he would be riding in the back of a limo and people

. >> harry truman used to call the white house the crown jewel of the federal prison system because he felt alone. president george bush said that he never felt alone, he felt surrounded by people. that is testament to the kind of person he was. >> even said that in his good luck letter to bill clinton. they said there will be a loneliness that they did not feel. i think that is because because he felt that he felt lucky to be surrounded by his family. >> he is great at connecting. even people that he disagreed with vehemently and run opposite side of the spectrum, he would always reach out and in many cases, would offer to do so things for people >> here are the caskets. the hearse is just pulling up. again, less listen in live as we watch the state funeral for president george h.w. bush.

that the people of a given era may not appreciate it, with harry truman building the post war order, george h.w. bush being the last person who governored with a sense of consensus. there are any number of examples where history has become a kind of corrective to the impressions of the president. but without an ability to speak both through and above the press, no president can be successful. >> what about -- in connection with that, what about relationships with reporters? in the last panel they were talking about sometimes it got too cozy, it was -- it maybe stepped over the line. much of the time what we focus on is the adversarial relationship, what presidents always -- or almost always perceive as this hostile treatment that they're getting while they're in office. >> you know, there's -- wonderful examples on both sides. i think that the bottom line on this i think history tells us is that everybody is human and that we get this right sometimes and wrong other times. franklin roosevelt basically he was the founder of the modern press conference, the daily briefing. but they cou

i think president harry truman was president when he declared good health is a right, and not a privilege. but every citizen regardless of his means should have an opportunity for health care. we have tried to make that this nations policy for a good many years, but for a long time there has been a wide gap between our policy and reality. in the past five years we have been working diligently, trying to move on down the road and try to close that gap. medicare and we have heart-cancer-stroke programs, neighborhood centers that lady bird johnson just returned from and was ecstatic about. we have more than 40 health laws we have enacted during these past five years. ♪ johnson: another achievement was highlighted on a chilly december afternoon, as the first lady made her farewell tour with the committee for a more beautiful capital. adding sparkle to the washington cityscape would be new fountains just below the white house where the anacostia and potomac rivers meet. of there the gifts society for a more beautiful capital. after the dedication ceremonies, mrs. johnson and her committee he

as the massive carrier, the harry s truman pulls in to port. the thousands of sailors coming off the boat have not seen their families in months. their history making mission was a strategic success, but it was at times unsettling for the sailors and their families. we went out to meet the sailors for the final days on board. from the flight deck, the size of four football fields, to the cramped hallways. >> nobody knows what it's like to be on a ship. >> reporter: these young men and women in uniform were reflecting on their journey. what is the hardest thing about being at sea and away from family? >> missing my first child's birth. >> reporter: for this culinary specialist, the mission, his first, has been one of excitement and sacrifice. >> i'm going to get you. >> reporter: his wife, taylor, went in to labor in october. >> i called my wife, i was like, baby, you all right? everything good? she was like, you know, i'm just having a baby. i was fortunate to be on the phone with her during the birth. so every scream, growl, push, i got to hea

. >> i think president harry -- i think it was president harry truman who declared when he was president that good health is a right, and not a privilege. but every citizen regardless of his means should have an opportunity for health care. we have tried to make that this nations policy for a good many years, but for a long time there has been a wide gap between our policy and reality. in the past five years we have been working diligently, trying to move on down the road and try to close that gap. we have medicare and we have heart-cancer-stroke programs, neighborhood centers that lady bird johnson just returned from and was ecstatic about. we have more than 40 health laws we have enacted during these past five years. ♪ narrator: another johnson achievement was highlighted on a chilly december afternoon, as the first lady made her farewell tour with the committee for a more beautiful capital. adding sparkle to the washington cityscape would be new fountains just below the white house where the anacostia and potomac rivers meet. they were the gifts of the society for a more beautiful c

the uss "harry s. truman" carries more than 5,000 sailors. they just returned from a ground breaking military mission. it was the first carrier deployed as part of the trump administration's so-called dynamic force employment strategy. it involves warships saling in unpredictable patterns to confuse unpredictable enemies. they monitored russia from the arctic circle. because of tune predictability, families were often kept in the dark. i boarded the truman days before its return in a story you'll see only on cbs "this morning." we folloth s the wittheirit's a as the massive navyrier, e "uss harry s. truman" pulls into port. the thousands of sailors streaming off the boat haven't seen their families in months. >> go see daddy! >> their history making mission was a success but it was at times unsettling for sailors and their families. we flew out to meet the sailors for their final days on board. from the flight deck -- the size of four football fields -- to the cramped hallways. >> no one knows what it's like to be on a ship. >> these young me

coming into harry truman's disorganized and improve vacational white house, eisenhower imposed order, stabbing clear rules of procedure, every monday he met with leader from the congress, wednesday were his weekly press conference with print radio and after january 19 a 55 the division immediata. thursday, chaired the national security council. friday, met with miss cabinet true. did not convene the national security council very often and john kennedy largely spliffed it. eisenhower, by contrast, endowed the nsc, the national security council, we enorm mose import. he used the weekly meetings to craft to review and approve policies. in his eight years in office the national security council -- here's a number, think about this -- eight years 0 in office, eisenhower's nsc met 366 times. eisenhower was present at 329 of them. a 90% attendance rate, the meeting of his own national security council, once a week. now, a later generation, indeed the kennedy, lampooned this as bureaucratic drudgery, meetings, how boring. i'm an academic and i can say that. know how boring meetings can be bu