harry truman spent a lot of time in the library after. would speak to school children and that was often one of the questions he was asked. kids wanted to know and truman was very forcefully defend the decision to drop the atomic bomb and its unit to children. >> known would've blamed him for that. >> on twitter -- you mentioned early on they opened the 1946 social season in washington. this is significant. it had been ended in the war. this does not seem like it would be in the truman's personal style. >> president truman, one of the most interesting and about him to me, it is something different from him and something bigger that he was representing. he knew nobody -- nobody bet -- better insult the office. when the social season survived, they were stickles -- sticklers. quite tight, black tie, even close, and all that. west in hiss, mr. memoir said the white house had never been so formal and devoted to diplomatic precedent. everything was exactly as it had been before roosevelt. >> they only got one social season. >> yes. entertain f

harry truman with her daughter margaret will do the honors but mrs. tremendous in for a surprise by an oversight that has not been properly prepared as she breaks the glass on impact now mrs. truman unaware is not prepared. [laughter] refusing to be rattled she joined dan. [laughter] let's see how her military takes over the crisis. [laughter] but to the nav here are intervenes a hammer. it even the hammer missives on the first try. [laughter] all's well that ends well despite this stubborn bottle she says of the hospital plans with her blessing. ♪ >> she was not happy about that. >> nobody was trying to set her up spinnaker was just very unfortunate. >> maybe that went with the time. >> but it did encourage her from doing more. >> absolutely. she didn't want people to laugh at her. >> she was no cultural backwater she was the senator's wife she was active in the congressional club active in things and when they got to the white house she knew what to do that bears discussion. among the most formal into tatters the white house ever had. >> host: next w

written about, bipartisan, how harry truman picked hoover to run the hoover commission. and people don't do that anymore. and the fact is that fdr said, i'm going to pick the guy i just beat. and i was afraid of him a bit. i'm going to make him my emissary to europe. three, two -- >> he had a famous dinner with wilke the night before his third inauguration. he stayed up until midnight talking, having a few glasses of wine, and gave him a hand-written note as his emissary. wilke went over there, saw what was pledge was going to london, came back, and made an impassioned plea for lease, and it passed, and fdr gave him full credit for it. >> if he survived, he didn't have good health. dead pretty much four years. if he would have survived, the republican party might be a different party if he had won in '48. >> it might very well have. but by supporting len lease, he probably ruined his chances to get that nomination in '44, as you point out. he was ill, so that precluded it.

constantly reading and talking about it. >> the book on harry truman. he talks about the last 20 years, went home, and sat there and read all the time. i remember i went to see that home and they asked me if i'd like to see a list of all of the books and they gave me a list of the 2,000 books that are still in that house. where did harry truman get in there. he was the last guy to be president. he did not have a college degree. >> he loved reading it as a child. the mother encouraged the habit. he's engrossed as a reader. they could be having an argument and the world could come to an end and harry truman won't look up until they get to the bottom of the page. he spends $5 on a set of mark twain books on a time when they had a lot of must be and read the twain books and loved them a great deal. but i wonder if that point about him not going to college made him feel he had to read in order to keep up with all of the brainy harvard yale types that were in washington. >> did you come across a president that started reading on his own rather than having a f

ten years later, it was harry truman who called on congress to create an optional national health insuranced run by the federal government. a house subcommittee called the plan a communist plot. in the end, it was the korean war that brought truman's efforts to an end. when lyndon johnson signed medicare into law 20 years later, it was the efforts of harry truman he credited with making it possible. in the early 1970s, senator ted kennedy worked behind the scenes with president richard nixon to find a compromise national health care plan. nixon was facing the usual opposition from the usual suspects and kennedy dreamed of a single payor system. but compromise seemed within reach. >> the purpose of this program is simply this -- i want america to have the finest health care in the world. >> but on the very day in 1974 that nixon sent a message to congress proposing a comprehensive national health insurance plan, the house of representatives voted to investigate him over the watergate scandal. the kennedy/nixon talks ended, the nixon presidency ended and the issue of national health care didn

