they picked truman. and then if you really thought roosevelt was going to die, as soon as truman became vice president, you would have started to get him ready for the responsibilities he was going to have. and nobody did that. nobody. there's in fact a note at the truman library in one of the exhibits downstairs, it's a note from roosevelt to truman telling him don't bother me, work through the chief of staff. i don't want to talk to you. if you really thought roosevelt had weeks to live or months to live, that's not what you would have done. sir? >> you mentioned bollen, kennonand conflicting analogies they're giving to truman. i wondered if you could elaborate or perhaps would you take one of the three you would agree with? >> well, to me kennan -- what kennan said is, look, world war ii has brought out all of the worst aspects of the russian system, which includes paranoia, suspicion of everybody. >> and just link that to stalin's position. >> yeah. so what kennoni think was telling truman is there a

one of truman's aides who was present recalled the big trademark truman grin. churchill, perhaps privately and hisd that he somewhat difficult partnership with franklin roosevelt had saved western civilization a few years earlier. his estimate of truman was valid and made with the authority of a world historical figure whose own achievements were at least equally majestic. [applause] professor hamby: thank you. williamhird speaker is hitchcock who is the professor of history at the university of virginia. he has written widely on transatlantic relations in the year of the second world war and the cold war and the struggle for europe. and his latest book "the bitter road to freedom: a new history of the liberation of europe." it examines liberation in europe in 1944-1945 and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize and he will speak about churchill and dwight d. eisenhower. [applause] professor hitchcock: good morning. lovely to see you and thank you all very much for asking me to come to this distinguished conference with astonishingly accomplished guest and parti

at the beginning of 1946 truman received an invitation forwarded to him by truman to deliver an add stress at westminster college in fulton missouri. the president offered to accompany and introduce it. >> truman provided the transportation which he of course inherited from roosevelt. during the the 18 hour journey the two men forged a relationship. churchill at least as the truman side told it does not seem to have an an expert. stories have him looking at his face cards and say i think i'll risk a shilling on a couple. on another occasion he reputedly asked what does the sequence count. he seems to have been a big loser even after his american hosts bury winning hands in order to invoid -- avoid embarrassing him. he was a winner. the greatest dignitary ever to visit a small school. and rhetorical short of the emerging cold war. surveying the world scene, he accused the soviet union of bringing an iron curtain down and all but denounced the dissent grags of the alliance. it generated a backlash from some observers. who have not given up on the u.s. soviet relationship. most notably if wal

harry truman was human.arry truman was one of us. # it and certainly would have been so out of keeping with his character had they had guilded furniture. it would have been inconceivable to harry truman to have anything like that. >> to mark the centennial of the national park service, american history tv is featuring historic sites and national parks from c-span's city tour. for more information, check out c-span.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv all weekend and on holidays too only on c-span3. >>> this past august, american history tv marked the centennial of the national park service. we asked members of congress which in your state has special meaning to you and why? >> congressman hill and i representative central high school. i'm at the central high school museum here in little rock, the centerpiece of the civil rights of the south. this was the biggest school integration crisis following brown versus board of education decision. the national park service has this memorial here at cen

within a matter of months truman has issued the truman doctrine, committing the united states to the defense of freedom wherever freedom is attacked, and then we have the berlin airlift, and still the russians have not exploded their bomb. and then of course nato. but actually the bomb exposes in 1949 and by then the berlin airlift had succeeded in westing -- resting the possibility of taking west berlin and possibly the whole of western germany and possibly more, short of a nuclear exchange. this is the space he is determined to fill. at fullon, how does he attempt to fill it? well, he points to what he believes is a unique relationship between britain and the united states, and between the british empire, and he was still using that term, of course, and the united states, and how the future safety of the world and certainly the safety of rights imbedded in law, the safety of democracy, turns on the cooperation and understanding between the united states and britain and the empire. that is the main message he gets across. there is a hell of a shindig and indeed within one week after

and it leads to the truman doctrine and eventually to nato. in the case of fulton, george c marshall has already made it ,lear, he is back from china that this is not going to be something that the united states will invent for europe. if the europeans just sit there , he wants the europeans themselves to take an ownership in and it he later on acknowledges the importance of the zurich speech in his own thinking. so, again, a trail is ignited which leads, as i say, ultimately to the marshall plan, and then to the coal and steel community. there's one other player in this. a frenchman who found the european coal and steel community. he is put in charge of the economic plan for the reconstruction of france. he goes along to see the germans. he was never intimidated by them. france cannot be economically restored without u.s. credits, and there will be no u.s. credits unless we change our policy towards germany. so on both sides of the atlantic , something quite new is beginning to come into view. i mentioned -- now let me turn to de gaulle in te

