how serious that was with truman, i haven't studied in depth, but we now know that's in truman's diaries. and on the other hand, it was very tense in 1953 at the inauguration. eisenhower did not get out of the car and go into the white house to get the outgoing president, and harry was very offended about that and talked about it later. it was not an easy relationship, although the book i mentioned said they kind of reconciled years later quite a bit. but it was a tense relationship partly because truman later in an oral history alleged that ike had wanted to come back, wanted to marry his driver, kay summersby, his driver in europe, and wanted to divorce mamie and had written george marshall about that and that truman had taken those letters from the state department and destroyed them. at least one scholar i know of who's pretty good thinks that truman made that up. i don't know, i'm not qualified, i'm not giving you a very good answer but a because i'm not an expert on that. i'm sorry. >> thank you. >> yeah. >> i had heard that sedat had made a statement years later that nasser told h

and i've gone backsince several times because of work on my truman book, because of truman's experiences in world war i in france because of my work on the panama canal book because so much of that story so french. and a lot of the research for that subject was there in paris. and then i went back again for adams because he and abigail were there for a long time and he played a crucial part during the revolutionary war. but what i really wanted to do was to take a look at a period which ry little hadeen done about. the adams/franklin/jefferson time had been worked over pretty well. including by me. >> rose: and hemingway. >> hemingway's been done up and down. and here was this 70-year gap as it were in which some of the most interesting and influential americans ever were there and were greatly affected by the experience. and that drew me. i also feel strongly and i felt it increasingly as i've thought re and more about the american story that our history isn't ju abo generals and politicians. and that if we leave out the art, the music, the medicine, the realm of ideas, if we leave out

truman was one of the most -- eisenhower was one of the most politically experienced people to enterhe presidency. he had, he had been, worked for the chief of staff in the 1920s, he'd been in paris in the 1920s working for general pershing at the battle monument's commission, he was the war office -- war department, rather, in the early 1930s. he spent the late 1930s as macarthur's deputy in the philippines, building up the philippine army as, prior to independence. general marshall brought him back prior to pearl harbor because he had recognized in eisenhower a gifted junior officer. he brought him into the war plans division. he actually tasked eisenhower who was barely at that point a brigadier general with the plans for the defense of the philippines. he did the same thing with, when it was decided after pearl harbor to, um, mount an invasion of north africa from the west. the british were pushing rommel from the east, and we were going to land in morocco, and marshall tasked eisenhower with the, with the design of those plans. so eisenhower came to the presidency not only a gre

significant pressure brought to bear on harry truman.his is well documented, to recognize israel immediately and to help get the united nations general assembly to accept the partition of palestine when it was a jewish state and a palestinian state. so played a key role. but he was not lying or spinning in that case. the real lying in spending that took place at that point in time had to do with what the scientists as shortly thereafter the israelis to the palestinians to create the state of israel. the fact is that the land that is today israel was once filled with many more palestinians and jews. in 1948 the israelis had to ethnically cleanse the palestinians to created jewish state that was a lot 80 percent jewish and 20 percent palestinian. as you can imagine, the israelis did not want the world, especially the americans, to know they gazed and at book cleansing. they invented a series of missile what happened that made it look like the palestinians were responsible for their own demise and not the israelis themselves. but this was n

that was a quote by harry truman. in 1945, when he spoke those words to congress, time had not yet truly arrived. in fact, it would be another 20 years before truman's good idea was realized. it was 20 years before truman became the first 19 million americans to receive a medicaid card -- medicare card. president lyndon johnson signed medicare and medicaid into law in the truman presidential library in independence, missouri. the law took effect almost a year later. 45 years ago this week on july 1, 1966. the time that medicare took effect, only half of americans 65 and older had access to health care coverage. a third of america's seniors lived in poverty. poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name, president johnson said, describing the time before medicare. today virtually every american over 65 has access to health care. the number of seniors that live below the poverty line has dropped by 75%. that's no accident. medicare provides 47 million americans with the access to care and protection in poverty

