from teddy roosevelt to harry truman to bill clinton who came to congress 16 years ago this month with still a lot of people who say it would be an outright miracle if we passed healthcare reform. but my fellow americans, in a time of change you have to have miracles. and miracles do happen. >> not that year. year clinton and the democrats got hammered politically. meet this challenge year after year, decade after decade, has led us to the breaking point. >> so the stakes were high again. and the congress president obama addressed was bitterly divided again. not just the republicans, his own party. he had his work cut out for him, and he went at it with relish. >> we know we must reform this system. the question is how. >> first, the problem. the president sought to remind americans of what they disliked, even feared the most in the system by offering emotional examples of all too familiar healthcare nightmares. >> it happens every day. one man hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about. they delayed his treatment. and he died because of it. that is heartbreaking, it is

president harry truman immediately sent troops to help south korea.ow its remembered as a war, back then it was called a police action. >> best and more accurate to call it a korean conflict. congress never declared it a war. technically we are still in an armistice and technically that conflict is still underway. >> whatever you choose to call it, the fighting raged for three long years. much of it in the bitter cold. >> at the korean war veterans memorial, 19 bronze statues represent the different military services that took part in the conflict. >> they're slightly larger than life-size. to show and to depict the hazards the tough conditions that american soldiers experienced during the korean conflict. >> the memorial has another striking feature --a massive wall of black granite. look closely and you'll see etched images. you'll also see your reflection in its polished surface. so there's a dual focus there with the idea that you can see yourself in this situation. see yourself in this conflict -- so as to bring the visitor much closer to what's

we have been waiting since the days of harry truman.have been waiting since johnson and nixon and clinton. we cannot wait any longer. there comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over. there comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now. now is the time to reform health care in the united states of america. now is the time to offered stability and security to americans who have insurance. now is the time to make it affordable for those who do not have health insurance. now is the time. that is the kind of reform that we need. now is the time. that is why so many members of congress tonight and across the country are working so hard to produce. many of you are probably familiar with our plan. but i just want to go over some things so you know what to tell your friends and neighbors and folks in the community that asked about this because they may be seeing some misinformation. i was up at the g-20 and some of you saw the big fines and all the world leaders coming in. michelle and i were shaking hands with them. one of the

harry truman got in scandals and john kennedy was an assassinated. jimmy carter was - jimmy carter was jimmy carter. enough said and bill clinton well was easily distracted. [laughs] there's always an excuse and then if they didn't have a president they could trust didn't have 60 votes in the senate. they didn't have a ramming of it through. had nancy pelosi. all of the stars have aligned for them now. if they lose now they have no excuses. they'll come up with some, but have no plausible excuses if you win you will, you will so put a crimp in their plans and moral. your really going to have a good 2010. ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute ---www.ncicap.org--- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> here's our schedule. next remarks from barack obama in a speech to the francis yoon workers at the labor day picnic. at 7 eastern it's "washington journal". topics in cloud healthcare legislation and breast breasara speech to students at wake field high school in arlington, virginia. >> wednesday president goes before join

we have been waiting since the days of harry truman.have been waiting since johnson and nixon and clinton. we cannot wait any longer. there comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over. there comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now. now is the time to reform health care in the united states of america. now is the time to offered stability and security to americans who have insurance. now is the time to make it affordable for those who do not have health insurance. now is the time. that is the kind of reform that we need. now is the time. that is why so many members of congress tonight and across the country are working so hard to produce. many of you are probably familiar with our plan. but i just want to go over some things so you know what to tell your friends and neighbors and folks in the community that asked about this because they may be seeing some misinformation. i was up at the g-20 and some of you saw the big fines and all the world leaders coming in. michelle and i were shaking hands with them. one of the

