mr. truman selected him, not because of his experience, but because he was marshall. >> there is nothing that i can say at this time regarding matters that per tan tain to my position in the state department. but i assume the do theiuties w great feeling of responsibility and ape very earnest desire to carry out the foreign policy of this government in the manner that has been so splendidly exemplified by my predecessor, mr. burns. my old friend. >> the new secretary brought imagination and a dignified intensity to his job which was equal to the world challenge. in march, 1947, marshall headed a delegation to moscow whose mission was the peace agreement on germany and austria. the opportunity to observe the russian bear in his native environment was valuable in view of increasing soviet hostility. russia already loomed as the largest question mark in america's future. the desperate economic plight of europe, drew marshall's whole attention upon his return. and recommendations were presented to the congress. >> europe is still emerging from the devastation and dislocation of the most dest

had always hated "the missouri waltz" and mrs. truman said the only good thing was by then he was so deaf he couldn't hear what the president was playing. laurie firestone, you were there for the entire first bush presidency. those were eventful years, significant years in the history of the white house and the country. tell us something about barbara bush that maybe we don't know. >> well, you know, i think barbara, everybody knows her because i think she was so open, and, you know, yes, there may be a cute little story or something that hasn't been written, but i think she had a very unique ability to really be a very warm and friendly, and she was everybody's friend. and so i remember back in the days at the vice president's, and, you know, television was becoming more and more important, and, of course, the first ladies aren't on it often, but often vice president bush would be on it, but people would come to the house, and i would always greet them and say good-bye to them. and they were like i just had no idea. they were so warm an

it was responsible mr truman conclusion those responsible. for winning the competition but. i know it's not doesn't mccarthy if allen west and he's going to get to the bottom of it now unlike mccarthy west refused to name names but ocean were a good mccarthy i know that without a reason aims to persecute claims of communism are for it so when fred west office we had like a big drops a bombshell of all bomb shells there aren't in fact there's even entire web site out there and apparently this covert of qantas has been operating out in the open right under a very noses according to west office the congressman was there for eight of the seventy six members of the congressional progressive caucus the communist party of public referred with aggressive caucus as its allies the progressive caucus speaks for itself these individuals certainly aren't proponents of free markets or individual economic freedom. so that's right according to wes all seventy six members of the congressional progressive caucus are communists if you take a look at their website seems pretty legitimate but so

before that, the last democrat to win in arizona was harry truman. mr.arizona by 8 1/2 points in 2008. >>> let's huddle up around the water cooler to watch the man who in a right and just world would be the republican nominee. he sat down last night for an interview with "the daily show" where correspondent john oliver giving mr. herman cain the inside the actor studio treatment, asking him most importantly about that president of who's becky becky stan stan stan. >> when they ask me who is the president of the becky becky becky stan stan, i'm going to say, i don't know. do you know? >> mr. cain, i have a question, i hope you don't disappoint. who is the president of use back stan? >> the president of use back stan. i did go and look it up. and at one point i knew his name. but since it's not something that i use every day, it's gone again! >> it's gone again! mr. cain also delivers an inspiring speech on how he would rally the nation if aliens were to invade. >> you are president of the united states of america. earth is being attacked by aliens. you ar

mr. churchill, who had recently lost re-election as british prime minister, was invited to speak by president harry truman who promised to introduce the former prime minister if he accepted the invitation. the author recalls mr. churchill's desire to speak out against the rise of communism and later referred to his appearance in missouri as the most important speech of his career. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, rage. welcome to -- ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the kansas city public library. i'm the director of the kansas city public library, and it's a pleasure to have phil white here tonight from the adriatic to kansas where phil white comes from and has written this wonderful book. it's an extraordinary story. this is one of the six or seven greatest speechers, most important speeches, most consequential speeches in the history of the world, i believe. i've written about it myself, and this speech in fulton, missouri, with the president of the united states and the former prime minister of england on the stage together set the tone for, created the f

truman started the idea. and someone on the staff said, mr.oln's office was right next todoor and this was called the lincoln study. churchhill stayed here often and it was a popular thing. lincoln's house survives. somehow through all of the density through law and circumstance and the rest of the conditions that come along with the white house, the private lives and influences drifts. there seems to be no end to it. several of which appeared, thousands of documents on this subject are housed on the national archives and fun to go through. to see which little things are recorded. from the first presidents which kept little records of the white house. the lincoln materials are full gi giving facts and clues to what life in the setting must have been to this day. the french called such information little history. the little shells along the shore. it comes with recollections of doormen and maids and wrascraps paper somehow now preserved. the small corners, the bits and details that i have brought up today composed the history of the white house