roosevelt, truman. >> click. >> truman, eisenhower, kennedy. >>> hi, i'm zain verjee in london. japan's prime minister survived a no confidence vote. naoto kan appealed to his democratic party of japan before saying he would resign later this year after the nation recovers from the march 11th earthquake and tsunami. political infighting has seen japan with five different prime ministers in five years. >>> witnesses report loud explosions in yemen near a presidential palace in sena. months of failed protests have failed to bring down the president. >>> the deadly e. coli outbreak in europe has left more than a dozen dead and hundreds sick, mostly in germany. the source of the outbreak is not known. >>> google said hackers have targeted g mamail users with a phishing scheme that may have begun in china. those are the headlines. i'm zain verjee in london. "world business today" starts right now. >>> good afternoon, welcome to "world business today." i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. >> good morning for me, nina dos santos in london. >>> japan's prime minister survives a no confidenc

truman and kennedy/johnson. i used to think that maybe this was a progressive country that periodically got tired of reform and settled into a conservative period but basically a progressive country. these 40 years are beginning to convince me we are essentially a very conservative country with only occasional bursts of progressive activity. i would like to see -- i am not all that optimistic. >> you open your presentation with a remark or a quotation decrying in difference and yet i think some would say franklin roosevelt as the war progressed was seemingly indifferent to the fate of the jewish people under the nazis. could you comment on that? tea change it is a serious question outside the area of my study. it has more to do with the horrors of the war. there are a couple of areas where roosevelt and his administration are frequently criticized. the complete justice of that criticism is the problem. some of the talks this morning we heard about how slow the new deal was and how reluctant roosevelt was in term

according to my source, that terrific program, rather than being made public by truman, a decision cameown from above that if the russians were doing this, this wicked science, the americans needed to do it, too. we could not fall behind the russians. that is upsetting. it was upsetting to learn about. it is upsetting to read about. i have interviewed this source. it has been over two years. i have spoken to him several times face to face. he stands by everything i wrote. i believe the reason he told me was because, of all his service to the country, this one program stands out as a travesty. he wanted to put that on the record before he died. tavis: despite the work you have done to bring area 51 to the best light we have seen in thus far, there can be a fine line between credible work and conspiracy theory. what say you? >> if you're asking whether i think my source of gave me information that is a disinformation, i right in my notes that that is a possibility. the reason i put it in my notes and not be taxed is because i believe the source's information is as true as he was told it b

that is the spot where president truman signed that they un charter. several years later, the japanese peace trader --treaty was drafted in the building. that has been given a seismic hazard rating of 3. today, we are restarting the efforts of rebuilding that building with the introduction of this ordinance to authorize the city to issue up to $170 million in certificates of participation that will be done by the summer of 2015. i want to thank the comptroller's office for capital advance for their work so far. we do need to act quickly to protect and preserve the war memorial veterans building which has played a role in local, state, and world history. those who have visited the building including many of our veterans groups are entitled to a safe environment. >> thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you very much, madam clark. the first item is a resolution that i actually see. frye has been patiently waiting for quite some time. i want to thank terry for bringing this item to our attention. it recognizes the historical significance of a vigil. it enco

harry truman's wife had worked in his office and taken care of his mail, and the vice president, vice president garner's wife also had been in his office and helped take care of the mail. so that wasn't a truly unusual request. what do you think franklin said? no. of course not. that's missy's job. and he was referring to his personal secretary, missy lehan. in fact, history is dubious on this, but it is in the biographies, there is even speculation that eleanor was so upset by thinking of having to be first lady which she saw as an empty, ceremonial role she didn't want to participate in that she wrote a letter. and in that letter threatened to leave franklin and run away with earl miller who i'll show you a picture of in a minute. so you've got to remember, you know, we think of these people as saints now, they're flesh and blood folks just like us. well, we don't know for sure if there was such a letter although there were people who supposedly saw the letter, and the letter was supposedly destroyed by louis howe who was eleanor's great friend and confidant. of course, he was also

