along carries harry truman. a failure in business, by the way. it's a better sales pitch. he comes along, harry truman, without a lot of formal education, and goes across the country saying, we're going to do this. and then he goes at 1:00 in the run, i was no air-conditioning. all right, congress, i'm calling you back into session and you're going to pass. it wouldn't be a bad thing for him to say, come on back. but you would have to there are several people doing. many. the last thing you want speaking on your behalf is an elected official. >> i can't think of businesses around the country that would do it. action, right? >> obstruction or science, all of that. >> obstruction replace the smell of decay with the smell of construction. >> can't argue with that. >> thank you. >>> is the american system sitting on piles of cash that would help bring down. the republican tact at keeping voters in the voting boothsesment then a big wisconsin revote tomorrow. what effects will it have on november? how many miss. that's in the side show, and that is hardball. the place for polit

the question is about the role of harry truman and the berlin airlift, and absolutely, i -- the first chapter of the book is a sort of brief history of berlin and the dispute over berlin that unfolds after world war ii. and, yes. if you remember that the city had been divided into -- into four sectors. the western powers ended up fusing their sectors, and introducing a new currency. the easterns refused to -- or the soviets refused to allow that currency to be used in their sectors. they introduced their own currency. and then sdipded ed tdecided t access from west berlin to the west of -- certainly you remember, berlin sits in east 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. that was hugely important, because i think it showed 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 central thea

sabotage his efforts to do anything that will make him look good or help the american people during harry truman's first year in the midterm election in one thousand nine hundred six the republicans took the house and senate for the first time since before the great depression and immediately set out to sabotage truman he proposed expanding the new deal with what he called the fair deal a national single payer health care system along with a wide variety of other progressive reforms republicans blocked it all every aspect of truman's fair deal and hurt him badly in the polls so in the final months before the election he called them up calling them the do nothing congress are blocking all of his initiatives. benefits have been spread to all the people because it's the business of the democratic party to see to the people get up areas where they think this will last word a.t.f. congress proved just the opposite with a republican. i like say a word or two now. but i think the republican philosophy is. ever since its inception that party has been under they're going to throw a special privilege and th

franklin roosevelt who famously said you know they hate me and i welcome their hatred it was harry harry truman who said you know. i don't i don't give the republicans hell i just tell the truth they think it's hell i mean these guys took them on they took names and kicked ass where is that part of the democratic party how do we get it back well there was a time there was a time when you had advisors it was almost the genetic of the advisors you know you had the same advisor presidential race would be lost that advisor would move on to the next presidential race that would be lost and for some reason we were never able to say to those advisors why is it that the republicans can come after us with the kind of ferocity they can and we simply are always defending ourselves i think i'm hopeful tom i'm hopeful that maybe some advisors to obama are starting to understand that i was really pleased to see palosi come out with this attack it was a wonderful exact it was was right in call rove's face and she was right but you know what it's subject to subject to return to the old days democrats for some

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and harry truman said, we stay in berlin, period. tt said, have you really thought about this, mr. president? and truman got up and walked out of the room.nz and it was truman's determination along with clay's on the other end and then the confidence and bravery of these unlikely -- it wasn't a biggest in humanitarian history. >> well, yeah. i think one of the things that's striking, as you said, is that the cabinet, all of these very prestigious military men -- bradley, marshall and so on -- and marshall's staff had not only lovett, but george cannon -- >> wise men. >> right. they were opposed to this, and also opposed for political reasons thinking it couldn't be done. also i think for the logistical issues involved. they didn't believe, they thought it was simply impossible to believe. >> well, they also thought that we only had 37 planes in germany when this began to try to bringu in 4500 tons a day. the british carry a third of the load so that they, they, one, thought it was impossible; two, thought that it would be a huge embar

that is what it would take to bring together such an unlikely partnership as harry truman and herbert hoover. two men with nothing in common politically or personally, no relationship of any kind except for the fact the world was a very difficult, dangerous and challenging place in 1947 when truman is president. he is not one to stand on ceremony. he does not care that herbert hoover left washington as the most hated man in america with his motorcade being pelted with rocks and fruit and exiled completely. whenever anyone suggested to franklin roosevelt that hoover could be useful hoover knows a lot and he was a great humanitarian relief worker before he became president. he would say i am not jesus christ. i am not raising herbert hoover from the dead. harry truman was reading the report that said 1 hundred million people in europe were at risk of starting because the continent had been so devastated. knowing how the roosevelt white house would react truman secretly males a letter to hoover saying would you be willing to come and talk to me and the two men meet. this picture was take

