truman was not a zionist. and he reacted viscerally against any tough militant pressure because he s pressured tremendously from the other side as well. and it was relentless day in and day out. i mean, the reason why jacobson was so important -- the only -- if you look at the difference at the way rabbi silver would talk to truman or address him and the way weitzman would address him in letters and in person, weitzman treated truman with respect and admiration as a fellow leader who wanted justice for the jewish people in the world. where silver would say, you're selling us t. you're a bastard. don't you know what's right? he would see weitzman -- he gave a direct order i will only talk to weitzman. do not let silver and the others in the white house. >> what else has changed? >> there was a famous incident where silver was in the office and apparently he shook his finger in truman's face and truman was extremely upset and told the person he saw right after that, i never want that s.o. in my office again. and

truman library institute, which is the private-sector partner of the truman library.this gentleman is also the eldest grandson of president harry s. truman, so please join me in welcoming to the podium clifton truman daniel. >> thank you, mike. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the seventh symposium, always a good reason to come to key west, not that you really need a reason to come to key west but i have been enjoying these for seven years now -- i've goten up to the point where i can come down twice a year now. i've worked it out where we have to do a fundraiser for the symposium before we do the symposium and i think we need to do two fund-raisers next year, the first two preferably in the dead of winter, because i live in chicago. my wife gave me my wake-up call this morning to make sure i got over here in time. i said "how are things in chicago?" she said "there is a frost warning." it's may. come on. so she said "it's nice and hot down there." yes, it's raining but it's hot. i'm looking forward to this. my grandfather's legacy with congress was, of course, a mix

truman library institute, which is the private-sector partner of the truman library. this gentleman is also the eldest grandson of president harry s. truman, so please join me in welcoming to the podium clifton truman daniel. >> thank you, mike. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the seventh symposium, always a good reason to come to key west, not that you really need a reason to come to key west but i have been enjoying these for seven years now -- i've goten up to the point where i can come down twice a year now. i've worked it out where we have to do a fundraiser for the symposium before we do the symposium and i think we need to do two fund-raisers next year, the first two preferably in the dead of winter, because i live in chicago. my wife gave me my wake-up call this morning to make sure i got over here in time. i said "how are things in chicago?" she said "there is a frost warning." it's may. come on. so she said "it's nice and hot down there." yes, it's raining but it's hot. i'm looking forward to this. my grandfather's legacy with congress was, of course, a mi

and said there is judge truman.hen everybody in the restaurant wanted his autograph and had to shake his hand and. that is pretty much how it went the rest of the trip. just when the death of their getting by as an unknown couple some living would recognize them and then is to lead to say the economy no was off. he handle all this onslaughts so well and people ask good to apply this take place today and a dissident in a practical sense but his personality was so well suited to it to apply this and he never refused a request when it people press around him for autographs and handshakes and summit asked him one time had to deal with these onslaughts full-time and he said i'd try to imagine what they would feel like if some proposed a big shot ignored made. he did have a sense of them if they like that i think that really made it possible for him to do a trip like this and away that maybe would not be possible for other politicians and indicator they stopped at the park view and they stop at this, $5 a night is with th

harry truman, ♪ ♪ bankrupt, but the machine was corrupt. know, pendergrast was going to jail for tax evasion at the time that he is, you know. >> amendment-the presidency and the only he did keep going, lyndon johnson later brought in patience for president. spirit there is no spirit there is no doubt that harry truman was not, you know, a crook or a wealthy man. nonetheless, he was connected i think to a machine that i think jimmy carter would have found to be absolutely referenceable. jimmy carter wanted nothing to do with kind of machine politics. , i think for both of them as presidents, it's also explains in part why they had a hard time getting stuff done as president, right? especially on the domestic front. i think that -- [inaudible] >> in an awful lot he want to publish it there was no way he could get through. that the real funny part of this is that jimmy carter has a democratic congress. harry truman had a heavily republican and a fairly conservative congress to have to deal with. but as part of jimmy carter's persona that peop

harry truman was shot at. jack kennedy was killed. jerry ford was shot at twice. ronald reagan was almost killed had it not been for the secret service agent, he would have been dead. we live in a dangerous society when it comes to elected officials. let's not make it more dangerous. it's a free country. are you armed? >> this is d.c. >> are you a birther? >> i was born. >> do you believe the president was born in this country? >> i have no opinion one way or the other. >> you're not part of that crowd, are you? just tell me. >> i'm a second amendment advocate. >> but you're not part of that crowd you're not one of those people that doubts. are you one of those people that doubts he's a legitimate american? >> i'm not taking the bait. i'm just an advocate of the second. >> do you think he's a legitimate american? >> do i think the president.