so as harry truman, the buck will stop with me. >> gloria borger is here.the president is under a lot of pressure right now. >> yeah. >> apparently didn't know about angela america's cell phone if you believe this latest report. he didn't know there were significant problems before october 1st rollout of the obama care website but he has often said the buck stops with him. >> i think the buck does stop with him. i think there are two different things here. the website is one thing. and i was talking to senior administration official who sort of explained to me what we all know that many times the president is the last to know things because there's a huge funnel of things that come into the white house. the job of the white house chief of staff and senior advisors to decide just what gets to the president's deck and what does not get to his desk. a lot of things don't even get to the white house. when it came to the web site, the question is, what did kathleen sebelius know? what got to her desk? you might be surprised to know a lot of times when things go

the issue with health care has always in the same when clinton and harry truman tried to tackle it. you have access and cost. obamacare seems to be on half given all the interest in the sign-ups to be dealing effectively with an access question. more people will be covered. the long-term issue is exploding costs and there is a general view that obamacare has not tackled that. that is the next health care debate to come. >> when they try to get these -- the board to go after the cost and look at outcomes, they are called death panels, you cannot pay doctors under this bill for dealing with people because we spend 1/5 of our health care on the last two weeks of life. when you talk to republicans, it is like a hot button issue. how did health care like abortion and guns? it is individual mandate. called individual responsibility it might have worked better because in fact a big part of the resistance comes from young people who did not get insurance because they did not think they needed and they were writing the system in emergency rooms so they have to for co- -- $100 a month pay ins

something democrats have been trying to do since harry truman.t was never going to happen. >> let's figure why he made the mistake. it's smart to learn. i'm going to go back to chip on this question. you know, back in the '60 campaign nixon thought he could carry the south because all the business guys out there, business guys with some money in their pockets were all downtown atlanta that day. and he got the idea because they're applauding him, i'm going to carry georgia. i'm going to break this solid south. he didn't. he was misled by leading indicators. was cruz overwhelmed by all the applause meters at all those right wing events and town hall meetings thinking that echo chamber was the congress? it was the republican caucus, it was the world? is that what happened to him? >> maybe visions of '16 kind of blinded him. like how does he win before '14 and especially this with obama care. when you're trying to figure what was going to be a win, i think at that point they felt like getting it delayed for a year, defunding it. using that as a way t

where did harry truman get his? he was the last guy to be president who did not have a college degree. >> he loved reading as a child. his mother encouraged the habit. it became very engrossed as a reader. his daughter said they could be having an argument and harry wouldn't look up until he got to the bottom of the page. he spent something like $5 on a set of mark twain books at the time when that was a lot of money and he read them and loved them a great deal. but i wonder if that point about him not going to college made him feel like he had to read in order to keep up with all the brainy harvard-yale types who were in washington. >> did you come across any president who started reading on his own rather than having a family that read? >> lincoln clearly. lincoln did not have huge family influences in reading. in fact his father criticized him for his reading. so lincoln really came to it himself and it shaped him and helped him come up from his poor hard scrabble upbringings and really is the one story of a pres

gee, they'll say, it is a shame they don't make them like harry truman anymore.un yea wny way og written and rewritten. i think we have seen enough evidence already and the prediction is that a few decades from now, when enough years have passed and the historians are able to put this era into some meaningful context, my prediction is the chapter on the obama president will begin on 2010 in the state of delaware. >> christine o'donnell, virtually unknown a few weeks ago, but this morning officially the gop candidate for the senate seat vacated by the vice president. >> i think that will be the perfect place for history to start the story of what we're living through right now. not just the shutdown, not just the debt ceiling craziness, but the political stalemate that basically defined washington for the last few years and promises to do so all the way through to the end of barack obama's presidency at least. it is the perfect place to start the story of this period of political history. the perfect place is to -- excuse me, is that republican primary in delaware

