i have to quarrel with harry truman, and i love him dearly and i can't remember quarrelling with him. i think he had just the opposite. what was he defending? he was defending a system where party elites undemocratically met at conventions and picked nominees. he was attacking a position kennedy had perfected of primary volters, of grassroots party members picking nominees. that's the more democratic process and he had it in just the reverse. >> here's how onken gli 1960 in new york responding to harry truman. it took two days for him to respond. today it will take about two minutes. >> harry truman was such an icon, they had to pick their words very carefully. >> so let's watch. >> last saturday one of our most dedicated and courageous presidents gave the nation his views on the forthcoming democratic convention. in as much as mr. truman's remarks were directed at me, i'm taking this opportunity to respond to his statement. first, mr. truman suggested that i step aside as a candidate in 1960. hen let me say i do not intend to step aside at anyone's request. i wi i was the only candid

it is sixty five years since president harry truman defined america's far reaching foreign goals and some politicians still resort of bashing the bogeyman to score political points. has flared up in spain once again as thousands flooded streets to protest against tough government cuts and the recently passed you know labor laws but spanish unions staged mass rallies in sixty cities they say the labor reform designed to revitalize the economy will actually undermine workers and cut their rights the new laws were cleared by parliament last week and will make firing employees easier and cheaper spain's jobless rate is the highest in the eurozone with almost half of its young population unemployed however while the government struggles to stay in the single currency there is a town that's already going back to the good old days. through feeling that yearly feeds at the moment so it's no surprise that in some places currency in knowledge is getting in the spring during the year and more than a decade ago he thought you'd seen the last of the old spanish. you're wrong with the country and

one is harry truman, a devout baptist. but you don't think truman because of his salty language, right? by the way, you won't find in most of the big biographies of troutman people get there will be david mccullough, the year both doorstops, and they tread very lightly on his religious sensibilities to find out a great story about truman -- and i mention this in the book who wrote a terrific book about harry truman's foreign policy and the development of with the use to call the liberal internationalism but she's fleshed out much better than anybody come and i never noticed this, the fact that he regards the soviet union as an evil one player and evil because of their atheism coming and talking about his disappointment that he couldn't get our church organizations involved in talking about the process and principles of american foreign policy and the catholic church in all the major the nominations in the semi formal at jugs to american foreign policy and the education of the american public and overseas so it is overlooked

sixty five years after president harry truman formulate a washington's policy of becoming the world's policeman and as a campaign for the next president gains momentum candidates are digging up a little cold. or talk of their own i just got it she can look at whether the recent reset with russia could fall victim to local politics in the us the cold war mean long be over with the leaders of russia and america looking for common ground under the banner of a reset in relations a cold war sentiment still won high in the minds of some on capitol hill a hearing in washington was convened last year to discuss quote defending u.s. interests in the face of russian aggression moscow's actions have demonstrated the lengths that it is prepared to take to assert its influence on an even larger scale at back that is especially troubling in light of europe's growing dependence on russian energy he eagerness to protect the world from russia's influence seems to echo president harry truman speech which arguably heralded the start of the cold war. the united. read people who are resisting it. right ou

lot about that in the book with a couple of exceptions are one of the most interesting things is harry truman. a devout baptist. you won't find this in most of the big biographies about truman. good biographies, david mccullough, and they tread very lightly on his religious sensibilities to really find out the great story about truman, i mentioned this in the book, wrote a terrific book about harry truman foreign policy and development of what we used to call liberal internationalism. she flushed out much better than anybody, the fact that he regarded the soviet union as an evil empire because of their atheism, and talking about his disappointment that he couldn't get more church organizations involved in talking about the premises and principles of american foreign policy. he wanted the catholic church and all the major denominations, semi formal adjunct to american foreign policy, education of the american public and overseas. and so read the speeches that up and forgotten, it's quite astonishing. he read the bible pretty often. [inaudible] >> he stopped attending first baptist when he was