it is said the truman capote established the line with the book cold blood. he wrote that in the late 50's and early 60's about a murder in kansas and he called it a nonfiction novel and a really was a pioneering book of creative nonfiction where he researched all this and then he wrote from inside the murders heads and we created scenes and a really made a splash when it cannot because it was a whole new way of doing nonfiction really using the tools of fiction to make fiction, life and all plus who do nonfiction al kind of go back to that. it's kind of a totem we go back to and what my editors said was look, truman capote and established the line and the line has moved over time and the public is willing to accept more and more creativity and more and more interpretation and fictionalizing if you want to use that term and nonfiction but the line is here and you guys have gone over here and he dialed us back and basically said any scene that you might have to have happened. within that seemed i am going to count on you to do as much research as you can to fl

-- there's nobody in this room younger than margaret truman at that point.ter] >> there's this living aneurysm at the -- at the exit doors. these people are hitting each other to get out first. [laughter] >> that wasgate x5rmob, though. there was a bad mob that was -- and they had more than( umbrellas. they had ball bats and tire irons. so as these things go, we'll call that the bad mob. we're at the m's already. n, neighbors, they could not be improved by a good fence. outcast. i have a kid name lemoncats whose father throws him in kind of a high school kid, one of those kids that's it from the day he first starts school. everybody is picking on him at the playground. so finally his father makes him go out for football in high school to make a man of him and it's one of those deals -- i mean, i've never been on any athletic team that didn't have, you know, an outcast. i keep saying. i, keep in mind, this is a novel. it's not a memoir. at any rate, this guy would practice and he gets caught doing that and the coach lifts him up and head butts him. the kid st

. >> it reminds me of that movie, "the truman show". and you realize, this is going in a direction i didn't anticipate. except that character wanted out. and these characters don't seem to want out. >> "issues" with jane coming up at the top of the hour. >> and my sfxt ley cyrus at the teen choice awards call in.

he got the truman doctrine through. he got the department of defense created. he got the cia created. of course, there are many critics of the war. the iraq war, and they built up war fever by scaring people to death, but that tends to be more in the foreign-policy, the foreign-threat realm. neil: have but you have to selectively use your fear. >> yes, and you cannot just be a handy penny, "the sky is falling." neil: thank you very much. >> take care, buddy. neil: republicans are furious, and democrats are willing to go it alone. my next guest says, "you had your chance." is stable and axelrod profiting from this health-care rebate? -- is david axelrod profiting? introducing a breakthrough from tums that can control your heartburn for hours all day or all night. it's called tums dual action, and it's the longest lasting tums ever. tums dual action works two ways to relieve heartburn: like all tums, it goes to work in seconds. plus, tums dual action has an effective acid reducer that works for hours, all day or all night, to keep heartburn from coming back. rely

. >> reporter: his father was the official white house photographer for ursienpridests from truman to . id robert rtsspaed awainpay 9 but his family has held tight to his private collection. here's president kennedy, riding the kids arounda go lf cart in hyannis port. >> little john was on the president's lap right there. there's ted in the background cheering them on. >> reerrtpo: he ednnkes sty'la ay rtrthdorednn bs eflast edwas llki. ed. s llwas he ki the party was held the se qua.oi teisy ext to him and isthere are phot ofjfk's funeral never released before. >> here the e receing line kennedy stood by his sister-in- law jackie the entire time. as they were leaving the white house, there are two kennedy brothers flanked jackie and walked this processional with her already there are many of his photographs you have probably seen like this one that was on the cover of life life magazine. it captured the president in the oval office catching john john's first steps. the younger became his photographer and remembers the story he told about how he proposed to his wife vicki underwater.

the thing you discussed with harry truman -- harry truman did not want to establish the state for thehe tried to not do that. we have a document in the state department called "the state department's complicity in the murder of a 6 million jews," because the state department did not support bombing the road trucks and -- wrote checks and liberating the jews in the war because they thought the allies would not support them. shanghai that them in. they had no where to go. they have absolutely no where to go. i was feeling all of this? into hatred. -- what was fuelling all this? jew hatred. hitler believed all problems in the world were created by jews and he felt justified in murdering 1 million jewish children. you have a book called "protocols of the elders of zion." there are many muslims that believe that today, that there is a jewish conspiracy, all the banks, all the media, controlled by the jews, aids was greeted by the jews. this is anti-semitism and jew hatred and it will not solve the palestinian problem. if the palestinian children are not taught to kill through the kindergar

