truman said, according to margaret truman, mrs.ruman said, "harry, they're shooting at our policemen." and so the policemen yelled, "get down, get down!" he stuck his head out the window. it was a pretty messy thing. and the -- well, the one -- the assassin who survived was sent to prison, and president carter released him from prison after, what, 40 years or something like that? swain: so this was during the second term. seale: and he expressed no regret. swain and when they were living : in the blair house, an explanation we have not yet gotten to, why they spent so much time there. the 1940 election, did bess truman want harry to run for re-election? anslover: she didn't try to stop him. you know, in her heart of hearts, does she want to keep being first lady? no, but, again, this is a partnership. she might have been able to persuade him not to run, but she knew that in his heart of hearts, that's what he believed was best for the country. and so she supported him. swain: so many people would remember the famous "dewey defeats

and truman is apo plektic now, truman can't figure this out. he writes about why people don't take this. he can give them the nomination, he can give them delegates, and they don't want it. all he's got to deal with is keyfauber. so truman gets mad enough to stay in the new hampshire primary against the advice of all of his aides, and keyfauber beats him. outright square beats him with his name on the ballot. one myth that is absolutely untrue, that truman wants to perpetuate that he didn't un in 1952. he did, he allowed his name to stay on the ballot. i don't know how he can repress a smile, it's only been done three times in american history. truman goes ballistic and finally, since he's lost the primary, decides that he's going to make good, even though he doesn't have an heir. stevenson and vinson had turned him down, and he's in the middle of the steel strike. he finally decides that the jefferson jackson day dinner, march of 1952, at the old armory in d.c., march 31st, he announces that he will not be a candidate. and it's interesting how

and truman is apo plektic now, truman can't figure this out. he writes about why people don't take this. he can give them the nomination, he can give them delegates, and they don't want it. all he's got to deal with is keyfauber. so truman gets mad enough to stay in the new hampshire primary against the advice of all of his aides, and keyfauber beats him. outright square beats him with his name on the ballot. one myth that is absolutely untrue, that truman wants to perpetuate that he didn't un in 1952. he did, he allowed his name to stay on the ballot. i don't know how he can repress a smile, it's only been done three times in american history. truman goes ballistic and finally, since he's lost the primary, decides that he's going to make good, even though he doesn't have an heir. stevenson and vinson had turned him down, and he's in the middle of the steel strike. he finally decides that the jefferson jackson day dinner, march of 1952, at the old armory in d.c., march 31st, he announces that he will not be a candidate. and it's interesting how

he tells truman no. truman is disappointed. truman has been linked to another possible candidate for the presidency. estes kefauver, senator from tennessee, who made his mark running against the memphis crump machine by putting on a coonskin cap saying i may be pet coon, but i ain't their pet coon. he is the first reality show presidential candidate. you may member the crime hearings, the subject of my masters thesis, kefauver is the first politician to use a nationally televised event, long before mccarthy, and see what the potential of television was. in so doing, kefauver goes to city after city and exposes corruption in the democratic party and he wants the democratic nomination. telman hated his guts and called him senator cow fever. he will when several primaries, but he will never be the person who truman will support. truman has heard about somebody else. a young governor of illinois who had built his reputation as a progressive. who had built his petition on a veto of a conservative law against civil rights. i will say

truman liked the publication. gave it good positive feedback. when cia is created in september 1947, it inherits this responsibility from cig. now even though the feedback from the white house was generally positive, other people were questioning the utility of the daily summary. the -- for example, important early evaluation of the new cia by the dulles jackson correa committee that came out in 1949 made some significant comments about the daily summary that really resonate throughout the history of the president's proprietary publication. this commission says that it was a fragmentary publication, and might even be misleading to its consumers, because it is based on limited information from certain departments. it lacks historical perspective. it does not follow stories through to their end. the writers don't know everything about the policy involved or even the details of the countries they're looking at. and, as a result, the agency decides to change course and come up with a different product that addresses some of these concerns. much of t

