when fdr dies: and the united nations is born, harry truman was the president. very quickly, in the truman years, we have bombs being dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. how do you assess his decision to use atomic weapons to win the war against japan. prof. leuchtenburg: it is something that bothered me a long time at the time and i have never been able to shake it off since. been so mucheady bondsation with ordinary -- bombs in japan, dresden, and elsewhere. we had not seen a very great step up beyond this. the more that i wrestled with it he was at i felt that a culminating moment. someone said that if he had not and there had been hundreds of thousands of more deaths, as there would have been , in the pacific, and it had been found out that it could have prevented those deaths by this single am a terrible act, he not only would have been impeached and removed in office, but should have been. i quote in the book one of the aides as saying it was a .orrible act he said the whole goddamn war was horrible. there was going to be an awful loss of life no matter what

happened under harry truman. most important of all, the civil rights messages. disappointment of the civil rights committee. and, his message to congress. , i was the only flight. i was 23. we had an office on a street. those of us on the steps could not sit down at a drugstore fountain and have lunch. we had to walk for blocks to assemble the service. in order to be able to eat together. willn's summer its message be the appointment of the committee in 1947. that, the intervention was briefed. a number of civil rights cases before the supreme court. that transformed the entire political landscape. >> dwight eisenhower had some civil rights moments. a federal intervention in little rock. but, how do he look at eisenhower? in grad school, there is the idea that eisenhower ironed things out. there has been a revisionism that he was more hands-on. did you miss something on him back then? >> certainly. that eisenhower demanded all memos be only a paragraph long so that his lips would not get tired. there were bumper stickers. to have agoing golfer, why not elect ben

the great accomplishments, not only of this president but of the democratic party going back to harry truman. the republicans are -- [ applause ] you know, the republicans are determined to repeal it and they tried 62 times just to turn it back to the insurance companies. senator sanders and i share the same goal. we want to get to universal health care coverage. before it was called obama care it was called hillary care, as you remember. >> i remember. >> i fought really hard, the insurance companies and drug companies spent millions against me. i know what it's like to go up against the status quo and special interests. so when president obama succeeded, i was thrilled. i don't agree with senator sanders that we should start over, that we should throw our country into a contentious national debate about health care again. we're at 90% coverage. i'm going to fix what needs to be fixed, we're going to move from 90 to 100, which is a lot easier to get to than starting at zero to get to 100. so we have a difference. i think that is important. [ applause ] >> i want you to meet some of the folk

harry truman used the desk before me. a month after he became president, he asked judge jackson to be the chief prosecutor so, justice jackson went to nurnberg and, for the better he was the years, chop -- the chief prosecutor at the trials. tied court can do a lot of things and, what we should really do is decide to rehear a case. you can be tied with nine judges and one decides they cannot participate in the case. when that happens, the court does a number of things and this is important. next in the shadow of the nine months we are away from people getting a chance to vote and lifetime appointment on the court is important. served for a quarter this is something worth thinking about and, frankly, at this moment and others that have occurred, it theoften been the case that american people ought to have a say as to who sits in the supreme court seat and that will happen and i think it is the best thing to happen this time with a lot at stake. on secondourt does amendment matters, on first amendment matters, those freedom

the b-52 was gnawing rated during harry truman tonight. talk you mention harry truman, you're talking about their presidents. the challenge is we're not modernizing the equipment necessary to fight fiercely and to fight in a way that protects the troops. that has to happen as well. we have -- donald trump in one of the great moments of one debate was asked about the nuclear triad, and he clearly had no clue what he was talking about. it was obvious volunteered belief. a little scary because we need to modernize that capability for deterrent effect. across the spectrum we need to rebuild the military. then we need have a commander in chief that won't impose political considerations on top of the department of defense in return for reform and modernization, which is essential, we ought to have the backs of the military. the commander in chief should not try to politicize thing, centralize power inside onational security council. when i'm president i will have the backs of the military ask for options. you don't outsewers this. you accept res

douglas brinkley about the president he has met and shares his insight on others like william taft, harry trumand calvin coolidge. the new york historical society hosted this 90 minute event. [applause] >> good morning, thank you for being here. one public service announcement. we will be taking questions. when that happens, we ask you to just ask one question, tried to keep it brief, but also tell us your name.

