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harry truman came back to washington extremely angry. he got up on the senate floor in february of 1941 and he said, hey, we should have an investigative committee to look into all this. and that's that was the birth of the truman committee. was it controversy racial at the time? oh, very much so. so imagine a little known senator making the proposal to investigate the conduct of the presidential administration from his own party. nobody, including franklin roosevelt, was at all a wild about this idea. but it quickly became clear that if the democrats didn't do it, then the republicans were perfectly happy to take on this investigation. so the senate ended up a essentially throwing truman a bone. they gave him $15,000, barely enough to hire a lawyer and a couple of secretaries and said, go, here's your committee. truman took that tiny appropriation and turned it into probable only the most powerful investigating arm that congress had seen. so seven members of the truman commission committee, formerly known as the senate special committee
harry truman came back to washington extremely angry. he got up on the senate floor in february of 1941 and he said, hey, we should have an investigative committee to look into all this. and that's that was the birth of the truman committee. was it controversy racial at the time? oh, very much so. so imagine a little known senator making the proposal to investigate the conduct of the presidential administration from his own party. nobody, including franklin roosevelt, was at all a wild about...
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harry truman. he understood on a personal what can happen when we allow forces of evil, the forces of aggression to spread. when the united states entered world war one, he, the u.s. national guard and, he was put in command of an artillery unit that saw brutal combat in france. he later wrote this i know the strain, the mud, the misery of the soldier in the and i know to his and i can add today her courage that experience left truman along with generations of men and women who survived the two world wars, determined that history would not repeat itself. harry truman that the best way maybe the only way to ensure that was to bind america's fate to that of other nations who shared values for all to commit to defending one another's territory, as if it their own. now those of us here today, in some ways may take that for granted. now, after 75 years, but this was a radical belief in its time, and it was also an untested one. and in ways, it's also easy to assume that nato's success was somehow preord
harry truman. he understood on a personal what can happen when we allow forces of evil, the forces of aggression to spread. when the united states entered world war one, he, the u.s. national guard and, he was put in command of an artillery unit that saw brutal combat in france. he later wrote this i know the strain, the mud, the misery of the soldier in the and i know to his and i can add today her courage that experience left truman along with generations of men and women who survived the two...
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truman -- at least, a statue of him -- and together with the grandson of harry s. truman. a truman evening. and it is in particular great to be here as the secretary general of nato, because i'm not able to think about any individual person that has played a more important role for this alliance than president truman, because we have to try to imagine how the world looked like at the end of the second world war. because then the plan was of course to get the troops, the forces back home. that was the case for everyone, but especially for the united states, who sent people across the atlantic and to europe to help end the second world war. the united states left europe after the first world war. that was not a big success. so therefore, i'm glad that after the second world war, the united states decided to stay -- stay with their forces, stay with their troops, and not only that, but also to underpin the transatlantic bond with the marshall aid, with a big economic program to underpin the transatlantic bond. and then on top of that -- not only keeping their forces and provi
truman -- at least, a statue of him -- and together with the grandson of harry s. truman. a truman evening. and it is in particular great to be here as the secretary general of nato, because i'm not able to think about any individual person that has played a more important role for this alliance than president truman, because we have to try to imagine how the world looked like at the end of the second world war. because then the plan was of course to get the troops, the forces back home. that...
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someone else understood this profoundly -- harry s. truman. he understood on a personal level what can happen when we allow the forces of evil, the forces of aggression to spread. when the united states entered world war i, he rejoined the u.s. national guard, and he was put in command of an artillery unit that saw brutal combat in france. he later wrote this -- “i know the strain, the mud, the misery of the soldier in the field. and i know too his” -- and add today her -- “courage.” the experience left truman -- along with generations of men and women who survived the two world wars -- determined that history would not repeat itself. harry truman believed that the best way, maybe the only way, to ensure that was to bind america's fate to that of other nations who shared our values; for all to commit to defending one another's territory as if it were their own. now, those of us here today in some ways may take that for granted now, after 75 years, but
someone else understood this profoundly -- harry s. truman. he understood on a personal level what can happen when we allow the forces of evil, the forces of aggression to spread. when the united states entered world war i, he rejoined the u.s. national guard, and he was put in command of an artillery unit that saw brutal combat in france. he later wrote this -- “i know the strain, the mud, the misery of the soldier in the field. and i know too his” -- and add today her -- “courage.”...
