[laughter] he came out in of course was very surprised to see in fact harry truman was parked in his parking lot. he went out in chatted with terry for a while and did not make harry move the car. they went into the diner and it was lunchtime, and a fairly busy time of the year. nobody notice them and they sat down. they ordered fruit plates and iced tea. they did enjoy their mail in complete anonymity until they got up to pay. just as they got to pay and the old county judge walked into the diner and recognized harry, not as a former president but a former jackson county judge and said, there is judge truman. then everybody and the restaurant wanted his autograph and had to shake his hand. that is pretty much how it went the rest of the trip. just when they thought they were getting by as a big unknown couples as harry like to say somebody would recognize him and then as he liked to say, the incog was off. he handled these onslaughts so well. people ask, could a trip like this take place today? i guess it couldn't in a practical sense but his personality was so well suited to a trip

in the harry truman in the last. a half of his term had a 23 percent approval rating barrett is the lowest, the lowest of any president has ever fallen to. even george w. bush and richard nixon did not fall that low. and they got down to a i think 24 and 25%. truman went down 223%, so why is it that he is so admired it at this point and why was he in such a bad odor at the end of his term in 1952 and 53? .. the answer of course is the korean war. in june of 1950, north korea crossed 30th parallel. they had in part been provoked by sigmund re-in the south. both sigmund re-and kim il-sung were going to get at each other's throats. both of them had the vision of uniting korea under their you just, under their rules. kim dill song comecon misstate in sigmon ariva establishing a pro-western unified korea. this war begins and the united states which had largely withdrawn from korea, truman decides that we cannot let this aggression go unanswered and so he makes what seems to make the wise decision, to enter into the curry

president of the russians need to overrun berlin is shoes, and harry truman said we stay in berlin, period and he said have you really thought about this mr. president and truman got up and walked out of the room and was the truman's determination along with the clay and the competence and bravery of these young men that want one of the most unlikely, it wasn't a battle but situation in the biggest in humanitarian history. >> i think one of the things this striking distance of the capitol of these very prestigious military men, bradley, marshall and so on and marshall's staff have not only love it but george kennan. they were opposed to this and also opposed for political reasons that couldn't be done but also just a thing for the logistical issues involved they didn't believe, they thought it was impossible. >> they also thought we have 37 planes in germany when this began to try to bring in 4500 tons per day british carried one-third of the load so that they number one thought was impossible and number two thought there would be a huge embarrassment. omar bradley's son-in-law was living

. >> rose: and the man responsible most of all is harry truman? ruman became such a hero in my mind. i think the minds of the american people and going over that history i am now relatively convinced that that was the reason he was reelected in 1948. that he saw america as its saw itself, trying to do good, a generous country trying to share what it had with other people. and i think that's why the american people went for him against all odds in 1948 as he went to save berlin against all odds. >> rose: okay, tell the story. josef stalin decides that he wants to blockade berlin because he believes that the americans will have no option but to leave and then he'll own it. >> well, we certainly would have had no option. we had 6,500 men there. he had four million soldiers of the red army. they kept the red army in germany, in east germany and in eastern europe because they had never been paid during the war. so that stalin was paying off his army in useless currency like hitler's reich marks. and because of the symbolic importance of berlin, it had..

in that spirit, our guest has written bog fizz about theodore roosevelt, harry truman, and now coming soon, john and abigail adams. but also buying fizz about events. the building of the brooklyn bridge. and the destruction of an entire town due to flooding in pennsylvania. ooh even these two books were about reputation and mark rabble people and participation and their skills and their strengths and their followies and their foibles. he has richly and accurately conveyed parts of american history to us and their writings. he wrote about the johnstown flood way before the deluge of books about natural disasters hit. he started to write about the panama canal before the canal leapt into the head linds in the 1970's. and he wrote about truman. he wrote about truman and catapulted him into new fame and acclaim. the research and the beauty and the wonder of david mccollough, is summed up by some of william faulkner's nag magnificent words, and he said, i believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. he is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inest oustible voice, bu

