harry s. truman, president of the united states. d senator from the state of missouri for ten years and vice president since the last national election, mr. truman brings to his new high office an understanding of the gigantic american war effort, second only to that of the late president roosevelt. climaxing a long record of senatorial leadership as three of the famous truman committee on war production, his work was a vital factor in the vast allied war effort. at last summer's national democratic convention, harry truman was chosen as candidate for vice president with president roosevelt. his brilliant record hailed at the convention included leadership in legislation for the reciprocal tariff, for the selective service act, land lease and the repeal of the neutrality act. in 1935, he had voted for the world court. and he had consistently given support to the progressive social program of the roosevelt administration. returning to washington with mr. roosevelt, harry truman was now the vice president-elect. in his first speech aft

. ♪ president harry s truman delivers a warning of the blows that are yet to fall upon japan. >> thetheir dreams of conquest are shattered. they no longer boast of dictating peace terms in washington. this does not mean, however, that the japanese have given up hope. they are depending on america tiring of this war. becoming weary of the sacrifices it demands. they hope that our desire to see soldiers and sailors home again , and the temptation to return and profits of peace, well force us to for compromise short of unconditional surrender. they should know better. they should realize this nation, now at the peak of its military strength, will not relax, will not weaken in its purpose. we have the men, the material, the skill, the leadership, and the fortitude to achieve total victory. we have allies who will help us achieve it. we are resolute in our determination. we will see the fight through to a complete and victorious finish. to that end, with the help of god, we shall use every ounce of our energy and strength. ♪ narrator: near naha, capital of okinawa, in the american advance

most famous members was a battery commander and artillery commander by the name of kapcaptain harry s. truman. the 35th division fought directly in this area, about four miles back in the front they were firing artillery towards the hill. can you point us toward that and tell us a little bit about the significance of why the americans attack that hill? >> so the hill is right behind us, about two miles from here we can see the top of the trees far in the distance. so it is an observation position used by the germans first, but then the french will try to recapture it. and finally the frontline was stabilized just on top and we will switch into a mine war. for three 1/2 years we have heavy battles going on, especially underground war with the mine war. so then the french were relieves, troops were relieved on september 26th by soldiers of the 35th and their first grounds they had to liberate was capture the hill. of course to take dominating ground, and then they could see what was going on. next, the town and cheppy village, so from the hill, that's their jumping lines, through the fields, so

president harry s. truman who issued a statement saying the junction of our forces at this moment signalize is to ourselves and to the world that the collaboration of our nations in the cause of peace and freedom is an effective collaboration but the reality on the ground was different. it was a friendship that would be short lived. while photographers staged images of allied unity on the riverbank people were fleeing west in boats across the elba anxious to escape the soviet sphere of influence in subsequent weeks scores of german soldiers followed suit like here in tandem under where troops scrambled across the elba their motive was obvious. you know yet that it was clear to the german soldiers that as p.o.w.'s and allied captivity they could probably expect to be treated according to the geneva convention so it was far easier for soldiers on the western front to surrender than it was for those in the east will become friends again as an austin what. as soon as they reached territory controlled by the wester

harry s. truman was sworn in as president.e inside the cabin on the missouri, a very large space, well decorated and it is for the captain of the missouri when the ship is in port or when he is visiting dignitaries and needs to act as a diplomat. the uss missouri memorial association has a large collection, a large part has been donated by former crewmembers. the collection spans from the turn of the century with the original battleship missouri to modern-day with the current uss missouri simmering. -- submarine. we have pulled out some artifacts for display. the two you see here are very important pieces of the ship's history. fragments of the kamikaze plane that hit the missouri in 1945. the piece on the left still has factory paint on it, the piece on the right was painted. you have two very different pieces of the plane here and they have very different lives, but they both ended up here on the missouri. the next few things we have on the next few things we have on display are from the kamikaze attack in the 1940's. these

harry s. truman will be remembered in history for saying "the buck stops here." this man is going to be remembered in history for saying "you can inject lysol." you have to ask why he would persist in this course. he is trying to restart the economy, regardless of the cost in human lives because as phil rucker and his colleagues in "the post" reported, he wants to set him up for the 2020 election. now, in that regard, let's look at what we know. we know that 6 out of 10 americans disapprove of this president. we know that 4 out of 10 americans do approve of his actions. that means that he can be defeated if democrats run the race that is waiting to be run, and the only strategy that the republicans have is to demonize joe biden in the next couple of months. that means joe biden has got to come out of his basement, and i would like to urge him to read, as i'm sure he has, david axelrod's article and david plouffe's article in "the new york times" article this morning that says this election will be decided on social media. and they say that the trump white house i