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harm to harry truman.n he began that process in he was a relatively unknown figure just starting his second term. he had been a senator from the pendergast machine in missouri, had a somewhat tainted beginning and had a hard time getting past. is time psaki was ready to be more independent and stick out his own and that is what he did with his committee. over the next three or haveyears, he led to this investigation got a lot of attention, was widely praised for its effecti. by 1944 he had risen running mate for president fdr for his final el bid. he became vice president in 1945, 83 days later became president when fdr died. . it really was made harry truman international figure and what with himresident of the united states. host: harry truman was one17 senators. that became president of the united states. james monroe, john quincy adams andrewilliam henry harrison, john tyler, franklin johnson benjamin harri truman,, jfk, lyndon johnson, richard nixon barack obama, joe biden. host: only two of v -- thi
harm to harry truman.n he began that process in he was a relatively unknown figure just starting his second term. he had been a senator from the pendergast machine in missouri, had a somewhat tainted beginning and had a hard time getting past. is time psaki was ready to be more independent and stick out his own and that is what he did with his committee. over the next three or haveyears, he led to this investigation got a lot of attention, was widely praised for its effecti. by 1944 he had...
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as i dug into the story i came across this letter from harry truman to tom clark i realize harry trumanhad ordered it. that is how it happens. now i had the story to two major events in the early civil rights movement came from this event nobody remembered, inspired to these men to act in a courageous way. >> were going to turn to the audience and when just one more question about finding unusual historical facts. how did you find out about the conversation between thurgood marshall and judge wearing? >> i wasn't there. [laughter] will start with that. there is a gentleman by the name of alexander rivera who was a reporter for the pittsburgh career as that was the naacp he always had a camera around his neck he righted himself on being a photojournalist was a fraternity brother of marshall and a very close friend they traveled together when their covid trials. marshall was summons to waring's office rivera was with him. he walked to the door and when he came out marshall told him what happened. after he passed rivera's that i need to tell is secret because i know a story. he told it twi
as i dug into the story i came across this letter from harry truman to tom clark i realize harry trumanhad ordered it. that is how it happens. now i had the story to two major events in the early civil rights movement came from this event nobody remembered, inspired to these men to act in a courageous way. >> were going to turn to the audience and when just one more question about finding unusual historical facts. how did you find out about the conversation between thurgood marshall and...
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it seemed like harry truman didn't even want to give him a break. didn't want to have a conversation with them. treated the russian soviet leaders at the time. like, it's like why even talking to me, you don't deserve to be in the same room with me. right. from the very beginning, that was his attitude, unlike roosevelt that you say, unlike wallace. one point that i would add to what you were saying about wallace, and there's popularity. caliber released the pole on july 20th 1944. the 1st day of the democratic party convention in chicago, asking potential voters who they want that on the ticket is vice president. 65 percent of potential voters. so they wanted wireless back as vice president, 2 percent wanted truman. yeah that's, it was so one sided. it was worse and the university of connecticut, purdue basketball game. so at least they were in there for a half. do you think, do you, do you do think the same forces? gosh, i like, it makes me angry to ask this question, but i have to ask it because it's just so damn obvious. the same thing is we see
it seemed like harry truman didn't even want to give him a break. didn't want to have a conversation with them. treated the russian soviet leaders at the time. like, it's like why even talking to me, you don't deserve to be in the same room with me. right. from the very beginning, that was his attitude, unlike roosevelt that you say, unlike wallace. one point that i would add to what you were saying about wallace, and there's popularity. caliber released the pole on july 20th 1944. the 1st day...
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harry truman makes an executive order. what does he do? harry truman in 1948 issues an executive order that calls for the end of racial and calls for the enactment of equal in the us military. he does not actually desegregate or integrate the military that order, but that's how it's understood, is that that's what's going to happen. it doesn't finally happen until 1954. and in fact, the secretary of the was more or less received of his position because he refused to desegregate the army after after the executive order. so there was and what happened in 1954. how it gradually a korea a jump started the actual integration of the military because of the demands of combat. and by 1954 it was just a a before we felt that it actually reached that point. there was a small article in the new york times sort of announcing that the us military is now fully desegregated or integrated. but would it be fair to say that vietnam this ties into your book, an army of fire was the fully first fully integrated war that the us fought it the first war that was
harry truman makes an executive order. what does he do? harry truman in 1948 issues an executive order that calls for the end of racial and calls for the enactment of equal in the us military. he does not actually desegregate or integrate the military that order, but that's how it's understood, is that that's what's going to happen. it doesn't finally happen until 1954. and in fact, the secretary of the was more or less received of his position because he refused to desegregate the army after...