in the can work together to make democracy work you know in one thousand nine hundred six when harry truman was president republicans and that a lot. took control of the house and senate for the first time since the great crash and only held up for two hears and you know got kicked out for forty but they not only passed half tartly but they basically refused to do anything about harry truman's fair deal plan the national health care system you know paycheck protection all kinds of things they they just cancel all of them he alternately ran against them as the do nothing congress are the republicans right now playing out the exact same playbook and and do you think that the american people are going to wake up to it the way they did when you know an infant in the election forty eight absolutely i think that barack obama is going to run against congress he's going to run against a do nothing congress he's going to say that i have proposed one hundred things to put americans back to work to make america a fairer place and i have been opposed by the republicans going congress and you know what

[laughter] harry truman was reading the reports that said 100 million people in europe or at risk of starving because the continent had been so devastated. and so, exactly how the roosevelt white house would react to this, truman secretly males a letter personally to hoover saying, would you be willing to come in and talk to me? and the two men meet. this picture is taken in may of 1945. truman has only been in office for a matter of weeks and they are very suspicious of each other and hoover afterwards thinks nothing is going to come of this. within a year hooper has been given a staff and a plane and sent by truman 55,000 miles around the world. he went to 22 countries and he met with 36 prime ministers and seven kings and the pope. his mission was to move food from the countries that had it to the countries that needed it. in doing so these two presidents honed this partnership that existed so far outside of policy differences, political differences, because they both were so committed to what needed to be done and that first laid the foundation, laid the philosophical premise for

it works for dewey, and he almost beat harry truman in 1948. just like the empty speeches are working for mitt rom nay as he closed the gap on the president. watch the comparison. let's start with free enterprise. >> americans have come to pass under our free system of productive enterprise. >> not just because i love job creators. it's because i love jobs. >> the only way to win the peace is to provide strength. >> american strength is essentially for our kids, for us, and for the world. >> the only thing they're afraid of is strength greater than his. >> i have the force to communicate our strength. >> there will begin in washington the biggest unraveling, unsnarling, untangling operation in our nation's history. >> we got to have people who stop thinking of themselves of just republicans and democrats and think of themselves as americans. >> i thank you with all of my heart for your friendship and confidence. >> i love this country. >> we're out of time. >> i'm getting the sign you're ready for lunch. >> is our time gone? >> you're the best.

harry truman would not have recognized it. being president mean us are in charge and you have to take responsibility. president obama is trying to run against president bush. he is eight years too late for that. he needs to talk future. not the past. very disappointing. you listen to the tone. two years ago at this spot, president clinton said give us two more years and if we cannot fix this throw us out of office. three and a half years ago president obama said i will fix this at the end of four years or i will be a one-term president and he promised to cut the deficit if half, he has not. promised to get unemployment before low 8 percent, and has not. promised a plan on entitlements. a lot of politically popular rhetoric --. >>neil: but you mention harry truman, of course, he campaigned in 1948 against a do-nothing congress and that worked for him but now it is not the same because there is only one branch of the legislative government that the other party controls but having said that, i wonder whether republicans risk gett

>> we're sit 30 feet from harry truman's official white house portrait. base are asking when are you going to get your harry truman on. >> thank you, mr. president. last night at the republican debate some of the hopefuls that hope to get your job, they defended the practice of waterboarding. i'm wondering if you think they're uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible. >> sean: do you think the media has been too easy on him, your colleagues? >> yes. clearly and for a variety of reasons that are hard to correct, but we at the daily caller will not try to be easy on him and try not to be easy on the next president. it's our job to work for the american people through our publication to provide them the information that the politicians are reluctant to hand out. we've got to do our job. >> sean: all right, thanks. neil munro. interesting to see the tape of reagan. makes me laugh. here's a peek at what's coming up. big show tonight on the record. >> i had to write down notes, the show is so big. we expect the decision on health care at any moment. two unite

harry truman campaigned against them. he said the republicans weren't doing anything. they were trying to block his legislation. well, the infamous 80th congress, they spent about 20% less time than congress does in session now, but they passed nearly 400 bills in 1947. in fact, in 1948, the year he was campaigning against them, they passed another 500 bills into law. the last time congress was this unproductive was during the 104th congress. that was bill clinton's first term when the government shut down back in 1995. so even shutting down then, they passed 88 bills. but the interesting thing, joe, they managed to confirm about 30,000 people compared to only 19,000 on this last congress. so any way you look at the number, not the substance, but just the actual productivity numb berer numbers, this group is really setting some records. >> thanks, bertha, i couldn't help, and hugh, i think some -- did some good things happen after that first clinton congress where not a lot got done? was it me or did that not usher in an era of -- >> it did. we do not want congress to