that. >> that truman sent. truman said in his letter i will have general smith and the central intelligence agency give you a complete briefing on the foreign situation and then after that they were going to have some more things that he also said he would indicated to eisenhower that the cia would provide him with briefings on the world situation on a week basis, which eisenhower never did take him up on end then he said in his letter he would have lunch with the next and after that, if you like, i will have my entire staff report to you on the situation in the white house and the net weight-- on what takes place, yes. so, eisenhower wrote him back, turning him down and he said in my current position as with republican party and if other americans want to bring about a change in the national government-- >> host: in case you missed my point's p2 it is my duty to remain free to analyze the policy policies whenever it appears to be proper and in the country's interests. i believe eric mitigation should be only t

truman was a great wartime president. he fought bravely in world war i and france, and then he had to make very momentous decisions at the close of world war ii. some would argue -- and i think properly -- that the decision about whether or not to use atomic weapons at hiroshima, nagasaki, might have been the single momentous decision made by a president. he wasn't aware of the program until f.d.r. died and in the very moment had to make the decision about whether it use those weapons against japan. no one would question whether harry truman w's a softie. in march of 1947 america was war-weary, but he went to congress and in an address to congress said, we need to continue to provide military and economic support to nations that are battling against soviet influence. in this case, it was the nailingnationsof greece and tout began the truman dock trirng the basic strategic principle whereby the united states for the next 40 years would sort of check off efforts by the soviet union to expand their influence. harry truman w'

something harry truman once said. the day after franklin roosevelt died, truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. so, if you ever pray, let's pray for each other. republicans, for democrats, and democrats for republicans. [ applause ] and i don't mean pray for a conversion.

truman is very, very pleased with this. he writes, i've been reading the intelligence bulletin and am highly impressed with it. you have really hit the jackpot with this one. now, the document may have been improved, but the briefs process was not. the senior military aide continues to practice of meeting with him in the morning, giving him an update, sometimes using the document, sometimes not. after the korean war begins, the president meets every thursday morning and gets updates. the truman and eisenhower administrations were really the -- weekly national security counsel meeting. this is the situation that p pertains when the new president takes office in 1953, dwight eisenhower, he organizes quite differently. this is one of the constant variables of the history of the president's document, how the president chooses to run his national security process. whether the agency -- he's suspicious of any product that comes directly from a department and by that, he included cia even though it is an interagency national level

that is truman through nixon. and the seven who followed. for the first four, when they were presidential candidates and presidents elect, they did not receive a daily publication at all and they did not receive daily briefings. they did begin to read the daily pub once they were president. the following seven presidents though, from jerry ford to the present, in somewhat different ways, all read the daily pdb while they were president-elect. they continued to read it while they were president and had a briefer, every day, while president-elect and most continued, all continued with a briefing, usually from the intelligence community, not infrequently from the national security adviser. the point is, the process has matured over the years and the last transition or two have been frankly great successes in no small part owing to the initiative of general clapper and his staff. the secret recently has proved to be not only have a director involved to give gravitas to the whole thing, but bring along people at a subordinate level who really kno

the viewers will enjoy that spectrum in being truman. [laughter] he decided he would bring them into the white house say you have both candidates adelaide stevenson and eisenhower nominated that they sent to vote on august august 13 that truman sent. he said i will have the general from the cia gave you a complete briefing on the foreign situation then they would have the other things that also he indicated that the cia would provide him briefings of the world situation and a weekly basis that eisenhower did take him up on and we will have lunch with the cabinet after that if you like i'll have my entire staff report to lung the situation in the white house. in that way you can be aware of what takes place. eisenhower wrote him back to turn him down to say in my current position as the republican party and other americans who want to bring a change of the national government. [laughter] it is my duty to remain free of the policies of the current administration for the whatever it appears to be in the country's interests i believe our com