. >> what was her relationship with harry and bess truman. >> if i could have said one thing in the harryeanor dance, it would have been when she told then vice president truman that roosevelt had died. eleanor was 3, with heels, she was seven inches taller than harry truman. when she was summoned back from drinking bourbon with sam raburn in the white house, he stands up to me and puts a hand on the shoulder and said harry, the president is dead. and she said, mrs. roosevelt, i'm so sorry. is there anything i'm going to do for you. she says that's the wrong question. you're the one that's in trouble now. >> did you move back to val kill at that point? >> moves back to settle the family estate. she keeps in constant contact with the first american delegation to the planning meeting of the u.n. in san francisco and by august, she is so frustrated with truman that she begins a full court press on truman's politics. so much so that truman appoints her to the first american delegation to the united nation to get her out of the country. >> she lives in new york city a lot. she stays in a place

. >> what was her relationship with harry and bess truman? if i could have seen one thing in the harry-eleanor dance, it would have been when she told then vice president truman that roosevelt had died. eleanor was three inches taller than harry truman and with heels she was seven inches taller. so when he is summoned back from drinking burr bon with sam raburn, eleanor stands up to meet him and she puts her hand on her shoulder. she said harry, the president is dead. i'm e said mrs. roosevelt, sorry is there anything i can do for you? she said that's the wrong question. >> did she move back? >> yes, she moves back to settle the family estate. meanwhile she keeps in constant contact with the first american delegation to the planning meeting of the u.n. in san francisco. and by august she is so frustrated with truman that she begins a full port quest on truman's politics so much so that truman appoints her to the united nations to get her out of the country. >> and she lives in new york city a lot. she stays in a place in greenwich village, an

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. >> the courtship of bess wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri.pendents, 26 miles from where he lived at the time, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house or his aunt and two cousins lived. one afternoon he was over there with his cousins, the family, and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great grandmother had given her a cake and she had cleaned the cake plate and was asking if anybody would take it back over. my grandfather moved with what my mother once described as something once described as the speed of light and grabbed the plate and ran over here and rang the bell on the front door in the hopes that my grandmother would answer the door, and she did. she invited him in and that is the beginning of the formal courtship in 1910. >> continuing the series on first ladies, live at 9:00 eastern on c-span >> a discussion now on the earned income tax credit. a recent report from the treasury department director general found that part of the eit see amos last year should never have been made. we will show you as much of this as

and in 1948, harry truman was picked to lose and won.spondents, it would not be as accurate as if you have a million respondents. but the truth of the matter is, if you have 1,000 adults selected properly and the interviewing done well, then you're going to have a more accurate sample than if you just go out and interview a million people "at random." poussaint: during and after the 1992 presidential campaign, polling numbers were watched with close attention. a third party candidate, ross perot, threw his hat into the ring with george bush, the incumbent republican candidate, and bill clinton, the democratic nominee. americans wondered, would perot's candidacy succeed? and if not, would it cause a shift in the fortunes of the other two candidates by fragmenting the vote? i saw the perot movement as, initially, as being able only to kind of fire a shot across the bow of the status quo and shake things up. and nobody was more surprised than myself that for some period of time, 30 or 45 days, he had a chance to actually be president of thi

do you remember this saying the buck stops here this was a sign of harry truman's desk to keep in mindes to implode. i keep asking myselfhose fault is this? where does this stop? this the ministry should is not taking responsibility the president in the rose garden said no one is a greeting he was about the problem. that is far from of the occult blood vessels like a victim then hhs secretary sebelius said the people calling for her resignation are not the people that she works for. here is the story madam secretary, you work for us. she describes the changes as not optimal. that is that. it is time for the administration to stand up and take responsibility. the president and his cabinet tried to fundamentally change the ways they receive health care. they have cause dislocation and turmoil. more people have lost coverage been under the new program that have been ruled obamacare is a mistake. face it. the best way is to abolish the program and ended. coming up and monday we have the call-in show answer your questions at 6:00 gannett:00 p.m. eastern we want to hear from the we are readi