harry truman was trying to do something similar in ways.ratic presidents. lyndon johnson was able to get medicare and medicaid through. bill clinton tried hard to accomplish what president obama did. >> let me jump in. you're fast forwarding too quickly. let me take you back. let me go back to richard nixon. this is what we found. take a listen. >> richard nixon, which i happen to work for put forth a very comprehensive plan which looks a lot in structure like the obama plan. >> a comprehensive plan. what did that entail? >> very similar to this. richard nixon is considered the last of the new deal presidents. he did clean air and water act and created the environmental protection agency and for health care because the american people believed the federal government had answers all the way from franklin roosevelt to ronald reagan. it's in the reagan revolution of the 1980s that you see a turn back of if you like great society measures and nixon was part of that era when the belief that government could help in the air. >> we have some repor

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and -- i don't even like to think about what might happen under those circumstances and it is harry truman's fault. and the point i want to make her ises, president truman happened to believe very strongly that it was very bad for someone who had never been elected to act as president. so when the statute was revised right after world war ii, he was adamant, even to the point of over -- he was adamant that somebody who had been elected ought to be in the line of succession, and despite the constitutional difficulties with the arrangement and despite the problem of changing party, president truman said, well, i'm the president and that's what we're going to do. and one reason we have that, and so much particular power in the president of the united states is of course we have a quite short, a quite spare constitution and one that is very, very hard to change. and put all of those things together and you have a great deal of authority invested in the president. i think the single most important change that may well be made, will be the constitutional creation of a federal central bank. as a co

harry truman died at christmas. johnson died in january.ixon is although. >> this picture tells you all you need to know about how george herbert slusher broke his feeling. not every president gets on with numbers of the other party. jimmy carter has been a challenge for all of them. [laughter] probably because it's in his nature to be my way or the highway kind of guy. he's also had another challenge. he left office at the age of 56 or 57. in september jimmy carter becomes the longest living ex-president in american history. 31 years, eight months, 24 days, surpassing herbert hoover's record. that is not an easy burden to bear. he has worked very hard at his second career and invented the modern presidency. when he got out of office he was depressed for years and didn't know what to do. he survive for long life. this is going to be hard. but he writes the books can muster is doing charitable status. he has done huge amounts of things at home and overseas in the last 31 years. he won a nobel prize, but also has a way. they have alternative

harry truman campaign against the do nothing congress. he has to figure out a way to explain in and not-53 minute way how he has been stymied. >> one of my favorite colonist'' rights this week that barack obama's opponent is "a stolid, ."ffe-prone challenger dougl the less we see of them, the better each of them fares. >> that is a clown question, bro. [laughter] back story to that -- look it up on twitter. this is not lincoln-douglas. what we're seeing is a relatively weak republican candidate -- there were others on the bench who were stronger, and romney is not a natural conservative who can make the case that ryan and mitch daniels could. obama is a president who got his way in the first two years and who has a dismal economy. i would say one thing -- a lot of liberals, like william ballston, adviser in the clintondministration, excellent social scientist, who says that what obama can and should do is to seize the issues, entitlement reform our tax reform. it is christie, but it would give him an argument. he does not have one now. >>

one last thing -- harry truman campaign against the do nothing congress. he has to figure out a way to explain iin a not-53-minute way how he hahas been stymied, if he believes that. >> one of my favorite columnists righ this week at "barack obama's opponent is a stolid, gaffe-prone challenger for whom conservatism is a second language, and unless we sesee of these gentlemen -- unless we see ofhese gentlemen, the better each of them affairs." >> that is a clown question bro. [laughter] back story there. look it up on n the internet, on twitter. yes, this is not the finest of presidential campaigns. it is not lincoln-douglas. what we're seeing is a relatively weak republican candidate -- there were others on the bench who were stronger -- and romney is not a natural conservative who can me the case that ryan or mitch danls could. obama got his way in the first two years and has a dismal ececonomy. there were a lot of liberals like william galston adviser in the clinton administration, excellent social scientist, who says that what obama can and should do is