well, truman was not very happy, and sometimes what he did was he hand-wrote letter. >> host: truman's personality showing up. >> guest: what he could do with a hand-written letter, he would just put it in the mail box when he was doing his -- >> host: different communication than today. >> guest: so not through the chiefs of staff. >> host: right, i was picking up on your point for sure. go ahead. so, he writes -- >> guest: so he says: i'm extremely sorry you allowed a bunch of screwballs to come between us. you have made a bad mistake and i'm hoping it won't injure this great republic. so, -- >> host: vintage harry truman response should have moved forward here. but eisenhower then -- this is a fundamental point -- eisenhower was skeptical, reluctant to engage with a democratic president, even in a transition of the presidency, other than the cia work, and what is one of the hallmarks here you underscore about this bag model,ol thaw had a sitting two-term republican president transitioning with a democratic president, who had been critical of the bush administration, and yet still yo

truman is very, very pleased with this. he writes to director smith, i have been reading the intelligence bulletin and i'm highly impressed with it. you have really hit the jackpot with this the document may have been improved, but the briefing process was not. truman's senior military aids continues the practice of meeting with him in the morning, sometimes using the documents, sometimes not. after the korean war actions, the president meets with the nsc every thursday morning and gets intelligence updates. this was really the principal vehicle for communicating intelligence to the president, was the weekly national security council meeting. and this is a situation that pertains when the new president takes office in 1953, dwight eisenhower. being a military man by career, he organizes a national security apparatus quite differently. how the president chooses to run his national security process, whether the agency or the dni is prominent, or whether the national security advisor is pretty much running the show. eisenhower

the scandals inside the truman administration.imaged, in the sense that any housewife could clean up a mess in her home. there are all kinds of cleaning pails and scrub brushes. there are brooms and lapel pins in the shape of brooms. they were put out by the eisenhower campaign. the third thing was the economy. that was imaged as every woman having to stay within her budget and why shouldn't the government do the same? they put out enormous grocery bags that said, ike and dick. that was supposed to indicate that any woman could balance her home budget and therefore the government should do the same. the grocery bags were going to be extra large. this was how much more your budget was going to go if you elected ike and dick. >> 53% of american homes had television and they were growing and growing. there was also the rise of public relations professions in the united states. >> yes. there were a lot of advertising men who migrated into the campaign. it imaged ike and mamie as a commodity that can be sold to the consumer. >> on the

there is still no museum, no reconstructed home of truman capote. in fact, where his home was, it is a square. thea square. the bricks are still there, some of the boundary walls of the house, but there is a plaque out front and the yard and it is right next to the house where the walk-in sort of dairy is. >> the rock stone wall separating the properties that truman used to turn car wheels on to impress everybody is still there, but it is a town that seems almost reluctant to embrace that it is the southern concorde. >> and it is a much different town from oxford which also has a courthouse and is also sort of a shrine but oxford is sort of small-town -- small southern town themepark for about 3 miles around there. almost perfectly preserved. make him still has -- or monroe, it is still a little scruffy around the corners. >> it is. bookstores facing each other like dueling opponents on the square. monroeville has none of that atmosphere, and harper lee has not been eager to cooperate with monroeville and promoting to kill a mockingbird or her perso

truman were good friends. mamie went to mrs. truman's spanish classes. photograph of bess showing mamie around the white house, and they look like two girlfriends giggling in a corner. mamie knew how -- and regardless of what somebody's political affiliation was, she could get along with them. and that was the case. if their husbands were having problems, that didn't affect how mamie and bess truman would get along. swain: well, once the decision was made, how wholeheartedly did mamie throw herself into the campaign? mayo: i think very wholeheartedly. i think she loved the attention. i am not sure that her part in the campaign was scripted. i think she just sort of threw herself into it, and you know, it turned out to be a watershed for presidential wives and political campaigning. i think she was a -- a great boon to the republican party. they liked the fact that she connected with the women of america, and people started asking for her on the eisenhowers' campaign train. they did a whistle stop across the country, and people would, at the end of ike's