truman. he decided what he would like to do is bring them into the white house, bring the candidates in. you had both candidates, advice stevenson for the democrats, dwight eisenhower for the republicans, nominated by the time of the letter eisenhower sent to both on august 13, '19 -- >> host: truman did. >> guest: truman said in his letter i will have general smith and the special intelligence agency give you a complete briefing on the foreign situation and after that they were going to have more things. he also said he indicated to eisenhower that the cia would provide a briefing from the world situation on a weekly basis which eisenhower did take. then he said in his letter we will have lunch with the cabinet and after that if you like i will have my entire staff report to you on the situation in the white house and in that way -- >> host: a generous offer. >> guest: on what takes place. eisenhower wrote him back turning him down. in my current position as standardbearer of the republican

at the beginning of 1946 truman received an invitation forwarded to him by truman to deliver an add stress at westminster college in fulton missouri. the president offered to accompany and introduce it. >> truman provided the transportation which he of course inherited from roosevelt. during the the 18 hour journey the two men forged a relationship. churchill at least as the truman side told it does not seem to have an an expert. stories have him looking at his face cards and say i think i'll risk a shilling on a couple. on another occasion he reputedly asked what does the sequence count. he seems to have been a big loser even after his american hosts bury winning hands in order to invoid -- avoid embarrassing him. he was a winner. the greatest dignitary ever to visit a small school. and rhetorical short of the emerging cold war. surveying the world scene, he accused the soviet union of bringing an iron curtain down and all but denounced the dissent grags of the alliance. it generated a backlash from some observers. who have not given up on the u.s. soviet relationship. most notably if wal

truman lived in blur house for most of that time. of 1952,january winston churchill back in power focused on his attempts that were very strong, as we have heard several people say in his second period, focused on number one the attempt to rebuild, strengthen the wartime special relationship, which have been fdr's and churchill's, not truman who was so out of the loop, he did not even know about the atomic bomb until after fdr died. churchill 1953, hosted a dinner at the british outgoing harry truman. his threeap with trips to see eisenhower. 1953, same trip. he sees eisenhower in new york. he begins to rekindle the wartime links, which may have been stronger in churchill's mind. if you follow events over the coming years, that seems to be the point. in 1954, on his second visit, and shortly before he left downing street, churchill tries to set up ao agree summit meeting with the soviets. eisenhower was not having any of it. part of that, i think, was john foster dulles. quote, the wonderful dullest.ler, , and ike wasessed not having

truman once. in the middle of the conference, the votes are counted for the 45 election and adlai took over for him. an enormous change happened in world affairs between july 1945 in february 1946 in the truman administration. because the truman administration made a decision they very much had not thought to truman first came to power that they were going to stand up and contain the soviet union. the fulton speech, so churchill got inside i am there was a poster would a poster would you come to a top. there is a postscript in the hand of henry truman. it's a nice college, please come out and introduce you. churchill was there in the heart needs and that turned out to be part of a plan by truman and churchill in that speech announces the cold war. >> host: how many times did he spend in the wilderness throughout his career? >> guest: oddly enough, only one from 1931 until 1939. a shorter one from 1945 until 1951 and arrested him for three years surrender. the wilderness means two things. and it's

do you have thoughts on president truman as well? >> the only thing i have to add to this, i did receive four bronze clusters and two years ago the french president, french legion of honor made me a chaveret and i think just receiving the medal by the french government put a high life to my life, thank you. >> mr. howerton? >> what i'd like to say about this is that i, too, saw very few if any black soldiers and you know to me the cultural mix that we had otherwise was great and if i would say anything in response to the question about how can you advise people going in the military today it would be that -- you know, a couple things, first of all they are going to be exposed, thank god, to all americans in the military even with a volunteer army, i think. so another factor about that is that the military will give a young person a family. a second family. i think we would all agree to that i know in my case those of us in company k with such heavy casualties knew, we knew in our own minds that we may not ever come back. these people

he only met harry truman once. but in the middle of the conference the votes were counted and they took over for him. with an enormous change that happened in world affairs between july 1945 and a february 1946 in the truman administration because that the decision that they thought they would stand up to contain the soviet union. and the fulton speech there is the part and a postscript in the hand of harry truman. so please come. said he was there in a heartbeat and that turned out to be part of the plan by truman to be developed with churchill that is now the cold war. >> host: how many times did winston churchill spent in the wilderness road his career? >> oddly enough there was one dirty one -- 1931 through 1939 a shorter 145 through 51 then the rest were three years or under. that means the party is not empowered and it means you don't hold one of the leading positions of your party if your party wins. but two of the word along. >> host: president larry arnn did your book you reprint his speech for 1946 i have