the question is about, the role of harry truman and the berlin airlift.solutely, the first chapter of the book is a sort of a brief history of berlin and the dispute over berlin that unfolds after world war ii and, yes, if you remember the city had been divided into, into four sectors. the westerners with ended up fusing their sectors and, introducing a new currency. the east germans refused to, or the soviets refused to to allow that currency to be used in their sector. they introduced their own currency and decided to cut off access from west berlin to the rest of west germany. i remember berlin sits in germany which was occupied by the soviets and, at that point, harry truman decides we're not leaving berlin and we're going to airlift goods and supplies into our sectors to, to the people there. i think that was hugely important because i think it showed that that the western powers were not going to abandon the city. i think it turned a lot of the attitudes of berliners in our favor and against the soviets. and then, this is, berlin became the kind of

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

most recently i believe in 2001 with a subtitle from harry truman to george w. bush. so he keeps at it. and franklin d. roosevelt, an absolute cossack. he wrote the new deal in 1932 intel 1940, which received both the bangkok and the france's parking prices and which is now about to appear in a new addition and he made out from his publisher, harpercollins i think so, but harper company. what the new cover i gather which is shocking to me because i cover again as a classic, too. mr. leuchtenburg is a past president of the american historical association, american historian society and the american historians and is undeniably wanted to mention for this evening event. in 2008, the same society the american historians may professor jan knight of the first recipient of the arthur m. junior award for distinguished writing in american history of enduring public significant. [applause] i'll be saying a little bit more about her past their leuchtenburg and a little bit. he is the author of the just published american presidents series volume on herbert hoover. he has been wo

franklin roosevelt, harry truman. i love the writing style of one person. that is what is most important to me -- putting together words and ideas. i write about domestic politics mainland. lately what has been fascinating has been the flowering of the conservative grass these days in the tea party movement. for a while, you go back to about a year ago and pretty much everybody i knew and the commentators thought we had turned a grand, historical corner and entered a new era of liberalism. now, it looks like that is not so. for a while there, i enjoyed several columns and offering this and various pieces of advice to president obama. i lived in chicago before i moved to this city. a state senator was barack obama. i would see him at house parties and things like that. i remember when he ran for congress and got beaten. we moved here and he was still a state senator at the time. now he is president. host: did you ever say, that man could be president some day when you saw him? guest: he has this charisma and electricity. when he enters the room, everybody kn

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

i said in my little remarks harry truman living in the blair house where we were today had the senateforeign relations chairman down once a week to meet with general marshal to write the marshal plan. when you want a bipartisan effort you form a private relationship and put it together and the president hasn't figured that out yet with the senate. >> greta: are you saying he's inexperienced? >> i don't know what it is. i thought he doesn't want to do it or doesn't know how. i think he's a very able person. he showed today he knows a lot about health care. i don't think he knows how to create a bipartisan piece of legislation in the senate. we do it all the time. ted kennedy did it all the time. >> greta: what about harry reid, even getting testy with you? >> it o'he did seemed like we was a little irritated. get with you! >> because i said what he dent like to hear their bill cuts medicare by half a trillion dollars and spends it on a new tram. their bill raises taxes half trillion dollars and sends to states big costs raising college tuitions and taxes and it does raise premiums. the

the first presidential visit to that county and we can't half ago, since harry truman in 1948. >> wee. >> oberlin college, one of the great private institutions of higher learning in this country, 10 miles from there, there was a building built their seven years ago fully powered by solar panels. it is the largest building on any college campus in america like that. those solar panels or bought in germany and japan. germany, a country that has an energy policy and the manufacturing policy. 75 miles west of there is toledo, ohio, where you have been several times. the legal has more solar energy jobs it than any city in america -- toleda has more solar power energy jobs than any city in america. we have all kinds of things in so many of our states, manufacturing wind turbine components and solar components. if it were the only major industrial country in the world without manufacturing policy. every rich country has one. we don't. i know what you're doing with ronald bloom and others. how do we read that china is exploding in terms of wind factor in manufacturing and solar panel manuf