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i think the best thing that ever happened to harry truman was when there was a pulitzer biography of him. that endeared him to many. i'm very satisfied with my choice of the eight. as i've mentioned, it is closely tied to the c-span pole. >> the c-span historian survey, the most recent one done in 2021, it is done every time there is a change in administration, so it was done again in 2021, 2017, 2009, and 2020. the presidency mentioned that you talk about in your book largely stay in the same position. why are those presidents often so widely regarded? >> i think because in large part because throughout their presidency, they abided by leadership traits that cause them to be successful. for the most part, in our respects, especially with people like washington and lincoln who are one and two, consummate integrity, credibility, all of these presidents were extremely effective communicators. there is a wonderful historical record of each of them, so it is readily accessible as to how they went about their lives and presidencies to make them so worthy of emulation and study. these thin
i think the best thing that ever happened to harry truman was when there was a pulitzer biography of him. that endeared him to many. i'm very satisfied with my choice of the eight. as i've mentioned, it is closely tied to the c-span pole. >> the c-span historian survey, the most recent one done in 2021, it is done every time there is a change in administration, so it was done again in 2021, 2017, 2009, and 2020. the presidency mentioned that you talk about in your book largely stay in the...
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you know, harry truman was vice president. he only met with fdr alone twice when he was vice president. only twice. cheney was asked once in 2000, two how many times he had met alone with bush. and he reaches into a suit pocket, pulls out a schedule. he says, let me see. three, four, five, six, seven, seven times. he says, today, right. that tells you a lot. but it was true that he successfully pushed for various policies that he favored. he was pushing on an open door. george w bush wanted to go the places that cheney was taking him to go. he didn't resist that. bush has never, in all the research i've ever done, nobody has ever told me that bush told them that cheney made him do something he didn't want to do by second term. in fact, bush began even moving away from cheney. he began having new thoughts about how he wanted to approach foreign policy and domestic policy. they began disagreeing a whole lot more people don't really recognize that, but in fact, they were heading down different paths. bush was doing something on a
you know, harry truman was vice president. he only met with fdr alone twice when he was vice president. only twice. cheney was asked once in 2000, two how many times he had met alone with bush. and he reaches into a suit pocket, pulls out a schedule. he says, let me see. three, four, five, six, seven, seven times. he says, today, right. that tells you a lot. but it was true that he successfully pushed for various policies that he favored. he was pushing on an open door. george w bush wanted to...
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harry truman officially authorized the operation. initially he tried to seem fluffy and white, an importantg in the order forbade recruiting nazis or their active supporters, they say, if a scientist got his hands dirty, he should not hire him under any circumstances, especially since in america there was a law that prohibited the naturalization of war criminals, like the special services dealt with bloody nazis, but good specialists, correctly, they sculpted a false biography for them, worked for the third reich, but doubted hitler’s idea, hence, apparently, to work in the usa. someone who was a threat to the security of the allied forces suddenly became a normal person. at first, to avoid getting caught, scientists were taken to latin america, then transported to mexico, and from there to the american open spaces. operation paperclip was designed to last more than half a century. according to official data, until 1990 , almost 2.0 scientists were imported to the united states, and most of the names are still classified and that’s all. patents and technologies were exported from germany an
harry truman officially authorized the operation. initially he tried to seem fluffy and white, an importantg in the order forbade recruiting nazis or their active supporters, they say, if a scientist got his hands dirty, he should not hire him under any circumstances, especially since in america there was a law that prohibited the naturalization of war criminals, like the special services dealt with bloody nazis, but good specialists, correctly, they sculpted a false biography for them, worked...
