we're out here between harry s. truman drive and 202. this is a god example of what 's looking like on side streets. as you can see, we've got some snow here and some slush. that's pretty much what we've seen in most of the side streets that we've taken a look at as we drove through this way. we came down central avenue. on those main roads it was basically wet. let me show you some video of what it looks like up here on 202. again, wet roads. as everyone is saying, it's so true, you're going to is need your windshield washer fluid and your wipers working. it's going to get very messy. this is not a dry snow like what we had earlier. this is very wet, very slushy. that's what you'll be deemg with as you drive. now out here in largo, wve got some light flurries coming down, a little snow started back up here, but very light. looks like it's just hanging only a little bit here. just a beautiful snow last night. back here live you can see how beautiful these trees are and the neighborhoods are. you know, it was so pretty coming down. now we'

we're right between harry s. truman drive and 202. let me tell you the main roads around prince george's county look great. we took central avenue down this way. bacally what you're dealing with, just a bunch of wet roads. on the secondary roads in a neighborhood like this one, what we have, some accumulation and also some slush you'll have to deal with as well. now, i feel, after experiencing this snow and what we had on saturday, i think i prefer dry snow, because this is really messy, messy to walk in and messy to drive in. let me show you what 202 is looking like. wet roads. that's going to meet road spray. make sure you have your windshield wipers ready to go and windshield wiper fluid in there and it's working, it's going to be a messy drive for you definitely. so wet and slushy and all that good stuff. but we don't have a lot of accumulation on the main road ways. that's what's important. you should see fine commute this morning. no major issues coming in. and just take your time and give yourself plenty of space. we've got lot

would conclude there could be arguments about this in fact it was the airlift that free elected harry s. truman in 1948. no one expected the people would react enthusiastically to the country that would be that the united over an effort to save our former enemies. >> and truman's opponent did that election famously and the man who was going to be eckert expected to be dewy's secretary of state. sprick the republicans opposed their lives because they thought it wouldn't work and number two because they felt it was expensive. they had the same argument about anything. one of the great scenes lucius clay was not the easiest man in the world. his staff which was terrified of him would say when he is relaxed he is a nice guy. the problem is he never relaxes. [laughter] and he didn't get along particularly well with germans despite what we saw and when john foster dulles who already said the first act of the dewey presidency would be to get rid of lucius clay team has a few weeks before the election it was just assumed dewey was the next president and dallas came and had been looking better left, cam

there is a building just near 39th and wyoming that has a sign on its that harry s. truman owned it. do you know anything about that? >> i don't, i have to confess i don't. does anybody here know? 39 fin weil men? i don't know that he owned property apart from the house. >> it is south of 39. >> this gentleman says he owned a fourplex. i guess in his later years he may have invested in some property. i know in the early period, 53 to 58 he did not. >> just a simple question about the car trip. what was the price of gasoline then, and did harry keep track of his gas mileage? >> gas was 27.1 cents a gallon. the day he left standard oil had just hiked the price 1 penny a gallon in there was talk of collusion between the zero companies, that they were simultaneously raising the price. the oil companies of course complained the price of crude had skyrocketed to $3 a barrel so what could they do but pass the cost onto consumers. the house subcommittee actually investigated. his mileage was 16 to 17 miles per gallon and he was very proud of that, which is pretty good mileage for a

robert dallek, have both offered -- authored two recent books professor robert dallek book on "harry s. truman" is a biography of the man who inherited the results of world war ii and the occupation of eastern europe and put in motion of those events which led to the policy of containment. james mann, author -- recently authored a book on ronald reagan who some have credited with the demise of the soviet union, however i think most scholars will lead knowledge that the evidence that occurred around the dissolution of the soviet union were far more nuanced than that. in let me just briefly give the biography ever to speakers and then i will turn it over to you. mr. robert dallek is a graduate of the university of illinois where he received his b.a., ph.d. from columbia, he has received honorary degree from oxford where he was a visiting scholar, todd and ucla for 30 years, and has recently been associated with columbia university. is that correct? >> [inaudible] >> dartmouth also appear in the -- in his retirement years you are an itinerant scholar of sorts. he is also producing a number of ver

federal money and effectively also defeats the purpose of g.s.a., which was created by president harry s. trumanin 1949 with the specific intent of streamlining the federal government purchasing process so every agency of the federal government didn't have its own separate purchasing division that may have done well or not so well, but certainly not as efficiently as one for the whole federal government. second problem: similar to this one exists in g.s.a.'s property management activities with agencies sometimes questioning whether g.s.a. has now met their needs in the most cost-effective manner. another problem the new administrator must address is the amount of excess or underutilized property owned by the federal government. the office of management and budget has reported -- these are really stunning numbers -- that the federal government owns 21,000 buildings worth about $18 billion that are underused or no longer needed. but they're sitting there. in effect, the g.a.o., the general accounting office, has put the management of federal property on their high-risk list for this reason. not al

and when harry truman had the responsibility of rebl the white house in the 1950's, he made certain that the lines remained there. when president kennedy was in office, he had them carved into the mantle of the mantlepiece, and there they stand, there they stay. it was written november 2nd, 1800. just a little more than 200 years ago. "i pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall ever after inlaboratory it. -- inhabitt may -- inhabit it. may none but honest and wise men ever rule." john adams in the painting stands there was the clossous of independence, as jefferson said it. jennifer sopped son said, his sense and thought moved us from our seats. he was the driving force that pushed the declaration of independence through the congress, made it happen when it happened, and that was crucial. no other figure in the congress played such a part as almost all who were there attest in letters, diaries, and later recollections. he gave his greatest speech, the speech which won the congress over to voting for the declaration of independence behind closed doors a

s. but all too often, these veterans once again had to come home and be treated as second class constituent zens and even after harry trumanssued the executive order to integrate the military, it was not until many years later that we saw equity even begin to be approached. so many of these veterans came home and took permanent roles in civil rights movement and meant so much to their communities and to this nation as we move forward. mr. speaker, so oftentimes, while we look at the big picture of our legislation and our resolutions, we always know that it comes back to individuals. i would like to take a moment of personal privilege to talk about a family from my hometown in north carolina. a family -- a mother that was a lady who was extraordinary. many sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters that contributed so much to our community, still do she had four sons that served our nation. pete and jimmy and lee and dan. they're my friends. jimmy and i are members of the same church. let's talk about dan for a second. a veteran of the korean war. he was in the air force. he worked at the school i attended when i was