i think in this case, jim, people have compared it to race and harry truman in 1948. in that case, the president and the military were reading society. i mean, to desegregate a major american institution in 1948 was really -- >> it came out of no where. >> it came out of no where but it was an historic act. i think now, just looking this morning, in 1987, the peer poll asked do you think a local school board hands the right to fire a teacher who is a known homosexual. 51% americans thought it did just on that basis alone. 20 years later it dropped to 28%. and it's dropped even more you can be sure today now three years later because it's a generational thing. i think in this case, the military is basically following society and its lead. >> lehrer: do you agree with that. >> i agree. the i support the move and support the way they've done it and they've done it in a very slow way. we're going to study it try to reconcile it and sometimes you put something into a study when you don't want to kill it. in this case, for a lot of us who would like to see it done faster, w

franklin roosevelt, harry truman. i love the writing style of one person.at is most important to me -- putting together words and ideas. i write about domestic politics mainland. lately what has been fascinating has been the flowering of the conservative grass these days in the tea party movement. for a while, you go back to about a year ago and pretty much everybody i knew and the commentators thought we had turned a grand, historical corner and entered a new era of liberalism. now, it looks like that is not so. for a while there, i enjoyed several columns and offering this and various pieces of advice to president obama. i lived in chicago before i moved to this city. a state senator was barack obama. i would see him at house parties and things like that. i remember when he ran for congress and got beaten. we moved here and he was still a state senator at the time. now he is president. host: did you ever say, that man could be president some day when you saw him? guest: he has this charisma and electricity. when he enters the room, everybody knows it. he

i mean i think you go all the way back to harry truman, and you had the power-- there is-- the bill is the power to persuade as well as a law. >> rose: donna. >> look, i-- . >> rose: let donna comment. >> i live in a real world. >> rose: don't we all. >> where the doctors at the university of miami provide health care in the safety net hospital of miami. that safety net hospital is in deep trouble tonight because of the number of uninsured people have gone up in our community. and the safety net hospital simply can't afford to take care of all of them. every state in this country is seeing major increases in their medicaid bills. need a bis people that are uninsured, that eliminates preexisting conditions, that gives people real access to drugs. and makes sure that they can get up every morning and their kids will be covered with health insurance. this bill covers every major element that need its to be covered. and i believe that there is wide spread consensus when you explain the bill to people. i do believehe politics has overwhelmed it. i hope that the president decides to go forwa

the ghost of harry truman would kill us if we complained about having 59 senators.e have to govern confidently and with optimism with 59. we have to learn some lessons. the lesson was that people are fed up with business as usual. our great friend, president obama is our president. and they want to see more change and open and transparent process and we have to recognize this as we do our work in congress and do our work as a party. as that massachusetts race didn't ended the way we wanted it to, i'm proud of the contributions you made during that campaign. the intent activism that was generated to support that effort from state parties and volunteers all over the place beginning with massachusetts suggest our people are ready and willing to participate in these 2010 elections. i thank the massachusetts democratic party for their leadership. please, yes. we had more than 50 d.n.c. staffers in massachusetts for the last three weeks and state parties all across this country in conjunction with the d.n. drmplet and volunteer effort organized 45,000 volunteers to make 3

first presidential visit to that county of 300,000 since harry truman in 1948. >> it was a great visit had a great time. 10 miles from there, oberlin college, one of the great private institutions of higher learning in this country, there was a building built there seven or eight years ago, fully powered by solar panels. it is the largest building on any college campus in america like that. those solar panels were bought in germany and japan, not surprisingly. 75 miles west of there is toledo, ohio, and toledo has more solar energy manufacturing jobs than any city in america. it begs the question of two things in terms of manufacturing policy and energy policy. we have all kinds of things in so many of our states -- manufacturing wind turbine components and solar panel components -- but we're the only industrial country in the world without a manufacturing policy. every rich country in the world has one. we do not. i know what you're doing with ron bloom in the white house and other things, but how do we get there? when we read these articles in the paper that china is just exploding i

