who is on the far left front row and ross would move on to become harry truman's press secretary during truman's presidency. true's education was rigorous. in high school, although and he never did attend college. however he had dreamed his young man of becoming a military general and of going to west point. after graduation in 1901. he took odd jobs though, including railroad timekeeper in a bank clerk. this college dreams were shattered when his father's financial fortunes took a downward turn and he had to leave independence for for the town of grandview, missouri, which will say more about here in a moment. but again, harry truman was a lifelong learner and really self-educated man. he drew lessons of history throughout his life and career and drew upon them in just a regular conversation and they helped guide his his personal philosophy and his his leadership style and decision making next slide please. okay, this is a picture of the grandview farm grandview is the town just south of kansas city. it's in the greater kansas city metro area though. not far from independence. and is h

the truman library institute provided the video. >> harry s. truman was a re president of the heartland. but what does it mean to say that he was president of the ues heartland? here i'm referring to his midwestern values, hard work, bt patriotism, honesty, duty and integrity. those values are not exclusively midwestern, of course, but they do reflect harry truman's personality and character. this evening i will only have h time to talk about some of the highlights of truman's life and career and i'm looking forward o towe talking with tim about his connections with another president of the heartland, dwight eisenhower. so, if we can move onto the next slide, please. this is a photograph of harry truman as a young boy. he's in the first grade at nolan school in independence. this picture was probably takent around 1890.ch i harry truman was born on may 8, 1884 in the town of lamar, missouri, about two hours southe ofd t kansas city.ouri and. at age 6 his parents movede to independence. his mother was interested in him attending public schools in

he personally intervened with harry truman on this issue. truman showed strong leadership here, many of his own advisers opposed recognition with israel for, geopolitical and economic reasons. but jacobson personally -- with truman to see what would become the future president of israel. that conversation was a pivotal one. truman's own advisers, most notably george marshall opposed this decision. the fear among his advisers was that it would cut off oil supplies, because of possible air embargo to recognize -- it would increase the leverage or power the soviet union in the middle east -- harry truman made his own decision in the end. next slide please. >> a lot of people have asked me -- >> okay. let's probably go ahead and skip this in the interest of time. one of the things that harry truman had to deal with as well during the presidency was the invasion of south korea by north korea in june of 1950. and the real takeaway here was that harry truman, with his own reading of history and experience knew that aggression had to be met with forc

privately disavows harry truman speech but by then truman's not paying attention to kennedy. he's paying attention to atchison. and importantly the very same moment we're within a couple of weeks. we realize in the united states that europe is really is collapsing. as the horrible winter, it's amazingly. it's no power and britain. i mean, it's just a terrible. it's like it's like the where the kansas city is having actually right now, you know, 15 below zero and and and and berlin they're saying that the dead envy the living their hands don't freeze. i mean, it's a really a grim time and and marshall realizes the new secretary say realize we got to do something about this and is born the marshall point. marshall plan is the other key pillar here. long telegram and containment the truman doctrine and the marshall plan has many fathers including harry truman. this is great truman moment. somebody to clifford says to truman. president trump and we should call this the truman plan. and truman says no no no. it'll die in congress if we do. he's smart and politically savvy enough a

and and tells the story of harry truman of world war. i it's an incredibly important story not so much because truman played such an important role for the united states, but it's important to harry truman because he comes home from the war knowing that he can lead. he had this battery d. i mentioned it's a bunch of by their own count later a bunch of a rowdy. irish catholics who were fond of drink and not very fond of their new be speckled southern baptist leader and they took bets on how long he would last and he won them over. and it was because of that when truman came back from the war that he realized though. he lacked charisma he lack stature. he lacked a commanding voice and a commanding presence there were things about him that definitely were not the kinds of things that we often associate with leadership, but he knew he could lead and he knew that men would follow him. he knew that he could inspire leadership. and so anyway, he comes home from the war and then he starts his life in jackson county. he marries bass after the war.

