harry truman's lesson number three, live to our values. truman knew that the fight for freedom was not restricted to distant lands. one of his shining moments as president was his commitment to challenging civil rights, including in our military. so it was earlier stated on january 26, 1948, president truman executive order 9981, which made segregation in our military illegal. truman understood importance of living up to our fan founding values that are all created equal. and that is especially when americans are fighting together in foxholes. lesson number four by harry truman is on his statue. the buck stops here. i hope as the policymakers walk through and they admire this statue, they read all the way down to the. that was a sign that truman famously kept on his desk. it was his motto, his code, his philosophy of leadership in his farewell address, truman said the president, whoever he is, has to decide. he can't the buck to anybody, no one else can do the deciding for him. that's his job. that's sound advice. not just to a president, b

harry truman has supported roosevelt's so-called court packing plan. that was the end of the day litmus test. roosevelt said, well, if everyone can get along with senator truman, he can be on the ticket. he did not oppose my judicial reform plan. truman became president so suddenly. he uses this first nomination as a chance to seek some political unity. not just in washington, but in america as a whole. americans were than allowed to openly say that there should be republican or democratic nominee. >> one of the things that i really like about the book is that the truman court story is great. there's also these little bits of history that are dropped in. sometimes relevant, sometimes they're sidebars. look at how much has changed, how much has not changed. one of the things it comes to mind with burton was that you are writing a book. truman and burton shared a belief that the government had threats. should protect americans from subversive threats. even at the expense of individual liberties. was that a common thing at the time? for a democrat and a re

so the very successful nomination for harry truman. truman and harold burton they're friendly not the way his later nominees were friends print this was a political masterpiece by the president who is viewed by millions of americans who was the senator from missouri, and other senators refuse some other centers refused to recognize him as a senator. even some senior staffer said he sent over here bite gangsters. and then he was elected in his own right and strongly reelected to be the senator from missouri. and chosen by the first, second and possibly even his third choice. but harry truman had supported he had supported roosevelt's court packing plan. that was famous. everyone can get along with senator truman, he can be on the ticket because he did not oppose my judicial reforms. in truman becomes a president suddenly. uses this first nomination as a chance to seek some political unity. not just in washington but america as a whole. because americans then were led to openly say there should be a republican or democrat nominee to the c

a number of city positions remained of interest to harry truman. especially the job of collector. endergast gave that position to william kemp or, a well-known name here in kansas city. without the bosses support, there was not a great deal more truman can do in politics. the early 1930s were anxious years to be sure for harry and his political future. as it turned out, his trepidation, however sincere was well and short lived. in the 1933 letter to his wife, truman confided, i had a fine talk with tj esther day, boston. tom i am still on top. . on top made up in a stretch. in truth, truman's political future remained at least a little cloudy. but it was in the early summer of 1934 where his old friend jim pendergast once again rescued him. he reached out to let him know that the boss was interested in truman for a position in the united states senate. , truman was not the boss's first choice. he was not the second choice, nor was he the third choice. perhaps it doesn't matter, in the end the machine went to work the primary for the senate election that year was a three-way race. i

and on the right you see vice president harry truman and with him shaking hands is james pendergast, nd this is moments after boss tom's funeral and truman had been vice president for a half a minute, just over a week and the air force bomber in kansas city to attend the funeral. his critics is an outrage that this is loyalty to a good machine understand his status as a hack and had inappropriate behavior and criticism that would linger against him for years. truman's response was very straightforward and what happened during the initial boss tom trial he was always my friend and i have always been his and the never deserted him when he needed friends. many film he did much more than he ever did for me but i did not do that but you can see much of harry truman and the comments in the reports of loyalty, i would like to think that they would say of midwestern values. but the bigger question is why does this matter and discussing when thinking about the career of harry truman, why think about his connections to the pendergast and with out too much exaggeration, you can probably look to

