author candice, millard and institute of museum and library services director crosby kemper the third talk about winston churchill's 1946 iron curtain speech with washington post columnist david. vondrali. they examine his motivations for giving the speech and his relationship with harry truman as both men. look toward the future of the west and the soviet union the truman library institute hosted this event and provided the video. it's a pleasure to be here again with our virtual audience and i hope that soon will be together again in person. i'm david vondriley. i am a columnist for the washington post and a member of the board of directors of the 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 christ. faced by our 33rd president the man fro

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under today, you see that they said that it is political forces playing against my wife monopoly of kemper so as well as foreign by agencies. they, however never presented any hard evidence for that. and that was written in very big matters on the stage for the setup right next to the court. i do not expect a fair trial. i just shot it has been compromised. and then we know that this judiciary has been, report night, gets the freedom fighter, the people know, brought this liberation. it has been really nice to talk to those that through to stand on the side of the majority, we know and written down. but at the end of the case states back to an armstrong from 1998 in 2005. do. my former financial advisor was convicted for taking a bright from the manufacturer and passing it on to zoom out after what the prosecution also started to look into zoom up. but the case was dropped shortly before you became president after his presidency in 2018. the case was picked up again, but since then they've been multiple delays, mainly due to legal technicalities. it's already backed that it is taking so lo

george kemper in chicago.that his grandfather went to. the world health organization. key evidence left out of the group's report on the origins of covid raising serious new doubts about the official u.n. investigation. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: how are you? halftime here we go. i'm great. i'm bill hemmer good morning. president biden suddenly calling for a deeper dive to uncover the origins of the virus as we learn about more -- more about the early days of the outbreak including evidence of possible covid cases in china that go back to october of 2019. the top military officer at the pentagon blaming a lack of transparency on leaders in beijing. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff saying this late yesterday. once this virus started appearing there seems to have been a fair amount of activity or cover-up or lack of transparency. probably the best way to put it. all of that is disturbing, end quote. >> dana: let's get more from lucas tomlinson live at the pe

wta kemper, whose mutual great-grandfather, myself, my cousin jonathan who is here tonight, he's the president on board. he was an investor and supporter of arthur stillwell's dreams from the kansas city, would became kansas city southern great railroad as a pathway to the gulf coast from kansas city. then the romantic kansas city mexico and orient railroad on the way to the mexican coast. the mexican coast actually -- were closer to the pacific through the mexican coast in california if you look at the map. arthur still well had that dream. it was only consummated around 1960. jonathan's brother and sisters and his father went to the consummation ceremony, if you will, in mexico and back. the point that i'm making is that we are about is fully connected to the southwest and our history as we can be. in addition to the santa fe trail there was the chisholm trail any other cattle trails. connecting kansas and kansas city and the stock yards of course, right to the flow of goods. we became the entertainment mecca for the cattle industry. and the distribution of just about everything he

the first is crosby kemper many of you know crosby as the former executive director of the kansas city public library. he's now the director of the institute for museum and library services of the federal government. crosby is ever as everyone knows one of the world's great readers and polymaths and among the subjects that he's mastered. is this story of winston churchill's trip with harry truman. to missouri in 1946 we also have with us. the incomparable his writer of popular history one of the great story finders and storytellers of her generation candice millard whose books have taken us into the lives of theodore roosevelt of james garfield and yes well, winston churchill. so without much more for me, i'd like to start with crosby and ask. set the set the stage for us paint the picture. how did it happen the churchill came to missouri? and what was the scene? what was that day? like so it is you have to start off by asking yourself there. they're actually so many reasons. this shouldn't have happened. i mean small town in, missouri fulton a small college westminster, which was fail

author candice, millard and institute of museum and library services director crosby kemper the third talk about winston churchill's 1946 iron curtain speech with washington post columnist david. vondrali. they examine his motivations for giving the speech and his relationship with harry truman as both men. look toward the future of the west and the soviet union the truman library institute hosted this event and provided the video. it's a pleasure to be here again

first of all i wasn't there in 1976 at the kemper arena which is now since gone destroyed in a tornadosome years ago. i was working my way through college and i wasay slinging hah at a restaurant in cape cod but my wife was there. she was working for the campaign and she was on the floor that night and she told me repeatedly many times we talked about it, she said it was the most brilliant reagan speech but i wrote the book -- and if field director was on the floor also and standing next to someone from florida. after reagan gave a speech he muttered oh my god we have nominated the wrong man. at the time we needed 1130 votes for the nomination and he won by 50 or 60 delegates and lost it by 80 some so was very slim and very narrow. there have been accusations over the years that there were some hanky-panky in the new york delegation and a few other states but it was pretty clean as for as i could tell. there were accusations. there were a lie detectors and one police i officer said polygraph tests came back negative. he said it was the first time i've ever heard a politician telling th