when you think about joseph stalin, a lot of people have forgotten stalin's strategy. we know eventually he helped hitler's start world war ii. millions of people were killed by him in the soviet union during his reign, using direct or indirect means. not a pleasant place to be. arguably one of history's greatest mass murderers. not many people out murdered hitler, so we do not want the president going into a meeting with that guy unsure if he has an atomic bomb or not. that could alter the negotiations, so we have to look the president no. so the test has to be conducted in advance of the conference. those of the two things that will drive this. the political consideration and the safety consideration. now, commander noris bradberry -- hopefully that name means something -- bradbury was our second director, for 25 years. he was the director of our museum. during the war, he was a group leader. he was a trained physicist. he was also a navy reserve commander. he was a group leader in the explosives division at that point in time and he was in charge of writing the proc

it was a constant effort to pull the republicans in and link to them that they could no more joseph stalin'sns in western europe then chamberlain had on hitler's design on the same region ten years earlier. the republicans, for anybody who follows the history of the war. , the republicans, after 1919, woodrow wilson came back and tried to get the u.s. involved in the league of nations. he had contentious negotiations with the republican senate and other isolationists to follow wilson's efforts to get the u.s. involved in the league of nations so they retreated, the country retreated back into this fortress america mentality which allowed adolph hitler to build strength and of course we know september 1, 1939 world war ii began and we all know the consequences of that so truman, and i think it's one of the reasons i go into great detail in the legislative effort, the efforts of compromise is because he showed how to do it. he also shows how to do it by surrounding himself with the best and brightest of his time. the wiseman walter isaacson and thomas called him. of course general marshall org

in a few months, he would travel to germany, and meet with joseph stalin, winston churchill, and clement atley at the potsdam conference. and on the way home to the united states, he would authorize the use of the atomic bomb on military targets in japan. history tells the rest of the story of that in august of 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. >> the japanese began the war from the air at pearl harbor. they have been repaid many fold. and the end is not yet. with this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. >> and so the first five months of truman's presidency were among the most challenging of any president's in our history. mrs. truman suffered a loss in december of 1952, with the death of her mother, madge gates wallace. she died just a few weeks before christmas in 1952, and really just a few weeks before president truman would leave the presidency. in january of 1953. she died without a will. and so what mr. and mrs. truman did, was they bought this home from the estate of madge gates wallace and all the paperwork was d

he met with the big three, winston churchill, joseph stalin and roosevelt. before the war fdr is thinking about the postwar period. in november 1943 when he journeys to tehran, he had several important things on the agenda. one is trying to ensure his partners in the allied coalition will sign on to the idea of a postwar organization, and become the united nations, that he hopes will prevent the outbreak of a third world war. one of the interesting documents we have on display here is a sketch fdr made at the tehran conference in 1943. this is in his handwriting. an aide saved this sketch. you can see abroad sketch of what -- a broad sketch of what he thought united nations might be. that represented the 40 nations at that time that were in the coalition fighting the axis powers. this represents the idea of what becomes the u.n. general assembly. in the center, something marked executive committee. this is the full-time staff of what would become the united nations, the secretariat. the last circle, marked four police, what he thought of as the four policeme

at tehran and at yalta, he met with the big three, winston churchill, joseph stalin, and president roosevelt. long before the end of the, war fdr is already thinking about the post war era. in november 1943 when he journeys to tehran for this conference, he has several important things on the agenda. one of them is trying to ensure that his partners in the allied coalition will sign on to the idea of a post war organization, what becomes the united nations, that he hopes will prevent the outbreak of a third world war. one of the interesting documents we have on display here is actually a little sketch that fdr made at the tehran conference in 1943. an aide later say this little sketch. in this drawing, you can see in fdr zone writing, a real kind of broad sketch of what he thought the united nations might be. it starts on the left here with the little circle marked 40 yuan. that represented the 40 nations that were in the united nations coalition fighting the axis powers. this represents the idea of what becomes the un general assembly. in the center, you have something marked executive comm