continental shelf, and i see you nodding to say that, and you point to the 1945 proclamation by harry truman regarding the outer continental shelf lands act. the problem is that nowhere in that proclamation or anywhere else has president truman or anyone else set out the longitude and the latitude markers of the outer edge of our continental shelf, and the only way we can achieve certainty with respect to those demarkations is through an international agreement of some ki kind. now, i -- we're not going to go into length about this, but i do want to pursue this. we may have some of you back or all of you back at some point in time here when we get this paper and get people's answers and we get the answers on the record. i'm concerned, secretary rumsfeld, about a recommendation for the united states businesses to have to joint venture with another country to exploit our resources, or what might be our resources. that really concerns me. i mean, if you want to talk about american sovereignty and american interests, i don't want to share it with another country, and -- and under this treaty if

harry truman was president. >> here is another woman who is not retiring just yet. >> she's never retiringbetty white and her fans are seeing double. her joke after seeing herself in wax. >> and a reminder that if you have a consumer problem or question, just call the hot line. vo,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,, >> what a treat to see that she wa >> by the time the cost the cooks, you throw in the path that ... >> other ingredients to assemble for this dish, ps, philo beans, trimmed, scallions, parsley, pepper, and garlic. >> the sauce, garlic and oil. >> once the garlic is going hot pepper is added to spice things up. then they had fallen beans and peas and their blanched at a time. now her secret for the sauce. >> you just take a little bit right out of the pasta ... follow me, and you go right in here, and then, this mix the sauce. >> for this recipe, you want half a cup of marinara, that is topped off with a drizzle of olive oil. >> we throw in scallions. one after another. you see how easy. a little parsley, and the shrimp. you throw the shrimp in at the last minute. the pasta is cooked. a littl

but by inspiring these people, the way our beloved ronald reagan did in the cold war, the way harry truman stood up when the american people were war weary, the way that leaders throughout our history has. that's the heritage and greatness of america that i think calls for american exceptionalism. everybody has called the 20th century the american century. i believe it's still possible for the 21st century to be called with a new relationship the nations throughout the world, a partnership, that the 21st century could also be called the american and friends century. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next, we are very honored to be able to welcome another insightful and important voice on turkey, turkish ambassador namik tan. he's a friend of the middle east institute and of the united states. he has been turkey's envoy in the united states since 2010 but he's no stranger to the u.s. this is actually his third diplomatic assignment here. he has risen quickly in the turkish foreign ministry since his first stint in washington and that is a reflection of his outstanding diplomatic talent

the steel seizure case which davis argued at age 79 before the court ruled in his favor through harry truman out of the steel mills and it's one of the most important cases in american history and davis was called on to represent the steel industry which was a compliment to every one period, but to be $79 years old and to accomplish this it was aye an accomplishment for his career. so in summary my second reason for writing the book is both were exemplary public serve aan and even if know some was a die-hard liberal he would appreciate the integrity of the two men and if one happens to be a conservative, i think he should hold coolidge and davis as genuine heroes. very briefly, and i'll be finished. the third reason for writing the book, and again, this was one that i didn't have in mind when i started, but when i was thinking of looking at the 1920s and was interested in davis and coolidge as men, the point at which their two lives intersect was the election of 1924 and i thought that would be a good thing to write on and i looked around and there was nothing that i would be able to find an

harry truman, lyndon johnson, richard nixon, jimmy carter and bill clinton all took steps to create national health care coverage during their time in the white house. none of them able to successfully implement that legislation. >>> now for the real news, let's huddle up around the water cooler to watch congressman luis gutierrez come down with a raging case of bieber fever while playing a game he called pick the immigrant. the supreme court immigration threw out much of the arizona law but kept the most controversial that allows them to ask people to present paperwork proving they are in the country illegally if stopped with another crime. he brought props to the house floor. here are the kids. bieber, celina gomez, his girlfriend. here he is yesterday. >> this is for our young c-span. justin bieber and celina gomez. these young people have overcome their very different national origins and become apparently a happy couple. i'm sure justin helped gomez learn all about american customs and feel more at home in her adopted country. oh, wait a minute. i'm sorry, because i'm not a trained ariz

the way harry truman stood up when the american people were war weary. that's the heritage and greatness of america that i think calls for american exceptionalism. everybody has called the 20th century the american century. i believe it's still possible for the 21st century to b

when george marshall was first appointed secretary of the state by harry truman, he was asked in a press conference, did you have a good education at vmi, virginia military institute? he said, no, i didn't. they said, why not, sir? he said, because they taught no history. a leader has to know history. so we've got to have leaders in the media, leaders in the press, leaders in institutions, such as this, who take this cause to heart and do something about it. there's nothing wrong with the younger generation. the younger generation is terrific. any problems that they have, any failings they have in what they know and don't know and how they use the english language is not their faults. it's our faults. and we've got to hold the media responsible. and this turning of our political life and our -- and the future of the world into a sports event where it's all about who is ahead and what the polls are, and the questions they ask at these so-called debates, inane! it's like they're playing down to the lowest common denominator. we've got to demand more of them. [ applause ] >> all right. we h

