the general public was like who is harry truman? own mother was nervous for him. >> what about bess truman? >> she was with him there in the apartment. i don't know. roosevelt, he didn't admire truman, he approved him for vice president and thought it was a good idea. it was in washington he was well known, he wasn't a household word. roosevelt was in for 13 years. he was a fixture like a king or something. the idea of his declining, most people didn't understand he couldn't walk. >> he kept that well hidden. >> the trumans are the first couple. the roosevelts were in the white house for 13 years. that's the longest stretch any president has been in the white house. how did the transition happen? >> 14 van loads of furniture were taken out of roosevelt's things, because of his condition and mrs. roosevelt's nature, they liked to have everything around them all the time. they were table people. they had tables in front of things. his things were within easy reach. thousands of things, pictures. imagine what the trumans faced when the

but this case rankled harry truman for the rest of his life. we have a 1961 letter from truman to justice tom clark in which he writes, all of you are very kind to me and i was glad to have the chance to discuss various things that had taken place in the past, particularly justice black's comments about my statement on the fact that the decision of the court in the steele case was in line with the dred scott decision. i still think that was true. >> he had his principles and again we can disagree with. them when might think that he was not correct to think this way. but he believed in what he was doing. and so one can judge him on that basis. but i'm not sure arguing the case would make any difference at all in the supreme court. i think that the justices fully understood that their friendships with him. but those friendships did not shape the outcome. >> and youngstown to the state is held an incredibly high regard. the supreme court justices, the nominees, the last three or four, in the confirmation hearings regularly come back and extolling t

the general public was, who is harry truman? even his own mother was nervous for him. >> what about bess truman? >> she was with him. in the apartment, i don't know. roosevelt -- he did not admire truman, he approved him for via vice president and thought it was a good idea. as nicole says, it was in washington. he was not a household word out. roosevelt had been in for 13 years. he was a fixture. the very idea of his declining, most people did not understand that he could not walk. >> he had kept that very well hidden. >> the truman's are now the first couple as you said, that the roosevelts had been in the white house for 13 years. that is the longest stretch every president has ever been in the white house. how did the transition happen? >> the furniture was taken out of the roosevelt -- also because of his condition. mrs. roosevelt's nature as you saw on the last show. they like to have everything around them all the time. they were table people. they had tables in front of things. all his things were in easy reach. there wer

harry truman spent a lot of time in his library. kids wanted to know and truman was very forcefully defending his decision and he would not talk to elementary children about it. >> when bess was in missouri, did she hold functions? >> they opened the social season in washington because it ended during the war. >> yes, there was no formal entertaining at the white house. >> it doesn't seem like it would be their personal style. >> president truman, he identified the president like his private life was different from him and what he was representing. and no one would insult the office. so when the social season was revised, they were sticklers. just right time, right time, and these dinners, the chief usher in his memoir says the white house has never been to formal and everything was done exactly as they -- it had been really before the roosevelts. >> but ironically, they only got one social season, because -- >> yeah, they only got one, because they had to move to the -- they did entertain at the mayflower from time to time. but they

and harry truman was a really unlikely president. he was the creature of one of the last urban political machines in kansas city. and he was known primarily as a political hack. but he was loyal to franklin roosevelt and he needed a new vice presidential running mate in 1944. i'm reminded how much things have changed over time in what we expect of your presidents but also how presidents and their running mates are chosen. so we live in a time when presidents -- whoever gets the nomination of the party gets to choose often without consulting anybody else, consider sarah palin or dan quail, without telling anybody else, this is my choice. that was not the case for most of american history. most american history, the presidents were told this is going to be your running mate. because the leaders of the party had the interest of the party at heart and they needed to balance the ticket geographically and by age and other things. the democrats told roosevelt in 1944, you got to get rid of your current vice president henry wallace. it was c

our second guest is clifton truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman.

and then the harry truman of independence missouri. he missed washington and the pressure in the segment of washington. he live nearly 70 years but he was 20 years in washington a senator and vice president and president. >>cspan: ear that he left to go back to independence? >> 1953 when eisenhower took the oath of office. when truman walked down he was citizen truman. he had no pension. no allowance for office space. no secret service.