i think he could just as easily have run as a democrat and indeed harry truman offered to let ike run for the presidency and he, harry truman, would drop down from the presidency and run as vice president if ike did that as a democrat. ike was not particularly tempted by that. as a kansan, he knew more republicans than democrats. and was beginning to feel himself pulled to the republican side. but i would characterize him as a very liberal republican. ike said remarkably that he thought that if any american political party tried to abolish or take away social security that in the long run that american political party would not be heard from again in american life. he was very strongly in favor of social security. he was a much, much more devoted and hard worker to bring about civil rights than he is given credit for. he did more for civil rights i think than either jack kennedy or lyndon johnson, but he didn't seek the applause and the acclaim for it, because it was simply not ike's style, and therefore he's never had the praise for it that he deserves. when they tried to keep black

of harry truman, one of our heroes across the country, there's no harry trumans in the republican party right now. republicans are afraid of rush limbaugh. afraid of him. let's listen. >> mr. boehner comes out and says, rush's language was inappropriate. using the salad fork for your entree is inappropriate. it is the responsibility of conservatives to police the right in its excesses just these liberals failingly fail to police the excesses on their own side, and it was depressing because what it indicates is that the republican leaders are afraid of rush limbaugh. they want to bomb iran, but they are afraid of rush limbaugh. >> they want to bomb iran, but they are afraid of the guy on the radio. providing the perfect example of george will's point. mitt romney was asked about limbaugh's comments on a rope line late friday night. let's listen to his response. >> it's not the language i would have used. i'm focusing on the issues that are significant for the country today. that's why i'm here talking about jobs in ohio. >> senator, you mentioned earlier that you have three potential opp

. >> well, supposedly harry truman stopped all that for the military. what -- who's setting the rules down there in georgia? >> well, you know what harry truman did; he ended the segregation of forces. that is there were black units and white units before harry truman ended that. but now the units were, you know, they were mixed at the time i was in. that is black soldiers slept in the same barracks and did the -- you know, went to the same mess hall to eat as white soldiers. and that was not true before. >> what was the difference you mentioned you weren't familiar with the south? i mean, you came out of philadelphia. what were the differences in the attitude of race in philadelphia versus georgia? >> well, it was -- well, to give you an example of this is 1959 and when i was going to fort stewart, georgia i was on the bus and i remember stopping, i believe, in -- well, some town just south of -- you know, just as you get into virginia and i saw -- it was -- it was saint -- it was petersburg, i think. petersburg, virginia and the bus stopped and i was

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more recently he's been campaigning as harry truman running against the do-nothing congress and he might think in hard times someone mentioned he would go as a good democrat and appeal to franklin roosevelt who famously criticized the money change in the temple and yet in the making, the president goes toes on watt omy and believe me nobody goes there for no good reason. >> so there he gives what i think will be a defining speech in the administration or as e.j. says the inaugural address obama never gave. >> i think that this establishes that he's given up on american politics and he's doubled down the progressive model and this tells where he's coming from and where he is going. >> it's the question posed by the prre the formal progressive revolted against was that america was different or in the context that we tal about it and america's eeptial it's dedicated to universal right. we're often as equal and we are down to the life and the pursuit of happiness. this principle in the constitution law are the foundaons of the american dream. it makes possible the dynamic social order in whi

harry truman was also widely believed to be a partisan politics but also was someone she saw greatness in and became a friend and ally of his as well so even when fdr died she went to work in the civil service commission and did very many things for truman on the loyalty review board including voting out communists in the federal government before they got into trouble. this is a woman obviously who did many things. at the end of her life, she looked back at her life and the thing she was the proudest of was the creation of social security. and indeed that really is remarkable. 50 million people the latest figures came out on the unemployment insurance and set a record 5 million people now are on unemployment insurance. if we didn't have that 55 million people in the united states getting that income now we would be in a much more serious bad place than we are now as we face another bad downturn. so frances perkins handiwork is even more important today than it has been for the last several decades and is a remarkable person. she didn't do it for glory. she said to felix frankfurter wh