when harry truman proposed compulsory health insurance, he coupled that with legislation to expand theber of doctors, 82 education. when obama is not doing that, and he is going to force scarcity enforce rationing which will always mean that the elderly will get less care. sean: after the health care debacle, bill clinton started talking about the end of welfare as we know it or the era of big government is over. >> i wrote that line. sean: conventional wisdom is that he would never win reelection. he made a conscious effort to work with republicans and welfare and limits spending and balance budgets. the question is, where does barack obama go? all indications are that he sticks to his radical views. >> i do not think he is going to do that. i am not going to answer my phone for the next year or two. sean: just when you are on the verge of being forgiven. >> i do not think he will move to the center. i believe that we are ending the recession caused under the bush administration and we are entering the one caused by the deficit and the debt of the obama administration. it will either

you want to know not only about john adams, and harry truman, but there could cover areas -- their contemporariesike the work of robert mann who wrote a book called "the walls of jericho." it was about the fight for civil rights of discussion through 1965 i. he then did a more recent book. he has done an abridgement of that book for classroom use. he did a more recent book. >> anybody else? >> i like, in terms of institutional history, i like my friend ross baker up at rutgers university who has written two good books on the senate. one was called "friend and foe in the senate." it was about the nature of friendship and the senate. he did a lot of interviews. he does not say who did what. they got into the institution. he did another book for flasch reviews called "house and senate." i like the writings of barbara sinclair, of ucla. she is a political scientist and about the inner workings of the senate. >> how is writing for you? hard, easy? >> easy, which is dangerous. it writing these historical minutes, i usually start off with 600 words and then it is like getting rid of your children to boi

the american public has not shown that they punished, not since harry truman, that they punished politicalr being objectionists. >> the polling we're seeing now is not showing the gop is benefiting. when you see the polling and you're right, you see a down tick when it comes to members of congress who are democrats. that does not transfer over to republican popularity. we're not seeing that. >> look, i think that the president's party is typically punished in off-year elections. there was an anomaly in 2002. george w. bush kept a majority in the house and the senate i think because of 9/11. traditionally speaking it not unheard of that president obama would have a very bad year. i think bill clinton is correct when he says it won't be as bad as '94. i don't think they're going to lose the senate. i think democrats will do quite well and maintain strong majorities in the senate. i think there's a good chance republicans take back the house of representatives which would mean picking up 30 or maybe even 40 seats in the house. so it could be a strong republican year and that, frankly, would b

we have been waiting since the days of harry truman.e have been waiting since johnson and nixon and clinton. we cannot wait any longer. not in ten years. not in five years. not in one year. this year. >> the senate finance committee's working on the health care bill prepared by chairman baucus and tuesday senators schumer and rockefeller are expected to propose the public option be added to the bill. >>> on to the installment of "yes, it's true." imagine returning from vacation, finding the roof shingles ripped off. very thing that happened to a florida guy a. roofing company removed it by mistake. seet roofers should have done the neighbor's house. there was a mix-up and refused to replace it. >> my feeling is they just playing a game to try to take advantage because i'm an old person. >> are you kidding me? by the way, it's been two months since the ripoff. literally. the man's now considering a lawsuit. and yes, it's true. in chicago, taxi drivers are tired of drunks throwing up in the cabs so they're asking the city permission to ch

i remind you throughout history, whether it's harry truman or abraham lincoln, leaders have had to make tough choices. and history has judged them very kindly. >> have you spoken to the president directly about your concerns? >> yesterday. >> what do you say to him? >> in iraq, the maliki government was certainly failing. this, this election in afghanistan was corrupt. there's corruption from the cop on the beat to the president's brother, karzai's brother. and that issue has to address if we're going to succeed. but we're not going to have a chance to succeed if we withdraw. we got the status quo. which is not succeed wrg we can implement this whole strategy, which is an old strategy called counterinsurgency. >> you and the president -- >> i half measured this. not do justice. time is important. casualties will go up. >> are you concerned that the president is going to choose a half-measure? or do you see the possibility the meeting of minds on this? >> i'm very hopeful that the president will make the right decision which is to commit the necessary troops and again, as much as i respe