miller brought this up with president truman. and he asked him what he had taken from the white house very he said nothing. truman said nothing. he said, you must have taken a pencil. no. he answered that it did not belong to him. it is a great mystery to me. i do not know. i observed those great senators i served with. i was still quite a young man and i learned from them. i vowed never to lobby even though it is legal and people were beginning to make a lot of money doing it, it just did not seem right to me. i have never done it. brian: you were not in the senate. this guy came to the senate after you left. here is senator from louisiana. i will follow up after you see it. [video clip] >> you understand their backgrounds and who they represent. i think it helps us understand how people of different positions can be friends because if you are truly representing your state the best you can, it is not just because of the politics but because of where they are from. let me say one other thing that i think we need to pay attention

truman were good friends. mamie went to mrs. truman's spanish classes.hotograph of showing around the white house and it would like to girlfriends giggling in a corner. you regardless of what somebody's political affiliation was, she could get along with them. -- theirthe case husbands were having problems that don't affect how mamie and bess truman we get along. susan: how hard that wholeheartedly did mamie throw herself into the campaign? edith mayo: wholeheartedly. i think she loved the attention. i'm that sure her part of the campaign was scripted. i think he sort of herself into it and it turned out to be a watershed for presidential wives and political campaigning. great boon tos a the republican party. they like the fact she connected with the women of america. and people started asking for her on the eisenhower's campaign train. they did a whistle stop across the country. people would, at the end of ike's speak say we want mamie and there was a lot of clapping and calling for mamie to come out onto the rear of the train. saying, mamie and now wou

ho-hum when harry truman came here for a big democratic dinner one day in 1945 and went to church and parkside. he took the church bulletin up to the best from it and said, you asked me for my autograph yesterday. i want to ask you for yours today so i can prove my wife that i went to church. .. at that time the martin house was owned by the university of buffalo and it was the president's home, so the president of ud lived across the street. one of the press festers at ud and it created a lot of tension. there's one great story of when the president was in have a note party and across the street there were women in furs, lincoln's were pulling up, i'm sir there was caviar and champagne. what you would imagine from a 1960s elegant event. meanwhile across the across the street, there were naked people jumping out of houses and windows into swimming pools. there are kegs of beer everywhere. there was smell of marijuana in the air, their peace likes in front of the house. a really neat position of what university life was like in the 1960s. accidentally, it was a beautiful house by the w

and every president that truman has followed. he believes everyone has the same interest in all once the same thing. i don't believe that. i believe some people want to dominate and oppress other people. they want to take over other nations. there are some people who are fundamentally evil. we've seen some of them on tv this week. one that premise was wrong. number two he looked at vladimir putin and said let's ever reset. by the way hillary clinton tries to distance herself from the form policy of the president. that would work better if she wasn't his secretary of state for four years [applause]. but, she was the one with picture of herself with the russian foreign minister and a big button for reset. can you imagine such a thing. did they not understand that people have different objectives vladimir putin's objective might be to rebuild the russian empire those mistakes combined with other tactical mistakes, in syria for instance, to dry a redline and then say i guess i can't react without getting congress approval, but right

. >> the longest living, we just discussed this, was beth truman.eth truman made it to 95 and lady bird johnson and betty ford were both 94 so it's very close. the other question about, did -- >> other first ladies come back? >> i don't remember who else was around to come back. mamie eisenhower and beth truman. >> lou hoover? >> no, lou hoover was dead in 1944. but the johnsons went to the trumans in independence because that's where they signed the medicare act and there's a picture of them all there but i don't remember anything about -- oh, they did, i think, confer with the eisenhowers about how to give the ranch to the nation, which is what the eisenhowers had done with the gettysburg farm but i don't remember having any luncheons with the former first ladies. >> early in their marriage, lyndon johnson gave lady bird a movie camera, and there are many hours of what are really family home movies that are now -- recorded and accessible to historians and other researchers at the lyndon johnson library. we're going to see one of those next. it is

