were not allowed to come, he -- because of the state department restriction, he opened up asia and africa, those people could not come to our country. he was doing it for the benefit of this country because we're richer with everybody working here together. [applause] wants to learn more about lyndon johnson, where is the lyndon johnson library? >> in austin, texas, and we ask you to come. it is wonderful. we used to be the premiere library because we -- and we still are, in the sense that we have tapes of daddy talking. and he'll be talking to harry truman. i am fortunate enough to have met your great great aunt. both of them. princess alice was a hoot. [laughter] >> her younger sister was wonderful. they took us to sagamore hill.

president truman took me on a tour of his library. i have been blessed with getting to meet a lot of these people. so i hope they all come to the library of every president and learn. there are so many things. clifton continue about going to -- can tell you about going to many of the libraries and learning. and daddy went too. and said, all these years i've been saying all those bad things about hoover. [laughter] >> i never knew he did all of those wonderful things to feed europe. >> is there a truman library? >> there is. it is in independence, missouri, about a mile from grandpa's house. >> why did he wear those wild shirts when he went to key west, florida? what was that about?

>> everybody wears wild shirts when they go to key west, florida. >> is there a cleveland library? a mckinley library? >> in canton, ohio. >> why is there no mckinley -- no cleveland library? now you have a mission. >> that's exactly right. there's a lot of memorabilia and certainly papers. >> we have run out of time, unfortunately. we could go on for hours more. for those who want to see this again, this is going to be taped, it is on c-span, i don't know when it will be shown. let me wrap up by saying, i want to thank all of you for being here, and thank you for what you've done to let the american people know much more about your ancestors and parents. thank you for what you're doing for the cause of making certain that more people in our country know about our history. obviously there's a problem that many people don't know much about our history. particularly presidential

history. so thank you all very much. [applause] announcer: you are watching american history tv, only on c-span3. next, on board the uss or like, one of only two surviving destroyers that invites visitors on board the ship. andill take you on a tour show you how they launch torpedoes. >> when the guys comment they bring their families and they first set foot on the ship, it just brings back all kinds of memories. most of them say this is where i became a man. was built in orange texas. just as world war ii was winding

down. we believe it was the last destroyer completed while the war was going on. we believe it will 39 destroyers -- they built 39 destroyers. victory in europe day was the eighth of may 1945. the ship was launched by joseph ofeck's wife on the 12th may, 1945. it was commissioned in september after the japanese had signed the surrender. while thethe water war was still going on. gearing-class, which gave it greater you'll capacity -- fuel capacity.

during the korean war, it was blowing up supply chains. >> the destroyers are smaller ships that would defend larger ships and that would travel in a fleet around the aircraft carriers in the battleships. defendtheir jobs is to the aircraft carriers and keep the enemy away we forget sometimes about the last where we had spacecrafts splashing down in the oceans. a fleet would be in the area to pick up the afternoon. -- astronaut. normally a destroyer would come along the capsule and pick up the space capsule. part of theas

gemini recovery mission in the early 60's. it never got a chance to pick up a gemini capsule because it was sent to vietnam to fire on begun liners they called it -- on iners.-- the gun l this is where we have the 52 gun mount. this is a five inch, 38 gun mount, which is i-5 inch diameter -- a five inch damon or projectile that weighs about 56 pounds -- diameter projectile that weighs about 56 pounds. they can shoot at airplanes. and theyshoot at ships can shoot a distance of over 10 miles. they could sit off the coast of korea and vietnam and shoot at targets on land. the ship was top gun in vietnam.

it shot more bullets than any other ship. this is the 52 gun mount. you had four men in the middle loading each gun. you had the ammo,. . the cartridges,. cartridges, up here -- cartridges come up here. they would remove a round and load it. they load it up here. once the ammo is loaded, this round would put the ammo in the barrel. i heard the record was 50 rounds in a minute. that means 25 bullets from each gun within one minute. that is a specially trained team trying to set a record. typically it is more like 10 to 12 rounds a minute. >> we are on the deck.

it is the anti-submarine rockets. this is the rocket launcher right here. eight compartments holding rockets. it would launch rockets that carried torpedoes or death yardss off 1000 to 10,000 and could drop those weapons in the ocean to destroy enemy submarines. now we are going to proceed through the magazine, where they stored the rockets and torpedoes. first we have big racks for the rockets. back here we have submarines. these are the mark 44 torpedoes. these are the homing torpedoes that would home in on the sound of a submarine and chase after it. >> you had room for maybe 15 if they stack up on top. we have 11. another one here and three more on top.

hopefully you only needed one. these were carried by a drone helicopter out on the helicopter deck. this is the remote control for the helicopter. they would have a man operating that remote control that would get the helicopter in the air and when it returned to the ship, it would land. that will proceed up to the helicopter deck. is one of our drone helicopters. this is a weapon system that was designed by jerry dime of new york. this model could carry two torpedoes. this helicopter could be sent off to where they detected enemy submarines and dropped her pitas and destroy enemy submarines. this is a 1962 drone. that is why it is so big. electronics were still bulky. two 430 pound torpedoes,

you had to have a strong helicopter system. you have a 300 horsepower gas turbine engine to left over 800 pounds payload. the helicopter itself weighs over 900 pounds. >> i believe they would be effective because they can deliver the torpedo close to where the enemy submarine was. the torpedo was a homing torpedo. and faster than conventional submarines. it would take out and destroy submarines. blast area i want to show you is the combat information center. this is where you have the repeaters, a radar radar man stationed on each of these units. they are picking up objects out there, possibly enemy targets. this information is being plotted on the big board back in the corner. up here would