saying the country has been waiting for reform since the days of president teddy roosevelt and harry truman. >> now's the time to offer stability and security to americans who have insurance. now's the time to make it affordable for those who don't have health insurance. now's the time to slow the growth of health care costs for our families and businesses, our government. >> tuesday, the senate finance committee is expected to resume debate over its version of the health care bill. they spent much of last week sorting through more than 550 proposed amendments. that bill would cost roughly $800 billion over ten years. >>> this morning on "meet the press," former president bill clinton will share his thoughts on health care and all the major issues facing our nation. he sat down with david gregory for an exclusive interview. you can watch it this morning at 10:30 right here on nbc 4. >>> the road to richmond heads right through northern virginia today. gubernatorial candidates creigh deeds and bob mcdonnell will both be campaigning in our area. deeds, a democrat, will be speaking this evenin

oral history was hardly even a profession and mean the was the practice of places like harry truman library where the inrviewed people in the priest the tapes so nobody would find out anything thatasn't supposed to known. that was the addition of oral history. but oral historians foing the profon such as this it is in the 60'snd0's were mainly community activists e kind or another or oddballs who wanted to docent a community that was disappearing under some kindf essure or other. so they made @ dent in, we made a dent but not such a big dent an we always come up against the formidable problem that the people who were in charge of society are not all that interested in the lives of ordinary people. we are not influential enough. >> do you worry -- use of a couple of times you mentioned how the book doin well or if it does well enough what is well enough and what nd of the zeitgeist does this have to catcan order for you -- >> that is a good question. as we speak i think probably lynda barry's panel has finished up, and if i were there i would have asked a question i oen k that why it is that

. >> back in 1948, it was president harry truman who pushed for a national health program from the same spot that was occupied by president obama tonight. in 1962 was john f. kennedy. he took his case before a crowd of 20,000 people at madison square garden in new york city. president clinton convened a joint session of congress in 1993, eight months into his own presidency. the first year of his own presidency. it's a bully pulpit. it's available to u.s. presidents in a way that's not really available to anyone else in this country, the impassioned speech, the undivided attention of congress and the american people. all of these presidents who have used that bully pulpit for health care reform have one other thing in common -- none of them were successful in the end. not truman, not j.f.k., not clinton. only one president has taken on this cause and really won in the past 60 years. only one has had success, lyndon johnson, who signed medicare into law in 1965. and lyndon johnson's success, the last major progress we have had on health care in this country, it isn't remembered for its s

i think harry truman was right to veto the taft-hartley law which contained provisions like this, and i hope to participate in persuading the supreme court of that. >> moyers: of course, but like so much of the press has been writing in the last few weeks, this comes down to a really fundamental question about the power of corporations to use their deep pockets. so my question is, what's wrong with trying to place some limits on them from using their huge resources to affect political election? >> look, i don't think there's anything wrong with putting some limits on contributions. we... we have that, and that's not in this case. the question here is to what extent, if at all, can unions and corporations spend their money to put ads on or to speak out themselves in their own name about political matters, including even who to vote for? i don't think that we should make a distinction on first amendment grounds in terms of who's speaking. i think that whether the speaker is an individual or an issue group or a union or a corporation that if anything, the public is served, not disserved,

oral history was hardly even a profession and, mainly was the practice of places like the harry truman library whe they interviewed people and erased all the tapes so nobody would find out anything that was supposed to be known. that was the vision of oral history. and but oral historians forming the profession, such as it is in the '60s and '70s were mainly community activists o kind or another, or oddballs who wanted to document a community that was disappearingnder some kind of pressure or other. so, they made a dent. we made a dent. but, not such a big dent. and we always come up against the formidable problem, that the people who are in charge of society aren't all that interested in the lives of ordinary people. we're not influential enough. >> do you worry -- >> yes i would say that. >> you said a couple times, you mentioned, the book doing well or if the book does well enough. what is well enough? and what do you need this book, what kind of zeitgeist does this have to catch in order for you -- >> that's really good question. as we speak probably linda barry's panel has finishe