prior to truman was harry henri wallace who was replaced by truman at the 1944 convention. many people realizing that fdr was not a sure bet to win out his fourth term. so in understanding that they might be picking the next president, henry wallace was the foremost advocate in the fdr administration for a peaceful negotiated relation with the soviet union so the question is take us through your alternative history. what would have happened had henry wallace been vice president in april, 1945 when fdr died. can we know or surmise anything -- we can be sure he would not have responded very well to the iron curtain speech, but was there an alternative policy do you think that would have worked in this very tense intense rub relationship between the u.s. and the soviet union? >> my answer would be, it would've been a disaster that and they would've been speaking russian in tehran today. henry wallace was, i think this is a historical verdict about a very naive man. he felt that soviet communism was with many faults a progressive force in the world, and he allowed himself to be

truman library institute. we're the private nonprofit foundation established to support the mission and legacy of the harry s. truman presidential library and museum tonight is yet another as alex said in a series of programs that we have been doing for a year now and we'll continue to do for the next seven years commemorating the 75th anniversary of the literally world changing decisions and is faced by our 33rd president the man from missouri harry s truman. last month, we had a program a commemorating the long telegram foreign service officer and moscow george cannon sent to the state department making the case for a containment policy against our former world war ii allies in the soviet union led by joseph stalin this view that the the alliance that had won the war in europe and against japan was not necessarily going to be sustainable as a entirely friendly relationship. post war had been growing from really the moment that that roosevelt and churchill and stalin got together at yalta to discuss the post-war world. but this is the period 75 years ago when the what would become the cold war policy foreign

one of the most famous of their members was an artillery commander by the name of captain harry truman. the 35th division thought in this area, about four miles back. they were firing artillery towards the hill. can you point us toward the hill and tell us a bit about the significance of why the americans attacked that hill? >> the hill is about two miles from here. you can see the top of the trees, not far in the distance. it is an observation position used by the germans. and then the french tried to recapture. it finally, the frontline was established and we were switching to a mine warm. we had heavy battles going, on especially underground. then the french were relieved on september 26th by soldiers of the 36th, and the first thing they had to do was capture the hill, and then they could see what was going up. next varennes, the same, coming from the hill as they're jumping lines through the hills. there are some small woods, including the woods of cheppy. more >> captain harry and truman wrote home to his fiancÉe, telling her about the battles he was involved in. one of his more

herbert hoover had tried to get him fired, fdr had called him a chronic liar, harry truman sent the fbio investigate him, dwight eisenhower ignored him and sent his press secretary to trash him, john f. kennedy lamented all the powers of the presidency was unable to control the columnist, lbj did his best, and nixon put them at the top of the enemy list. to register some international perspective, winston churchill once dubbed drew pearson the most colossal liar in the united states. tracking down all these accusations i discovered a pattern. pearson certainly made his share of mistakes, usually through haste of misunderstanding, and sometimes the people who leaked to him were less than honest about their intentions. but i never found one instance where pearson knowingly lied. instead, it was his accusers who lied regularly to cover their own tracks. raised as a quaker drew pearson regarded truth seeking as a moral obligation and a self-defense mechanism. he was sued for libel at least 120 times, more than any other generalist, and he won every case except for one and that he would have

and i was in the navy when harry truman basically ordained the end of racial discrimination and i was really shocked to learn later that truman was never informed about the atomic bomb and when i first began to explore possibilities of becoming president, before i knew i was going to win, i found out that until then, the vice president had never been briefed by the department of defense on how to manage the atomic weapon in case we went to a nuclear war with the soviet union. so that -- that set me back and i began to realize that for all purposes, the vice president was still part of the legislative branch of government. his main duty was to preside over the senate in case of a tie, and i thought the vice president should be in the executive branch. when he came down to plains, but he had some ideas he wanted to explore about how the vice president could become an integral part of the administration and not separate, and so i suggested, why don't you go and talk to vice president humphrey and also vice president rockefeller. nelson rockefeller. and get some ideas about what might be