he ran against fdr in 1944, and of course famously against harry truman in 1948. but remember, dewey had been the gang buster, this great courtroom prosecutor who became famous while he was still in his 30s for putting away the lukes of lucky luchiano and others. he was a courtroom performer. and that translated superbly well to a television studio. >> oh, now, richard, let me disagree a little bit. i mean, this is a guy that has, and i have to look around. is it claire booth luce who said he looks like he's an ornament on a wedding cake. >> but the other side of that, he, for example, he was a number of guys -- he couldn't be handled. people said the first thing you have to do is shave off your mustache. it reminds people of charlie chaplain or worse, hitler. and he wouldn't. and he wouldn't -- he also had remember the two front teeth, there was a big gap between his teeth. he wouldn't do it. why? his wife liked him that way. that tells you something about personal character if nothing else. but i think there's a persuader, someone who would marshal facts and mak

am reminded because i have been looking recently at the second world war and its aftermath of harry truman's expectation that george marshall will quote, clean up, unquote, the state department. marshall like grant does nothing of the kind. his instinct is to walk in, find out what its good in the organization, and reward it rather than, of course, this was a tk tech knee of grant's. the campaign-- the army of the potomac's campaign, according to one grant biographer was quote, a hideous disaster in every respect save one." it worked. it was in the military strategy, in the wilderness, an affair of nightmarish inhumanity, inept military strategy that ranks one of the worst such episodes in our history of national warfare. to soldiers of the two next generations when they were searching for comparisons of the agony of war and the argon forest in 1918, and in the hertgen forest in the fall and winter of '44/'45, they thought immediately of the wilderness. you must permit me to say also to this audience, because look so many of our fellow americans, we are drawn to the civil war and to the seco

i think the cold war was won by millions of american people going back to harry truman and beyond. i think that reagan -- i think jack will have to answer whether gorbachev was more important. my own feeling is that in fact he was. but that ronald reagan had an extraordinary view developed over 30 years of reading. he had never been to the soviet union and an extraordinary view that they could not stand up to the united states. the first time -- i remember not the first time but a time i was in the soviet union and i had a room at a hotel off red square. and i walked in with my wife and i had known from past experience that you have to bring a stopper, because there were never stoppers in the sinks in the soviet union. and it had been a long time getting there. i put the stopper in, put some water in and shaved and took out the stopper and the water came down on my feet. at that moment, i thought these people aren't going to beat us at anything. and i think ronald reagan had come to that conclusion before i had. >> before you had? >> yes. he had -- >> an instinct. >> you used the w

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many times since world war ii, starting with harry truman. >> he wanted to increase the availability of doctors, hospitals, and have the government serve as a guarantor of insurance for all americans. >> but in congress truman's plan never got so much as a vote. >> the american medical association, very wealthy, very powerful lobby group, also vehemently campaigned against truman's health care plans. >> we do not want socialized medicine. >> in the 1960s, a similar fight. ronald reagan before becoming governor of california recorded this message. pass medicare and the united states would soon become like the communist soviet union. >> one of these days you and i are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in america when men were free. >> but reagan's efforts fell short. in 1965 president lyndon johnson signed the law creating medicare. health insurance for every american over the age of 65. and medicaid for the poor. it wasn't just democrats. richard nixon had thoughts on health care. >> richard nixon put together a very

harry truman inherited this taping system. he hardly used it. i'm sure my friends at the truman library would not be mad at me if i made fun a little bit of the truman tapes because he didn't like the taping system at all. so most of what we hear on the tapes are the admiral clock that is in the oval office. there are a few conversations preserved. fdi didn't inherit the taping system, but he was accustomed to using a dictabelt so it could pick up conversations around the desk. there are a few of his tapes that survived. the big tapers, if you will, are john f. kennedy, lyndon johnson and president nixon. john f. kennedy left us about 270 hours of tape. in fact, kennedy library has, i believe, just released a few more tapes. they've almost released all of those tapes. lyndon johnson left us 800 hours. most of them are telephone tapes. and the johnson library has released all of the telephone tapes. there are still some tapes that were done in the cabinet room that are to be reviewed and released i'm sure in the next few years. we're talking abou