he's much more praiseworthy, praising the british empire than franklin roosevelt, for example, or joseph stalinhe admires the british. so he invades here. nothing happens. he's already carved off large parts of czechoslovakia here. east prussia has now been joined to germany. the rhineland has been militarized, austria does not really exist. the cap norm is that area is. -- look how enormous that area is. germany had this second largest economy to begin with traditionally in the world after the united states. and now people think surely he'll be happy with that. no. in april of 1940, just six months later, he's gone into denmark. i shouldn't say gone into. he just burped and swallowed it in three days. he's gone into norway. he doesn't have to do anything in sweden. my ancestors are happily selling him iron ore at a discount. providing free transportation in the bargain to make money out of it. finland has settled, it will be fighting with the soviet union. the soviet union was kicked out of the league of nations over it. it will be neutral now. the soviet union is pro german. i don't mean neut

his name is joseph stalin.laughter] [applause] i am safe from any liberal attack in public because they would be afraid of offending stalin. [laughter] the opportunity here to address the nation is a serious one. i want to take it seriously. i want to address something. i know people are probably watching those who never have listened to my program and may not know what conservatism is, they think they do based on how they have been told, the way we have been impugned and maligned and so forth. one of the things that is totally erroneous about me is that i am pompous. [laughter] and that i am arrogant. neither of these things are remotely true. i can tell you a joke to illustrate this. larry king passed away, goes to heaven, is greeted by st. peter at the gates. st. peter says, welcome, mr. king. i want to show you around, maybe you can pick a place you would like to resign. king says i have one question. is rush limbaugh here? no, no, he has a lot of time, mr. king. st. peter begins the tour. larry king sees t

important conference, is because president truman, churchill prime minister of united kingdom, and joseph stalin, would come together out of potsdam in germany, not far from berlin, to discuss the future. now, when we think about joseph stolen, a lot of people have forgotten stalin, and we mentioned that he helped start he helped start world war ii. but he did but over 2 million people were killed by him during his reign though. using direct or indirect situation. not a pleasant place to be. he is one of the greatest mass murderers. not too many people in front of him. he was probably's bat is out of hitler. and that's pretty bad. so we don't want the president, going into a meeting, with that guy unsure if he has the top bomb. that can alter the negotiations. so we have to support the president. so that's why the test was advanced before the potsdam conference. those are the two things, that drove this. first it's political consideration, and second it was the weather. now commander bradbury, hopefully that mean something to people who are listening here today, bribery was our second director.

we heard people say that about fidel castro and cuba, when we read in the history books about joseph stalinconcerned about like with chairman mau, that there was no party without chairman mau. it was what chairman mau said it was just like the communist party in cuba was before fidel castro said it was. if it was shutting down newspapers, that's what fid dell castro would do. if it was shooting down planes, cessnas, then that's over the straits, you know, that's what he would do. and so, now, coming from a member of congress, no matter who that member of congress is, it sounds very -- just very ominous that the party is donald trump and donald trump is -- whatever donald trump says a party is, it is. this is tyrannical thinking. >> it's cult-like, really. it's certainly not conservative. i don't think it's american, joe. this is almost like making an idol out of donald trump. it's cult-like. and it's weird. i mean, look, a president, a political leader who loses the presidency, loses the senate during his tenure, loses the house during his tenure, i think he actually sabotaged the senate in

you must support fearless leader, you must support joseph stalin, you must support fidel castro, you must support noriega. you must support -- fill in the blanks. that is the state of play in republican parties across america. and, yes, independent voters, swing voters in pennsylvania, look at that. can we hear that again? i just want you to know this is the mortgageal grounding of the republican party all across moral now. a run party that devolved into a personality cult instead of an constitution that actually began to free the slaves. let's see where the party of abraham lincoln has devolved in this time. >> we did not send him there to vote his conscience. we did not accepted him there to do the right thing or whatever you -- >> richard haass, we're hearing this all over america from republican apparatchiks, soviet style apparatchiks. i'm not overstating that. this is what you would hear from an east german party member. you're not to do the right thing. you're to follow the party. you are not to vote your conscience, do what the soviet polit tells you to. a former tv host and l