harry truman couldn't get elected this way. >> stephen: harry truman wasn't elected the first time. >> but he won reelection. but my point sit's sound bites. how are you going to elect a president on the basis of a clever sound bite, especially if the sound bite is designed to attack somebody else. look, let me just tell you so you understand. if i can't win by being fundamentally positive, what's the point in winning? ( cheers and applause ) i mean, ought to win -- >> okay, so what's the positive message? the positive message that i'm hearing so far is that i'm positive. but what's your positive vision for america? >> look, we have to balance budgets, have commonsense regulations. we've got to cut taxes -- >> so some regulation is okay. you're running as a republican and some regulation is okay. >> look, the republican party is my vehicle. ( cheers and applause ) it has never been. so here's the thing, stephen. >> stephen: boom, boom. i got a mic drop on that one. that's crazy. >> here's the thing. look i was the chairman of the budget committee when we balanced the federal budget. w

harry truman et in the capital. and now we're working on that process. but we're also trying to make sure that the president of the united states who was a resident in the fifth congressional district and who served in world war one, which connected all of this together, received the proper attention. and so we're working on both of those. and this is the realization of bringing all of that together at one time. and so as the hope for peace began to fade after the war had ended, it became apparent that this would not be the last war. it would be the children of world war one veterans who would become the greatest generation because they were called to fight yet another war. world war ii. and so i am thrilled to be here. and with some excitement wait design unveiling of the winner. i would like to present the person who pushed and pushed and pushed and without his push i'm not so sure that we would be here today. and that is the vice chairman of the commission. virginia.ntain of [applause] . >> thank you, congressman cleaver. i appreciate that very much.

harry truman couldn't get elect this had way. the thing i love are town halls. >> harry truman wasn't elected the first time. >> my point is, it is sound bites. how will you elect the president on the basis of a clever sound bite particularly if the sound bite is designed to attack somebody else. >> i thought kasich held his own. he says he prefer town hall meetings and held several trying to get his message of balancing budgets and cutting taxes and and bringing people together bringing the message to voters around the country. >> dan: a hospital held hostage by hackers coming up next at 5:00. also the latest in apple's encryption battle with the f.b.i >> is the right to privacy more important than helping with a terror investigation daniel snyder plus a new national report out today on bad bridges and worrisome findings on the >>> live from cleveland's newscenter, driven by don joseph toyota in kent this is cleveland 19 news. interesting, the crow of a los angeles hospital says he paid a ransom to hackers who locked up the hosp

harry truman was just a gast. he didn't accept the feds being an agency and when he could not get his way in private he announced publically the fed agreed to keep the rates at 2% which they had not done. he fired one of the board members, appointed someone else from the treasury who he thought would be his pigeon on the federal reserve board. but then the fed insisted and they would not back down. from then on it has been a more independent agency and powers have been more based in washington. i will say that one effect of the recent crisis is the federal reserve worked cloche closer with the treasury. yellen and ben bernanke meet more often and they are coordinating with the government more so which might be appropriate for a crisis but i think at least until and at some point janet yellen is going to have to say she is running the feds or the feds independence will be compromised. >> do you believe the zero recognize in interest rates is leading to inflation and if so could that have negative repercussions? >>

in harry s. truman doesn't stand for anything. that's his official middle name. that's why you never put a period after s in harry s truman. >> on the twitter trail, hillary clinton says we live in a world with serious foreign policy issues. we need serious candidates. shouting and chest beating are not a strategy. voters head to the polls here, and a number of issues will be decided on march 15th. >> we'll talk more about those issues. let's start with this one. orange county, they have a >> there has been a lot of controversy. they will build a new library. the city wants to spend $30 million building the library. there will be an event center attached to it. two seats are up for grabs. that library question has kind of been driving the race there. very, very contentious issue so far. >> the development has been a sticky issue. we'll see when this is decided how residents feel about the way their city is working. >> a lot of these races as opposed to the other countries where you're trying to stop people from leaving the community, here we are debating how fast

on the democratic side, president harry truman didn't like the idea of having his name on the ballot renomination as president, but agreed to allow it. he was defeated in new hampshire by tennessee senator estes keyfoffer who made his name chairing national hearings on organized crime, something that didn't make him popular with some big city democratic bosses of the day who didn't like having their backroom relations with the mob brought to such public light. when they got to their convention in chicago, the democrats picked the squeaky clean high tone governor of illinois, add lay stevenson as their presidential nominee. we all know what happened then in november. eisenhower served for two popular terms as president. 1952, a year that new hampshire both dethroned a president and discovered one. more coming tomorrow night when we take up the 1968 election that saw a glorious anti-vietnam campaign of eugene mccarthy that led to the forced retirement of president lyndon johnson. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> tonigh

harry truman couldn't get elected this way. >> stephen: harry truman wasn't elected the first time. >> but he won reelection. but my point sit's sound bites. how are you going to elect a president on the basis of a clever sound bite, especially if the sound bite is designed to attack somebody else. look, let me just tell you so you understand. if i can't win by being fundamentally positive, what's the point in winning? ( cheers and applause ) i mean, ought to win -- >> okay, so what's the positive message? the positive message that i'm hearing so far is that i'm positive. but what's your positive vision for america? >> look, we have to balance budgets, have commonsense regulations. we've got to cut taxes -- >> so some regulation is okay. you're running as a republican and some regulation is okay. >> look, the republican party is my vehicle. it is not my master. ( cheers and applause ) it has never been. so here's the thing, stephen. i got a mic drop on that one. that's crazy. >> here's the thing. look i was the chairman of the budget committee when we balanced the federal budget. we h

