this was recorded at the clifton park half-moon public library in clifton park, new york, in 2011. >>ood morning, everyone. welcome to the clifton park half-moon public library. we are very pleased to have david pietrusza to talk about his latest book "1948" harry truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed

clifton daniel truman, rather. what does the survivors tell you that the state of the populace at that time? what was the population? like with a prepared for any sort of potential invasion whether it is soviet or american? >> they were preparing for the invasion, drilling with bamboo spears, drilling with army units. but at the same time, and ian was saying this in your previous segment, they had very little left in terms of, the civilians have very little left. there was no fuel, food was scarce. one of the survivors in fact, the first survivor than i ever heard the full story from. sets echo thoreau gave the acceptance speech when the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons when the nobel peace prize in 2017. she gave a speech, she is a lifelong -- advocate. when the bomb was dropped she was a 13 year old school girl. she and 29 classmates were in an army building here in hiroshima. they were learning to use the secret japanese code machines. sets eco told me when we met we had nothing. we had no food,

this was recorded at the clifton park half-moon public library in clifton park, new york, in 2011. >>ood morning, everyone. welcome to the clifton park half-moon public library. we are very pleased to have david pietrusza to talk about his latest book "1948" harry truman's improbable victory and the year that transformed america. david is the author of a number of books and he is here to talk about some of the past. his book about arnold rothstein, has book about 1920 the year of six presidents, 1960 lbj versus jfk versus nixon, and ted -- silent cows almanac, the wit and wisdom of calvin coolidge, and ted williams my life of pictures. he has also written and produced a wma hq documentary local heroes, baseball and capital district diamonds. reviews for his harry truman lively itabout how is, illuminating portraits of candidate, and the even-handed appraisal of truman is especially compelling. the journey he takes to election day is one he has definitively become the best at leading. his work has been compared to theodore white's classic them a of the presidents series. after three ho

clifton truman daniel, any thoughts? >> thank you, carol. you have to -- and i know you just said it yourself, you do separate the japanese of today from -- and i think you also have to separate japanese civilians in 1945 from the japanese military. certainly, was there a wide range of emotion over the war among the japanese. there were those who were all for fighting to the last man, committing suicide, going down fighting and there were those who were just browbeaten into that and people who just wanted to live their lives and have peace, just wanted the war to be over. i did a program in new york some years ago with shigeku who survived hiroshima and she was 12 years old when the bomb exploded and she came to this country in 1945 as one of the hiroshima maidens for reconstructive surgery. we were with a group of international students and when the time for questions came around, one of the students stood up and said i'm chinese. what about what, you know, you want sympathy, you want understanding for the bombings. what about what the japa

the aforementioned clifton truman daniel.written a book "growing up with my grandfather, memories of harry s. truman." and portrayed on stage in the one man production show. and i ask all our viewers if you ever get within 500 miles of the truman presidential library please make the trip. you'll be glad you did. thank you very much for coming on, our friend the historian and undisputed king of black and white twitter michael beschloss posted a photo of your grandfather and ike today despite a fierce campaign in which each had criticized the other. president truman welcomes president eisenhower to the oval office, yesterday, 12952. why was a peaceful cooperative transition so important to your grandfather? >> the state of the world. and thank you for having me this evening, brian. i appreciate it. and the state of the world is always -- it's dangerous now and we had at that time even though we were not -- world war ii was long over, but we were in korea. we were still continuing the korean war. so there are things that a presi

our guest clifton truman. our line for those that are world war ii vets, good morning. >> yes, good morning. i landed on okinawa when i was an 18-year-old boy and at that time, what do you call it, they had about 1,000 landing rafts, they will be used, to invade japan. they had over 2500 planes waiting. that was on the invasion of japan. he said it would be november first. we had a tremendous typhoon. and i said what would it have done to the invision. he said it would have enes tried the invasion. he said i know the winds were over 1500 miles per hour. and there was no way that the invading fleet would sir reive. and he said he sent him to japan. he said the drupgs was unbelievable. but what they had waiting for us was an unbelievable today. he said they had fun marines. they a had all kinds of fortifications. the civilians were all armed to their teeth waiting for the americans to invade. >> william, thank you for your call, mr. daniel? >> that is -- i have heard similar stories. i'm not familiar with the ty