we don't think less of harry truman because he's done that. he had a vivid description of hillary clinton in the book. he said at one point, you know, talking about the job, the difficulties of the presidency. he said, you know, which of her fat keister -- wait until her fat keister gets in this chair and see how she likes it. but the word keister wasn't used. brian: and finally, the president like harry truman, ratings were low. started to come up. do you think the further we get away, the more positive the administration is going to look? >> it's too soon to tell. if you think about it, when jimmy carter left office, nobody thought he would be looked at today as a nobel peace prize winner. but i think he's proving himself to be a controversial character it takes time to decide what a president will look like in the future. steve: matt's new book is "speech-less." thank you for bringing your keister to our couch. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. steve: straight ahead. brian: banning smoking in public places. is it really doing anything

in 1947, president harry s. truman, signed the national security act, creating the central intelligence agency. it also created a director of intelligence. the director is the principal adviser to the president of the united states for intelligence matters related to national security. today, as the premier agency responsible for providing global intelligence, on the ever- changing political, social, economic, technological, and military environment, the cia accomplishes this mission for research, development, and deployment of high-leverage intelligence gathering technologies. they create special disciplines to address such issues as non- proliferation, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, international organized crime and narcotics trafficking, and carmen, and arms and intelligence. the cia before destroying partnerships between the several agencies and discipline and takes an active role in the overall intelligence community. today we have with us the director of the central intelligence agency, leon edward panett

harry truman, president kennedy, present johnson, president clinton, so many people tried to do this.we've been working on this legislation intensively all year. the committee on which i sit -- the health, education, labor, pension committee which senator kennedy chaired -- that committee had 11 days of what's called markup, intensive debate and vetting. i've never seen a committee have that long a period of examination of a bill like that. we accepted 160 republican amendments that i voted for most of those amendments. this bill has got a lot of bipartisan aspects to it. on the big questions, there's philosophical disagreement to be sure. the point is every day we wait, every day we wait, 390 people in my state lose their insurance. 390 people every single day. sharon from springboro doesn't want us to way any longer. we've waited and waited. we've worked on this. we need to do this by thend of the year. i'll conclude with this, mr. president, because i know senator bond wants to takehe floor in moment. vondalee from franklin county. we need health iurance reform. my stepfather has m

harry s. truman said, men make history, and not the other way around.rogress occurs when courageous and school for the skillful leaders seized the opportunity to change things for the better. this is our opportunity to make history. our actions here this week will determine whether we are courageous and skillful enough to seize the opportunity to change things. presidents from truman to johnson, nixon to clinton, had the courage to attempt health care reform. it once again, the time has come to make the attempt -- once again, the time has come. the time has come to reform america's health care. the times demand -- demand nothing less. just last week a harvard study found every year in america lack of health care leads to 45,000 deaths. people without health insurance have a 40% higher risk of death than those with private health insurance. no one should die because they cannot afford health care. this bill would fix that. every 30 seconds, another american files for bankruptcy after a serious health problem. every year about one-and-a-half million famil

it has been tried, as you noted, by harry s. trumanohnson, richard nixon, jimmy carter, president clinton. there have been different successes at health care. medicare, medicaid, veterans health care, children's health care for children of parents who work without it. we have succeeded in society in those kind of incremental... not incremental, medicare is not... it is an incremental step but it was for seniors individually. this is the most recent attempt at universal care and we are farther along than any of the past five efforts i just mentioned. >> rose: you're in sight. >> yeah, within sight. and i believe once the senate finance committee with chairman baucus gavels down his bill having been voted out of the committee we'll be so much more closer and then it's a matter of literally bringing those bills together and getting it there. what is it.... >> rose: so it will be decided in conference? >> well, there's no doubt it will be decided on the senate floor, the house floor, and in conference. >> rose: and what the senate will pas

divided republicans and democrats and democrats and democrats and republicans and republicans since harry truman. it is not surprising to me that emotions are running very high on something that has been talked about for generations. two generations. and not accomplished. and we're coming very, very, very close to accomplishing it. and it always, as you approach the resolution of an incredibly controversial issue, ideologically, politically, and every other way usually you found excesses grow from that. but the president does not believe, nor do i believe it's racially based. >> reporter: thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> let's talk about this with our democratic strategist and cnn political contributor donna brazile and republican strategist ed gillespie. you agree with president obama and joe biden, they disagree with jimmy carter that a lot of this criticism is race based? >> look, i think president carter was essentially trying to tell the american people to tone it down. he wasn't smearing all of the opponents of president obama's policies. but he was trying to say that we can have