accepted the nazi surrender and was quite a president and general and people look back like canada harry truman. every republican's favorite democrat. we will see how things turn of the obamacare -- when obama is in the air. will he be a good president? it is how he handles the next week. if he gets up what he fought for then he is finished. if republicans back to teddy roosevelt or even extend if he gives up i don't know what he has to show. this is big-time. i hope we get through this to respect the common fact in the end and not be to risk prone by the end of next week. think you for coming. [applause] >> 8q2 been directed for having me here. >> that was an endorsement of your buck if you are welcome back any time. >> i will stay as long as you do to sign the book. >> he has agreed to personalize. this is how it will work. he will sit here and first come first served. here is a line. >> if you are mafia above sore aficionado's it is

you know, harry truman, john kennedy.they always like them -- i guess they have developed a new fondness now, for nonmembers of the house. because that is certainly not a deference any of them paid to my judgment when i was there. the fact is, i did say in 2009, 2010, when the bill came out in the senate, that i didn't think it was necessity, we could do it other ways. what i did say, one of the critical elements in the bill, it is a great mistake to start picking it apart. one of the things that the tea party fundamentally missed in the effort to relitigate the health care bill, there is an important issue in the legislation, when you passed something, you had your fight and won or lost, you don't immediately undo it. they say oh, it needs predictability, well, they shouldn't change things, things have evolved. it became part of the expectations. so no, i never did say that it wasn't one of the critical elements. at the same time, i consistently said i didn't think it should be repealed on the principle that it is too ea

i thought of harry truman's line was that the buck stops here and she said the buck stops there. >> for people who are getting cancellation notices. how would you describe the individual market before--before the affordable care act because we heard the president describe it. >> sure, some the aspects he described are accurate. you have 14 million people who are on the individual market, they don't get their coverage through an employer or public program so they are on their own, and they're spending and paying the full premium on their own. but just like any other market there are products available by numerous individual policies and health plans, so it's a typical shopping experience for many millions of americans. >> were they subjected to coverage caps, cost caps? yearly caps, lifetime caps. >> yes, they were. but in most cases individuals were purchasing the product they could purchase, and they were getting relatively adequate coverage. >> were they dropped if they were discovered to have a pre-existing condition. >> i'm sure in many cases you would find that folks from dropped i

harry truman had a great -- one of the only few things i remember about harry truman was the placard he had on the desk. ii can't remember when obama has taken the blame for anything. every time something happens, whether it's benghazi the, the irs, the shut down -- every time something happen he blames somebody else. and i'm waiting to see this morning who he's going blame for the three years of wasted time they couldn't get obamacare going. >> host: that speech happening at 1125 this morning. in the last minute. >> guest: bryan wants him to fire somebody and the caller wants him to take the blame himself. i suspect he's going it take the blame himself and say we weren't ready and we should have been. we'll fix it. >> guest: i think yesterday on face the nation. mcconnell made the same point. there are opportunity. we passed welfare reform because clinton and the house republicans came together. there's opportunity here to enact real reform. i think we need presidential leadership. >> o'neal could deliver votes so could ginch. he couldn't deliver to congress. so that's a big differe

harry truman had -- one of the few things i remember about harry truman was the plan liberty -- the placard "the buck stops here." i cannot remember when obama has taken the blame for everything. whether benghazi, the irs, the ship down -- the shutdown, he blames someone else. i am waiting to see who he is going to blame this morning for the 3 years of wasted time that they could not get obamacare going. host: that speech is happening at 11:25 a.m. guest: brian wants him to fire someone, the caller wants him to take the blame himself. i expect table take the blunt himself today. host: brian -- i expect he will take the blame himself. guest: there are opportunities. we passed welfare reform because the clinton and republicans came together. there is opportunity for some reforms. i hope we will see presidential leadership. guest: tip o'neill could deliver a vote, so could newt gingrich. john boehner in 2011, he could not deliver it to congress, that is a big difference. host: steve mcmahon, attorney and cofounder of purple strategies llc. john walsh of bunching strategies. i appreciate you jo