. >> when president harry truman desegregated the armed forces in 1948 and supported anti-lynching viewsuthern democrats aring or descension. >>> richard russell - his supporters paraded around the arena waving the flag. when dixie crats nominated their president sales exploded and it was the symbol of segregation. in south carolina, the confederate flag received new prominence in 1962 when it was raised over the state house in an act of defiance over the civil rights movement. >> not everyone in south carolina is still living in the 18th acceptedury. >> reporter: four years later, south carolina legislators reached a compromise. the flag was moved from the top of the state house to the south side of the complex, next to a monument to confeder u soldiers. georgia's flag incorporated the confederate cross but was redesigned. mississippi's plastic bag contains the confederate scprorks voters decided 2:1 to keep the emblem as part of the flag >>> embattled flag - this time on the programme we are joined by bertram hays davis, president of the bovoer foundation, dedicated to the preservation

greatest accomplishments not only of this president but of the democratic party going back to harry truman. [applause] >> you know, the republicans are determined to repeal it and they've tried 62 times. just to turn it back to the insurance companies. senator sanders and i share the same goal. we want to get to universal health care coverage. >> now interestingly enough, there were a couple of other things that had come up here, including bernie sanders age. he is 74 years old. and one person in the town hall had asked him look we've had a lot of two term presidents. would you still be interested in running for a second term if you do get a first term? and bernie sanders answered that very eloquently and he said you know what? i'm healthy and yes i would. but he definitely poite pointedt like yes i may be a little bit older but i can do this. he also pointed out something where he pointed out i'm still an underdogs here, that's how he considers himself. his average contribution, $27 to his campaign. one more thing hillary clinton, trustworthiness ciem up. ontrustworthiness came up. one pe

ed: he served under harry truman and referred to himself as the president' ed: we are back with andy card . question number three is can you , name the only person who took the chief of staff job twice? andrew: james a baker the third. ed: you were acting as chief of staff for age w, right? andrew: i was the deputy when johnson in a left and sam skinner was coming in, so for that interim i was pretending to be the chief of staff. ed: which president has appointed the most chiefs of staff? andrew: bill clinton? ed: the current one, barack obama. this last question isn' t related to the chief of staff position, but the answer is so interesting, we had to include it. barbara bush, is the fourth cousin, four times removed, from which u.s. president? andrew: franklin pierce . he was considered the most handsome of all of the president' s. ed: i never knew that. emily: it fits then that this is the president of franklin pierce university. andrew: one year and about six weeks. emily: how is it going? andrew: it is going awesome. we have a campus in southwestern massachusetts that is beautif

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thomas jefferson, james madison, garfield, arthur, fdr, harry truman a north carolina four-year old has it down... tommy johnston can name every president just by looking at their picture. his parents admit... tommy is the one teaching them. "whatever he can learn he wants to learn. and we have to check him sometimes because we don't think he's right. i'm about 0-10 on that." it isn't just president... tommy can rattle off the names of every planet... the name of every the only draw back... all that learning is exhausting. warren harding, calvin coolidge, i'm going to go--" "you getting bored?" "no i'm getting tired." the iowa basketball team looked the iowa basketball team looked sluggish sunday night, but still beat minnesota. tonight, another challenge. the hawkeyes at penn state... season. small crowd, especially with the #4 team in the nation visiting. starts well for iowa. peter jok scores 5 points in less than 30 seconds. iowa leads penn state 19-13. but the nittany lions, normally bad shooting threes, they make a season high ten threes. penn state up 8 at the break. second half,