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in 1953 he served on president truman's commission on the health needs of america at a time when trumanrsal coverage. then he worked with j.f.k. when he fought unsuccessfully for medicare, a battle that l.b.j. would later win. as a professor of medical economics at harvard, fein has never given up. he firmly believes that medicine should not be all about money. as he puts it, "we live in a society not just in an economy." >> well, we spend more than any other country and we spend a higher percentage of our gross domestic product and our gross domestic product is larger than most other countries'. so we are spending per capita one heck of a lot more than anybody else, which ought to be disturbing, if only because there are lots of other things we could be doing with money. we could have more money for education or more money for infrastructure or more money for bridges and transportation or we could put money into high-speed trains or we could have tax cuts. on the other hand somebody could say, "well, we have chosen to spend money on health care and that's also a good thing." true. but

at the truman library in independence, missouri, with harry truman, who had first proposed national health insurance by his side. joseph califono, special assistant to president johnson, he is now the chairman of the national center on addiction and substance abuse at columbia university and joins me now by phone. the struggle to pass medicare was not done in one legislative session. it was over a few years in the early '60s. and in the end, the vote was actually a very large vote in favor of it. including a surprising number of republicans, wasn't isn't it. >> yes, it was. i mean, remember, lyndon johnson, right after the tragic kennedy assassination, said he would fight for medicare as long as he could breathe. and until he had breath in his body. he actually had to kill a social security proposed increase in 1964 in order to keep the pressure on the senate and the house in 1965. but when it was passed, we had half the republicans in the house, 70 republicans for it. and we had almost half the republicans in the senate. there were a lot fewer than there are now but we had 13 out of about

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i'm with harry truman on this.de heat, get out of the kitchen. (cheers and applause) >> reporter: and the heat is definitely on now in the health care debate as even the comics lampoon the president's various statements about a public plan. >> the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it... >> no public option? we still get to kill old people, though, right? (laughter) did you just drop public option? >> reporter: all kidding aside, the president remains confident he'll get a bill and, as he told reporters today he hopes it will be bipartisan. maggie? >> reporter: bill plant at the white house. thanks, bill. overseas this has just become the deadliest year for u.s. forces in afghanistan. the military announced six more deaths, bringing the total to at least 16-- eight more than all of last year. in kabul, meanwhile, taliban fighters took over a bank before they were killed by the police. the latest violence as insurgents try to sabotage the presidential election. polls there open in just a few hours in helmand province, u.s. marines

. >> a great day in the military service was when harry truman signed 99 airborne on the 26th day of july, 1948. i think that was a great day. >> i was in washington d.c. on v e day, and it was a wonderful feeling. probably because we did not have to go in combat. but it was a relief. we did not know what the future held, but it pretty much did not matter on d-day. >> my unit was on lake garda in the italian alps. we had ended up there, and it was quite a celebration for all of us. the j.j. -- v-j day, in the meantime, we were shifted back to the united states and they told us we would be the second wave on japan. outthrust -- it so happens that the day i came back to abilene, president truman announced that the war was over with japan. >> i had a lot of happy days. after the war was won in japan, we took orders from president truman saying anybody who had ordered should request a discharge. i took it to my commander and he said, you could not do this one. [laughter] so i took it to the battalion commander, and he agreed. i said we had plans for you, and he said, i know you do. i sai

harry truman was attacked by puerto rican nationalists.ice agent was killed defending him. gerald ford was shot at twice. jack kennedy was killed when he was shot. and your dad was almost killed. your thoughts on this subject. why do people bring guns to presidential events? >> i think it's much bigger than what alan is suggesting. i don't think it's about second amendment rights, i don't think it's about health care or any of the specific issues here. the future is coming, chris, and many people are scared of the future. this is one of those pivotal moments in our history when you can sense that something is happening, something is going to change, and many people get very frightened by that. some people can hire lobbyists to push back against that change. other people who don't have that capacity do things like carry guns around. alan is quite right, the only real reason to carry a loaded handgun or assault-style rifle anywhere, hunting, target practice, or you intend to kill someone in self-defense. now, they're not going hunting. they'

