view of harry truman, who solemnly swear by harry truman, do solemnly, sir. you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states, but i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will, to the best of your ability, will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. oh, help you, god. so help me god. heal the nation and the world. a solemn, resolute president declared mr. vice president, mr. chief justice. hello, senator. i accept. where it humility the honor which the american people have conferred upon me. i accept that with a resolve to do all that i can for the welfare of this nation and for the peace of the world. american people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this nation from the beginning. we believe that all men have a right to equal justice under the law and equal opportunity to share in the common good. we believe that all men have a right to freedom of thought and expression

view of harry truman, who solemnly swear by harry truman, do solemnly, sir. you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states, but i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will, to the best of your ability, will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. oh, help you, god. so help me god. heal the nation and the world. a solemn, resolute president declared mr. vice president, mr. chief justice. hello, senator. i accept. where it humility the honor which the american people have conferred upon me. i accept that with a resolve to do all that i can for the welfare of this nation and for the peace of the world. american people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this nation from the beginning. we believe that all men have a right to equal justice under the law and equal opportunity to share in the common good. we believe that all men have a right to freedom of thought and expression

he knows andrew jackson is harry truman's idol. and he says what would andrew jackson do. i don't think so. he would do what he knows to be like. the thing to do now is to recognize. third truman turns red in his face, turns his back turns around and looks puts his hands on the desk, turned back around and says the son of the vi will see him. he said he is the happiest man on earth. he realized. a few days later harry truman saw him he sealed the deal. and 11 minutes after 1948 has to recognize an independent state. click such a great story. the other went i was struck by impact on the policy itself. i talk about other yc influence the presidency. has one to mind. >> it is an unheard of friendship in terms of influencing politics today which never happened. this most powerful president and the country's history. he was a very wealthy texas businessman who would always wanted to operate on a international stage. he's looking for the man in the opportunity at the exact same moment woodrow wilson is the governor of new jersey as a run for president he knows he needs a best fri

here's harry truman talking about his decision to drop the bomb on hiroshima. a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. that bomb, more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. the japanese. the war from the air at pearl. they have been repaired manyfold, and the end is not yet. well, this bomb. we have now added a new revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces in their present firm. these bombs are now in production and even more power firms are in development. it is an atomic bomb. it is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe, the force from which the sun grows. this power has been loosed against those who brought war to the far east. we are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise. the japanese in any city, we shall destroy their docks, their factories and, their communications. let there be no mistake. we shall completely destroy japan. power to make war. it was to spare the japanese people from utter des

harry truman is finding it is starting to get out of control, and that is why he thinks with this new executive order he might bring things back under control. host: you identified the nuclear threat as perhaps the most important thing the country wants to keep us top-secret especially today from rogue nations and nonstate actors. you ask in the book is there a better way to identify top-secret weapons? guest: the reason we gather these millions of classified documents, the reason we work with top data scientists and computer scientists is we want to to answer that question. is there a better way? i can tell you absolutely. even with declassified documents , the relatively small amount we are able to get outside of government, yes indeed, you can use algorithms to automatically identify records in a collection that might be related to nuclear weapons. you can also automatically identify the classification level in 90% of cases of a given state department cable. you might say 90% is not good enough, you need to be 100% sure. but then you have to ask yourself the question arguments 100%

. >> that is a far cry from harry truman saying the buck stops here. 13 pages document that the biden administration put together and it was a lot of nonsense, the biden administration owns what happened in afghanistan. it was absolutely a national security disaster. 13 brief service members died and we left billions of dollars of equipment behind the taliban hands and we left american citizens in our allies behind. this was a debacle in the biden administration needs to level with the american people and admit to it. that's a house republicans on the oversight committee are going to be focusing on today. maria: there blaming trump which is incredible. lee zeldin is with us this morning. one other element that you can point to as a result of the afghanistan withdraw is the fact that the adversaries are on the march, look at china and the surveillance efforts, look at putin and russia. this all happened after afghanistan. >> they were all watching. you have vladimir putin looking at ukraine and china looking at taiwan, north korea test firing missiles,

at this location the last time that amount of snow was measured across the sierra was 1952 when harry trumanas president. in a news conference, state water officials say the amount of snow pack is unprecedented and has made a huge impact on the drought. so christmas 2022 just to remind you heading into year four of a drought and just about done with first quarter of the water year. and things were looking pretty grim boy. things changed in the second quarter and we see that footprint. what are those storms really running that track between san francisco bay and san diego? graphic tells the story. on a statewide basis , you can see 1952 on the left with more recent record set in 1969 and 1983 also easily being surpassed this year. and the high snowpack has already resulted in good news for local water suppliers to big central valley water systems, one run by the federal bureau of reclamation and the other by the california department of water resources, bring water from distant reservoirs, which collect all of this runoff to the bay area. yeah, it's incredible to see that snow pack up there b