why truman now, and how does this book differ from previous books on harry truman? >> i -- is because by all biography of truman. this is a biography of the presidency. it's more limited. book though, -- previously -- world war i, to the pendergast pashinyan and salon. also, i realized, more and more as i thought about it. , two things, i finish this book on eisenhower and nixon. i thought, that i found truman kept showing up. he was, something, in a sense, truman was a natural trickle too -- and i just thought everything, our entire world, was in that period. and i didn't realize it until i started getting into it. it was seven years. i had cold feet more than once. this was everything happening. everything happens. two wars and it. the adam bomb was dropped, for the first and last time ever. nato was formed. civil rights -- truman started pushing for civil rights, though he was not a great supporter of -- he was brought up in a segregationist environment, but he did it anyway. everything we have today, the nato alliance, and this sort of shape of american politics

this was a mistake, harry truman. and then dewey, the only one he signed, it said, it sure was! homas dewey. but truman did sign, he was in missouri when he got one of these papers. he signed it. the photograph came from a newspaper itself. he signed many of these. really briefly, how come dewey didn't defeat truman? >> because truman got more votes. [laughs] >> okay, that's easy enough. >> really, was it wasn't even close! that was the interesting thing about it. it wasn't even close. truman won -- he lost in congress in 46. terrible, terrible defeat, a vote of no confidence, almost. in 1948 he got the senate and the house back, along with winning the presidency. it was a great victory for him. that paper is really, that's a beautiful copy you have. the copy of the truman library is more beat up nowadays. and there are very, very few of them. as you said they were just sent out to the suburbs. the very early additions, you're right. >> you know, there are going to be fewer as time goes on. the paper, newspapers are acidic. the pulp paper. >> i know. >> they are just going to con

old friends and i conveyed to them my personal story of meeting harry truman. so it was very exciting. i'm sure many people in the room have met harry truman but not many members of congress. now to our legislative agenda . we're doing the continuing resolution that again ensures full government services will have funding through december 16 and that gives our appropriators more time come to an agreement for next year . if left to their own devices the appropriators can find a bipartisan way, having said that as an appropriate or myself. i want to mention it addresses key priorities. $12.3 billion for the fight for democracy in ukraine. 4 and a half billion dollars for disaster relief for new mexico, puerto rico, florida and alaska and other communities and in addition 18.9, almost $19 billion for fema's disaster relief fund, some of it needed by the way for ian but more will be needed at $1 billion to help working families pay higher energy bills and $20 billion to respond to water needs in mississippi, in jackson mississippi. also we will be passing today on

i conveyed to them my personal story of meeting harry truman. it was very exciting.ure many people in the room probably had met harry truman, but not many members of congress. okay, so now to our legislative agenda. today, we're doing the continuing resolution again ensuring that full government will have full government funding through december 16. and that gives our appropriators more time to come for a funding agreement for next year. as i always say, left to their own devices, the appropriators can find a bipartisan way. having said that, as an appropriate myself. as we pass it, i just want to mention that it addresses key priorities. $12.3 billion for the fight for democracy in ukraine. $4.5 billion for disaster relief for new mexico, puerto, rico, florida, and alaska, and other communities. and additional, as i said, almost $19 billion per fema's disaster relief fund. some of that needed right away for ian, but more will be needed. to help working families pay higher energy bills. and $20 million to to respond to the water needs in mississippi -- in jackson, mi

i wanted to ask you there are many many books on harry truman. yeah many no david mcculloch's especially what brought you to this book why truman now, and how does this book differ from? previous books on harry truman. well at dana mccullo's book was a biography of true and this is a biography of a presidency. so in that sense, it's a more limited more limited book even though i do have a long prologue which brings him brings him brings him to the to the farm to world war one to the pendergast machine and so on but it's but and i think it's it's also i realized more and more as i thought about it. well two things one that i had finished this on eisenhower and nixon. i thought that and i was already and i found truman kept. showing up he was so in a sense truman was a natural prequel to the to the icon -- and also the i just thought everything our entire world came from that period and it was and i didn't realize it until i started getting into it. it was seven years this i i had cold feet more than once. this was just everything happened then ever

susan: you report in the book that in fact harry truman initiated his civil rights agenda, there was steep rise in anti-black crimes. margaret: there was, every truman comes along in 1948 and creates a comssn to investigate, desegregate the army, the commission begins to hold hearings in the south. one case out of alabama is exemplary i think of what happened was this man gets on a bus, coming from a base where he works in 1948, he is traveling with a white worker, a fellow worker and he says something and asks the guy to have a beer and he says i do not drink and the victim says harry truman will fix all of that. and he gets off the bus and the white fellow worker follows him and kills him. right there at the bus stop. so that is an extreme case obviously. but all across the country there is a spike and we see in birmingham as well, we are able to trace in birmingham and there is a dramatic spike in 1948 as the federal -- national government began to recognize these issues in the south. susan: the supreme court has an important role in the story you tell, sometimes in reinforcing jim