i'm sure we can get you that meal in clifton, new jersey.e parts of the country where we are maxing out. we're getting to capacity. that's really based on just extraordinary numbers we've seen yes, you should be able to get your order fulfilled in cliff con. if you want, have your producer stay on with me and i'll get you hooked up. >> thank you much, randy we appreciate it have a happy thanksgiving. >> thank you tyler, you and kelly, happy thanksgiving. >> thank you very much kelly, some people will find this hard to believe, but one of the things i love with thanksgiving turkey, it came from my mother, is sauerkraut. i bet i'm the only person ordering sauerkraut. >> i have some in my fridge left over from the summer so if the planned side dish doesn't go well, i'm going to break that out. >> it's sour and good with all that starchy stuff it's -- my mother used to do it. >> bring it on we'll be back at boston market if my plans don't work out. >>> up next, nikola motors losing some charges. failing to reinsure investors gm won't pull out ot

and in 1950, globetrotter nat clifton became the first black player to sign an nba contract. for lebron james, steph curry, even myself, michael jordan, we all owe it to the harlem globetrotters. we're gonna try the one on one. here we go. put your finger right there. i can't believe i'm doing this. all right, let's go play. - believe it. jonathan: oh. you dunk that ball, you should hear a lot of noise. they're all waiting on it. so you've got to give them a little extra funk. you see on my face? - yeah, that funk? yeah. then you got to come down and give them some ugh, ah, oh, ah. and i like to mmh mmh, wooh. and i bring it up right there. see my eyes, still? jonathan: yeah. it's intense. hi-lite, i can do this in my sleep, bro. - yeah, let's see. - ok, here we go. here we go. i hit myself in the face. hi-lite: it was almost amazing. so i'm going to let you test this out. you have to try to take this ball from me. yeah, no problem. let's go, john. you think you can take it? - i got it, i got it. - here we go, come on. come on, almost had it. come on. let's go, john. i though

host: clifton is in north carolina. hi there. caller: yes, i'm calling in reference to a gentleman speaking on legalizing marijuana, and he was talking about the increase in car accidents and stuff like that. i don't disagree with him. for 15 years, i smoked marijuana. i've never had an accident. i know quite a few people in different positions that smoke marijuana, and they smoke for different reasons. instead of taking medications for things like pain or anxiety, they smoke a joint, and that relaxes them. host: all right, clifton, question about, we touched on voting a little bit, initiatives on voting. there are several states taking up a measure that would apply to only a citizen can vote. what does that mean? guest: these states are seeking to change the constitution, which currently says any citizen can vote to only a citizen can vote. it seems like a minor linguistic change, since in the united states you need to be a citizen to vote. so these are kind of operating as get out the vote measures. you know, maybe playing on c

bristol zoo gardens in clifton opened to the public in 1836.d at the zoo for a0 years and was famous for removing and eating straw hats. the zoo — the fifth oldest in the world — is being moved to a bigger site in south gloucestershire. time for a look at the weather. the weather this weekend is looking really quite dull. there are going to be cloudy skies for most of the country but it will be milder than of late. today where the fog lingo that was really quite cold with temperatures just a few degrees above freezing. we got a beautiful sunset like this one in west yorkshire. still some patches of fog through the midlands and southern england which will lift this evening because we have this cloud which is moving northwards, thick enough to give pockets of rain and drizzle. to the north, northern ireland, southern and eastern scotland, the cloud should break up and greater skies will lead to fog and frost in particular but father said temperatures will tend to rise. milderaircoming in on temperatures will tend to rise. milder air coming in on

bristol zoo has a closed its site in clifton tonight.portant period. here we are at bristol zoo. it's been difficult in terms of covid here. this is one of the oldest zoos in the world. it's been here for 18a yea rs in the world. it's been here for 18a years and it really does have a firm place in the heart of many west country families who come here and paid visits over the years. that's why today's message supporters received telling them the site will be closing has come as quite a shock. it's going to move to merged with its sister site. here to tell us more is doctorjustin morris. why have you come to this decision? we've come to this decision because we've been facing some really persistent and fundamental challenges here at bristol zoo gardens for many years. chiefly amongst those in increasing inability to meet the needs of some of the larger animal species and many families over the years who will have seen both number of large animals has really reduced quite significant leave over time. also, you mention the financial challeng