when harry truman offered her the job she turned it down. she said i can't do that. i'm not a lawyer. i don't know anything about the international law. you have to understand this is december 1945. nobody knew what the u.n. was going to be. and there were a lot of people on both sides of the atlantic who predicted failure because they remembered the league of nations. this was not exactly what you would call a plum job. he wasn't offering to make her ambassador of something. he was really sending her into the jaws of the lion because they were going to go to this meeting in january in london and they were going to try to set up what eleanor would call the machinery for the effective use of the united nations. so while she was special interested, she followed all of the preparatory work, the dumbarton oaks agreement and all of that stuff, she was involved in promoting it. and if you remember, had franklin lived, he wanted her to go women had to san francisco in may of '45 for the united nation's conference when they were going to sign the charter. so she was in it. s

and then the harry truman of independence missouri. he missed washington and the pressure in the segment of washington. he live nearly 70 years but he was 20 years in washington a senator and vice president and president. >>cspan: ear that he left to go back to independence? >> 1953 when eisenhower took the oath of office. when truman walked down he was citizen truman. he had no pension. no allowance for office space. no secret service. the income was is an army pension of $119 a month and he got on the train the new president eisenhower loaned him the presidential car that belong to roosevelt to ride home to independence and all the way across the country he was greeted one town after another by crowd to came out to seeee him. the he got restless and walked around the train he would just say hello toto everybody. and returning to what he had been. s interesting as all the rest of it. i mass sometimes what drew me to truman but one of them certainly for me it is a wonderful story and the story of his retirementt years is as appealing f

and he'll be talking to harry truman. i am fortunate enough to have met your great, great aunt. both of them. princess alice was a hoot. [laughter] her younger sister was wonderful. they took us to sagamore hill. president truman gave me a tour of his library. i have been blessed with getting to meet a lot of these people. so i hope they all come to the library of every president and learn. there are so many things. clifton can tell you about going to many of the libraries and learning. and daddy went, too. and said, all these years i've been saying all those bad things about hoover. [laughter] linda: i never knew he did all of those wonderful things to feed europe. david: is there a truman library? >> there is. truman library is in independence, missouri, about a mile from grandpa's house. david: why did he wear those wild shirts when he went to key west, florida? what was that about? >> everybody wears wild shirts when they go to key west, florida. [laughter] david: is there a cleveland library? a mckinley library? >> in canton, ohio. david: why is there no cleveland library? n

did she lobby harry truman to get her post at the u.n.? ms. binker: no. in fact, when truman called, she turned it down she said, i can't first. do that. i'm not a lawyer. i don't know anything about international law. you have to understand, this was december 1945. nobody knew what the u.n. was going to be. there were a lot of people on both sides of the atlantic who predicted its failure, like the league of nations. so this is not exactly a plum job. he was not offering to make her ambassador or something. he was really sending her into the jaws of the lion. because they were going to go to this meeting in january in london and they were going to try to set up what eleanor would call the machinery for the effective use of the united nations. while she was certainly interested, she certainly followed all of the preparatory work, you know, the dumbarton oaks agreement and all of that stuff, she had been involved in promoting it, and if you remember, had franklin lived, he wanted her to go with him and they were going to go to san francisco in may of 1945 f

our second guest is clifton truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. he is also a truman scholar. he has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. and he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman presidential library and museum in independence, missouri. today, we will give a great opportunity for question-and-answer. please weigh in with lots of questions. we have already been talking quite a bit off-camera about our topic today. and i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. so i will begin and introduce paul to the program. thank you. paul: thank you, ed. thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. i'm very excited. this is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. the background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930's to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. some of the things that

harry truman of the world. civil rights.ot very vofinvolved with get getting african-americans equal rights. working in west virginia with the coal. the forgotten people, the downtrodden. women's issues ch getting women into the forefront of american political life. she had no role model as first lady. she created this all on her own. really nobody quite like her. >> here she is in 1933 on the radio talking to women about their need to volunteer. >> if the women are women who do things, it's going to help their neighbors, i think we'll win out. we'll win out not because of money. not even because of our leaders. but because as a people, we had a a a vision and worked for it and we've seen it through. >> she spent a lot of time on the radio. >> absolutely, she did. she was on the radio before fdr. she had her own radio show. she will have become her own syndicated columnist in 1935, beginning in 1936. by the end of her life, she'll write over 8,000 columns. more than 500 articles. give 75 speeches a year. write an average of