roosevelt who first spoke about national health care and eleanor roosevelt who talked about it, harry truman who spoke 60 years ago from this well about that need and this nation. he spoke in the great tradition of john kennedy and lyndon johnson who saw that medicaid and medicare were passed in 1965. i was very, very proud to be part of this body last night and i'll be even prouder when a vote comes up. over the speaker's rostrum engraved in stone is a quote from daniel webster, let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, 3wil8d on its institutions, plote all its great interest, and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered. daniel webster's calling to us to heed barack obama's call to pass national health care in the great tradition of american leaders and do something worthy to be remembered. i look forward to that opportunity. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. smith: to address the house for o

every president since harry truman has called for health care reform.in 1945, over half a century ago, president truman said we should resolve now that financial barriers in the way of attaining health care should be removed. in 1962, president kennedy said this. whenever the miracles of modern medicine are beyond the reach of any group of americans, we must find a way to meet their needs, fulfill their hopes, let this be the measure of our nation. in 1974, president nixon said this. "we must have legislation to ensure that every american has financial access to high, quality health care." he also said that health care was necessary to be adopted in 1974. as we know, it was not. what is congress proposing we do about the unsustainable cost of health care? first, a quick update. before that, i mentioned it three former presidents. let me mention one present president but let me mention as well the republican candidate. this has been and continues to be as i quoted richard nixon, not eisenhower, a non-partisan issue. john mccain during the course of the l

we have a road shutdown to at harry truman highway.we make our way to dundalk, we're still dealing with the effects of the massive watermain break. as you can see, that was the video that we had from friday, much different picture now. we are still dealing with road closures. broening highway is still shutdown at avenue. as we take a look at the whitemarsh, a little bit of volume and those northbound and southbound lanes, but cars are cruising along just fine and that will continue as we hop on to beltway. it will be smooth sailing from parkville all the way up to towson. that's a look a the morning travels, patrice, let's send it back to you. >>> lauren, thank you. coming up the mayor's outburst. >> but there isn't a possible explanation. >> excuse me. i just said i'm not going to del with it. i expect you to respect that. >> what she has to say about $14,000 of unexplained cash at her bankth account. >>> it sends a real signal to the surrounding community. i'm going to keep my house up. i'm going to keep investing. it's that kind of

champions of medicare and anyone who knows history knows they fought against it tooth and nail and harry trumanbecame the first person on mac and republicans have not been a fan of this, it seems as if they now are. >> the democrats, though, to go ahead and try to put these huge cuts in place, the republicans are saying, wait a minute. we have been accused all of these years, talk about social security reform and in the '80s and '90s and wanting to throw grandma in this snow and the democrats will be throwing grandma in them snow, and here's why. it is not just the medicare cuts, rationing will be -- >> no. >> a cons kweequence of obama c you cannot matriculate between 30 and 47 million, into the health care system without adding new doctors and the folks who will bear the brunt of reduced care and reduced access and rationing are going to be the elderly. >> clayton: tara, rationing. >> i have to disagree and people saying they don't get health care because of being victims of domestic violence and firefighters and police officers, some insurance companies refuse to cover them and we have ratio

harry truman would be a rival because he recognized israel 11 minutes after it was founded. in defiance of all of his advisors, virtually. barack obama has only a 4% approval rating in israel. but he still has a very high approval rating here with the jews. steve: norman has written a brand new book. it came out yesterday, "why are jews liberals." check it out. >> thanks. steve: straight ahead, we've heard from doctors, patients, parents, students, politicians on health care. but what about medical students? w does the new crop of doctors feel about the proposed changes? we're going to talk to a future doctor who says she is scared for her future. brian: also ahead, secretary robert gibbs will be joining us. and dave ramsey will be telling us how much money i have in my wallet and how to put it in yours. look who else is son that list. bernie williams is here. he came by plane. steve: and next to him, you see that southwest plane. you're going to meet somebody who was told they were too fat to fly. that's straight ahead on "fox & friends." . how many washes did it take cheer