in effect in a bid to also become the seat in -- the cia harry truman rebuffed the bid we have separation there. but the fbi continues then and, i think coming out to bring in police officers around the world to the fbi academy where they trained local law enforcement officials in the u.s. and they do a lot of international law enforcement training. >> i wanted to ask the caller if he came away with a different impression after spending three days and three nights with your book. what about you? after how many years of resource -- research did you come away with a different impression of jericho hoover? >> i started writing the book in 2009, so it was more than a decade immersed in this man's life, that world he created and inhabited. i didn't change my opinion. i thought from the very beginning there was a more complicated story to tell about j edgar hoover. but i found myself surprised about some of the better things he did. his opposition, for instance, to japanese mass internment and incarceration during the second world war. he has one of the few officials that spoke against that. hi

roosevelt's successor was harry truman, who was then vice president, with the change of us leaders , country's position in the negotiations of the anti-hitler coalition changed. truman actually considered stalin an enemy aggressively, gripping eastern europe, this exacerbated the contradictions with the ussr, the cold war began. it was truman who became an active supporter of the creation of a military bloc. nato it is quite possible that if it were not for the sudden death of roosevelt, after the military history of the world, the path could have gone completely differently . vostok alone started from the spaceport. baikonur flight was prepared in an atmosphere of complete secrecy gagarin from a height. 302 km first from the people i saw the earth from space, blue and round, the flight lasted 106 minutes, there were many emergency situations. the descent vehicle even landed. not where they planned, but the main thing was achieved gagarin flew into space and returned safely. this was a triumph of soviet science and the first cosmonaut was celebrated as a hero, as a hero, his flight m

, he has the lowest approval rating of any president going back to harry truman except every once in a while trump pulls ahead of him. the most unpopular president in the history going into the re-election. the only reason he has a chance of winning is because donald trump is less popular than he is, and because people who disapprove of him, disapprove of trump more. 39% advantage of people who disapprove the both men. he's the least worst candidate from their perspective. >> john: so the south korean president visit here, the first in 12 years. president trump went to korea twice, i went with him, and the second time to the dmz, brings us full circle back around to trump's negotiations with kim jong-un and a heady time in the nation's history looked like south korea might be making some moves toward denuclearization. kim was cheating all the time but at least trump had him on the hook. he wiggled off the hook and doubling down on the efforts to go nuclear. >> very will chance trump would succeed, but he was trying. there was a brief pause in tests, but i don't think north korea was

or think about your guy, harry truman he leaves office under such a cloud.proval. yet, what he was able to do in terms of a foreign policy, recognition of israel and the desegregation of the armed forces so he's come up in the public opinion polls. in the end, what do we judge our presidents by? when you look at the historians' polls, did they advance justice? how did they deal with congress? did they put forth a good public per persona? did hthey ak rocknowledge error? with president donald trump, republicans are peeling off a few things, he shouldn't have said to de-fund the police, shouldn't have swung the bat they should be asking, what is the character of our leaders that's what historians look like character is made up of flaws and strength none escape without having been limited by the context of the time or making a mistake the questionis, do they have a decency to acknowledge it when they make it, learn from it, and grow as a result of it that's what historians look at that's what makes history so much fun they have the perspective. they can give us

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smith does for ford what david mccullough did for harry truman. smith offers a thoughtful, textured reveal of an often overlooked and underappreciated president. now another publishing news the 45th president is set to publish his latest book. it's entitled letters to trump, and the book is being released through winning team publishing. and in the washington times, brian darling took a look at the book, writing that quote, the letters to and from mr. trump provides a good view of a man before he became the subject of daily media attacks. the letters from past decades show mr. trump's depth and breadth. the letters also show that as a private citizen, mr. trump was popular among many who denounced him when he became a candidate and then president. and finally, publishers weekly has for 25 years sponsored a book store of the year award. this year, the finalists are the edmonds bookshop and edmonds, washington. harvey's tales in geneva, illinois. in tara bank books in dallas. main street books in lafayette, indiana and midtown scholar in harrisburg,

and it's right since, since harry truman, when push came to serve with the j. f. k records, he gave them everything they wanted. he didn't push back at all. now, you know, we don't know why trump did that. i assume was, you know, he had something else on his mind that day. i don't attribute any grand importance to it. sure. but you know, a biden, you know, biden wouldn't buck them either. now he's more of an institutional, less type guy, he's going to go along to get along. you know, at the end of the day they need the cia and cia doesn't need that. that's what the j f. k file story tells us. i think you are 100 percent right. that unfortunately is all we have for you today. i'd like to thank our guest, historian, author, and journalist jefferson morley, and thank you to our viewers. i'm glad that you could join us. the buddha once said, there are 3 things that cannot be hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth. to which the great scientists, galileo added, all truths are easy to understand. once they are discovered, the point is to discover them and john curiosit

you can watch harry truman or listen to harry truman's 1947 speech about communist domination of the world. this is the speech. the truman doctrine is enunciated and he talks about needing aid for greece and turkey. you could also read truman's speech as an admission he knew that socialism was going to be something that people in the so-called developing or third world, it would appeal to people in the third world. and the u.s. had something to do about it. so inflating the threat, communism, looking on it again with the of hindsight, but even at the time were people post-9-11 who said we're inflating the threat to our country of islamic terrorism and that, you know, preemptive invasions is not the right way to go about doing this. that wasn't so much a question as a word salad. but, you know, take that on, if you don't mind. well, there there was tremendous fear of another attack after 11. and in my view it was a well-founded fear of another terrorist attack, whether that fear needed to gravitate into a war against is a different question. and i think retrospect, if you assess the pr