eleanor was three inches taller than harry truman, and with heels, she was seven inches taller than harryn. and so when he is summoned back from drinking bourbon with sam rayburn into the white house, eleanor stands up to meet him and she puts her hand on his shoulder and she says, harry, the president is dead. >> and he said, mrs. roosevelt, oh i am so sorry. is there anything i can do for? you and she says, that is the wrong question, because you're the one that is in trouble now. >> did she move back to val-kill at that point? >> yes, she moves back to val-kill to settle the family estate. meanwhile, she keeps in a constant contact with the first american delegation to the planning meeting of the un and san francisco, and by august, she is so frustrated with truman that she begins a full court press on tremendous politics, so much so that truman appoints her to the first american delegation to the united nations to get her out of the country. >> and she lives in new york city a lot. she stays at a place at greenwich village, right in the village, an apartment and then lives out of a ce

when he dies, harry truman reaches out to him and asks him for a meeting. 71-year-old man on a global , postwarng mission food and humanitarian aid. it is used by george marshall in formulating the marshall plan. , i so hoover, under truman think gets rehabilitated. he is brought back into service. the only person who had really dealt with feeding millions of people and dealing with that kind of relief effort was hoover. plus, he also still had a network within the leadership of europe that remembered him from especially ind , really the only american they trusted after world war ii was hoover. because at a time when the allies did not want food to go into post world war i germany, hoover fought to get it in. see it as one of roosevelt's great feelings that he did not brief hoover on anything, not on the bomb, toategies, so truman had take over with very little understanding. hoover was the only surviving ex-president and the only person who understood what the job was. i will let you wrap this up because i think it is one of hoover's great quotes, he lived until the mid-1960's and sa

i must admit that my favorite mccullough book is about harry truman. he writes a stirring account of the come from behind campaign in 1948 and our lesson for anyone running for office you can be your own person and do itit your way and despite what the experts say you can't win. please help me will come back to ohio again david mccullough. [applause] >> thank you governor and all of you. never in my life has such a warmhearted uplifting appreciated welcome as we have had since wee arrived in ohio several days ago. to began are talk with the pioneers down in marietta and columbus. the generosity, the good spirits the honesty and the decency. is so prevalent and apparent that i hope you don't ever take itr for granted thank you. don't get too big for your britches. and the dedication to community and family which are so important are major objectives in this wonderful society and civilization or whatever you call it. that our predecessors that we still believe then are so espoused to come across the subject by chance. and to talk about the role of luck i

participates in a national world war ii museum online discussion titled "franklin d roosevelt, harry trumanjoining him are fdr presidential library and museum director paul sparrow and historian edward lengel. l'engle -- i am edward lengel. i'm joined today by two gentlemen. the first is paul sparrow, who is director of the franklin d roosevelt presidential museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a senior executive at the museum. paul has been directing the roosevelt library museum since 2015. he will be talking obviously about fdr and the manhattan project. our second guest is clifton truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of prid

that has been successful followed by republicans in democrats since harry truman. since the fall of the iron curtain, the united south -- united states sought to bring in the hundreds of europeans into the institutions of the west. president obama, after russia invaded ukraine, increased andican presence in poland sent troops to the baltic states , not enough to fight the war on its own, but enough to deter russia from getting ideas about sudden aggression. president trump continued that and he was right to do so in my opinion. by defending europe we help ourselves. i think christie is wrong to pull troops out of germany. trump isk president wrong to pull troops out of germany. if you think moving troops to poland out of germany, it is a mixed thing, because you need the troops in germany if you are going to defend poland. coronavirus,the poland has done a reasonable job of keeping the level low. it is not shooting up, not going down as fast as many would like, but the level of outbreak has been steady at a fairly low level. i hope it stays there. from george is ne