and harry truman said he would like to have a one-handed economist. economy. >> reporter: as you noted, the president has been focusing a lot of attention on the health care reform issue. number one priority. but at the same time he wants to continue to send the message that his administration is on top of the nation's economic recovery. that's why on monday, one year after the collapse of lehman brothers, the institution that really helped spark the financial crisis, the president is going to head to wall street to deliver a speech to highlight what the administration is doing to get the economic back on track. the speech is coming on the heels of a climb by one of the top economic advisers, christina romer, head of the council of economic advisers, and she says because of the administration's actions whether it comes to economic stimulus, that 1 million jobs have been saved or created since february. as you can imagine, that prompted criticism from democrats. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell noted that the country has lost 2.5 million jobs in

franklin roosevelt, harry truman, even richard nixon. it is the 21st century and we ought to recognize that things are different, but some things are the same. host: this is also in your paper concerning wisconsin and early signs of rebound. there is an uptick in replenishing inventories. the question is whether it is a resurgence or just replenishing shelves. guest: it is a great question and i don't think anyone can answer it. the question of whether the economy will do a u or a w. will find as many opinions about that as economists you speak to. host: we're joined fromreno. caller: it is gerald. where were all these conservative voices when we were beginning to deploy to iraq? i did not hear any word about the cost of the iraq war. that is what is running as broke, that and the war that reagan created with the working class when he took the side of corporations. this is one condition that regan made that i would change little -- are we better off now than we were a generation ago? guest: there were conservative voices against the iraq

. >> so, taking a harry truman style, the buck stops there, that's on his shoulders. >> that should comforts who says he doesn't any health billing in his cap, so he actually the got something passed. sounds like he's trying to get in front of that criticism. i don't want anything passed, i want that to work. there's lack of clarity, we don't know if he defintivity says we have to have the government option and the control. he's owning it in the sound bite. we haven't heard a definitive opinion. will i accept a bill without public option. i'm guessing yes. will he own it? >> karl rove says it's interesting to hear and watch and the language, the backtracking on the wording of the public ongs, talking about an exchange and the co-op and. he was in minneapolis yesterday, taking it on the road, and appears if the august doldrums have left the obama administration, going back to something they learned during the campaign. we talked about it on the show, why wasn't the president out there selling it the way he was anti-to sell himself on the campaign trail for president? i think he might have ta

harry truman, back in 1948 who says, hey, the buck stops on my desk. well, the buck stops on the speaker of the house of representatives' desk in regards to this issue. i yield back. mr. carter: i would like to recognize my good friend and fellow former judge, representative gohmert from texas, and use as much time as he wishes to consume. mr. gohmert: i appreciate my friend, former judge from texas in pointing out some of the problems that are being created by the inaction. and i know this was touched onp earlier, but "new york post" article,ed torial dated september 2 this year talking about some of the hypocrisy here with this bill and provisions that were added coming out of the ways and means committee. and i think it's important for people to understand also that chairman rangel doesn't get to act by himself. the majority party that controls the ways and means committee has authority to overrule the chairman. they got enough members on their side to overrule the chairman and let him know there's a problem. there is a responsibility for the member

every president since harry truman has called for health care reform. in 1945, over half a century ago, president truman said we should resolve now that financial barriers in the way of attaining health care should be removed. in 1962, president kennedy said this. whenever the miracles of modern medicine are beyond the reach of any group of americans, we must find a way to meet their needs, fulfill their hopes, let this be the measure of our nation. in 1974, president nixon said this. "we must have legislation to ensure that every american has financial access to high, quality health care." he also said that health care was necessary to be adopted in 1974. as we know, it was not. what is congress proposing we do about the unsustainable cost of health care? first, a quick update. before that, i mentioned it three former presidents. let me mention one present president but let me mention as well the republican candidate. this has been and continues to be as i quoted richard nixon, not eisenhower, a non-partisan issue. john mccain during the course of the