truman. president hoover actually started the idea because he had the treaty room fixed up for his lincoln collection, and then someone on the staff said, well, mr. lincoln's office was right next door. and hoover said, let's change it. had all the cabinet work moved into this room and it was called the lincoln study before truman got a hold of it. churchill stayed here often. and it was a very popular thing. well, lincoln's house survives. somehow through all the density of law and circumstance, of secrets and public statements and the rest of the conditions that come along with the white house, the private lives and influences of the presidents drift slowly to the surface. there seems no end to it, as evidenced by some of the photographs i've shown you, several of which have appeared recently. thousands of documents on this subject are housed in the national archives, record group 42. fun to go through. and just see what little things are recorded. forming pieces of the lincoln puzzle. from the first presidents who kept good records of the white house lest their successors accuse them of domestic extravagance. the lincoln materials are very fu

mr. sam's funeral at the little baptist church in bonham was dwight david eisenhower shown here in this famous photograph with presidents truman and kennedy and the future president lyndon johnson. serving as interviewer and moderator for our program tonight is the director of the lbj library and museum, my good friend marked updegrove. mark needs no introduction to this audience, but i do want to say something about his work that is particularly relevant to this program. mark who is one of the leading presidential historians in this country is the author of the book "second acts, presidential lives and legacies after the white house" which as the title implies examines the post-presidential experiences of all the presidents who served after franklin roosevelt concluding with bill clinton. one of my favorite chapters in that book is the one that -- that mark wrote about the years that dwight eisenhower spent after the white house. so mark will be interviewing our special guests, david and julie eisenhower. david eisenhower is the grandson of president dwight eisenhower, and his father john eisenhower is a prominent military hi

mr. speaker, and distinguished members of the congress, i stand on with a sense of deep humility and great pride. >> he was as i said welcomed as a hero and truman was scorned. the issues that have been examined since that time, i think even transcending the korean war and the issue of civilian control of the military. the issue of the containment communism and an overlooked issue, the issue of the conduct of a limited war versus the conduct of a total war. i think really that is the crux of what mcarthur's dilemma was in fighting. if you look at the way wars were fought from world war ii prior to that time, the basic philosophy was simply this. the politicians to get us into a war is in the military figures in to fight the war. the objective is to destroy your enemy and the politicians negotiate peace, and then you try to return to normal. and that's what happened in most of the wars through world war ii. but the advent of nuclear weaponry totally changed the way warfare could be conducted. because if you went into a conflict with a goal of totally annihilating your enemy with use of nuclear bombs, you would not only destroy them, you could als

truman, good morning. caller: now you know who my favorite president is, anyway. hello, mr. hill. band a little bit here because the previous caller was thinking just like i am and i know we're talking about north korea and it was brought up that the chinese, they claim they don't have as much sway over north korea as we think that they do. but who knows what's really going on. but to me, to me, north korea and iran are in the same basket because we -- they're really similar problems. and the question -- what i never hear about is always in the shadows and the background, holding hand in hand or shadowing china is russia. and i wonder when -- when china votes against the u.n. sanction against iran and russia does also, and then china votes against sanctions or too strong of sanctions against north korea and russia backs them up, i mean, what's going on with russia? guest: yes. yeah, just a couple of months ago, we marked the 40th anniversary of the shanghai communique, the agreement that president nixon reached with chinese premier when essentially, we peeled china away from the s

mr. president, i think i'm going to put that on hold for just a moment and recall the words of a former president, one who left office, not very popular, harry truman, but in retrospect is regarded by many as one of the best presidents of the last century. harry truman, you will remember, used to say the only thing new in the world is the history that we forgot or never learned. i just want to go back a few years in history, reflecting on the words of the preceding speaker, and just say what can we learn from history? one of the things we can learn is that the last time we actually had a balanced budget in this country, we had actually three of them in the last three years of the clinton administration. he became president in the middle of a recession and left our country with the strongest economy of any nation on earth, the most productive work force on earth, and turned it over to a new president, george w. bush, one of my colleagues who was a former governor, and gave to him balanced budgets, a strong economy, and eight years later we had accumulated more debt, and those eight years from 2001- 2009 were accumulating more debt i think than maybe