bess truman was a big baseball fan and in the truman household, bess was the sports fan. and as a kid she actually played a lot of sports. harry wasn't much of an athlete. as a kid he wore glasses and confessed to not being very coordinated but bess placed a pretty good short stop according to harry and in her later years, she actually followed the royals pretty closely. she was actually honorary cochair is it thomas eagleton in 1974 running for reelection of the senate. was honorary cochair of hiss campaign and when he went to the house on delaware street, he was amazed. all she wanted to talk about was the royals. [laughter] >> anyway, btabout this story i takes place in the summer of 1953 after harry and bess left the white house and that summer they did something has millions of ordinary americans do all the time. and something that had never been done before. they took a vacation, a summer vacation. they took a road trip. harry was behind the wheel. bess rode shotgun and they drove from 2500 miles from the east coast to west coast. the trip was unique because the tru

he wasn't going to answer for bess. they had to run this by bess first. she didn't want to have press conferences. she finally submitted to written questions and all the answers were yes or no. [laughter] >> she just didn't -- she just didn't take -- just didn't take to the -- you know, being in public the way harry did. so, yeah, but she loved her hats. >> when president truman left office, he was not the most popular of presidents. my question is, on this trip did he run into any animosity or any people shaking fists or anything of that nature? >> honestly, i did not find -- i can't believe it didn't happen but i didn't find a recorded incident of that. and you're absolutely right. his approval rating was about 22% when he left office in early 1953. which is just about where george w. bush's was when he left office in january of 2009. it's interesting that george w. bush has often compared himself to harry truman and he for obvious reasons hopes his reputation is vindicated in some people's eyes truman's reputation has been. he was very unpopular when h

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but she's doing her level bess to do herself and answer any questions that senators have. i think and i told the president when i saw him an event today that he made an extraordinary choice. judge sotomayor served the district court by george herbert walker bush she was promoted to bill clinton to a higher level court, the circuit court and now is being nominated for supreme court service. she has more experience on the federal bench than any nominee in 100 years so she's going to be no neophyte, if she's fortunate enough to serve on the court. she's a woman with an extraordinary life story, having grown up in the bronx in public housing. her father died when she was 9 years old. her mother raised her and her younger brother who ended up becoming a doctor incidentally. she was encouraged to apply to princeton, which was a world she knew nothing about as a young latina growing up in the bronx but she applied and was accepted. at the end of the four-year period she graduated second in her class at princeton. i don't believe princeton university is an easy assignment. i think

. >> thank you, so you think the language bess. >> i like the language in the current bill. i think it is confusing. >> that is fine, thank you. if the crime bill is adequate to account for government expertise, what are the risks, if any, of putting in language about the of moe substantial weight or the utmost difference? why should we do that? >> because, i think that the basic principle and the one that was endorsed by the supreme court in reynolds is, the judge should be the decisionmaker as to whether the privilege applies and he ought to make an independent assessment. other parts of your bill say that, and i think that, it takes away from that the underlying principle if you start saying, you make an independent assessment but you better give a lot of foia inder frontier. >> thank you. congressman hutchinson, those who oppose independence secrecy claims often argued that it is the president and executive branch, not the courts, that have a greater expertise and responsibility for sigar the national security. this view in my opinion underestimates the ability and respo

i work of "the wall street journal" and these are some of this mardis, bess reporters in the country. if i ask them, it's you think the new deal helped in the depression? the vast majority of them would say yes, so i think part of it is we don't have a good understanding of economic history which is what this book tries to do. >> i have been involved in political processes for a long time. i have been involved in washington noaa i was the first chief economist at the allenby in 1970 and then i stayed on as consultant to the secretary of treasury and the fence for the rest of the ford and the chief of staff by the way. and that some of you may remember that is right to the curb with dick cheney and don rumsfeld at the washington hotel and the course my role with the real president. let me tell you, it is way cool. it is lake will be involved with the president. it just is way cool and it is a job to die for. i can tell you some of the close things i ever did that would really make you laugh like having my secretary, may come and having the professor laffer, the white house is calling,