we have companions for ronald reagan coming out and a companion for harry truman and other presidents and the idea of partnering a book with the presidential library and bringing scholars together to discuss historiography as well as important aspects of these presidents and demand their presidencies. what i will do is to talk a bit about the historiography of the civil rights program of the nixon administration and to start you off with the quotation. this is nixon in 1973 when the historical record of the first four years is written, i am confident that it will show that this administration did far more in the fields of civil rights and equal opportunity than its critics were willing to admit. it's more evident to sustain that claim. the nixon administration implemented affirmative action for minority-owned businesses and it desegregated southern schools and approved an expanded voting rights act and informed federal policy. the president also courted conservative white southerners and he strongly opposed bussing. as a result, the white house' approach to civil rights was garland an

a come pan yor for harry truman and other presidents. the idea of partiering a book with a presidential library and bringing scholars together to discuss history ography as well as other aspects of the presidents and their presidencies. what i'm going to do here is review the historyography of the nixon presidency because there's a strong body of historical literature. there's much evidence to sustain a claim. the nixon administration implemented affirmative action. sanction set asides for minority owned businesses. desegregated southern schools. reformed federal indian policy. yet the president also courted conservative white southerners. and he strongly opposed busing. as a result, the white house's approach to civil rights was, as leonard fwrks arment, liberal nixon adviser recalled, operational progressive but obscured by clouds of retrogreszive rhetoric. what i'm here to do today is review this historyography of the nixon administration. i think we're fortunate because there's a strong body of historical literature where you can see

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a companion for harry truman and other presidents. what i'm going to do here is to talk a little bit about the historiography of the civil rights programs of the nixon administration and start you out with a quotation. this is from nixon in 1973 when the historical record of the first four years is written, i'm confident it will show that thissed a minute vation did far more in the fields of civil rights and equal opportunity than its critics were willing to admit. and there's much evidence to sustain that claim. the nixon administration implemented affirmative action and sanctioned set asides for minority owned businesses, it desegregated southern schools, approved an expanded voting rights act, and reformed federal indian policy. yet the president also courted conservative white southerners and he strongly opposed busing. as a result, the white house's approach to civil rights was, as at liberal nixon adviser recalled, operationally progr s progressive but obscured by clouds of retro aggressive rhetoric. what i'm here to do today is

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on russian energy eagerness to protect the wall from russia's influence seems to echo president harry truman speech which arguably heralded the start of the cold war. the united. because the poor people who are resisting it could have been right greater one of the leading presidential contenders meet one day went as far as this i think president bush represents a real threat to. the stability and peace of the world analysts say many american politicians have mastered the art of creating and bashing boogie men especially when election campaigns are underway during the cold war for example being hard on communism was considered a litmus test for a solid trustworthy politician and they get on both sides of the ocean with all this i suppose it's fair to say that it's some kind of cold war inertia but there's a desire to. speak tough talk tough when it comes to foreign policy in order to sell your account paint to the wider population among the most hardline anti russian politicians are those who also preach unilateralism in foreign policy which means the u.s. can and will decide whatever he choo

president harry truman who was out of office sinresigning his position as a delegate from missouri because he was upset with john kennedy. let's watch this, and then i'm going to show you afterwards john kennedy's response and then we'll get your reaction. >> as you already know, i have resigned as a delegate for missouri from the democratic national convention. i did this because i have no desire whatever to be a party to proceeding that are taking on the aspects of a prearranged affair.