shocked to learn later that truman was never informed about the atomic bomb. when i first began to explore the possibility of presidency before i knew i was going to win, i found out that until then, the vice president had defense onbriefed by how to manage the atomic weapon in case of a nuclear war with the soviet union. i began to realize that for all , the vicepurposes president was still part of the legislative branch of government. his main duty was to preside over the senate in case of a tie . i thought the vice president ought to be in the executive branch of government. when we had a long talk, he had some ideas he wanted to explore about how the vice president could become an integral part of the administration. it was suggested, what are you go talk to vice president humphrey and vice president rockefeller and get some ideas about what could be done to bring the vice president closer to the president. that was how the whole idea began. you pointed him to are two vice presidents that had unhappy experiences. that was telling. he gave it a lot of thoug

but instead of demanding changes, as truman had, he allowed the show to go on as designed. , ans also interesting amateur painter. finally, the 1959 american national exposition in moscow, most famous for being the site of the kitchen debate, provided the venue of a show for 48 young american painters, including those who had caused the most trouble over the last 12 years. zorak, john levine. one man asserted that the show included 22 artists with affiliation in the communist party. the american artist professional league pointed to the lamentable, dreary, technically trivial array of paintings. but, as has been increasingly the case throughout the 1950's, influential voices and culture and government spoke up in support. score in art,5 the usia did not demand prior approval and in the end refused to withdraw the show. so in the our program, modernism went from being a parent in taste,to being an elite the art wets being use to tell the soviet people who we were as a culture. there was an interesting article in "the atlantic monthly" right after the show premiered by the show,o curato

mamie eisenhower and bess truman. cokie roberts: and lou hoover?etty boyd caroli: no, lou hoover was dead in '44. but i know that the johnsons went to the trumans in independence, because that's where they signed the medicare act, and certainly lady -- there's a picture of them all there. but i don't remember anything about -- oh, they did, i think, confer with the eisenhowers about how to give the ranch to the nation, which is what the eisenhowers had done with gettysburg farm. but i don't remember having any luncheons with former first ladies. susan swain: early in their marriage, lyndon johnson gave lady bird a movie camera, and there are many hours of what are, really, family home movies that are now on -- recorded and accessible to historians and other researchers at the lyndon johnson library. we're going to see one of those next. it is from the 1941 special election. [video clip] lady bird johnson: son-in-law of -- and there i am. that hat and suit went all over texas. a night rally. some of the gestures have persisted through the years. wei

that included people like fdr in world war ii, harry truman took over and on believable circumstanceat the end of the war and into the cold war. dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan, jack kennedy, there is a consensus there that basically brought out and they didn't always agree on everything in their differences between the parties oftentimes at election time, brock obama was clear outside that basic consensus that in my opinion and my study of history was fundamentally disagreed was not in accord with what i think is a bipartisan accord the u.s. role in the world, that i think has dominated our history and our policies, and our actions over that. of time. that is partly what stimulated our thinking about the book. if you look at the book and go through, i think you'll find we have document very carefully where we believe he has in fact, done things that aren't not the way would have been done by earlier presidents. he is outside the mainstream, if you will of presidential leadership and even raising questions about how big of a role the u.s. should play in the world. the policies over

as i stand here i can't help but think of something harry truman once said. the day after franklin roosevelt died, truman became president and he told a group of reporters, if you ever pray, pray for me now. when they told me yesterday what had happened, i felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me. we should all feel that way. a lot is on our shoulders. so if you ever pray, let's pray for each other. republicans, for democrats, and emocrats for republicans. and i don't mean pray for a conversion, all right. pray for a deeper understanding because when you're up here, you see it so clearly. wherever you come from, whatever you believe, we are all in the same boat. i never thought i'd be speaker. but early in my life, i wanted to serve this house. i thought this place was exhilarating because here, you can make a difference. if you had a good idea, if you worked hard, you could make it happen. you could improve people's lives. to me, the house of representatives represents what's best of america. the boundless opportunity to do ood. bu