which residential courage, brave leaders and how they changed america and the conquerors, roosevelt truman and the destruction of hitler's germany were both on "the new york times" bestsellers list. his previous works include two volumes on lyndon johnson's secret tapes, the crisis years, kennedy and khrushchev and kennedy and roosevelt the uneasy alliance. he is currently writing his trip american presidents during wartime. i'm sure many of you also know mr. beschloss from his television work. he served as nbc news presidential historian on the "pbs newshour" and in 2000 by the one and emmy for his role in creating the discovery channel's decisions that shook the world of which he was a host. and last but certainly not least as professor susan is professorn dunn another protÉge colleague and friend. she is depressed in pairs third century professor of arts and humanities. most recently she has written roosevelt purge how fdr far to change the democratic party published in 2010 by harvard university's l press. roosevelts purge has received a henry adams prize awarded by the society for his

donovan never had that kind of relationship with harry truman.here was just bad chemmary between them, they were never going to get along. >> charlie: how did you come to know him. >> i was a young lawyer in his law firm, it was a great law firm and when i was working as a young associate should in the library, and the general came in around midnight and he said to me young man, i'm debating tomorrow whether or not the demoatic party has been good for the country in the last few years. and donavan was a conservative republican with the young man says i'm a democratic and i'll tell you what he's going to say. we worked that night together and went to the debate together and i stayed with him essentially for the rest of his life. >> charlie: how long was that. >> six years. >> charlie: who washe man you knew. what was he like. >> the donovan that i knew? well, i was 22 and he was 70. so we begin with a relationship that way. he was, despite the nickname of wild bill donovan, he was not a wild person in the sense of personality, he was soft spoken

his second, harry truman's excellent adventure which traced the trip in 1953 that got a lot of great press, and in 2009 the "washington post" called it one of the best books of the year. and additionally before that he wrote a book about four years and football and the steeples which was a combination of the pittsburgh steelers and the philadelphia eagles during world war ii, another interesting book. he's got a very eclectic background not just an author or a journalist, but let me tell you some of the things he has done. he has been a hot dog vendor at a traveling circus. he's been a halloween costume salesman, he's been a gas station attendant, a convenience store clerk and all this is going to put him in good stead because in two months he's moving to mongolia with his wife who's a foreign service officer taking a position so that should be pretty interesting and very importantly, he is a friend to this museum and a member of it and it's my pleasure to introduce matthew algeo. [applause] you make it sound much more interested than it is, my life. it's good to be the museum of fin

he had just come from islam but had written a president from president truman protesting the korean warbased on that letter the fbi began the first file. another interesting insight how deeply embedded the fbi was into all organizations, 1954 malcolm traveling the country setting of temples and it was hosting a small meeting in a family home. maybe 10 to 12 people but one of those was the fbi informant. 1954 before the nation of islam had received any publicity at all or before it had achieved the numbers that it had a chief. that is our early and deeply imbedded the nation of islam was or the fbi was. that is the questions of what more can we do as they become more and more available. people's names and identities as a scholar see what you can corroborate with other materials. some report gains on that we could corroborate those records to try to figure out. so what we have to learn about malcolm x. but i think this book makes a significant contribution to that objective. >> host: of life of reinvention? >> guest: that title comes from that malcolm went through several stages of evolut

the vice president that you are referring to when the project was originally going on was harry truman had no idea about the nuclear weapon until he became president. and if a person who told him was nanavar push. >> y deneen a area 51? was there 1350? six bling. >> that is a subject of great debate. even my main sources in the book say that mr. squadron they came up with. but according to my source and the end of the book, the reason that it is named area 51 is because in 1951 the original equipment and remains of the roswell crash came there. >> have you been called a conspiracy theorist this audience asks it often includes investigative reporters such as yourself, in other words you kind of get front and with the 3 a.m. votes? >> i will let you guys decide on that one. >> i've definitely been accused of being part of the government conspiracy to hide aliens because my theory does not push the idea that aliens have been visitors and i did get a letter from a group or any e-mail rather from a group in the u.k. furious with me last week that my book first published they said even we do