. >> no more harry truman? >> well, that's not quite the present. >> but, i mean, in your lifetime. >> in my lifetime, not particularly. i think i'll stay in the 18th century. i really like it there and i'm starting to know everybody. and i like the change. i like the literature. i like the art. i like the architecture very much. >> how did you get to know henry knox? >> through his letters. >> where did you find them? >> well, they're in a variety of places. most of them are -- were at the morgan library in new york. they're now at the new york historical society. but the diary of his trek with the guns from ticonderoga which i've reproduced in the book, in the picture secotion of the boo in its actual size is in the massachusetts historical society. >> are you still on the board there? >> no, i've never been on the board. but i'm actively involved in it. that's one of the most collections in the country. it's three presidential libraries in one in a way. it has all the adams papers, all the john adams papers

when harry truman campaigned for a comprehensive health program in 1945, he told congress, and i quote, millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. but president truman's pleas for health security fell victim to the politics of the day, and scares about socialized medicine. dwight eisenhower came before the congress in 1955 and said that health insurance could be improved by expanding the scope of the benefits provided. john f. kennedy proposed expanding coverage to the elderly and the mentally ill. by the early 1960s, both presidents eisenhower and kennedy could not say that their hopes of health security had gone forward. but instead they saw, once again, the familiar sight of a dream of health security being stalled by outside interest groups and partisan bickering in the congress. then came presidents lyndon johns johnson, richard nixon and jimmy carter. there was progress made on medicare and medicaid. president nixon came forward w

. >> in november of 1948, harry truman won a historic upset, and making history of his own, hubert h. humphrey became minnesota's first democratic senator. >> being a romantic and ide idealistic person when he went to washington in 1948, i think he probably felt that this was going to be mr. smith goes to washington, the place of marble monuments were just waiting for him to come there and change the world in a crusade and very quickly his dreams and idealism collided with reality. >> the reality was a senate dominated by the same dixie crats humphrey had angered with his civil rights speech the summer before and they would not go easy on hubert humphrey. >> after all, i had been the destroyer of the democratic party, the enemy of the south, hubert humphrey, the, quote-unquote, nigger lover. but i never felt so lonesome and unwanted in my life as i did those first few weeks and months as united states senator. >> where did you find the ronald reagan clip? >> that was in the humphrey collection. it was actually a radio program. it was for the garment national ladies garment workers uni

states is a net exporter of gasoline for the first time in sixty two years less time has happened harry truman was president we are exporting gas and right and and some universities and so bill o'reilly has called for a tariff on export of gas if we stopped exporting gasoline in the supply of gasoline in the united states which we have plenty of would be so high that gas would be like a block and a half or two dollars a gallon so bill o'reilly says if the obama administration wanted to agree to ask congress to raise export taxes on the oil companies to encourage them to sell their products here think about it you know companies are regulated by the federal government they can't drill on land nor in american waters without permission from the feds and many republicans want to drill baby drill what's the point of all the oil goes to china increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us i agree with bill o'reilly i love any story where bill o'reilly calls for the federal government to raise taxes it's fantastic this is great for this is this is our trade policy on steroids and we'

everything that went before him as well back in the day that created some of these things that harry truman was nearly impeached for seizing still factories it is almost inconceivable that this congress or any congress in the in the near future would impeach a president for such a thing presidents have been given the incredible power and it's you know it's not just this one new order and it's largely a restatement of a previous order i may not be no matter how you interpret it that i think one question a lot of people are asking on both sides is why now why this era not last year are the year before they were out of time a david swanson campaigner for rich action in charlottesville virginia thanks. well the capital account is up next on our team let's check in with lauren let's start to see what's on today's agenda laura how do you monday happy monday christina i'm sure you didn't miss the barrage of headlines about apple apple announced it was getting a dividend initiating a stock buyback program really illuminating everybody with the answer to what apple is going to do with some of that o

