brooklyn, came out of the subway stop and a big car pulled up and the car pulled up and governor harriman, quite excited about, and former president truman, was just astonished. i remember thinking he is in color because we only had black-and-white television and newspapers and i think he radiated good health, made him seem vital, but a person. he certainly didn't seem like a little man. he was 6 foot 8 but i never spoke to him, never met him. wouldn't it be interesting to go back, reach out and touch him on the shoulder.

harriman was one of the 1st children here to be given away to families loyal to the nazi regime. he remembers how it came about. but. i used to always play with my friend all of us and would eat together and it was. all and then a nurse came and said you 2 have to come along to the head. so we went up there and the headmaster sitting at an elegant lady was standing. there later i knew it was my foster mother. she wore a hat with a veil. and the head nurse said. you can pick one of the 2 children. and she said right away take little hammer on the pamp you are fatten him out. and the head nurse said so just sign here and then you can take the child with. you. and she took my hand and we went out and took the train to let him go in the fall and let her. go that's how it went. so one of these other you know like a chicken farmer and i want down chicken that one doesn't look so good was what i like. that's how they did it with the children too or. at the time here man was just happy that he had someone to take care of him and he got along well with maria luther king. but once he start

in the 1952 democratic nomination fight, averill harriman who not been known as a liberal in his earlier career, the music stopped and he sat in the liberal chair. alvin barclay had been a liberal most of his life, that tear being occupied, he had to sit in the conservative chair. what we see 1976 are the candidates moving the chairs trying to position themselves when the music stops to be able to sit in a good chair. >> what is not want to suggest by that. -- howard: what does not want to suggest that when changes philosophy as one goes by the chairs. some people have a fairly firm base of support in one ideological category or another. >> because there are so many candidates, the candidates have to differentiate themselves and make this clear to the public. in this way, they are trying to be conservative in one a little less conservative. >> don't you always have this problem? the candidate takes one position to win the nomination, but the center of his party is not necessarily the same position. let's be charitable, he let's the light of truth shine on a different aspect. gentlemen, i

governor harriman harriman stepped out and i had never seen a governor before so i was excited about that. former president truman and i was just astonished. and i remember thinking my god he's in color because we only had black-and-white television. and i think the fact that he is high -- and read it good health -- radiated good health and he certainly didn't see mike a little man to me. to me he was 6 feet 8 inches but i never spoke to him. i never met him. i've often thought wouldn't it be interesting if he could go back in time and i could reach out and touch him on the shoulder in 1956 that fall night and say mr. president i'm going to write your biography someday. c-span: knowing what you know about him what you think you would think about it? >> guest: i'm sure some of it he would like because this is after all an honest attempt to see his flaws and faults to but i would hope in some he would think i had understood him better than other people have. i think he was a much much more complicated complex keenly intelligent man, thoughtful and considerate man. just as the harry tru

let's get the market perspective from brown brothers harriman head of equity strategy.did the markets fear in terms of what president trump could say tomorrow? what is the worst case scenario and best case scenario? >> i think the worst case scenario, trade restrictions. 2019, a so-called trade war between the two largest countries and economies in the world. obviously, the last time we had tariffs, back in the great depression with the smoot-hawley act. another round of trade tensions, tariffs, restrictions. that is the worst case. the best case, some sort of limited action. you probably saw overnight, the u.s. is talking about expelling chinese students with ties to pla. the problem with these sort of tensions is that tempers can happen, and i can fear this can turn into a much tit-for-tat thing. ok in 2019 when the global economy was relatively strong but in a recession, this is the last thing you need. romaine: for those people out there trying to prepare for this, trade-off this, how much can this action on a political level translate into some pain on an economic

he uses people like harry and harriman. hopkins a picture of 1941,es to moscow in july soon after the german invasion, to figure out if the russians are going to survive. hopkins doesn't go near the front. his judgment about soviet survival is based on meeting stalin, talking to stalin. there is a detailed letter back from hopkins about the willpower of stalin, the command of this man. uses in the war, roosevelt joseph davis who had been the american ambassador in the 1930's, to go to stalin and propose a meeting between the two of them behind churchill's back. churchill is hurt when he found out roosevelt has done this. he has been to moscow to meet stalin, but the idea of roosevelt doing this is without -- without discussing it with churchill to churchill it is a sign that the mood and relationship was changing. their relationship was changing. roosevelt wants to meet. and he has an enormous confidence in his powers of persuasion. this is what he writes in march 1942. i know you will not mind my being brutally frank when

harriman of the union pacific had a hand in that. and great northern had a lot of enterprises in eastern siberia. it is very similar to growing wheat in this part of the country, the climate in this eastern area. and we had a whole number of enterprises in that area. so we were somewhat familiar. the chinese eastern was in original part of the trans-siberian railway during the war in 1905. the russians built their railroad entirely on their own territory, said they did not have to go through manchuria. the japanese were constantly trying to colonize this area, get this area during the war. and we staved them off of that. we will go back to wahoo -- my part of the program is the narrative. and that is in organizing and logistics, which was left to the railroads to move the troops. and it was due to george hodges of the baltimore and ohio railroad. they actually had a round-robin use of coaches and pullman's to move men from being drafted or volunteered to army camps for training, and then move them to primarily camp merit in new jerse

sanctuary hotel and the car pulled up, a small crowd waiting, i stood with the crowd and governor harriman stepped out. i had never seen a governor before so i was excited about that. then out stepped president truman, former president truman. i was astonished and i remember thinking he is in color. because we only had black-and-white television. and i think the fact that he had high color, he radiated good health made him seem just vital but a person. he certainly didn't seem like a little man to me. that moment he was 6 foot 8 but i never spoke to him, never met him. i often thought wouldn't it be interesting to go back in time, to reach out and touch him on the shoulder in 1956 that fall night and say i am going to write your biography someday but -- c-span: knowing what you know about him what would he think of this? >> guest: i am sure there is some of it he wouldn't like because this is after all an honest attempt to see the complete man with his flaws and faults too but i would hope in some he would think i understood him better than other people have. he was a more complicated, com

brooklyn, came out of the subway stop and a big car pulled up and the car pulled up and governor harriman, quite excited about, and former president truman, was just astonished. i remember thinking he is in color because we only had black-and-white television and newspapers and i think he radiated good health, made him seem vital, but a person. he certainly didn't seem like a little man. he was 6 foot 8 but i never spoke to him, never met him. wouldn't it be interesting to go back, reach out and touch him on the shoulder. >> host: what do you think he would think of this? >> guest: there is some that he wouldn't like. i would hope, i would think i understood him better than other people have. he was a much more complicated, complex, keenly intelligent, thoughtful, considerate man then harry truman portrait. he isn't a kind - just a kind of salty, down-home missouri will rogers. all the people i interviewed who knew him and worked with him and were in the white house with him all say please understand that this man was more than met the eye. >> host: how many interviews did you do? >> gues