and truman had to do it for him. and harry truman, perhaps not the best formally educated person in the nation, was a very smart man. nobody's fool. and he knew that he would soon be the president himself. now, the next theme that i would to explore is this idea that television is going to change things. that once division gains a critical foot hold in american life, you will not see the chicanery. i have a great case study, dwight david eisenhower. in 1955, a as you all know, eisenhower has a massive heart attack. so the people around eisenhower bring in the most imminent paul dudley white. he examines eisenhower. tells people in the white house we'll be lucky if he lives long enough to complete his first term. there was no question in his mind that if eisenhower was lucky enough to survive that he would retire and live a very quiet life beginning in 1956. you know, the problem was eisenhower liked being president. mrs. eisenhower liked being first lady. there were a whole bunch of eisenhower friends, cronies. and t

behind me is truman's account. there is something to keep in mind. the fundamental tension is they were both right, and they were also both wrong. truman was right. third world war was definitely avoided. but there is no substitute for victory. it is still a tripwire. this is still the most heavily militarized border in the world. north korea remains a dangerous foe and dangerous geopolitical force in northeast asia, just as 1953. in 1951, 1952, after truman relieved macarthur, he addressed congress on 1951. april 15, one of the lines was old soldiers never die. they just fade away. macarthur chose to fade away for the next 13 years of his life in new york city, where he his wife, and their son became a fixture. macarthur was an avid baseball fan. he would go to yankee stadium, at its field. he was very interested in what was going on on the athletic field. 1953, general macarthur wrote, if you notice on the scan, we have the entire handwritten manuscript. if you look real carefully, you'll notice there is almost no correction. mindthur had a very sh

i have been to truman's.i been to the one that gerald ford has in grand rapids and also to jimmy carter's in atlanta, and bill clinton's in arkansas. i still have a few more to get to. host: thank you, neville. guest: extraordinary list. you have gotten through more than i have. my sense of this is, as time passes and the presidents become more part of history rather than former presidents we are able to reassess their time and they become less the official story of the president and his staff and shall we say protectors. the truman one has been redone many many times-- at least twice that i know of an very recently that johnson museum has tried very hard to actually stare into the vietnam war. i suspect this is not the high point of that exhibit when he was an ex-president. he probably did not want to think much about the work. look at johnson's memoir , vantage point, heedless of thousand-- or quantitative president. he did not want to talk much about the war except how the work-- [inaudible] guest: they ha

truman-- roosevelt died, and truman come in. well, what'd truman do? you know, he dropped the bomb and millions of japanese, poor kids and everything. and that was the end of that. i canceled my contract, because i had a five million dollar contract to make my-- make these cameras to find them. you see, and of course that was all canceled when truman got in. >> all right, now what's the-- what about the car heater? >> the what? >> the newsreel camera and the car heater? >> i made-- before i made this camera, i made a regular newsreel camera. of my cameras. >> i didn't know that. >> oh, yes. [ laughter ] >> we may be using them right here in the studio. so you invented that and sold it to nbc? >> i've been mixed up with a lot, johnny. >> yeah? >> i've done pretty good, but i've spent the money on a bouncing ball. up and down, and i've made a couple of fortunes, up to a million dollars, but i lost them all. i'm happy about losing them. >> really? >> i don't mind it. i'm making one right now. i'm making a televn they're-- every newsreel man-- not newsreel

truman was very upset. he sent a handwritten note, which she would sometimes do because he could slip by staff, and they would not see it and stop him. so he had a handwritten note to eisenhower commenting on his own way of looking at the turned on by the general. he wrote "i am extremely sorry that you have allowed a bunch of touples t -- of screwballs come between us." [laughter] " you have made a grave mistake and i hope it will not injure this public. this handoff no longer distinguishes between one the successor-- our 5 panelists today are in shape to discuss the transition, as each of our officials has gone through one or more of them at a senior planning level. additionally they are all involved in current efforts to fortify the transition process, and find areas of agreement that will ensure a presidential transition in a bipartisan seven, which is the theme of our conference. our conference is one of three that we were told at texas presidential libraries. the other two will be at the lbj library s

they went to press a little bitt early and truman is holding that headline that says truman having a little fun about how the polls and predictions they do get it long. we've heard donald trump bringum this up on the trail, how about the breakfast, britain'sin's decision to leave the united kingdom. again, polls predicted thatat britain was going to stay and we know those l polls were wrong. so when you're thinking about tonight, are you expecting a clinton victory that the polls are predicting or are we got to stay tuned to fox5.. we're going to be followingll election results the entire night. we'll just have to see. reporting live, i'm ' ronicaic cleary with fox5 local news. > it can happen. i remember being out insville into the we hours in the morning.morn that went on for weeks trying to count though let's take a liveet look's outside, 63-degrees out there. no excuse not to get out and vote. it was actually a really goodly day across the country. a little band of showers coming that will effect us tomorroweffe morning, but you very, very nice weather and office lit turnout seem