hitler but eisenhower ran in one nine hundred fifty two after the war during the korean war that harry truman another democrat had started on a platform a vote for eisenhower a vote for peace he was it was against the korean war the truman story here it is. the number for the program drop. oh oh oh oh oh i don't know. my dad was an eisenhower republican he used to claim a complaint about the democrat wars including the vietnam war started in sixty four by l.b.j. the democratic party premier stirred every war in the twentieth century and so reagan invaded grenada to get a political balance even with vietnam mcgovern ran as a democratic peace in seventy two nixon ran as the super peace candidate with a secret plan to end the war right away and he won reagan changed that republicans became the party of not just war but of chicken hawks people like reagan and cheney and today's long list of neo con chicken hawks who have never been to war now want to send our poor people's kids off to iran it's time to get back to the american roots of interventionism. crazy o.o.m. g.s.t. if you owe a fifteen yea

went from being a country that kept nuclear so information so secret that as vice preponderate harry truman didn't know we had the bomb until f.d.r. died. he had to become president before anybody told him we had the bomb. we wanted to be the only one in the world with nuclear weapons but nuclear power under eisenhower we went fwr that possessive keep the genie in the bottle in the company to a country that exported nuclear technology all over the woorld. that's what atoms for peace was about. it was all supposed to be for peaceful purposes for energy. that peaceful scientific nuclear technology that we exported all around the globe is what eventually is real in india and pakistan turned into full flejed nuclear weapon's programs. what started out as us having neek here weapons and us in the soviet union and because us the brits and the chinese. this right now is who in the world has nuclear weapons? let's add an outline around iran because even though they say they neither have them nor want them, our international concerns is they are not working on having them but they may be close to th

. >> supposedly, harry truman stopped all of this. who was setting the rules? >> what he did, he ended the segregation of forces, and there were black units and why units before he ended that but now -- the units were mixed at that time, with black soldiers in the same barracks. they went to the same mess hall to eat as white soldiers and this was not true before. >> what was the difference -- you came out of philadelphia. what was the difference in the attitude of race? >> to give you an example, this is 1959. i was on the bus and i remember stopping, some town just south of -- just as you get into virginia. this was petersburg. petersburg, virginia. i woke up, and saw a sign. white waiting room and colored weighing room. in savannah, i got off the bus to walk around and i got back, and there was a lady sitting in my seat. there is a white lady sitting in my seat. i said, excuse me. >> and she said, boy, this is taken. there was a commotion but the driver told the lady, he got on the bus in philadelphia and this is his seat. the lady started saying, back in my

slanted and describing it as a bipartisan act that actually goes back to franklin roosevelt and harry truman>> lanny, we got to that park. you are wasting valuable airtime. >> you won't let me compliment you? >> the second point i want to make, other than sean hannity being a good guy, is this is really not a significant risk to america. i don't know why he made those changes, to answer your question, but there's no risk here because every president needs authority in times of emergency such as a nuclear attack or something that is another 9/11, and this has already been on the books. president obama won't misuse it. the real question is why are the extremes on the left and the right so quick to jump beyond the facts and look at the worst possible interpretation? you look at some of these -- >> because -- because of the way the president has acted. for example, we have a very specific process for recess appointments. and with the national labor board appointments. the president, remember he didn't go through that process. >> that's right. >> conserve defense like myself, jay, i think would a

he spent his whole life in a country that barely exists if it wasn't for harry truman it wouldn't exist. there are people there that still have tattoo us a auschwitz and the entire jewish people were so very close to be anile eight. -- annihilated. they aren't going to march to the gas chambers anymore. i don't want a war. prime minister doesn't want one but the best way to avoid one is to make it incredibly clear that iran is not going to get a nuclear weapon under any circumstances. further, rather than publicly asking israel to stand down and quit talking about military action. what we ought to be doing, israel has right to defend themselves. they are sovereign nation and they have a right to protect their security. >> greta: there is no on doubt that israel has a right to defend itself. i know prime minister netanyahu said a couple times. what he was saying, if they preemptively defend themselves against iran building a nuclear weapons he was looking for a timing he could defend themselves. there is nobody that denies israel should have a right to defend themselves. i never get a cl