but very few people know that harry truman also did in alexander hamilton progress official recently ture from his exalted spot in the capitol rotunda. the heart of american democracy and replace hamilton with a likeness of president truman. >> made this magnificent statue that will standard the heart of the capitol serve as a constant symbol of our commitment to democracy. judges of presidents primarily populate the capitol rotunda the exceptions are bust of martin luther king and a monument to women who fought for the right to vote. hamilton was the odd man out. >> do not want to remove martin luther king and so he is the one that has been relegated requesting to come to the placement of capitol statues it's just like real estate. all that matters is location, location, location. hamilton's xl to the hall of columns and is one floor below the capitol rotunda. and it's not exactly the room where it happens. the place that he has been moved to is on the lower floor and probably the least prestigious of the places brick works hamilton's sought rise in recent years. the biography in the

harry truman and dwight eisenhower. and both of them had been in the renaissance and rehabilitation of the reputation after they left office but even then, the rankings and of that impressive if you've the seventh greatest president of all time, then you're not even in the top 20 percent. going on the list, we can see that nixon's average rating is 32 and 425 and others reagan 18 and bush and clinton is 17 and bush, 36, and as we took the average ranking of all of these presents, it is 19. and franklin roosevelt and the average ranking was 19 of the greatest and why is that set the result of their individual fault, ball to some extent sure, over the course, is very critical of jimmy carter and not out of any personal opposition to anything he tried to accomplish. the criticism of his understanding of executive authority and is use of the powers of leadership. carter's ranking as we saw we flipped back here, concord, 25 and 1919 and 27, 25 and 26. and we can identify those specific reasons that carter fell short of great

in february of 1952, harry truman hit 22% in public opinion polls. just 22% approved of the job he was doing is president. since then, we have come to see that his foreign policy had a lot of wisdom to them. establishing nato. shouting the marshall plan to call. these were seen as essential to forestall soviet expansion throughout europe. at the same time truman's demeanor, his honesty, his plainspoken ways we gain greater appreciated for that when he was succeeded by lyndon johnson. who repeatedly lied to the country, and richard nixon who was not a crook when he actually was a crook. eisenhower, another president whose ranking has improved overtime. when eisenhower left office he had been generally a nice guy but he had not really worked hard at its presidency. he spent more time golfing than leading. that he was a preside or not a president. new archival evidence showed that eisenhower allowed people to hold that image of him. he actually worked extremely hard behind the scenes to the point of pushing himself to heart attacks. he claimed not engag

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this administration has had less permits on federal lands since harry truman so we need committee reformshave agencies in the federal government that are shutting down projects. it takes -- >> let me challenge that. i'm sure you saw the fortune article this week and our team has talked about it as well and i've done my own veach but i'll ask you this administration says they have approved more leases on federal land than president trump first year in office. >> they have leased fewer acres of federal land than oil and gas since harry truman. they shut down, there was a company in texas that wanted to export natural gas to europe more natural gas than the nordstream. this plan in texas want to export more natural gas and delaying the permits because they were concerned about exhaust from the cars coming to the plant and they were saying well, we will build a parking lot someplace else. this administration has slow walked projects, energy projects whether it's pipelines whether it's natural gas plants. we need more refineries in the united states. solar farms that take on three years on ave

harry truman's grandson summed up the flight of true man and the ceremony. >> do your duty and his reigns leading does you justice. >> coming in place in the capitol rotunda and in the musical. bet that hamilton isn't throwing away his shot. on capitol hill, chad purgrim, fox news. >> tough luck alex sandser. coming up, very special friends of queen elizabeth ii arrive the the gates to pay their respectbo of buckingham palace. coming up next. jon: adrite put for a dog lover who happened to be a queen, corgis and their humans gathered outside of buckingham palace today to honor queen elizabeth ii, her love for co are going to corgis began in 1933. that is how "fox reports," i'm jon scott, thank you for joining us, we'll see you next week. ♪ ♪ trey: thank you for joining us, i am trey gowdy, it's "sunday night in america," fbi believes there is sufficient evidence to charge hunter biden with violations of tax, and gun statutes accords to media reports fbi doesn't make charges decisions. federal prosecutors do. so the matter now sits with u.s. attorney in delaware. hunter biden's lawyers hav