else with this party to walk around with on a hang dog look on our face to have -- the ghost of harry truman would kill us about having only 59 democratic senators, right? [applause] >> we got to govern optimism with 59. we do have to learn some lessons. the lezzons is people are fed up with business as usual. they were fed up with business as usual and that's one of the reasons why our great friend president obama is our president. and they still want to see more change and more open transparent process and we've got to recognize this as we do our work in congress but also as we do our work as a party. now, while that massachusetts race didn't end the way we wanted it to, let me say i am proud of the contributions that so many of you made to that campaign. and i think in terms of a harbinger of things to come, the intense activism that was generated to support that effort from state parties and volunteers all over the place beginning with massachusetts suggest that our people are ready and willing to get revved up and participate in these 2010 elections. i want to thank the massachusetts de

roosevelt, george washington, thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, teddy roosevelt, woodrow wilson, harry truman aside james k. polk, all of these men were to term presidents or got themselves elected after the death of their predecessor, making their case to the voters that they deserve to retain their jobs. mr. bolick can anticipate a one- term fate if he gets crossed with the citizens. if that happens, it is not likely that he will be remembered in the future as a great chief executive. frank, md., good morning. caller: republicans calling in about obama, and i am disappointed. but i am not surprised at all at "the new york times" peace -- piece. i thing that any person in this country, for the democratic party or republican party, loves this country. you have to have your hands clean. i am so proud to be from the section of maryland abrams is from, even though she is new. i have high hopes for her. she is pressing down on people through it -- that are faced with inequalities. thank you. host: patti, minneapolis. caller: thank you. good morning. first of all, barack obama declined public fina

after world war ii when harry truman had a republican congress, they hammered out the marshall plan at blair house so it's nice about that. i know you're too modest to say this but i recall a young wolf bhi blitzer asked a question. you asked him why don't you reach out to israel. a few months later he did and said wolf blitzer made me do it. >> there you see the president of the united states walking from the west wing of the white house with joe biden. you see them there. it's just a very, very quick walk across the street, pennsylvania avenue. since the oklahoma city bombing as most viewers remember has been shut to vehicular traffic unless it's an emergency vehicle. but it's an easy walk across the street. gloria, you've seen this walk on many occasions. the president will go in. he's got biden, sebelius, secretary of health and human services. he's got his whole team basically ready to go but there are a lot of republicans and democrats as well. >> they were even debating the shape of the table and whether the president should be standing or whether he would be sitting. because if

host: what changed when harry truman became president, particularly in the election of 1950?e 1950 elections make a lot of the politics of today seem tame. a very bitter election. a lot of republicans start to challenge democrats on issues like who lost china, when china fell to communism in 1949, and the emerging war in korea. by the end of the mid terms, the conservative coalition increases in congress, but the politics of the cold war are wide open and very bitter. host: the politics of national security is our topic. kerri on our independence line, bill ahead. h -- gary on our independent line, go ahead. caller: i notice that most of the callers get about 60 seconds or so, so i will make this could pick on 9/11, at fox news interviewed number of citizens who said they heard multiple explosions as the towers came down. the interview firefighters -- they interviewed firefighters and they said they heard detonators. and there is a professor from brigham young university who was found residue of their might explosives from the dust of the twin towers. the fbi told him to shut