arriving in san francisco for the final conference session is president harry s. truman met by mr. stennious and the u.s. delegates and chiefs of the other 49 delegates. among them, theo marshall, the premier of south africa and the prime minister of canada mr. mckenzie king. president truman leaves for a brief tour through san francisco. his is the first vift to san francisco by a chief executive in seven years. half a million citizens turn out to hail the presidential motorcade. [ applause ] as mr. truman arrives, 63 days of concerted international effort are climaxed by the signing of the united nations charter. first to sign is china, the first nation that suffered aggression. dr. wellington ku signs with a traditional chinese brush. the delegation of the soviet union and ambassador andre rommico signs for russia. great britain is represented by her delegation lord halifax. the republic of france, acting delegation chairman joseph boncuor. 38 of 50 nations to sign is the united states of america. secretary of state stetinius. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are all aware

and then going back at the 44 page memo for harry truman written in 1947 outlining this. it is an amazing document. just like the red school on - - the red scare to say that mayor is a communist. that in the thirties there was enough nazi concentration originally with the nazis and not the communist but then after world war ii now they were going after the communists. and one of the reasons reagan got into politics so i looked at all of that. and then just to centralize elections. right now they are at the county level and have huge disadvantages but it's really hard to read get is to decentralize. now on the other hand. with twitter or facebook or what have you, the ever russian tv station. i don't think there is a comparable chinese station are newspapers. and a huge fight and then interfering with the american system. it is good the administration is set up teams to work on this. a very serious and dedicated patriot. >> is it fair to say pre- pandemic that the race in 2020 was president trumps to lose that may be now not so much? he has a fight on his hands? >> when i

that only happens after world war ii with harry truman. we went of basil comes here based on race -- we want people who come here based on race and ethnicity. that was true for 40 years. what was so important for me understanding this in the modern context is that, i spent four years working on this book, i don't myself have great answers for what our immigration system should look like. i think it is really complicated. i look at my own family and i think, should we have had priority over a penniless refugee fleeing political persecution? i am not sure the answer is yes. i don't have answers for what our system should look like. but i do feel like what i have learned is that, over time, we don't have a static system, a static idea of whether we are a nation of immigrants. who we allow in, our notion of what makes america, that changes over time and it can be changed again. for4 is like a big marker we are going to be a white, nation.xon, protestant 1965 there is an opposite pole that says, no, we will not face our country on the color of

we're going underground 75 years to the day joseph stalin winston churchill clement attlee and harry truman met in potsdam germany to establish a new post world war 2 world coming up in the show the longest war up to $945.00 could the stalling of in draft of a prisoner transpose threaten a resurgence of the us is longest war which followed u.s. u.k. support for islam is they are now fighting we ask the taliban if they're prioritising prisoners of the peace and if the 2020 u.s. presidential election could make a historic agreement a thing of the past in the wake of major nation media stories about russian bounties this fake news by dole trump and his nato nations gently causing socialism to recover from coronavirus we investigate the people's republic of big and other corporations arguably using the tools of socialism to benefit from covert 19.

we're going on the ground 75 years to the day joseph stalin winston churchill clement attlee and harry truman met in potsdam germany to establish a new post world war 2 world coming up in the show the longest war after 945 could the stalling of interrupt and talks of a prisoner transfer threaten a resurgence of the us is longest war which followed u.s. u.k. support for it is the mists they are now fighting we asked the taliban if their prioritising prisoners of the peace and if the 2020 u.s. presidential election could make a historic agreement a thing of the past in the wake of major nation media stories about russian bounties damn this fake news by dole trump and his nato nations gently causing socialism to recover from coronavirus we investigate the people's republic of the watch and other corporations arguably using the tools of socialism to benefit from covert $90.00 a ball coming up in today's going underground 1st today 75 years ago the world was carved up in a bombed out germany it's estimated that $27000000.00 russians sacrificed their lives for a victory against nazi germany here is

written form, and indeed, in president trump's case, in oralform, in a tradition that goes back to harry truman the only person who has access to this information. the vice president, senior members of the cabinet, get access to it as well. hence joe biden, the presumptive democratic presidential contender this november, has accused president trump of a dereliction of duty, and he said that when he was in the white house as vice president, both he and barack obama would read the daily intelligence briefing from cover to cover. so we have a lot of democrats piling in on the president. and this is becoming increasingly embarrassing for the white house, given the fact that the former national security adviser, john bolton, has said that he briefed the president in person on this very piece of intelligence about russian bounties as far back as march of last year. a new york court has lifted the temporary restraining order against the publication of a book by president trump's niece, according to the washington post, new york times and associated press. that seems to enable the publisher to continue

were going underground 75 years to the day joseph stalin winston churchill clement attlee and harry truman met in potsdam germany to establish a new post world war 2 worlds coming up in the show the longest war up to 945 could the stalling.