and then was pulling in limbo for huge fan in the early 19 fifties. us president harry truman signed a secret plan to attack the usaa. the americans went going to declare war because the world would have undoubtedly condemned them for it. however, a so called peace making operation, which ukraine would rise up with the u. k. i taking up arms was a different story. a gave it trying to convince the americans that it was still possible to separate ukraine from the u. s. s. o. at the cia behest, he did his best to rock the boat as hard as possible. the nationalist ran a mug throughout the ukrainian ssr their night attacks were a real nightmare for the civilian population or you will be, what is it? the surgeon, this case is go as the last for this reason or that those will be read. you probably. yeah. cause yeah, i don't reach me. then you brought it in here. feel a job for the last. do you prefer to be proud of that particular share? is rubio, bishop mutual, you in particular to job personally and what should i say? let's check the reports you gave and sent across the ocean with great s

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president harry truman had joined it for a short time before he became president. he didn't like it and got out. a supreme court justice was in the clan when he got the appointment to sit on the supreme court. he had to leave the clan to do that. our last oldest living senator from west virginia was a -- in the 1940's which means state recruiter for the ku klux klan. he later saw the wrong in it and did a lot for civil rights. people can change. if you don't believe people can change, why are you still here? do you want to complain the rest of your life or do something about it. >> the southern poverty law center says in 2021, 18 clan groups and then united states. that is dropped. >> there are probably a few more than that. the number of groups has dropped. it doesn't mean other organizations don't exist paired there's a lot of neo-nazi groups a lot of alt right groups, oath keepers, proud boys, the national alliance, to go on and on. these are all offshoots of clan ideology. it was the first and largest at one time. >> we ate at each other's homes and everything.

speaker nancy pelosi along with the missouri congressional delegation unveil a bronze statue of harry truman capitol rotunda. 1:30 p.m. eastern the 35th anniversary of the p.o.w.'s in vietnam in 1973. the author talks about their harrowing experience and the work of the national league of p.o.w. mia families to bring them home. exploring the american story, watch american history tv saturday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch anytime online c-span.org/history. ♪♪ >> middle and high school students, your time to shine. you're invited to participate in this year's c-span documentary competition. in light of the upcoming midterm election, picture yourself as a newly elected member of congress. we ask this year's competitors what is your top priority and why. make a five to six minute video that shows the importance of your issue, from opposing and supporting perspective. don't be afraid to take risks with your documentary. be bold. amongst the $100,000 in cash prizes is a $5,000 grand prize. videos must be submitted by january 20th, 2023. visit our website at stu

harry truman. he virtually hated the ground that nixon walked on. eleanor roosevelt felt the same way. aly stevenson hated nixon with a passion. the leaders of the democratic party went to the fundamental extreme. because nixon was vulnerable, and also because eisenhower was not. they did not attack the great man because it was a waste of your time. so you went after someone that they thought was possible to go after. but what is worse than that is, today in newspapers, magazines, television, you have some of these people who are commentators. i nicely called him idiots. [laughs] they will tell you material that makes no sense at all, and one day one thing, one day the exact opposite thing. but, back in the day, in 1960 you had a bevy of famous columnists, newspaper reporters that simply wrote what happened. whereas kennedy had they's great, energetic audiences. nixon had awful audiences. nobody was there. if you saw pictures, kennedy had good audiences. and, surprise, nixon had good audiences. did nixon have people thought he was charismatic? absol

david mccullough wrote a biography of harry truman and harry truman started moving into one of the top ranked presidents. right now it's very ripe for somebody to do a book on james madison and dolley madison. i think real-looking madison in the war of 1812, the right book because he wrote so well and he has been underestimated as president. he might start seeing that madison rise. . the initial point, to weigh 20 years? let's get a decision we made. we didn't want to start excluding presidents so we decided to include them all. >> books matter. i think our friends over at c-span two's book tv might have their new promotion clip for doug brinkley just now. joining us from downstairs in our studio at c-span, i want to talk to you about that building over my shoulder just down the street from us here at c-span and congress. when those categories we ask historians, to rate on the president on is their relations with congress. one of the slides we have is how recent presidents have moved in that category on relations with congress. appointed george w. bush moving from 36 to 21 in this rece