harry truman had a sign on his desk and that says "the book stops here." we should say the nonsense stops here. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. and we appreciate members of the public allowing parents with young children to go. >> i am a north east to -- north beach resident. this is my second time speaking on behalf of the library with my children. i just want to speak as a property owner and parent and 13-year resident of north beach to say that we parents have been looking at the plans for the new library with eager anticipation, and the more time that has passed, we are wondering when the library will be built, the more research that we have been doing, and i really want to thank those of you who are here who have voted in favor of moving the library forward. i have been really impressed as i have done more research to see the amount of work and the amount of compromise that has gone into this, and i have been very excited to see the momentum of the library project has been building steam, and i just want to say that we as parents,

korea killed truman, vietnam divided the country, drove johnson back to texas. now it's the weariness of afghanistan that's got us dragging. is obama off base here? could the republicans actually run to his left on this? funny you should ask. does john stewart want to call the shots in american politics or just take them? does the man want to lead us or what? finally, light my fire. in olden days of romney or huntsman, they would have all the tickets, successful business, governor, nice family, no rough edges. but that was pre-tea party. will it take michele bachmann or rick perry to lighten things up in 1012? i'm chris matthews. with us today, "time" magazine's michael duffy, nbc's norah o'donnell, "new york times" helene cooper and "the washington post," david ignatius. first up, it was the weeks politics of the war became clear er, and ending the surge in afghanistan is now a given. but is the president lagging the country on this? in a new pugh pole. 67% of democrats say get the troops out asap, as soon as possible. 43% of republicans agree with that. and th

actually, harry truman never could understand why grover was counted twice. he just thought that was ridiculous because only 43 people have been president, why is this president number 44? so, yeah. yeah, thanks, grover. [laughter] >> thanks for a very interesting talk. the book is now available, and matthew would be happy to sign a copy for you. thank you. >> thank you so much. [applause] >> that was matthew algeo on the president is a sick man. for more information about the author and to read his blog, visit m algeo.blogspot.com. >> next, a tour of bob mcallister's private book collection in savannah, georgia. booktv visited with comcast to introduce you to the area's rich literary roots. >> this is the beginning of my library. i have, i think, one of the larger private libraries in the downtown area of savannah. i have roughly 10,000 volumes, and mine is not a collector's library, and mine's not a rare book library, but mine's a reader's library. i have read most of the books in the collection, and those that i haven't read i intend to read because i don'

point of view now it was a code mark that served us well good evening through the administrations of truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford and carter more generally like yours robert reich. and then a real media man came into power what i will faithfully execute the ronald reagan was the king of deregulation of his f.c.c. deregulated t.v. and radio active so one person could own dozens of broadcast ations nationwide and said the free market would provide fairness in broadcasting so they got rid of the fair to start. anyway back then republicans and democrats passed a bill to reinstate the fairness doctrine newt gingrich and trent lott were co-sponsors. but ronald reagan vetoed it. the nine hundred ninety six telecommunications act suddenly allowed big companies like clear channel to own twelve hundred stations nationwide brown program them with conservative talk radio was. to set the bars. and looking at the five largest operators what we found was the one or ten to wanted fan which conservative talk show hosts self declared conservative hosts versus folks who declared themselves lib

we were more broke after world war ii and truman and eisenhower didn't cut anything, no nation has ever. they spent money like crazy. the gi bill gave people like my dad a free college education, back buying houses. dwight eisenhower building highways and schools. look at the infrastructure around this country built in the 1950s by the republican eisenhower. they stimulated the economy to the point that we had within ten years, paid off a debt that was 126% of gdp. they did not cut their way to prosperit prosperity. >> you're talking about economic policies that did work, what, we're talking years and decades ago. >> that have worked every single time in history they've been used. >> let me finish. you already have highways. we can't go out and build a bunch of roads to nowhere just because you think it's going to fix the economy. >> one country that's cut it ways to prosperity. china is building bullet trains. we have nothing. >> we're doing more in this country than in world war ii and for you to act like -- >> let's have no more schools? >> again, let me finish. if you want to hear w