we used to handle uranium and plutonium when the great powers were winston churchill, harry truman andcay are becoming more apparent every day. because we recognize these dangers, we met with the heads of all three laboratories. they described the impact these budgetary pressures were having on their ability to manage our personal without testing. they say that the situation is literally a threat to national security. president obama and i agree. that is what we announced a new budget that reverses the last decade of dangerous decline. itç devotes $7 billion to maintain our nuclear stockpile and modernizing our nuclear construction. to put that into perspective, that is $624 million more than the approved last year and an increase of $5 billion over the next -- five years. even in these tight fiscal times, we will commit the resources necessary to maintain our security interests. this investment is not only consistent with a nonproliferation agenda but the central to pursue and non- proliferation agenda. efforts to allow us to pursue deeper nuclear reductions without in any way compro

listen to harry truman.ommunism attacks our basic values, our belief in goshgd the belief in the dignity of man and human life, our belief in justice and freedom, he said. it attacks our institutions that are based on these values. it attacks our churches, our guarantees of civil liberty, our courts, our democratic form of government. the great purpose of the united states, he insists, is to defend the spiritual values, the moral code against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them. close quote. truman recognized that the nature of the threat to american security and american sovereignty, he recognized threat in part because he understood the great purpose of the united states. the berlin air lift began less than a week, less than a week after the soviet blockade. western pilots landing almost minute by minute to deliver 13,000 tons of goods per day. over the next year they would deliver 1.6 million tons of food and fuel, with the threat of soviet aggression always in the air. they don't know how t

i can remember things harry truman said. but obama doesn't -- you know, he doesn't he doesn't come out swinging. he's really, at the end of the day, he really believes the stuff about bipartisan. i think he believe that is. he doesn't want to ruffle feathers and make enemies. the president has to make enemies. vest relate chose perfect enemies. >> who were perfect enemies? >> wall street. you saw that coming. >> host: democrats line. >> caller: good morning. first time caller. i just want to say that in today's political climate, it seems the rhetoric of today is to divide and conquer. are you for or against, what is republican, abortion, gay rights. it's never anything that seems to be inclusive for people. it's always divide and conquer. mr. frank was exactly right. he does not want to ruffle feathers. i don't know why people don't want to say this, he's the first black president. he wanted to be inclusive. you can't do that. i have to take the bull by the horns and lead. that's what we are looking right now from the democ

some of the facilities we used to handle uranium and plutonium date back to the days of harry truman,on churchill, and joseph stalin. the signs of age and decay are becoming more apparent every day. because we recognize these dangers, in december, secretary chu and i met at the white house with the heads of all three weapon laboratories. they described the trouble they are having to manage our arsenal without testing. they say the situation is a threat to our national security. president obama, secretary chu, and i all agree. we announced a new budget that reduces the last decade of dangerous decline. it devotes $7 billion to maintaining our nuclear stockpile and modernizing our nuclear infrastructure. to put that in perspective, that is $624 million in congress approved last year, and an increase of $5 billion over the next five years. even in these tight fiscal times, we will commit the resources needed to maintain our security interests. this investment is not only consistent with the nonproliferation agenda. we argue it is essential to pursue a nonproliferation agenda. guaranteein

host: what changed when harry truman became president, particularly in the election of 1950?50 elections make a lot of the politics of today seem tame. a very bitter election. a lot of republicans start to challenge democrats on issues like who lost china, when china fell to communism in 1949, and the emerging war in korea. by the end of the mid terms, the conservative coalition increases in congress, but the politics of the cold war are wide open and very bitter. host: the politics of national security is our topic. kerri on our independence line, bill ahead. h -- gary on our independent line, go ahead. caller: i notice that most of the callers get about 60 seconds or so, so i will make this could pick on 9/11, at fox news interviewed number of citizens who said they heard multiple explosions as the towers came down. the interview firefighters -- they interviewed firefighters and they said they heard detonators. and there is a professor from brigham young university who was found residue of their might explosives from the dust of the twin towers. the fbi told him to shut up.