if harry truman came back and walked into a classroom today he would feel right at home because they look just like they did in 1945. >> how do you like the president's education reform plan. >> i like it on paper it looks great. competition, free market principles into education. this is something conservatives have been arguing for a very long time. problem is is that there is so much money already being thrown at the education system in america. last school year, 2008-2009, $667 billion, total. spent on k-12 education. that doesn't even include the $100 billion extra in the stimulus package going to education. i think the real challenge here, for president obama, and on paper his plan looks great and i support it. it is going to be all about school choice. school voucher programs. charter schools. introducing more competition at the ground level, for our students. because all of the charter schools and voucher programs show increases in tremendous educational outcomes for less cost when you have some competition. >> let's get -- >> the challenge here for obama, though, is to be ab

harry truman called it the great white jail. and ronald reagan said living there gave him a sort of bird in the guilded cage feeling. and he escaped, flew back to his ranch in california as often as he could. >> a lot of attention on the kennedy family this past week and a lot of pictures from hyannis port which is one of the locations where john kennedy used to vacation during his two and a half years in the white house. what did you learn in researching the kennedy administration and how jack kennedy spent his administration? >> the family compound at hyannis port became an instant magnet of for tourists and people of all descriptions. they had to build a fence around it to preserve some sense of privacy. and later in the administration he tended to go to newport where his wife jackie's family had their own home. because it offered a little more privacy and a little more freedom to actually go on vacation. >> how much time does a president have to vacation, and how much do official duties still become part of the daily schedul

as a great president who is man enough to take response but for things, eric truman said the book starts he -- buck stops here. >> the national security applications. the media is ignoring what this means from a national security perspective to mecca have been ignoring it but they don't point out often enough that a special prosecutor is in charge of this, which means that really neither the president nor even eric holder are going to be really responsible for the outcome because it is the special prosecutor's decision on whether or not these grunts are going to be prosecuted. it's really kind of a denial of a pushing away of responsibility to placate the left wing of the party, and i don't think we've seen a point made quite well enough. selleca does seem the president could've set to air colder, i don't want this investigation to go forward, and that would've ended it, right? >> i don't know. to be fair to eric holder, he has said the facts, which is red, and these facts have led to think that we need to have an investigation. we shouldn't be as reporters into the society of amish ever

. >> it was harry truman that recognized civilians for their work during world war ii. >>> the a's yesterday, they face off. a big hit out to the flag court, the a's got a lead in the 4th and the birds come back but not enough to win. the final was 6-3. the orioles have the day off. >>> orioles have the day off, the ravens don't, game day. the washington redskins come to town tonight. weather could be a problem, i'm in the going the lie. we have, looking at the day part and then at the radar. looking outside, the shot of the clouds. a high of 81. not a lot of sun this day. we may be in the sunniest part of the day now. there's a shower hanging over the bay. you're looking at it. from the outer harbor up the western shore and across the eastern shore to rock hall. this could be, look at that, looking at the shower hanging over the bay. how pretty is that shot. a first-warning discussion of the weather that could impact a football game and how the weekend is squaring away, there's a big change in the outlook. coming up on coffee with. the web site of criss angel. he was known for dating pamela

>> guest: harry truman was in the senate. he voted in favor of it, of backing the court but he also, i did quote in my books saying basically if the court is doing what the country wanted, what was the point of doing it? bodhi did look for it. host: the next question from arguers comes from jerry, independent line. sorry to push the wrong but an earlier. >> caller: good morning mr. sulliman. i fully intend to read your book but for someone to tell you something. i'm looking at the front page of the newark times, 1937 and it says-- and it goes on in the article to say the supreme court had previously turned it down. lehman was a very progressive governor and of course they did get the bill passed. i just want to say one other thing about roosevelt. my parents of course were tremendously devoted to roosevelt as i did the rest of our family became and i remember when he passed away, my mother just collapsed in tears, something i had never seen my mother do in my life. roosevelt had overcome so much ignorance, so much opposition