s and not the party of the other ninety nine percent of harry truman knew this more than sixty years ago. and i say a word or two now. about what i think the republican philosophy is. the republican party as i said a while ago favors the privileged few and not the common everyday man. ever since its inception that party has been under their control of special privilege and the concrete they proved it and they asked congress people in all the democratic party is the people's party and the republican party is the party of special interests and it always has been and always will be. nothing has changed it's time to shed some light on the wealth inequality in america and expose greedy corporate c.e.o.'s for their blatant robbery of the american dream and expose the republican party as their accomplice. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we've covered visit our website it's all marvin dot com . also check out our you tube page is a you tube dot com slash the big picture r.t. if you tube dot com slash tom hartman and this entire show is available as a free v

por otra parte como dijo truman la responsabilidad es mÍa, la oficina oval del presidente, aunque nocurador general no lo aprobaron, quien lo hizo? >> no sÉ quién lo aprobÓ, eso es lo que estamos tratando de averiguar nosotros, esa es la respuesta que necesito porque esto ha resultado ser una polÍtica muy mala y quien haya tomado esta decisiÓn. >> tiene usted idea de cuÁntas personas pudieron haber sido asesinadas con estas armas en estados unidos y en mÉxico? >> solamente conozco de una con seguridad, naturalmente eso como que se pueden elevar preguntas si estas armas se usaron en el asesinato pero porque no tenemos los resultados balÍsticos para mostrarlos, pero sÍ creo que estas armas estaban en el sitio probablemente lo usaran en el. hay razones para creer que se usarÁn para otros delitos porque sabemos de dÓnde provienen estas armas. >> felipe calderÓn le dijo a univisiÓn en una entrevista que Él creÍa que el agente zapata habÍa sido asesinado en mÉxico con armas de rÁpido y furioso, ¿usted puede confirmarnos esto? >> yo no tengo informaciÓn alguna para confirmar, pero tampoco t

dr new deal became franklin roosevelt dr win the war after world war two happened harry truman acquired a progressive president. wrote wound up taking us to war in korea and his domestic programs were consumed. by by the war lyndon johnson sitting on my first job was not his press like a peer. i was responsible for much of the domestic policy civil rights environmental message economic policy and all of that and suddenly with the escalation of the war in vietnam in one thousand nine hundred sixty i saw all those hopeful possibilities consumed by it by the growing ravenous may ends of the military for more and more money and more and more troops and i saw all our hopes for bringing about a great society disappeared of the quagmire of vietnam it was a very sad time a grave. for those who lost their lives both americans and the the enemies but it also represented a turning away from the possibilities of building a better society at home. if. you very well said if we could move back to the to the media for a second you are the bush appointed kath homicide as the chairman of the corporation

that progressive majority that we know so much the party's about we want to get back to what harry truman promised us that's what this rally was about to get back for health care is a right that all of us have that so we work with inside and outside the party we believe in so we elect a progressive democratic majority we're not there we have a lot of work simply electing democrats isn't going to do it we have to elect progressive democrats again a progressive caucus led by road from tucson and from keith ellison of minnesota those are the folks that we're working with that are making a difference inside and outside our party it's a remarkable tim norman thank you all for being here tonight and thank you very much thank you talk much time between now and the twenty hold elections as one of the most crucial times for the american middle class and perhaps the history of our nation need to get out there and get active to stop the republicans anti working class agenda in its tracks agree about a new new deal to reboot the american middle class. viewer of the left wing sepsis sesame street cons

truman. began the journey. where did it take. for the. we've gone to. the biggest issues did the human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome back to the kaiser report on max kaiser time now to go to new york and talk with william a graph goodman she's the author of this gripping new blog this sign him if you haven't got your copy yet i insist that you get it. it's all about the run against a hijacked the world's oil market and lay a welcome because a report how are you doing today mac. all right so who are the renegades how they hijacked the world's oil world's biggest oil market these were the boulders in the original oil market back in one nine hundred eighty three reagan left it well price controls and when that happened and some traders who had destroyed their own exchange which had traded potatoes this was called the new york mercantile exchange decided they were going to try to trade oil and when reagan lifted those controls in one thousand nine hundred three that had been imposed by nixon they went ahead and said it was effectively the