his successor, harry truman.d the lot of americans and japanese. going to kennedy, it going democratic right now. we got the trip to the moon and what have you. we're moving on into eisenhower as a republican. i think he was a pretty good president. a great general and a pretty good president. we can move on in. i am thinking about president obama now. this is great. i think he is going to be a great president. i would like to see it go to a nonpartisan presidency. you have this same amount of senators and congressmen, and everybody could go and the vote, and it would be no responsibility to the republican party or the democratic party and a lot less argument and more work. guest: i understand that. i have to tell you that the bombing have to pick his with the founders. they created this job in which they combine the function of head of state. we do not have a clean it like great britain. we have the president who is both a ceremonial and necessarily political leaders. governed by the very nature involves the pol

you talked about harry truman and immigration being something that was a value in terms of its ethicals something else that made integration more valuable. >> the tuskegee airmen, the primary reason why the united states air force integrated in 1949 and had all the other services. in 1947 when the air force became the chief of personnel -- he asked for a steady. he demonstrated whether or not segregation was based upon racial inferiority or prejudice. the tuskegee airmen proved that black men giving the same training will do the same job. the tuskegee airmen shot down 110 aircraft. before the war, there is probably one white the whydah said that was possible. that would've been the commander of tuskegee. he was alternately opposed to black men flying airplanes. there was not a general on their side. franklin roosevelt had created the tuskegee airmen partly to ensure he won the black vote in 1940. he promised if reelected he would create the unit. 1c is reelected, he created the organization -- once he was reelected, he created the organization fo. they had a unique record in saving the

shown pollingwise, he's the most divisive president since they have been taking these polls since harry trumanring america together. but he has his fabase that's frustrated. they don't think he is fighting hard enough. how do they thread that needle moving forward? >> he has to focus on things that will appeal to everybody. yeah, forward. and the president always talked about civility and bipartisanship. nothing new there. but i think he does find some fault within himself for not doing more of what we saw last week. which was the q & a, for example, with republicans. trying to be more transparent. recognizes the health care debate could have been more transparent. he has taken some responsibility there and trying to tushory a new leaf. he knows he has to deliver on jobs, and they are working ton right now. and senator reid has to pull it together on the hill. he has to come up with a deal that will get bipartisan support. that's what they are trying to do right now. and we talked to a senior official, trying to do a small piece of the jobs bill that can get a couple of republican votes like a

truman and even before -- by harry truman and even before that we have an obligation as a society that-being to reform health care and reform energy and to provide the jobs that our people need to get us out of the great recession and back on track. thank you very much for this chance to speak. i know there are going to the questions. [applause] w3>> henry, let me ask the first question. >> did you write it down on a car? >> no. i cannot write. anyway, tell us what you see happening in the senate to get both the energy bill and the health care bill going? the energy bill has not even been taken up in the senate. so how do you see him making that possible? >> the energy bill has a lot of people who are supporting it. not just those who care about the in our mad. a lot of industry people, as i mentioned, -- not just those who care about ourç environment. the president has set out what he hopes to achieve in copenhagen. it tried to enlist other countries in trying to achieve those goals as well. if we are going to have an international effort to be successful, the u.s. has got to do more

former president harry truman had a sign on his desk that read "the buck stops here" to show the responsibilityfor the conduct of subordinates ultimately rested with him. miss smith ought -- ms. smith ought to own up to the responsibility that ultimately rests with her. with regard to the second inconsistency, ms. smith stated that the program was developed internally and only then did new york department of labor approach or recruit outside groups. however, emails obtained by the committee directly contradict this statement, instead showing much of the driving force and even legal research for a program model came from organized labor and its allies. here are a couple of examples. an april 16, 2008, email from mr. jeff eickler, for the retail wholesale and department store union, to ms. smith's deputy regarding an enforcers' program with four stages of attached research explaining potential models for their concept of wage and hour enforcers. and an august 18, 2000, email which ms. smith's deputy responds to mr. eickler's idea that the state consider allowing participants to infiltrate busines