it was harry truman's idea, but if a republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee hadot helped harry truman, nato would not have happened, probably, or the marshall plan, or for that matter, some of our greatest moments as americans. civil rights, support for arms-control, jfk, nixon and reagan were very much backed by both parties. here we are today with a nato that is expanding significantly with hopefully the addition of finland and sweden, and it all flows into this idea of america coming together when it is faced with great threats. we face a number of major issues that we need to tackle in a bipartisan way today, not just the nuclear and nato issues. the support for nato enlargement has been very bipartisan in the last several months. president biden admitted -- president biden and mitch mcconnell are pretty much joined at the hip on ukraine and nato. it is another illustration of the issue of bipartisanship, which orrin hatch was probably the leading example of in the post-vietnam era. he got so much done in a bipartisan way. susan: you titled your book "titan o

bill was a success harry truman in 1946 put together a blue-ribbon commission, the truman commission, that looked at a higher education and that commission recommended a year later that community college should be free for all americans, and here it is in 2022 and we are still debating whether community college should be free, president biden and his wife is a community college professor. joe manchin, the senator from west virginia, which is a state where people could incredibly benefit from a free community college system blocked that proposal in 2021. and absolutely, to give people an option of free or low-cost those first two years, and for many students it could be a stepping stone and they can complete their degree at a four year college. and also community services are plugged into the needs of the community in terms of what are the job needs in a local community, the local industries and what do they need. so absolutely, and i would agree. it frustrates me that it is not a bigger part of the conversation. >> matthew, portland, oregon, please go ahead with your question or comme

that have taken place in the united states well , that is, instead of franklin dalan roosevelt , harry truman became the president of the united states, who was not so hospitable in relations with the soviet union. us policy began to change in relation to the soviet union, and public opinion began to change, if in march of the forty-fifth year 55% of respondents sympathized with the soviet union, then exactly a year later in march of the forty-sixth year. yes, the number of sympathizers will already drop to 30 percent of the dynamics. here. generally, could be seen. just a military period between the two superpowers. some contradictions and conflicts constantly arose , probably the first directive of the joint committee. chiefs of staff, appeared back in october 1945, and she proceeded from the fact that the soviet union well, as the us military believed, they were an expansionary low power and sooner or later. this is what expansionism will begin to show , either in relation to western europe. well, most likely, either in relation there, for example, japan, or in relation to the near and mid

on harry truman. leslie causal goes down in history as the one and only. >> you just mentioned the mesh entry mission of the service has been expanded to protect d the vice president, the idea that that was not partt of this chare from the very beginning is extraordinary could you imagine, the harrison this country at this moment without a protective detail. >> nos i cannot. >> i can't. it took the assassination of robert kennedy he was campaigning and it looked like he was heading to become president for lyndon b. johnson actually to announce overnight and that is a really chilling moment. literally in the middle of theer night called up the director of the secret service and said i want details on every single candidate right now. candidates got protection. >> you said family members, the protection of the service has been expanded to 70 people. i did not know until i read this book the arthur bremmer who shog george wallace had actually wanted to kill richard nixon first. >> that is actually a good

ididn't even know there was an assassination attempt on harry truman . leslie kaufman does not down in history as the one and only one you mentioned mission has expanded to do things like protect the vice president. the idea that that was not part of this chart from the beginning is extraordinary . could you imagine kamala harris at this moment without a protective detail west and mark. >> i can't. it took the assassination of robert kennedy and looking like he was heading to become president for lyndon b. johnson to just announce overnight and that's actually a chilling moment, literally in the middle of the night called the director of the secret service and says i want details on every single candidate right now. so candidates got protection. >> host: family members as you say. the protection of the service has been expanded to so many people and you know i didn't know till i read this book arthur bremner who shot george wallace had wanted to kill richard nixon first and was thwarted. >> host: that's a good story for the secret service. bremner wrote

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