. >> harry s. trumanous oath of office -- >> that seemed at the new president, harry truman learns the first sketchy details of the top secret manhattan project. the u.s. is developing an atom bomb. on may 8th, truman's 61st birthday, he announces germany has surrendered, setting off victory in europe celebrations. >> understand where the nazi fuhrer used to stand. >> chris: the war against japan rages on in the pacific. robert oppenheimer, scientific director of the manhattan project, meets with other top officials to discuss the first use of the new super weapon. the list of potential targets narrows to five cities in japan, including hiroshima. >> chris: please visit foxnewssunday.com for more on the book and a fox news documentary. and that's it for today, we hope you'll take a moment this memorial day to reflect on the sacrifice of all the men and women who died defending our freedom. and we will (announcer) who can you always rely on to be there when you need immediate help? any time of the day or n

meant for black americans in the decades afterward, whether the echoes were heard in president harry s truman's desegregation order. the landmark brown v. board of education segregation decision of 1954 and the long battles of the 1960's to gain for black citizens the democracy for which all those young men had died so long ago. although the war did not swing open the doors of enfranchisement for african-americans, it could be said that it's sheer scale, the slap across the world face of the first truly global war did open for us, a new sense of our own potential and possibility. and thus set into motion and incremental movement toward freedom. the burdens on the backs of black americans, military or civilian, remain heavy. but our forebears sacrificed in world war i and all the wars that have followed have not been forgotten. and they remain incontrovertible proof of our entitlement to full rights as citizens of our own country. the great w.e.b. dubois who was one of the major intellectuals who frame the issues run one where one. stated in his article for the crisis magazine, the complexities

there's a reason harry s. truman is famous for, "the bucstops herement. nobody at the third floor of health and human services can call tontther entire govern with a sense of urgency like the oval office. andy and i know, when you're the chief of staff, and you pick up the phone and say, "the president wts," people get focused and real serious. if people say the under secretarof health and human services wants, "let me put you on hold. i'll get back to you on atuesday." itreal difrence. and i'm sorry, the first eight weeks when the president said it will disappear-- i'm not trying to make a prlz point-- when it comes to pandemic or crisis, andy and i both know what you do in he first nineeks or the first eight weeks, or the first six weeks, crucial, and the slow and sloppy start is costly for lives and the ability of america to move forward fast. and that has been very costly to the united states. and the president owns that. >> woodruff: what abo that, andrew card? >> the president does own that. and i understand that. but i also feel that maybe the othe

harry s. truman. from kansas city. he was 35 when he led the battery of kansas city misfits and they were catholic and came out of reform school and an ill-disciplined group and he whipped them into shape. in part because he was so much older than the rest of them. and he led them very effectively during the war. and again he led the battery of french 75s. now his unit was mostly catholic and the soldiers that were in his battery that became lifelong friends and political supporters of him, and so they were getting to talk. they saw that the prohibition amendments had passed. the 36th state, nebraska, ratified it on january 16th, 1919, and so five days later harry writes his fiancee bess wallace, and i love this because he's been talking to soldiers. and anyway, it looks to me like the moonshine business is going to be pretty good in the land of liberty and green trading stamps and some of us want to get in on the ground floor. at least we want to get there in time to lay in a supply for future consumption. i think a q

harry truman was the biggest lover of history. in terms of reading. ulysses s. grant was one of the biggest fiction lovers. he read so many novels. he got demerits at west point as a cadet for spending too much time in the library. all that fiction reading helped make his presidential memoir a stunning book. host: on the converse side, president trump often says that he does not have time to read many books. what other presidents were not readers? craig: lyndon johnson was not much of a reader. his wife would joke that he had not read a book since he was in college in texas. i am sure that is not true, but i don't think reading a book is the most important thing you can do as president. it is understandable that they are busy and they have a lot going on. but i value books and reading books on the way to the white house or taking some time to read can be a useful way to step back from all the excitement and news happening around them. johnson and trump are two good examples. you mentioned legacy books and campaign books as the two types. james buchanan wrote a l

roosevelt's managerial liberalism in the 1930's and 1940's, including opposition to an enlarged military establishment that he and his successor harry truman helps to create, which conservatives likened to robert taft and put a nation on a slippery slope to a garrison state. if taft's successors made peace with the security state, left liberals came to suspect the cold war consensus it required had substituted the pursuit of profit and power for the promise of social democracy offered in the new deal. the 1956 book "the powerly" target american power had expanded in the 1940's and 1950's and had become concentrated among a small copper of executive decision-makers, who were called the ones who decide. they operated according to a military definition of reality that was formed and reinforced through what he called administrative routines in small closed intimate groups. that were accessible to the public. he emphasized the "interlocking and overlapping nature of corporate and state power." in washington as well as on wall street. at west point. he argued a small group of men gain power through appointments rather than elections. with the un