meanwhile, back at the white house, a captain denison, bader and admiral, handed harry truman the lists to rear admiral. and god bless him, he spoke up and saved admiral burke. he said sir, there is one missing. i think an injustice has been done. truman said, what's that? he says it's captain burke, arleigh burke. truman said, didn't i meeting down there in norfolk? yes, sir, that's the one. he is good. yes, sir. well, just write his name back and period on the promotion list. the old secretary of defense and everybody were shocked. rear admiral, arleigh burke was saved for this country. now, the irony in the revolt of the admirals however this remarkable career with so many turnabout that they did feel they have to give them a place to start it cool down. and a noncontroversial position would be defense research and development board, ironically. this position was another step in opening a new vista to admiral burke and introducing him and controlling him with technological and strategic solutions to naval and defense issues. creative breakthroughs, thinking smarter not richer. we ne

harry truman would be proud. you are focused on saving the taxpayer money and it reminds me of the incarnation. i used to scrub the budget so carefully i had a nickname of ebeneiser. i like to begin by complimenting you and associating myself with what he was saying. it was a breath of fresh air that you are bringing increased accountability to the programs. some of the practices that have been allowed to exist for too long in defense department contracting and weapons system would never survive in the private sector. the fact that people are being held accountable and being asked to to share the burden and the over run is the right thing to do. i want to comment you for that and hope we will see more of the same. we are gathered here in a time of great distress for the american people and for our government. people are being asked to make sacrifices. the the president called for a freeze on spending and we are being asked for 3.4% increase in defense spending? is that correct? >> 1.8% in real growth. >> real gro

harry truman would be proud.u are focused on saving the taxpayer money and it reminds me of the incarnation. i used to scrub the budget so carefully i had a nickname of ebeneiser. i like to begin by complimenting you and associating myself with what he was saying. it was a breath of fresh air that you are bringing increased accountability to the programs. some of the practices that have been allowed to exist for too long in defense department contracting and weapons system would never survive in the private sector. the fact that people are being held accountable and being asked to to share the burden and the over run is the right thing to do. i want to comment you for that and hope we will see more of the same. we are gathered here in a time of great distress for the american people and for our government. people are being asked to make sacrifices. the the president called for a freeze on spending and we are being asked for 3.4% increase in defense spending? is that correct? >> 1.8% in real growth. >> real growth

county, ohio, a week and a half ago; first presidential visit to that county of 300,000 since harry trumann 1948. >> it was a great visit. we had a great time. >> it was terrific. ten miles from there, oberlin college, one of the great private institutions of higher learning in this country -- at oberlin college, there was a building built there seven or eight years ago, fully powered by solar panels. it's the only -- it's the largest building on any college campus in america like that. those solar panels were bought in germany and japan, not surprisingly -- germany, a country that has both an energy policy and a manufacturing policy. seventy-five miles west of there is toledo, ohio, where you've been several times, and toledo has more solar energy manufacturing -- solar manufacturing jobs than any city in america. it begs the question of two things in terms of manufacturing policy and energy policy. we have all kinds of things in so many of our states -- manufacturing wind turbine components and solar panel components -- but we're the only major industrial country in the world without a m

like all of his predecessors since harry truman, president obama will address the national prayer breakfaste. mr. obama went back to the previous practice of holding it off site, this year at the washington hilton. one group says the president shouldn't even attend, that he shouldn't promote religion. last year in his address, the president noted that the prayer breakfast itself began in seattle at the height of the great depression when community leaders were surrounded by so much suffering they couldn't alleviate that decided to gather together and pray. it spread across the country over the years. eventually making its way to washington. the president pointed out the country was once again suffering economically and he quoted saint augustine who said, you should work as if everything depended on god -- pray as if everything depended on god and work as if everything depended on you. the president, after his address, comes back to washington to the white house and gets back to work on the economy with a meeting with house and senate leaders, democratic house and senate leaders. they'll foc