. >> on sunday, the transportation secretary, unfamiliar with the words of harry truman, i guess, claimed last week was due to processing errors that the outside contractor hired -- the outside contractor, citigroup. i feel that even saying it. the same citigroup currently borrowing $45 billion from the government, and the same citigroup that just made the treasury department 34% owner. by proxy, we as taxpayers now on a large portion of citigroup. as a matter of fact, each u.s. taxpayer owns about 54 shares of citigroup, trading at $3.18 per share today, just in case you wanted to go check on the value of your investment, so it makes sense that the government would throw us a bone, giving the taxpayers some business, and citicorp is good at transaction banking. they have the scope and scale to handle and massively bureaucratic government program. how much red tape is associated with this process? the guidelines deal alone are 150 pages long. the application itself is close to 100 pages long. the website, cars dot or, has reportedly given dealers this -- the website, cars.org. a pair citi

1936 to resist some of fdr's political imperatives, but really it is after world war ii, during the truman administration, when he begins to push for federal employment practices commission, and desegregation of the military, you have political leads declare independence from the national democratic party. the first was called the dixie result -- revolt in 1938. it was to get in the electoral college votes in the south to throw the national election in the house of representatives which didn't quite work that began a process of separating southern democrats from national democrats generally, and from growing racial liberalism in the national democratic party. what happened is conservatives in the north, frustrated with eisenhower, frustrated with what they saw as me too of the republican party in the new deal, began to look southward for allies and a new coalition to rebuild a conservative party and push back against the new deal. the national review magazine, in fighting segregation and journalists and others, hand over editorials and write articles for national review. some conservative

massachusetts, an old industrial city, that said -- he campaigned, he's now 85, he campaigned for president truman on the issue of health insurance. this is an issue that we have been dealing with as a country for almost 60 years, and in this past presidential election our two major candidates agreed we needed to do something, and so we do have that moment. we've had 60 hearings in the house of representatives, three committees have reported out their piece, and this is a moment in time that we have to take advantage of because of the cost of doing nothing is simply too great. we all know the escalating costs of health insurance premiums. they're rising three times faster than wages. we know, we hear the data that if we don't do anything within ten years we could be spending $1 out of $5 generated in this country on health care. we know that we hear the figures that each one of us is paying over $1,000 a year to help cover the cost of those who are uninsured, and we now finally have a moment in time where we have a president elected and committed to making a difference, working with the house, wor

it was first presented in 1945 by president truman.ers of congress hold health care town hall meetings across the country, c-span is interested in your thoughts. you can share your experiences and ideas on video. good to our website c-span.org/ citizenvideo for the details. >> this author on the fairness doctrine and why it is a bad idea. he is interviewed by this commentator, part of the weekend on ." >> this producer, concerning people who have overcome significant obstacles in life. that is sunday night at 8:00 p.m. >> this fall, home to america's highest court. the supreme court, coming the first sunday in october on c- span. "washington journal" continues. host: we're joined now by cq's david clarke read an article recently "how clout really works in congress." guest: the preparations committee in both the house and senate approve funding each year for the federal government. we went to look at new members to see how they're doing, how they're using their spots for influence. we found it has been a plum assignment to be on that co

harry truman was in the senate.voted in favor of it, of packing the court, but he also -- in my book i say basically it the court is doing with the country wanted, what was the point of doing it? but he did vote for it. host: the next question from hampton, new jersey. caller: good morning, mr. burt solomon. i intend to read your book. let me read you something from "the newly *" from saturday in 1937 -- but said that he is in the -- lehman was a progressive governor and the gut the bill passed. one of the thing about roosevelt. my parents voted for him as i and the rest of our family. i remember when he passed away. my mother collapsed in tears and something i had never seen my mother do. roosevelt had to overcome some much ignorance in society, so much opposition from the opposite party. it is the same today in so many issues. i wish people like the senior citizens would not be in such fear and they would use their heads. thank you. i intend to read your vote. guest: thank you. one of the important episodes in thi

harry truman tried to get health care reform. franklin roosevelt tried to get it.dent is working this very hard and we talked earlier in the hour to nancy-ann deparle, the director of the office of the white house on reform and we're -- for the president to expect chuck grassley to make a deal with max baucus and perhaps get a bipartisan deal that could pass the senate. looking more and more likely that this is going to be a democrats-only enterprise. she indicated the white house may not be backing off of these end of life counseling provisions that some of the opponents have been attacking on talk radio and some of these town hall meetings. it's also possible that an all-democratic bill could move more to the left on issues like the public option, which is something very important to members of the democratic caucus in the house and most members of the democratic caucus in the senate, even though it's difficult for some moderates to vote for. you see the president moving down the line with his family, enjoying the great outdoors, heading toward his motorcade and