you want to know not only about john adams, and harry truman, but their contemporaries. like the work of robert mann who wrote a book called "the walls of jericho." it was about the fight for civil rights of discussion through 1965. he then did a more recent book. he has done an abridgement of that book for classroom use. he did a more recent book. >> anybody else? >> i like, in terms of institutional history, i like my friend ross baker up at rutgers university who has written two good books on the senate. one was called "friend and foe in the senate." it was about the nature of friendship and the senate. he did a lot of interviews. he does not say who did what. they got into the institution. he did another book for flasch reviews called "house and senate." i like the writings of barbara sinclair, of ucla. she is a political scientist and about the inner workings of the senate. >> how is writing for you? hard, easy? >> easy, which is dangerous. it writing these historical minutes, i usually start off with 600 words and then it is like getting rid of your children to boi

every president since harry truman has called for health care reform. 1945, over half a century ago, president truman said we should resolve now that financial barriers in the way of attaining health care should be removed. in 1962, president kennedy said this. whenever the miracles of modern medicine are beyond the reach of any group of americans, we must find a way to meet their needs, fulfill their hopes, let this be the measure of our nation. in 1974, president nixon said this. "we must have legislation to ensure that every american has financial access to high, quality health care." he also said that health care was necessary to be adopted in 1974. as we know, it was not. what is congress proposing we do about the unsustainable cost of health care? first, a quick update. before that, i mentioned it three former presidents. let me mention one present president but let me mention as well the republican candidate. this has been and continues to be as i quoted richard nixon, not eisenhower, a non-partisan issue. john mccain during the course of the las

connecting child -- when you get to high school, think how much more powerful it is when you have harry truman'sout the atomic bomb, you know in that high school classroom rather than reading it in a textbook. well, we can do that for 6 to 9-year-olds and we need to make media as a partner in this and figure out ways we can incentivize folks. the fact is, there's not a lot of advertising money that is available for this age group of 6 to 9-year-olds and even though my friend has done great work in nickelodeon in trying to address that group, along with some of our colleagues at cartoon and disney who tend to dominate that age group, we have not really seen an abundance of programming that is not more tipping toward the entertainment side. you sort of go from preschool education to all entertainment all the time. and we have to figure out a way to get the best of hollywood and the best of silicon valley focused on this need to create programming that is going to move the needle on the education side. let's focus on those kids, let's get -- let's really try to make that happen. >> if we can, again

harry truman got into scandals and had the korean war. john f. kennedy was assassinated.y carter was jimmy carter, at the mouth said. bill clinton was easily distracted. there is always an excuse. if they did not have a president they could trust, they did not have 60 votes in the senate or a speaker willing to ram it through. they did not have a firebrand like nancy pelosi. all of the stars have aligned for them now. if they lose now, they will have no excuses. if you win, you not only to reinvigorate the base, you will put a crimp in their plans and in their morale. you really are going to have a good 2010. thank you. >> the second part? >> i am sorry? >> thank you, john. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> coming up, president obama talks about jobs and health care legislation in cincinnati. then and look at how the progressive movement can have an impact on congress and policy decisions. later, lyndon b. johnson and the politics. -- and the politics of healt

in 1947 president harry s. truman signed the national security act, creating the central intelligence agency. the acts also created the director of intelligence. the director is the principal adviser to the president of the united states for intelligence matters related to national security. today as the premier agency responsible for providing global intelligence on the ever- changing social, economic, technological, and military environment the cia accomplishes this mission through research, development, and deployment of high-leveraged intelligence gathering technologies. creating special multi- disciplinary center is to address such high-party issues as non-proliferation, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, international organized crime, environment and arms and intelligence. the cia forges strong partnerships between the collection agencies and disciplines and it takes an active role in the overall intelligence community. today we have with us the director of the central intelligence agency pa. leon edward pan