come from all over the world to see the glorious parliaments of man wrapped in liberty and law as harry truman like to quote from the tennyson poem, one of the first thing is you run across is this lineup of portraits of all the secretaries general and people like to pose in front of them, it looks so great an official and benevolence and if you look closely they and actually paintings. these are woven silk carpets and woven into the bottom of each of these purposes is the line, and give to the islamic republic of iran. these are presented the first set through the fall of 1977, the first year secretary general. one moon have the same from an iranian front organization of through a fifth avenue skyscraper. they talk to the federal courts about fat. in the heavyset in the front lobby of the building where the united states hosts this place, it deals with the parking ticket problem, pays most of the money come island's most of the credibility and is covering most of the revamped right now we created the u.n.. the first thing that some bases when they walk in there and visitors don't know this an

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meanwhile, back at the white house, a captain dennison, later an admiral, handed harry truman the list of promotions to rear admiral. and god bless him, he spoke up and saved admiral burke. he said, sir, there's one missing. i think an injustice has been done. the colonel said, what's that? he says it's captain burke, arli burke. truman said, didn't i meet him down in norfolk? yes, sir, that's the one. oh, he's good. yes, sir. well, we'll just write his name back in on the promotion list. oh, secretary of defense and secretary of the navy were shocked. rear admiral arlie burke was saved for this country. now, the irony and the revolt of the rear admirals that there was so many turn-abouts they had to give him a place to sort of cool down. in an uncontroversial position would be defense research and development board. ironically, this position was another step, opening to a new vista to admiral burke in introducing him and enthralling him with technological and strategic solutions to naval and defense issues. through creative breakthroughs. thinking smarter. we need that today. the seed

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

facilities, used to handle uranium and plutonium date back to the days when great powers were lead by harry trumanwinston churchhill and joesph stalin. the signs of age and decay are becoming more apparent every day and because we recognized these changes, in december, secretary chu and i met with the white house with the head of all three weapons laboratories. they described the dangerous impact these budgetary pressures were having on the ability to manage our arsenal without testing. they say that the situation is literally a threat to our national security. and president obama, secretary chu and i all agreed. that's why earlier this month we announced a new budget that reversed the last decade of dangerous decline. it devotes $7 billion to maintaining our nuclear stockpile and modernizing our nuclear infrastructure. to put that into perspective, that is 624 million more than congress approved last year, and an increase of $5 billion over the next five years. even in these tight fiscal times we will commit the resources needed to require, and that are required to maintain our security interests

a week and a half ago, first presidential visit since harry truman in 1948. ten miles from there, oberlin college, one the great higher learns institutions, there was a building built there seven or eight years ago, fully powered by solar panels. it's the largest building any college campus in america is like that. those were bought in germany and japan. germany has an energy policy and a manufacturing policy. it's 75 miles west of there is toledo where you've been several times. toledo has more solar manufacturing jobs than any city in america. it begs the question of two things, in terms of manufacturing policy and energy policy, we have all kinds of things and so many of our states manufacturing wind turbine components and -- but we're the only major industrial country in the world without a manufacturing policy. every rich country in the world has one. we don't. i know what you're doing with ron bloom in the white house and other things. how do we get there? when we read the articles in the paper that china is just exploding in terms of wind turbine manuf

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more than 60 years have passed since harry truman signed the national school lunch program. and during that period our efforts to provide children with healthy meals has grown. today in american schools across the land over 31 million children will receive school lunch with the help of usda. the success of school lunches inspired the creation of the school breakfast program that now feeds over 11 million children. as well as the women, infant and children program which serves more than 9 million pregnant and postpartum women and young children. including nearly one-half of all of america's infants. it's also spawned the child care feeding program that now provides nutritious snacks to another 3.2 million children. in total, working in concert with our k-12 school partners and state and local agencies, usda helps serve america's children more than 9 billion meals each year. last august i had the privilege and the opportunity to visit a school in an orphanage in kenya to highlight a feeding program. it gives meals in to school children living in developing countries. as i dish