of her career, she served as sort of a court painter creating paintings and portraits for harry truman best truman and their daughter margaret. she even turned down offers to paint other us presidents out of loyalty to the truman family in particular kemptons likeness of truman, which you can see pictured here rosen popularity, and it was later used for his official campaign posters for a commemorative postage stamp and for a commemorative coin next slide. so now that we've talked about porter tests, i'd like to expand our view of the white house collection to include women's sculptors and painters some of whom you may actually be familiar with next slide. so we'll begin with mary cassat who is a prominent 19th and 20th century painter and she's known as the only american included in the french school of impressionists cassat exhibited her work alongside famous artists like dega monet and renoir in paris, and she popularized impressionism back home in america. she was one of the few successful female artists of this period and she was especially known for her depictions of domestic lif

we know that harry truman spoke the truth when he said a president has to be able to say "yes" and "nolook at our platform. there are no defense cuts that weaken our security, no businesses taxes that weaken our economy, no laundry list that raid our treasury. we are a wiser, stronger, and we are focused on the future. if mr. reagan wants to rerun the 1980 campaign, fine. let them fight over the past. we're fighting for the american future and that's why we're going to win this campaign. [ cheers ] [ chanting ] >> one last word. one last word to those of you who voted for mr. reagan. i know what you are saying, but i also know what you were not saying. you did not vote for $200 billion deficits. you did not vote for an arms race. you did not vote to turn the heavens into a battleground. you did not vote to savage social security and medicare. >> no! >> you did not vote to destroy family farming. >> no! >> you did not vote to trash the civil rights laws. >> no! >> you did not vote to poison the environment. >> no! >> you did not vote to assault the poor, the sick, and the disabled. >> n

we know that harry truman spoke the truth when he said a president has to be able to say yes, and no,our platform. there are no defense cuts that weaken our security, and no business taxes that weaken our economy, and no laundry list that raids our tresery. we're fighting for the american future, and that's why we are going to win this campaign! [ applause ] >> one last word -- one last word to those of you who voted for mr. reagan. i know what you were saying, but i also know what you were not saying. you did not vote for $200 billion deficits. you did not vote for an arms race. you did not vote to turn the heavens into a battleground. you did not vote to savage social security and medicare. you did not vote to destroy family farming. >> no. >> you did not vote to trash the civil rights law. >> no. >> you did not vote to poison the environment. >> no. >> you did not vote to assault the poor, the sick and the disabled. >> no. >> and you did not vote to pay 50 bucks for a 50 cent light bulb. >> no! >> four years ago -- four years ago many of you voted for mr. reagan because he promised

in fact the house that best and harry truman lived in was actually mrs. wallace's house best truman's mother's house. and so that was a lot of her devotion to always going back to independence, missouri very protective of her mother. and out of this tragedy in her young years, so you know, it's sad to say but i really think that the category that has had the most first lady membership is the reluctant? okay, so we're gonna go back in time to the founding period two questions. i'll let you answer them in whichever order makes sense for you a question about abigail adams and her her interest obviously in women's rights in the new country. we have any comments on that and then who stood as first lady for thomas jefferson, okay. all right, so in terms of abigail adams she is another one of my favorite first ladies and i think in those polls among professional historians that are done every few years. she usually is ranked. number two behind eleanor roosevelt of greatest first ladies. and abigail adams and her famous letter of 1776. she's back in massachusetts

teaches a class about the korean war general douglas macarthur's removal from command by president harry truman and civil military relations. his class is about an hour. today i'm going to talk about. the korean war and we're going to talk a little bit about civil military relations. last time we met we talked about. the cold war and the development of containment korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japan since 1910 during the second world war there was fighting in in korea the us and the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea now northern. korea that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. with the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and the south koreans elected a democratic government. north korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so he sent insurgents into south korea to try and overthrow that government and they fail to do so. then in january of 1950 the us secretary of state dean atchison mad