entire presidency on whether or not he's able to achieve something that nearly every president since truman has tried to achieve and failed. here is robert gibbs, white house press secretary speaking this afternoon about the president's feelings on health care. >> i have heard the president say that it's making tough decisions and getting the important things done that washington has failed to deal with for decades means that he only lives in this house and makes those decisions for four years, he's quite comfortable with that. >> so if getting health reform done means it's one term and out for president obama, according to the white house, that is fine by the president. mr. gibbs in that same briefing also repeating that it is the president's goal that health reform be bipartisan. how is that bipartisan effort coming along? how many republicans are onboard for health reform right now? well, there is no one better than to ask than the republican whip in the senate, john kyle of arizona. the whip is the person in charge of counting votes, making sure that legislators vote the way the party w

in the view of compulsory health insurance to regard truman as a card-carrying communist or a dilutedtraveler? the arguments have not changed that much in the the arguments over national health care did not a vance much but i.f. stone th marked a the career that saw him rise to national prominence not only television and radi but as a correspondent for the natn and a columnist 4 pm the tabloid that refused advertisements to revolutionize american newspapers he was about to disappear, not literally for the moment he still had a job the daily compass had your readers in the same citie and the-- of him sauering into new deal agencies making three with the phones and the ioc still have friends in washington some were willing to be seen talking to him but it is another 18 years before i.f. stoneas next on national television and win political pundits dominated he was never again invited back on "me the press". one decade earlier stone had our developed as much access as a journalist in the country and included a harvard law professor at teacher supre court justice, the president's politica

and i think president roosevelt felt this in 1937, truman tried, president nixon tried, certainly president clinton did and the argument's always the same. no, it's too complicated, we need to pull back and wait a little bit longer. there are a lot of people out here that this is -- this is a really major issue and needs to be addressed. >> guys, standby for a moment. penn jillette we'll bring you in a moment. our controversy over this health care reform legislation. our coverage of it will continue on "larry king live" right after this. >>> we're back with james carville, ben stein, and penn jillette. ben stein, does the country need health care reform right now? >> well, it needs health care reform, that's for sure. but we do not want to have a single american dying or being in pain or being injured or having some chronic complaint. if we as taxpayers or we as fellow citizens and brothers under god can help him or her. but how do you do it? i mean, health care is a terrifying subject. raising taxes is a terrifying subject, big government is a terrifying subject, intrusion into our lives i

comes together after 1936 to resist some of fdr political imperatives but after world war ii with the truman administration when he pushes for federal employment practices commission and the desegregation of the military the southern political e lead suddenly declare independence from the national democratic party first running as the dixiecrat or the state's right revolts the strategy was to get enough electoral college votes into the south to throw it into the house of representatives but began the process of separating it southern democrats from national democrats and liberal wing liberalism of the democratic party. then what happened conservatives and the north first-rate with eisenhower with what they thought the meat to of the republican party in the new deal era of began to look south four allies and a new coalition to rebuild a conservative party and pushed back against the new deal so "national review" begins inviting segregationist writers and journalists and others to penn of editorials and articles and strategists began to build the republican party and the south which had never

you heard him say frequently in office, i'm doing what truman had to do, lincoln had to do, i'm makingecisions in a wartime, even if i'm not popular, even if i lose. now cheney seems to be undercutting that, suggesting the president was swayed in some of these critical decisions in the second term. >> now this is what cheney is saying privately to confident ants. we don't know how he'll put it in the book. president bush sees himself as a guy with the resolve. cheney said that about him. it was a way of keeping him on the straight and narrow. he thinks bush walked off that in the second term. >> one thing that struck me when i was reading your story is the strength cheney has reinforces that narrative that he was the one driving the bus, president bush was kind of along for the ride. when you hear about these tensions and cheney says he was disappointed and he moved away from him, i'm wondering what your take is. it makes it sound more like cheney was more in charge certainly on national security matters. >> this is a hard question, i did a whole book on this after "the washington post

classic liberal who would have been very comfortable with eleanor roosevelt or the roosevelts or trumanthose days. as you say, a labor. >> a real labor guy and staunch supporter of the wage earner in this country. he did a lot to make people's lives better. >> part of it is being confident in your constituents. he knew he could get reelected in massachusetts. you know, it takes guys pretty secure in their constituency to be a leader. it's tough being harry reid! it's tough! you don't sometimes give credit to these guys. they represent districts that can swing just like that. they have to hit the middle of the road voter to win and need them. in massachusetts, you just need the democrats. >> but with democrats, if you're for the wage earner, you don't have to worry about reeke reelection. >> i worked for senators from utah, for example, frank moss who had a -- he got blown away by orrin hatch. if you're from a state not liberal, i don't care how pro liberal you are, you get beaten. >> what did it mean in president obama's campaign to get an endorsement and what reaction to this day do th