what in the world happened to the party of fdr, harry truman and jfk? the party that wanted to protect the little guy in america. the party that today abandons the littlest guy of all, to the up portion mists knife? to happen to that party? my friends, if texas in the wild imagination would like this woman, i can imagine it, but it tells us something. she is considered a heroine with her bumper sticker -- abortion for any reason in dirty clinics. now there is a cause you can rally two. you know, not many months ago president obama went to a convention of abortionists, people who profit from the deaths of little babies. the president has spoken out about the dirty profits of the ]about the dirty profits of the bankers, the dirty profits of the drug companies, the dirty profits of our energy industry, but he probably walked in to face an audience like this. imagine a room, it was filled with at least as many people, people get up every morning and they only have one thing to do that day, destroy innocent human life. i am told the feeling in the room was e

that is partisan points, he made his point but as president, i cannot imagine harry truman or lyndon johnson or john kennedy or bill clinton or ronald reagan standing there while government shuts down. the defense department is shut down now. the executive branch is it's a bar -- hit so hard by this yet the president is content to sit back and see all the ramifications that will flow from this. you can make things happen and teddy roosevelt lived in my former district. he is the symbol of politics on long island. the guy who got the job done. the president has been awol. certainly missing in action and harry reid is so doug and -- dug in, he says all or nothing so you have him in the situation last week, he said that rather than open up the nih so kids with cancer could be treated, he would rather wait until the whole government opens up. right now i can understand why the american people say pass the vote in both houses. the president is awol and the job is not getting done so we have -- it is time for leadership for people to come together. the government as large as we have, there

it flies in the face of harry truman's line that the puck stops here. >>> the nation's farm bill has centered on funding the $80 billion a year food stamp program but not passing a bill could have unintended consequences for farmers and consumers alike. joining me from washington, d.c. is secretary of agriculture, dan glickman. it's a pleasure to have you on the program. has the farm bill been such a partisan issue historically. >> historically it's one of the least partisan bills that government has dealt with. urban, rural, issues have been resolved and people have worked these things out. it's one of the few pieces of legislation of the last 50 years and almost always done in a bipartisan way. you have farmers with the need to help production agriculture and help new fridays folks, hunger assistance, able to pull those two things together over the years. >> what does it say about this congress that it can't seem to come together to pass this bill? >> well, i'm an optimist. i think they're going to pass this bill. it's been like watching grass grow. it's been really a troublesome p

is not his handling of things in 1944, but the fact that he did not inform his vice president, harry truman, about the manhattan project and other aspects of our strategic aims in the pacific and europe. it seems to me to be very shortsighted. it shows fdr as an egomaniac in a way, or someone him. oh, that he did not take the time to let his vice president know what was going on. his lasting legacy is the united nations. the rockefeller family put a lot f money to attract it to new york city. hat is where we try to solve problems in the world, sometimes with success, sometimes not. the u.n. is the long institutional shadow of franklin roosevelt and it is still running today. host: in response to an earlier color, quote, congress had to get past robert taft of ohio. linda is joining us on the democrats' line. caller: hi. we seem to have drifted off the topic of the obama presidency. to bring it back to the present ituation, i have a long time when historical question to which i do not know the answer -- line historical questions which i do not know the answer. how normal is it for one party

the courtship of beth wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independence, 26 miles from where he lived at the time in 1910, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house, which is where his aunt and two cousins live. one afternoon he was over there with his cousins with the family and his aunt brought in a cake late that my great-grandmother this isn her a cake and nolan had cleaned the cake plate and was asking if anybody would take it back over. whatandfather moved with my mother once described as something approaching the speed of light and grabbed the cake plate and ran over here and rang the bell on the front door in the hope, of course, my grandmother would answer the door. and she did and invited him in. and that's the beginning of their formal courtship in 1910. >> beth truman, as we continue series. are as part of our marker profile series, c-span said down with west virginia democrat senator joe manchin who discussed his political career, his time in the senate, the legacy of his up inessor and growing f