for more i'm joined by dan clifton, head of policy research dan, there's some interesting signals in the market today as well the solar stocks are flying, caterpillar, which was down big yesterday on no blue wave is up 6% right now what's going on with these senate races how close is it? could the democrats end up in control of that chamber? >> first, kelly, thank you for having me on it's exciting and the way we were counting ballots now is very different than before with a lot of mail-in voting so that creates some confusion yesterday the republicans had a great day in the senate. even if they don't end up with control, they really did much better than they anticipated now that we're getting the final votes there's some question whether the democrats can get 50 votes or not the central question here is senator perdue's race in georgia. he was comfortably over 50% yesterday, but as more and more votes come in from atlanta and the atlanta suburbs, that margin is being reduced just as it's being reduced for the president as we heard from contessa. if senator perdue ends up lower than

bush and marjorie clifton is from clifton consulting and former consultant to the obama campaign.i suppose as a loyal democrat, marjorie, you wouldn't oppose facebook giving more visibility to more liberal outlets. but is it right? is it fair? >> well, what i actually support is creating a more unified public and so some of the things that facebook has been struggling with is this balance of free speech and then maintaining decorum, maintaining behavior that is appropriate to their users online. the thing that i see that is promising is that the criticism is coming from both sides of the aisle. we saw this during the policies over 6 billion of how many billions were spent in the past election cycle. during that time there was a moratorium on ads from both sides of the aisle. we see it continue into the georgia elections. what it is doing is cutting down on the partisanship and rhetoric and creating they hope a more dignified conversation, something hopefully that is based more on fact on both sides of the aisle. >> jon: a bit surprising to me "the new york times" was willing to pu

host: clifton is in north carolina, hi there.es, i'm calling in reference to a gentleman speaking on legalizing marijuana, and he was talking about the increase in car sandks stuff like that. i don't disagree with him. for 15 years, i spoke marijuana. i never had an accident. i know quite a few people in different positions that smoke marijuana, and they smoke for different reasons. nstead of taking medications for things like pain or anxiety , they smoke a joint, and that relaxes them. host: all right, clifton, question about, we touched on voting a little bit, initiatives on voting. there are several states taking up a measure that would apply to only a citizen can vote. what does that mean? guest: these states are seeking to change the constitution, which currently says any citizen to vote to only a citizen can mean. it seems like a marijuana linguistic change, since in the united states you need to be a citizen to vote. so these are kind of operating as get out the vote measures. you know, maybe playing on concerns that nonci

. >> reporter: there had been years of abuse, nicky told her friend elizabeth clifton. >> she was afraid her life. >> reporter: nicky never made a formal complaint to police but over the years told friends and therapists that chris brutally abused her. witnesses report seeing her with injuries and medical records documented bruises, burns and a bite mark on her shoulder. >> the muzzle of the gun was embedded in his head when she pulled the trigger. >> reporter: putnam county chief assistant district attorney hanna kraus says nicky's story doesn't add up. >> we know that it's not popular to say that a woman who is claiming domestic violence is lying. it's not popular to say she was manipulating everybody around her. >> reporter: kraus believes nicky self-inflicted injuries and made up stories of abuse to garner sympathy and attention. she says nicky shot chris in cold blood. >> i think people need to understand what really happened here. >> what really happened here? >> chris grover was asleep when she killed him. that's what happened here. >> all: everywhere i go -- >> reporter: in april

marjorie clifton, a former consultant to the obama campaign and matt gorman former communications directoror the republican congressional committee. did jeffries ask a fair question? >> i think the this is a conversation how do we govern in a time when we see both republicans and democrats within their parties feeling divided. what are the messaging strategies that will work. the socialism label put on a lot of democrats during the election cycle was very effective true or not. very effective. same with the defund the police. i'm hearing a lot of democrats having conversations about how do we reframe conversations in a way that actually is productive, that actually speaks to the policies that we're united on versus the labeling that's creating divide between the two parties and within the two parties. >> sandra: interesting analysis. is this a real conversation that democrats have to have and are they willing to have it? >> i think democrats are in for an interparty battle. quite frankly a reckoning that they haven't seen in a generation. republicans went through it in the early 2010s. aoc

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