. ♪♪ >>> harry s. truman and dwight d.wer grew up within 180 miles of each other in america's heartland. next on the presidency, a look at two terms president and allies whose political roads crossed when ike declared his intention to be the republican standard bearer. their meeting at president kennedy's 1963 funeral provided a chance for reconciliation. speakers are truman library supervisor archivist samuel rush and deputy director timothy reefs. the library co-hosted this event and the truman institute provided the video. >> harry. truman was a pr

that goes back to harry truman's recognition of israel when it was established by the united nations. it has only deepened and broadened sense -- since. israel has become our ally, strategic micronic state. -- strategic ally, and democratic state. our relationship with israel is a special one, we have special influence because we provided with $4 billion per year in military assistance. it has a burgeoning high-tech economy, we provide security assistance to israel. we give it strong political backing especially in united nations where test be isolated because there is an automatic majority for the palestinian side. because we have that relationship, because they are dependent on us for political support, the world looks to the united states to exercise its influence at the top one israel is engaged in defending itself and an actions that people have problems with. there is a strong call for the united states to intervene and use its influence. host: let's let our viewers take part in this conversation. beth is calling from maryland. good morning. caller: good morning. i am glad that

this makes national headlines and president harry truman hears about this beating. many people may or may not know that president truman had a soft spot in his heart for veterans. when he sees this photo of sergeant isaac woodard, he is taken aback. it is a horrible sight. this beating and the photo prompts president truman to desegregate the military and the federal workforce. edna: it is beyond troubling to hear this kind of story. it is terrifying and impossible to imagine the feeling it must have been to know that for the soldiers, you put your life on the line, you coming back and the idea you feel proud of that service makes people want to kill you for it. to have that patriotism trampled on must have been so profoundly disillusioning, negating the promise the service may have represented as an opportunity. we have a viewer comment and an audience comment from a man named peter. he writes in that even jackie robinson, an officer of the 761st tank battalion, was pulled off a bus for not moving to the back of the bus. while he was enduring a court-martial, his u

teaches a class about the korean war general douglas macarthur's removal from command by president harry truman and

teaches a class about the korean war general douglas macarthur's removal from command by president harry truman and civilian military relations. this program is from american history tv's lectures in history series, which takes viewers into college classrooms around the country watch tonight beginning at 8pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 biographer john meacham author of his truth is marching on john lewis and the power of hope is joined by two former chiefs of staff to the late congressman and civil rights leader to discuss his life and legacy part of washington national cathedral's honest to god conversation series the cathedral hosted this event and also provided the video. tonight, however we begin with the life and leadership of congressman john lewis. and who better to recognize as a person of faith? whose leadership inspired tens of thousands to leadership of their own? last july at the time of congressman lewis's death dean hollareth said this every so often god gives us extraordinary individuals. who spend their lives working for justice and promoting

the truman library institute provided the video. >> harry s. an was a re president of the heartland. but what does it mean to say that he was president of the ues heartland? here i'm referring to his midwestern values, hard work, bt patriotism, honesty, duty and integrity. those values are not exclusively midwestern, of course, but they

president roosevelt's third vice president harry truman had very limited contact with president roosevelting the 82 days of president truman's vice presidency. and in fact, president truman wasn't told about the manhattan project until some days after he had succeeded president roosevelt when one of his advisers took him aside and said, mr. president, i think there is something you need to know about. well, the changes in american government in politics that were associated with the new deal and with world war ii, ended up having an effect on the vice presidency. they strengthened the presidency, they weakened the political parties, and they had the effect of pulling the vice presidency into the executive branch. as the expectations of the presidency increases in a nuclear age and in the cold war, as the president was expected to conduct a more robust foreign policy, and as technology made foreign travel more possible, vice presidents began to be sent on diplomatic missions. they began to take on other tasks in the executive branch. beginning in 1940, the president got the power really to