you know, as harry truman says, the buck stops with you.ly, the buck stops with me. i'm the president. and the buck stops with me. i am less interested in passing out blame than i am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer. for ultimately the buck stops with me. >> we are responsible, though. the buck stops with me. >> i won't have my vice president engineering my foreign policy for me. the buck will stop with me because i'll be the president. >> i will be responsible for the vision that this team carries out, so as harry truman says, the buck will stop with me. >> mike baker, i think you're sensing a pattern we were showing there, former cia covert operations officer, and he's also the host of america's declassified that airs this weekend. so mike, if you are tapping personal cell phones of world leaders, i'm not talking about terrorists, world leaders, our friends, do you think the president should have to sign off on that? >> i think, a, i think we certainly know where the buck ends at this point. i think, and if

were strenuous but he might have consulted another veteran of that great world war ii generation, harry truman kept a black on his desk in the white house that said, the buck stops here. that's the article i was thinking of earlier. here's another article, october 10, from new avery, connecticut. in the midst of major cheage this is health care, united health care has sent thousands of pink slips to doctors. they went to physicians caring fored me many -- for medicare patients. they went to doctors caring for medicare advantage patients, it's a plan marketed to seen yos to provide adegreesal services through united health care. a mention of primary care and specialty doctors are affected and it comes a questionable time. open enrollment for medicare starts next tuesday and is still not clear at this time as to which doctors are still in the united net without objection. the connecticut state medical society is fighting back. the biggest concern is patient access to health care. what the goth is looking for is to manage better care by adding a patient-centered medical home so that you have a do

back there, president harry truman back in 1947, he called that congress the do-nothing congress because they only passed 900 bills in two years. look at the last congress under speaker john boehner. they only passed 196. and the congress we have now is on pace to be even yet more unproductive. they hit the august recess six bills behind the record unproductive congress just before them. and maybe they will have a miraculous flurry of activity in coming months, but they might have to show fup they wanted to do that. the last congress under john boehner was the least effective congress in the modern history of congress. the one we have now is on track to be even worse. republicans and democrats disagree on a lot of things. republicans and republicans disagree on a lot of things. but after they lost in the white house and they lost in the senate and they lost in the house last year during the last election, the one idea that the republican party itself formally recommended to its own members is that they find a way, they find a republican way to say yes to doing something about our broken

. >> the courtship of beth wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independence, this is in 1910, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house which is where his aunt and his two cousins lived. one afternoon he was over there with his cousins and the family and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great-grandmother madge gates wallace had given her a cake and mrs. non-had cleaned the cake plate and asked if anyone would take it back. moved at ther speed of light, grabbed a plate and came over here and rang the bell in the hope that my grandmother would answer the door and she did. she invited him in and that is the beginning of their courtship in 1910. >> beth truman as we continue .ur series on first ladies the remarks from former secretary of state hillary clinton. she spoke recently at a center for american progress conference. [applause] birthday.appy it is exciting for me to come at the end of what has been, by all accounts, a fabulously stimulating and exciting day, filled with leaders and thinkers abo

she quickly found her place at the white house under president harry truman.he worked for nine presidents to to follow retiring during the george bush sr. administration. she died from a heart attack on september 18. hollers was 95 years old. arriving in a helicopter and surrounded by cheering followers, pope francis visiting the tomb of his namesake st. francis of assisi today. after a brief prayer service the pope will spend time with poor, sick, and disabled people. he wished the catholic church was more inclusive. >>> a check of the forecast and a look at the roads. >> tom kierein is in the storm team 4 weather center with the latest on a little fog out there. tom? >> we do. watch out many of the rural roads got some fog. we're getting this time of the year deer collision season. watch out for deer lurking in the fog. watch out for students waiting for buses, too, and the patchy fog we have is getting under a quarter mile visibility. now reports coming in around the shenandoah valley and the blue rippling out in the mountains as well as around the chesapea