well, your comment reminds me of harry truman when they would tell him to give them hell and he would say, no, i give them the truth and i think it is hell. we are getting the truth of bill barr's assault on the rule of law an assault on the constitution. let's start with the police riot that he unleashed in lafayette square against thousands of people, including a lot of my constituents. there are six rights in the first amendment of the constitution, and he violated every single one of them. the right to peaceably as able, right to position -- petition government for grievances, freedom of press, freedom of speech, the right to exercise uninvited for the president to conduct a much grotesque photo opportunity in the history of the united states, taking someone else's bible, turning it upside down, and waving it over his head, and no establishment of religion as the president proceeded in his own incompetent way to try to unify church and state behind his reckless and irresponsible leadership. there were people who were injured. used, pepperas spray, billy clubs, horseback police, al

written form, and indeed, in president trump's case, in oralform, in a tradition that goes back to harry truman—chief, is not the only person who has access to this information. the vice president, senior members of the cabinet, get access to it as well. hencejoe biden, the presumptive democratic presidential contender this november, has accused president trump ofa november, has accused president trump of a dereliction of duty. and he said that when he was in the white house, as vice president, both he and barack obama would read the daily intelligence briefing from cover to cover. so we intelligence briefing from cover to cover. 50 we have intelligence briefing from cover to cover. so we have a lot of democrats piling in on the president, and this is becoming increasingly embarrassing for the white house, given the fact that the former national security adviser, john bolton, has said that he briefed the president in person on this very piece of intelligence about russian bounties, as far back as march of last year. david, thank you very much. let's get some of the day's other news. the militar

chris: standing nearby the junior senator from missouri i'm a harry s truman, was the new vice president doubted roosevelt would make it through the next four years. >> everyone knew fdr was sick. chris: kirk graham is director of the harry s truman library and museum. >> they knew that the vice president was likely to become the president. chris: that they came less than three months later. >> truman was over in the office of a sam rayburn, speaker of house from texas. chris: the vice president got to ravens hideaway just after 5:00 p.m. and was known as the board of education where the speaker met with members of congress to discuss strategy and to have a drink. truman was a regular. rayburn told the vice president the white house is looking for you so truman fixed himself a bourbon and sat down and dialed national 1414. steve earley, president's longtime secretary, got on the phone and told the vice president get to the white house as quickly and quietly as possible. rayburn who always thought truman was pale thought now he got a little paler. jesus christ in general jackson, truman s

leave out recent history for instance barack obama used his power in 1827 times the most since harry truman bill clinton 457 times so far president trump has pardoned 25 and commuted the sentences of 11 people bill clinton offered clemency to 16 members of the domestic terrorist group the f a o l n they set off bombs in the u.s. killing several americans as for obama on his last day he let f.a.l. ends osco lopez rivera out of prison he pardoned general james cartwright who lied to the f.b.i. sound familiar and he commuted the sentence of chelsea manning who had leaked almost a 1000000 pages of military intelligence yes folks the media would have you believe that none of this happened none of it ever happened they'll tell you that commuting the sentence of roger stone was the worst abuse of a president's constitutional powers ever they are fake news and they will never end perspective if it upsets their narrative. and joining us now is columnist commentator and former reagan administration official and the author of swamp wars jeffrey lord hello my friend. hello there steve how are you at th