this beating of sergeant woodard makes national headlines and president harry truman hears about the speeding. many people may know or may not know that president truman had a soft spartan soft spot and his heart for veterans. when he sees this photo of sergeant isaac woodard, he's just taken aback. i mean, it's just a horrible sight. this beading and the photo eventually leads president truman to desegregate. the arm the military and also desegregate the federal workforce. it's beyond troubling to hear this kind of story it's terrifying and impossible to really imagine the feeling that must have been to know for these soldiers. you've put your life on the line. you're coming back and the idea that you feel proud of that service makes people want to kill you for it to have that patriotism trampled on must have been so profoundly disillusioning, you know negating the promise that the service might have represented as an opportunity. we have a viewer comment and audience comment from a man named peter. he writes in that even jackie robinson an officer 761st tank battalion was pulled of

publication of something we call the truman report after world war ii named after former president harry truman, but as i mentioned, the college really started to explode in terms of numbers sometime after that. host: most community colleges do not have on-campus residents, but why have community colleges, it seems, keep costs in check versus four-year universities and colleges? guest: first thing, community colleges actually have quite a few residential halls. there are very few overall and the terms of number they serve, but almost 200 of our institutions have a residential facility of some kind. the reason why is because students come from all over to attend them. we had a substantial number of international students. some of our colleges, particularly rural colleges, serve tremendous geographical areas. as a result, there is a need for students who would like to study full-time to have a place to live. increasingly, our colleges and building dormitories, as i mentioned, is not a lot in terms of the numbers to take advantage of that, but in terms of how community colleges are able to keep tu

truman's excellent adventure, which traced harry and best truman's cross-country trip in 1953. got a lot of great, press and in 2009 the washington post called it one of the best books of the year and additionally before that. he wrote a book about the war years and football and the steagles which was a combination of the pittsburgh steelers and the philadelphia eagles. this is during world war ii another interesting book. he's got a very eclectic background not just an author not just a journalist, but let me tell you some of the things he has done. he has been a hot dog vendor at a traveling circus. he has been a halloween costume salesman. he has been a gas station attendant a convenience store clerk and all this is gonna put him in good stead because in two months, he's moving to mongolia with his wife who is a foreign service officer who's taking a position there, so that should be pretty interesting and very importantly he is a friend of this museum and a member of it's my pleasure to introduce matthew algeo. will you you make it sound much more interesting than it is my

eisenhower became the 34th president of the united states, succeeding harry s. truman.s ike, president eisenhower came into international prominence as commander in chief of allied forces in europe during world war ii. he directed unified operations until the surrender of germany in 1945. at the war's end, he returned home to a hero's welcome following which as a civilian he served briefly as president of columbia university. in 1950, president truman recalled ike from civilian life to organize and direct the military forces of the north atlantic treaty organization. in 1952, he signified his availability for the presidential nomination as a republican. he won the party's nomination from senator robert a taft, the highly respected leader of republican conservatives. the convention named richard m. nixon as ike's vice presidential running mate. >> i don't like texas. i doubt if anybody does. i shall do everything i can to reduce them. but i shall make no promises that i know i cannot keep. [ applause ] >> ike campaigns successfully on the issues of reform, a balanced bud

universal affordable healthcare in this country both from the way that the southern dixiecrat stopped harry truman from his first idea from the first time he proposed, first time a president proposed a national health insurance plan it was a southern dixiecrat democrat who blocked it and wouldn't go along with the leader of their own party to today when we have an almost to their solution that is known as obamacare in which the majority as opposed overwhelmingly since it was passed. they have this pretty modest healthcare system improvement for americans of all races to the idea of expanding medicaid which is a piece of the affordable care act that was struck down as a universal thing i the states rights theory and which soon after it became optional for states the states mostly from the former confederacy rejected it, and there is a correlation between how many black to live in the state and how opposed white people in the state are to expanding medicaid to make sure people making $10,000 an hour, $15,000 an hour have healthcare and can afford to see a doctor. so these are the ways that racism dr