harry truman, who was then vice president, changed with the change of us leaders and the country's positionr coalition. truman actually considered stalin an aggressive enemy, seizing eastern europe; this aggravated the contradiction of the ussr, the cold war began. it was truman who became an active supporter of the creation of a military bloc. nato it is quite possible that if it were not for the sudden death of roosevelt, the post-war history of the world could have taken a completely different path . vostok alone started from the spaceport. baikonur , the flight was prepared in an atmosphere of complete secrecy, gagarin you, at 302 km, were the first person to see the earth from space, blue and round, the flight lasted 106 minutes many emergency situations. the descent vehicle even landed. not where they planned, but the main thing was achieved gagarin flew into space and returned safely. this was a triumph of soviet science and the first cosmonaut was celebrated as a hero, as a hero, his flight marked the beginning of the space era in the history of mankind on april 12. since then, the

wasn't eloquent always about it but had this same kind of understanding of the cold war and and harry truman who is your first cold warrior? your first cold war president. and he's the one who first frames the conflict. i mentioned the truman doctrine speech in terms of two ways of life and you if you look again at that famous, it's all there. and then reagan's the one who, you know, he said he was a truman democrat. right. he said then the party left. he said later on that he thinks that if truman had still lived, truman have joined him in going to the republican party. but you've got this understanding of of the politics, the economics, the military and the strategy and and faith, moral does all these different things coming together. and to many people, especially in the academy, want to take that very important piece. but it's foundational for for many, if you know lincoln, that's that's one of the the references the in the evil empire speeches is reagan talking about lincoln praying and then he probably said variations of this but but other presidents have said there are no atheists in

a democratic president, harry truman. a republican house and senate. the public and congressmen in particular were quite skeptical about the idea of using massive foreign aid as a tool to reinforce u.s. economic and security interests. the administration launched a massive public relations and education campaign, beginning in the fall of 1947. many congressmen, including republican congressman, visited europe to see conditions on the ground. many of them, like young congressman richard nixon from california, came home convince the u.s. really did have to do something radical, something new, in order to protect its interests in europe without having to depend on the military . general marshall himself traveled around the u.s., speaking to farms, women's groups, labor groups, emphasizing the importance of this aid. then, there was also a galvanizing factor in the international sphere. in february 1948, the soviets instigated a communist coup in czechoslovakia. there had been a coalition government in czechoslovakia at the time. the democrats were pushed

harry truman is behind you. and a mural on the wall. was it his idea to incorporate the cia or was that bill donovan? the idea donovan had always been pushing for a peacetime intelligence organization at the end of world war two. so many wartime organizations just were dissolved because everyone wanted to come home. but truman realized that he was going to need a peacetime intelligence organization to take on the soviet union. so within a couple of years, all those elements of the ss are brought back together in the central intelligence agency. one of the things that truman wanted was a newspaper that would give him information he couldn't get anywhere else. so starting with the daily summary, which is a collection of all the different cables from state department and other places coming together for him, that will evolve into the president's daily brief, something that every morning is delivered not only to the president of the united states, but to our top policymakers to help them inform them on on information they literally can't ge

harry truman was at a ballgame and not in the first game, but he had just fired douglas macarthur. as he left the field, the fans -- macarthur was a great hero, locally. he had just made the old soldiers never die speech to congress. truman appeared at the next ballgame and he was roundly booed by the fans. a much bigger booing, if you will was at the 19 -- 2019 world series when president trump appeared on the big screen. he didn't throughout the first ball, and he didn't sit in the stands, either, the fans recognized trump and booed him vigorously. >> i was thinking, the national opening day, they have a home game in washington on thursday. is there any chance the president biden might show up or do you think that she would likely be booed. things are so polarizing now. there will be universal reception for an american president and just about any city. >> he would get more cheers than booze because he is in a liberal city. i don't know if he will do it. a couple of years ago there was talk that he was interested in doing and he might do in the future. we don't know. interestingl

a democratic president, harry truman. a republican house and senate. the public and congressmen in particular were quite skeptical about the idea of using massive foreign aid as a tool to reinforce u.s. economic and security interests. the administration launched a massive public relations and education campaign, beginning in the fall of 1947. many congressmen, including republican congressman, visited europe to see conditions on the ground. many of them, like young congressman richard nixon from california, came home convince the u.s. really did have to do something radical, something new, in order to protect its interests in europe without having to depend on the military . general marshall himself traveled around the u.s., speaking to farms, women's groups, labor groups, emphasizing the importance of this aid. then, there was also a galvanizing factor in the international sphere. in february 1948, the soviets instigated a communist coup in czechoslovakia. there had been a coalition government in czechoslovakia at the time. the democrats were pushed