and maybe they forgot to do that for bes truman which is what happened there.n if they forget to scratch up the bottle for michelle obama, if there were ever a first lady that could handle it, if there were ever a first lady ready for a bottle with its meeting with a submarine, it's probably the one we have now. i think i feel bad for the bottle. >> and that was where rachel left the story. but now we know how it turned out. on saturday where the stage was set for a showdown in connecticut between the first lady, a bottle of bubbly and a nuclear submarine, i'll let the video tell you the rest. >> in the name of the united states, i christen the "uss illinois." [ horn blowing ] >> and if there were any doubt now, after two let's call them warmup swings, the first lady was able to bless that boat. look at that form, boom. we don't know whether the bottle was prepped and scored properly for mrs. obama but it did not make a difference. she powered through it anyway. no wonder. we saw her training and now we know what she was training to, probably a brand-new spotif

they should learn about great men like george marshall and dwight eisenhower and harry truman and ronaldreagan. we must teach them what it took to prevail over evil in the 20th century, and what it will take in the 21st. we must make sure they understand that it is the brave men and women of the united states armed forces who defend our freedom and security for millions of others as well. our children need to know that they are citizens of the most powerful good and honorable nation in the history of mankind. the exceptional nation. ordinary americans have done heroic things to guarantee her survival. america's future and the future of freedom for all the world now depend on us. speaking at omaha beach on the 40th anniversary of the d-day landings, president reagan put it this way, we will always remember, we will always be proud, we will always be prepared so we may always be free. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] ..

and israel from the truman through barack obama relations. and sunday it continues beginning at noon with author michaelwise on the terror group isis. then a discussion on artificial intelligence with authors john markoff and hall. and later authors betty boyd caroly on lady bird johnson. on c-span3 saturday afternoon just before 5:00, historian on the relationship between president richard nixon and the shah of iran and its affect on u.s. foreign policy. and at 6:40 george mason university on the confederate flag and history in relation to the legacy of slavery. get our complete weekend schedule on c-span.org. >>> many news reports and public officials refer to their current refugee cries sighs in the european union as the worst since the end of world war ii. next on american history tv's "reel america" a look back to 1946 with seeds of destiny, a 20-minute war department film depicting the situation faced by millions of orphaned and homeless children. the grafg b skreeps of traumatized, hungry, and poorly clothed children recorded by the u.

shutting out truman 42-0. watch this, north 10 celebrating homecoming and the end of the first half and reed bobbles the snap and they fired it into the end zone and it's deflected, but keith earl dives in to make one heck of a grab and frankfurt is going for it and that is absolutely the right call. >> touch du >> touchdown! >> love the name, stone garcelli. what a touchdown! they win it 22-14. >> they get it going in the first half. casey walsh and john lee making the lead and off to the races and it was off the sprinkle, 63-21 and upper marion and sheltonham with the back side blitz and it's a fumble! sheltonham recovers and]ó goes to win it with the nice set 22-14. we go to the lehigh valley and liberty and parkland and liberty decides to go with gunner and globic. makes the decision a wise one. >> and he dances it away, 33 yards out and 7-6, second quarter and where's bert? i don't know. finds darian streak, and streaking down the side line. give me liberty or give me death. hamilton and clearview 14-7 ha

. >> as president truman said, the buck stops here. whether you like it or not, truman wouldn't have been talking about the after-attack. he would have said the buck stops here. you had the fbi and the cia, nse, all three, they weren't talking to each other. you know, say what you want. but then we went out and attacked the wrong country. we went out and attacked iraq. they had no weapons of mass struck as you know and as we found out. and as we found out. we destabilized the entire middle east. the middle east is a mess right now because of iraq. we totally destabilize. the two powers, iraq and iran, one got decapitated, iran is now taking over the middle east, taking over iraq, taking over the oil. the other one that gets some of the oil is isis. we fueled and created isis out of this. >> let's talk about afghanistan as you just brought up. because you have said a couple of conflicting things about whether or not you thought was right to gonna afghanistan. ben carson said he thought going to war with afghanistan after 9/11 was a mist