. >> that's the question, jonathan, for years every since harry truman the democrats have said let's have health insurance. every poll that's been taken saying we ought to insure the people who are uninsured in this country. the number kems growing. in principle every wants to do it. the majority does. what happened? >> it's hard to understand given that. you have 60 democrats in the senate -- and they all ran on promising health care. >> the devil is in the detail. you have a disparate party in the house. some of these blue dogs are just not going to go along with the sort of conventional liberal line of the party. that's causing problems. the democrats strategy right now is to try to blame the health insurance companies, try to blame the republicans. i think the hard reality is right now this is a democratic problem, and they got to figure this out on their own. let be speak real fast to the passion that we're seeing at some of these town hall rallies. it seems to me for the first time since maybe even four years that on the right -- we're finally see on the right some real fire. >

the president, i think, could do a better job of, you know, getting a little harry truman on these peoples just a little too nice about calling a liar a liar. you know, when somebody says government takeover, he should just say that's a flat-out lie. there is no government takeover. stop lying. stop lying about my record. a little bob dole in there. >> but the way that, that would be fought back against, the way that people would respond to that is by saying, what's he covering up? he's telling us we're lying but he's the real bs artist. there is -- there's so much more energy than there is factual basis for that energy. and it's one thing if you are just fighting about whether or not you feel bad for the country or good about the country, whether you like obama or you think he's a bad guy. but this is, should we have a public option in health care reform? it feels like something about which all of this fact-free emotion is -- it's stymieing our ability to move forward or even have a smart discussion about it. >> true. but where are all obama's people to help him with this, by the way? he

harry truman was president the last time i cut a sponge cake.h pasta to cook. i guess at it, and usually cook too much. a pickle-picker, lemon rind scrapper, melon baller, cookie cutter. this picks the stem off strawberries. i'll keep that. at least it doesn't take up much room in the drawer. to tell you the truth, i don't know whether to throw all these tools away or put them back in the kitchen drawers. i mean, you never know when you're going to need one of these things. >> stahl: i'm lesley stahl. we'll be back next week with another edition of "60 minutes." mom was diagnosed with moderate alzheimer's. it was tough news to hear. everything changed. i didn't know what to do. right about then, our doctor mentioned the exelon patch. he said it releases medicine continuously for 24 hours. he said it could help with her cognition which includes things like memory, reasoning, communicating and understanding. (announcer) the most common side effects of exelon patch are nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. the likelihood and severity of these side effects

president truman in 1948 through kennedy and carter and clinton have all tried to reshape, to reform the american health care system, all to no avail. and by the closing years of the george w. bush administration, the number of uninsured americans was approaching 50 million and the ceos of the ten largest health insurance companies were taking home an average compensation of $11.9 million each every year. in 2008, all changed. not only did the democrats take the white house but they did so with a candidate who explicitly campaigned on a health care reform promise. they won a more than 70-seat majority in the house. they won a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the senate. if health care reform is ever going to be possible, it's never going to be more possible than it is this year. but from the very, very beginning single payor health care and national health care were completely off the table. as matt taibbi writes in his gut-wrenching article for rolling stone when max bachus convened the first roundtable discussions on health care reform last may senator bachus invited 41 witness

>> harry truman had 22, the lowest in gallup history. 55, alex, is the average across all presidentsallup. so obama up now a little is roughly at about average. i should point out george w. bush was about at this exact same point in august of 2001. bill clinton was way below this in the 40s. bush's father was higher, reagan was higher. carter was higher, so obama's doing average overall and a little below where recent presidents have been in the summer of their first year in office. >> okay, with this six-point uptick, frank, how much do you think the latest job numbers and stock market numbers have to do with the turnaround? >> more the latter than the former. these numbers were friday night so only about a third of this three-day average of 58 would reflect any reaction to the announcement friday morning about the unemployment numbers but the market has been up and i think the cash for clunkers publicity probably good for obama because it showed the economy was being stimulated, people were out there and that may have been positive. also sometimes the numbers go up and down for ine