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he gets an appointment with harry truman in the oval office oppenheimer's agenda is to persuade harrya question, saying, "well, dr. oppenheimer, when do you think the russians are going to get this weapon of mass destruction?" and oppenheimer is sort of taken aback by the question and says, "well, i'm not sure but sometime in the future." and truman interrupts again and says, "well, i know. never. at that point, oppie understands that harry truman doesn't understand anything about the physics of this weapon. and oppenheimer, at that point, says exactly the wrong thing. rhodes: he really offended president truman by saying, "mr. president, i have blood on my hands." (explosion rumbling) bird: this is exactly the wrong thing to say to the guy who made the decision to drop two such bombs on two japanese cities. he was trying to impress truman. he thought it was something that truman would like to hear, and he got that wrong a lot. i mean, oppenheimer was very charming to a lot of people, but he was often not charming to leaders and people who had power over him. wellerstein: truman didn'
he gets an appointment with harry truman in the oval office oppenheimer's agenda is to persuade harrya question, saying, "well, dr. oppenheimer, when do you think the russians are going to get this weapon of mass destruction?" and oppenheimer is sort of taken aback by the question and says, "well, i'm not sure but sometime in the future." and truman interrupts again and says, "well, i know. never. at that point, oppie understands that harry truman doesn't understand...
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president harry truman authorized the use of atomic bombs against japan in august were dropped on thejapanese cities of hiroshima and nagasakinagasaki. and. the most importantanklin roosevelt left the world was the united nations organization. from the earliest days of world war, fdr worked to create a postwar organization dedicated to global cooperation and peace through collective security. on january 1st, 1942, he welcomed representatives of 25 allied nations to the white ng each to defend life liberty and preserve human rights and justice. fdr, this wartime coalition, the united nations and later led efforts to expand it into a postwar international organization. and returning from trip, the defense of the refreshed inspired with a firm start on the road to a world of peace and am confident people will accept the results of this conference as the beginning of a permanent peace upon which we can begin to build an underground that better world in which our children and grandchildren your men, mine, and the childrenof the whole world must live and can live. that, my friend we all ima
president harry truman authorized the use of atomic bombs against japan in august were dropped on thejapanese cities of hiroshima and nagasakinagasaki. and. the most importantanklin roosevelt left the world was the united nations organization. from the earliest days of world war, fdr worked to create a postwar organization dedicated to global cooperation and peace through collective security. on january 1st, 1942, he welcomed representatives of 25 allied nations to the white ng each to defend...
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and he kept on his wall an image of the famous photograph of harry truman holding up the chicago tribuneat's the banner headline dewey defeats truman the 1948 election, which is most memorabe photograph in political history. and kotowski it on the wall, a wall and and said at the 50th anniversary of that of that election failure, of the polling failure, there's a lot of room, he said, for humility in polling every time, you get cocky, you lose. and sure enough he's he's right. so i think my is anone of them gallup kotowski has been the subject of a full length biography rather interesting and i'm not going to do it. i'm not going to do the biography. this that would take six years. you know, living with these guys. i don't think so. yeah. i mean, some of that advice you know, would be true in politics as well. ty check, um, when you were talking about humility is interesting. so we have caller for collectors on this side some other colorful characters though on the journalistic side of things as well. and i think that's the other, you know, quite amusing at times element in the book as w
and he kept on his wall an image of the famous photograph of harry truman holding up the chicago tribuneat's the banner headline dewey defeats truman the 1948 election, which is most memorabe photograph in political history. and kotowski it on the wall, a wall and and said at the 50th anniversary of that of that election failure, of the polling failure, there's a lot of room, he said, for humility in polling every time, you get cocky, you lose. and sure enough he's he's right. so i think my is...
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the best thing that happened to harry truman was dave and mcculloch wrote a biography about him. i'm satisfied with my choice of the eight. closely tied to the c-span pole. guest: the most -- host: the most recent one done in 2021. it is done e time there is a change in administration. it was done in 2021, 2017, 2009. why are those presidents often so widely regarded? guest: i in large part because throughout their presidencies, they abided by rait that cause them to be so successful. for the mostar in all lincoln, who were one and two, the consummate integrity, credibility. all of these presidents were extremely effective communicators. there is a wonderful historical record of each of them. it went about their lives and their presides them so worthy of emulation and study. these things d' ove time. host: we are talking with talmage boston about his book, how the best did it,fromur top . he will take your calls. you can start calling in now. mcgrath, your line is- democrats, your line is (202) 748-8000republicans, your line ) 748-8001. independents, your line is (202) 748-8002.
the best thing that happened to harry truman was dave and mcculloch wrote a biography about him. i'm satisfied with my choice of the eight. closely tied to the c-span pole. guest: the most -- host: the most recent one done in 2021. it is done e time there is a change in administration. it was done in 2021, 2017, 2009. why are those presidents often so widely regarded? guest: i in large part because throughout their presidencies, they abided by rait that cause them to be so successful. for the...