said that truman -- truman called them and when they renovated the white house. took this letter and sent it to my friend. he told me she started the antique program in the white house. she had a big influence. but because there was no budget. she was very important and the. susan: it's worth noting she desperately wanted to actually get the furniture out of the white house but i said we are going to balance this budget and not do it by redecorating the white house. mary: this is with all the respect to ultman. steve: how did you get the name maime? anne: anne: they all had nicknames. mary: a given name. steve: some great questions. could you talk about family traditions growing up? vacations, christmas, etc. all the china and silver will be put on the tables. you are probably the only 3, 5, and eight-year-old the new how to use finger bowls. [applause] my grandmother really loved to celebrate the holidays. they were very important to us and i think they continue to be very important to us for that reason. steve: can you share your most favorite birthday gift fro

i do not think harry truman would do that.f he did, i do not know if there was any records, but he obviously did not get the right message he wanted. >> let's go back in time. shank. first world war. phrase, you to the cannot be -- you cannot scream fire in a crowded the editor. ist i would like to share the discussion about the first amendment and our rights to communicate in the digital age and the post-nine\11 age. think you can't yell fire in the theater -- what that shows is there are very that citizens have under the constitution, but they are not absolute rights. there can be legitimate limitations. of can't yell fire in the theater, because you are concerned about what that does in that exercise of free speech to the lives of people that might yet trampled as you are running out of the theater. there are some restrictions, but you have to assume the spirit of the constitution. it is very extraordinary to have any restrictions on first amendment rights. where do youlator, draw that line when people in the judicial syste

truman, the right brothers, the johnstown flood? >> guest: i really don't know. something happens and it clicks and i think that is it. with this one it happened because i had just finished the book on americans who went to paris to perfect their abilities as architects, doctors, painters, sculptors, writers because the training of the kind they needed was available in our country, there were no schools, medical schools way beyond those in europe. medical school in paris was the greatest in the world. i took that up until 1900. but i got so intrigued with this and little known fact of american life that i've is thinking of carrying it into the 20th century, the second volume and in doing so i found out about the wright brothers in france, that they are meant to be in dayton, ohio. once i started reading about them as human beings, not just as miracle workers, this is a book i want to do. skip to paris in the twenty-first century and just the right brothers. i thank my lucky stars that i did because it is selling everywhere. so infinitely fascinating. so many surp

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/israel relationship from truman to obama. the book just published by the institute's counselor, my fellow ambassador, dennis ross. so right at the outset, please join me in celebrating the publication of dennis's new book. [ applause ] dennis brings an entire professional career, both academic and policy making to the writing of this book. dennis has spent the last quarter century, more than a quarter century in public service that dates back to the carter administration. he has served in senior white house positions in the administrations of ronald reagan, george h.w. bush and president bill clinton, and then of course in the administration of president barack obama. he's been the president's envoy for middle east peace. he's been the coordinator of american foreign policy in the broader middle east, what was known in the obama administration as the central region. especially focussing on iran policy. he's seen the ins and outs, especially, of the u.s./israel relationship. and republicans' presidencies and in democratic pres

and he thinks that the people around president truman knew that they were ready to surrender on conditions that they get to keep their emperor, which was the condition on which they finally surrendered anyway. i could easily see that truman and the generals, faced with the choice between using that bomb or carrying out that dangerous -- that dreadful invasion might have found it a very easy decision to use the bomb. discussion one generally hears. the question really was, why invade? the japanese were defeated. why not one them? warn them? i think all historians are in agreement that no such attempt was made. -- was made. you have asked, should we have done it. i'm not quite sure. i think not. by doing it, we caused all that suffering which you can maybe on the suffering that would've occurred if we had not done it. you could say we had done nothing new because on march 9, 1945, we had conducted a 1000 plane raid over tokyo and killed at least 100,000 people. but you know, it was really a qualitatively new weapon. 1000 planes is something you can mount once in a war may be. know, 30st, i d