paul: phil, are you surprised by this in the democratic party i asked because traditionally, is harry truman who first recognized israel and senators like chuck schumer numbers strong bipartisan support. and former chairman of foreign relations, he in the house strong supporters of israel. and defeated in a primary force in the last election. but this is really seems to to me like a really significant turn. guest: yes and i agree. but it is been common. if you go back as recently as the george hw bush administration, the republicans with how to be less friendly to israel and the democrats. in the seems to have flipped. and this is as new as you know, almost ten years ago, the democrats have been dimension of jerusalem so this is the been building for a long time and we talked a lot about israel and mohsen what they are doing in the effect and i think it's extraordinary the joe biden apparently told prime minister that he expects to cease-fire today. i don't think that would've happened if not the pressure from the progressive wing. and think it's . you've got to think to tell the leader of a

policy with the with the long telegram that canon wrote in from the soviet union and and sent to to harry truman and we're pleased to be joined tonight by renowned author of pulitzer prize-winning new york times bestselling evan thomas who is written for and bee

and this is the moment that he elects harry truman to be his vice president. next slide, please. then in february of 1945, the big three meet again in yalta. it's a grueling trip. 14,000 miles. it takes a tremendous tole on fdr. they resolve some of the bigger issues, the soviets agree to join the united nations. however, his health does not recover. he goes -- he returns home. he goes down to warm springs to try to recover because the first meeting of the united nations will be at the end of april. this photograph was taken on april 11th. he died the next day, april 12th, in warm springs. now, unfortunately, one of the people who was with him in warm springs was lucy mercer who had married a man named rutherford who had died recently. so lucy was there. and when eleanor came down the next day to retrieve the body, franklin's cousin told her that lucy had been there. so eleanor lost her job, her husband, and found out that he had been seeing his former mistress all in the same day. and yet she put together an extraordinarily public face. that information didn't get out for years.

there was a time in american politics, really stretching all the way back to harry truman with politicalpecially the national democratic party and presidential elections. this was principally because of solid democratic support for

slaughtered in germany and they were put there by the british because i was a british territory and harry trumanognize the israeli country there and since its founding, they've been fighting to the death trying to survive, being attacked from all sides. and they are fighting a terrorist organization, this terrorist organization, they are not trying to avoid civilian casualties. israel is trying to avoid them, hamas is not trying to avoid them so if you are living in long island and manhattan is just shelling you indiscriminately with rockets all day, and the world is calling for restraint while the insurgents are hiding in hospitals and schools here in manhattan, you do your best to avoid civilian casualties what you are going to take those people out as surgically as you can hand to save your own people. and to make peace and that's what the israelis are doing. >> katie: we will see if the cease-fire holds. cnn's chris cuomo caught giving his brother advice on how to fight back against sexual harassment allegations. he's a musical ♪ ♪ certified from headlamp to tailpipe. that's certified head t

as a little girl, i wore corduroy slacks and i even met president harry truman and shook hands with him and various other people. he became associated with the medal of honor society in the mid-50's. the first meeting was lakeland florida in tampa and they dedicated a bridge down in that area. other places that were interesting was the dedication of the medal of honor grove in valley forge. that was a highlight. going to these meetings, going to these programs were more than college. he's met people that were part of history and new things. in 1936, he married my mother who lived in johnson county, kansas and he was from johnson county, missouri and became acquainted through relatives who were married. he used to say that he went from a missouri backwoods thing to johnson county kansas dairy farmer. that was a joke. he became interested in various civic groups. one of them was a men's civic group. about 1953, the legislature was just starting out in a county park system. they got it going and got the funds for it and then it got down to a committee of one. you volunteered nine hours a d