bush jimmy carter both lost the last president harry truman in 1948 had a 40 percent approval rating that's how far back you got to go on that income i think is ok so this is this is this is a big number that in watched the approval rating if he if you can have the turd blossom call 'd rove 'd 'd can raise that approval rating for bush above 40 percent he at least is still in the game is that some magic number well that let me ask you about the mel rushmore speech i don't i don't get this it was so divisive i mean you have the new york times it's racist it's divisive you know this is the worst thing that could possibly happen that the media was just like you know their hair was on fire hysterical about this what what what is the right say about what what is his core what is it is is course a the whole some of the phrasing that the president used in that speech was a culture war and this issue typifies that the left felt like you said the new york times some of what they said about how far left and radical how how scary the speech was the right love that speech in fact when you say th

now we know why he went for roosevelt because the last thing he would have wanted was a sign on harry truman'ss here. if it was this government's sign it would say the buck stops anywhere but here. prevent unnecessary and implement and build the jobs of the future. this is a moment where our country needs its government to help britain through. chancellor of the exchequer. government to help britain through. chancellor of the exchequerlj government to help britain through. chancellor of the exchequer. i thank the honourable member opposite for that contribution. throughout this crisis, she and i have spoken and where possible i have tried to find common ground for our measures with anneliese dodds has just common ground for our measures with anneliese dodds hasjust sat common ground for our measures with anneliese dodds has just sat down and rishi sunak is back on his feet. we will bring you anything dramatic there comes out from the house of comments this afternoon. let's go over the key measures announced. no centrepiece was actually very close to the beginning of rishi sunak‘s statement. th

got to so now in part i want to leave our heroes with this thought for america 33rd president harry truman who said and period where there is no it leadership society a stand still progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better now a better time and the president have a great weekend. on the larry king question listening learning you know i've always said i never learned anything where i was talking it's important to listen to question more. you cannot be vulgar with yet you like. americans are growing at propitious rates because america empire because it's easy for the top to see everything and nothing for everyone else america will be better off if it was not an empire so the collapse of the us dollar will be painful for a period of time but what comes on the other side will be i think a lot more amenable to no. secret prisons and usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived with. the work to view houses were. preserved were located and the only. access to the story investiga

so now in part i want to leave our viewers with this thought for america's 33rd president harry truman who said in periods where there is no a leadership society a stand still progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better no better time than the present have a great weekend. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. thinks . to ask. americans to start growing at a fish is great because american empire right because it's easy for the top 2 feet everything and little or nothing for everyone else america will be better off if it was not an empire so the collapse of the us dollar will be painful for a period of time but what comes on the other side will be i think a lot more amenable to. secret prisons and usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived we've been busy road zone with too few whosis i would lead to preserve the worlds. or located on the only cia people have access to the story for investigators sure hell they uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret

comes trying to pass legislation, think about health care presidents going all the way back to harry truman tried to pass universal health care for the united states. and it took generations before obamacare could pass. and then when it did it passed in a kind of lumpy fashion with no republican -- with no republicans at the signing ceremony. and, you know, it has been the project of the republican party to try to dismantle it ever since it was enacted. so in that sense you see a way in which the president is captive to the separation of powers system. captive in just the way -- well, not just the way but in the way the system was supposed to be design which is to say to give power to the minority in making legislation and you think of all the other ways in which presidents are hamstrung by the media, the sheer number of duties in the office which we can talk about later. but the things on the presidential to-do list has ballooned. and all the complexity in the realm of presidential, light, the economy moves faster now and with greater consequence because of connectivity than 40 years ago w

both of them i suspect Ãbwent back and red clark clifford 44 page memo, to harry truman in 1947 outlinedazing document. he routinely Ãbthis is before the so-called red scare he will say this union is communist dominated or that mayor is a communist. it's just that's where it was. he wasn't doing anything about it necessarily. it's easy to for us to forget that in the 30s there was enough not see participation that house was originally set up to go after the nazis, not the communists. after world war ii there was enough communist penetration that they were going after the communist and then we were told not allowed to do that. we then had to lie about whether there were any communists one of the reason reagan got into politics was his awareness that there were communists in the screen actors guild. i look at all of that and i think they can try to interfere. , one of the things you have to worry about is we centralize elections as it makes theft easier.right now elections are run down the county level and it's chaotic and it has huge disadvantages. but it's really hard because it's too de