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the great accomplishments not only of this president and the democratic party going back to what harry truman. the republicans are determined to repeal it, and they tried 62 times. >> joining us to talk about tonight's town hall event, it's not a caucus, it's a primary. check in if i'm wrong. you're not locked into whatever party you're in. >> that's right. this is all bernie sanders's backyard. the first real home-field advantage. both candidates seem to be at home tonight. both of them had a lot more time to work with now that they're one candidate short, and both of tonight. >> what's the difference, iowa, evangelicals, we know that. ted cruz did very well there. what did new hampshire folks -- what do they care about? what were they asking tonight? >> they were caring about the affordable care act and other obama policies. there are also concerns over the economy and foreign policy, especially the actions that the as syria and other foreign policies like to. >> frank, were hillary and bernie falling all over each other saying no, i'm more progressive, no i'm more progressive. >> the moder

ever since someone appointed someone to the supreme court with congressional experience was harry truman and the result is i think a clear constitutional bias in favor of constitutional power, where the court kind of said the president, foreign affairs can do everything, and the statute that requires parents to have the option of identifying israel as the place of birth for a child born in jerusalem. really n. my judgment, it's worth constitutional jury is prudence, vastly in favor of the executive branch, and i think amy, she sits on the senate judiciary committee. >> the attorney general of minnesota. >> and the senate, there's no history of any -- because past senators have been appointed to the supreme court, and every one of them goes through supersonic speed. >> before we go, jp, are there issues of particular interest to the political defense fund that are going to slow down, because we have half a minute of this vacancy? >> sure, there's a risk that this will draw out the process, or we still won't get a firm answer in constitutional or bill of right cases. voting rights, and fut

harry truman. >> tommy has been sponging up knowledge since before he was old enough to talk about it. >> whatever he can learn he wants to learn and we have to double-check him sometimes because we do not think he is right. i am 0 for 10 on that. >> i am -- >> are you getting bored? >> tired of schooling you on presidents. >> saturn, use rain news neptune but pluto is not a planet. >> why? >> he used to be. he was a neptune. >> educational milestones for a four-year-old suggests they should be able to name colors and shapes. what is the capital of georgia? >> atlanta. >> knows all the states: >> california. sacramento. >> and all the capitals. >> mont peelier. >> if you are wondering how he got to be so smart the answer is as simple as he is cute. >> i want to know new things. >> in matthews with the good news, kristen hampton wbtv on your side. >> that is unbelievable. >> stay curious. >> gosh what a great story. i have a four-and-a-half-year-old and i'm feeling like a terrible parent right now. poor parker does not know one >> and dad is saying 0 for 10 correcting him. >> awesome.

two weeks later he got something called the situation room, it used to be a bowling alley for harry truman who played poker and never really bowled and moved that to the old executive office building. this is what the first situation room looked like. it looks like early '60s suburban rec room or something. this is what -- this is what john f. kennedy wanted and it's what he got, it enabled him to get information he wanted faster without going through the cha chainchain channels at state department, cia, he wanted raw, unfiltered, fast information and that's what he got. and the irony is that a year and a half after the bay of pigs, the situation room played a really big role in what was probably his greatest foreign policy achievement and that was the cuban missile crisis, where he convinced the soviets to remove their missiles. so the situation room actually played a huge role in his presidency, simply for that reason. the situation room is badly named, by the way. this is current floor plan. it not one room but several rooms. this is below ground. there's the oval office, one floor abov

thurmond's career in the senate and recalled in 1948, senator thurmond ran for president against harry truman. >> i want to say this about my state. when strom thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. we are proud of him. [applause] if the rest of our country had followed our lead, we would not have all these problems. don: which seems a relatively mild statement except that senator lott forgot senator thurmond ran as the segregationist candidate in 1948 , who wanted to integrate the armed services. as a result, there was a huge amount of pressure within for him tot's party step down as the leader of his party. asntually, he did resign majority leader of the senate as a result of this one statement made in this one room. just aboutinder that everything a politician says is probably going to be recorded and everything they say is going to be analyzed. just about everything they say will be held against them at some time or another, even such an occasion as a 100th birthday party. >> happy birthday. [applause] don: i should mention why it is building. dirksen when the first senate office b

teddy roosevelt, republican, and harry truman, democrat. now, if i could change that, i would make fdr second and washington third and truman four and g.r. fifthth. no debate about lincoln. even hillary clinton yesterday request said the best president she believes was lincoln even though she's not of her party. everybody accepts lincoln pretty much. except some confederate sympathizers, i guess there's some who hate him, but that's -- now, the other question of any major threats, yes, the most recent was the one of omar gonzalez who got over the fence and got into the white house in september 2014. we had two plots against obama during the campaign of 2008 by young men in tennessee and in denver, colorado. the one in denver would have been to shoot him as he accepted the nomination be, almost like a manchurian candidate kind of a scene as he's speaking. there's been tons of threats. and -- [inaudible] threats in the thousands other the years and it is, in a way, miraculous that he has been able to avoid any direct threat. there are always t