and again, truman boulevard here shut down to traffic. again, it will definitely take some time to clean this mess up. again, the septic company here to pump all of this water up to determine exactly how deep this hole is. again, folks in this community simply thankful that no buses were coming through at the time. of course, we'll be out here throughout the morning gathering information on throughout the morning if you guys want to come back to us later, we can. we'll be out here speaking with neighbors trying to get all the info we can. thankfully no one hurt in all this. report live out in citrus county, rodney dunigan abc action news. >> thanks rodney. >> coming up on abc action news this morning, we'll tell you how how. >> good morning everybody, we're wrapping you'll meet a 20 year veteran in military intelligence, retired lieutenant colonel karen mercks. >>> it is 9:27. this being called a medical breakthrough. a new test could allow people living with hiv to monitor their disease as easily and quickly as checking their weight on a

behind me is truman's account. there is something to keep in mind. truman was right. wrong place, wrong time. a third world war was definitely avoided. but there is no substitute for victory. this is still the most heavily militarized border in the world. just like it was in 1951, 52, 53. he came home and addressed congress in 1951. one of the lines was old soldiers never dad -- never die. he, his wife, and their son became a fixture. face --r was an avid avid baseball fan. loved watching sports. very interested in what is going on on the athletic field. macarthur wrote his reminiscences. hendrickhe entire manuscript. mcarthur had a very sharp mind. he was known to have a photographic memory. it seems the thoughts came out of his head fully formed. it is absolutely an amazing manuscript when you flip through the pages. became something of an elder statesman. johnsonere with lyndon just a few weeks before his death. in both cases he told them to stay out of a country called vietnam. macarthur between old age and level problems begins to fade shortly after his 41st birt

i have been to truman's.i been to the one that gerald ford has in grand rapids and also to jimmy carter's in atlanta, and bill clinton's in arkansas. i still have a few more to get to. host: thank you, neville. guest: extraordinary list. you have gotten through more than i have. my sense of this is, as time passes and the presidents become more part of history rather than former presidents we are able to reassess their time and they become less the official story of the president and his staff and shall we say protectors. the truman one has been redone many many times-- at least twice that i know of an very recently that johnson museum has tried very hard to actually stare into the vietnam war. i suspect this is not the high point of that exhibit when he was an ex-president. he probably did not want to think much about the work. look at johnson's memoir , vantage point, heedless of thousand-- or quantitative president. he did not want to talk much about the war except how the work-- [inaudible] guest: they ha

talked about truman. presidents from truman on, not just dems but also nixon, have sought comprehensive health care reform. they all failed. only obama succeeded and he succeeded without a single republican vote in either the horse or the senate. the first time in the history of the republic that a major piece s enacted without any support from the opposition party. and look -- >> isn't that a bad thing? kind of? >> the problem was that he didn't get support from republicans, because they were set on defeating every piece of legislation and this was the one he wanted the most, he had to compromise on this bill. and we'll see if it survives. >> the economy when president obama -- i remember being on the treadmill and watching my stocks fall and fall, so much anxiety, i had to leave the gym tv at that time in sept 2008, now obviously the economy has improved dramatically. but president obama, i don't think has never really gotten any credit for what he did for the economy. >> i think that's true. most peopl

mac arthur meets with truman in the wake island's. the eighth army in this area, operating in this area over here, find some chinese volunteers. macarthur discounts them and launches directive to be home by christmas right before thanksgiving 1950. fighting a very desperate battle this year on the river. u.s. marines are surrounded by the chinese. they begin to fight their way down the coast. it is not retreat, it is an attack on another direction. the seventh division right here, turn around, retreat back, and 105,000 americans and koreans pullout september 12 through 24. there were 100,000 korean refugees that has lived in the north and doesn't want to say. they show up in the port. a controversial figure, but i do have to say this, whatever spare shipping space there is i want you to take refugees. 98,000 people get out and evacuate. five children are born at sea. this has such a profound impact. they made a movie about it. there are a lot of people that say this cemented our relationship with the korean people. this remains a big

a water main break caused a huge hole on truman boulevard in beverly hills. that small white car ended up in that hole. after a few minutes the car is then completely covered. truman is shut down from south washington street to south barber street. >>> we want to show you this photo. a missouri photographer is getting a lot of attention for this picture. this rainbow baby photo is herself and noticed that while on several moms' forums the term rainbow baby was used. when a mother is able to give birth after suffering a miscarriage her baby is a rainbow babe. the term is derived from the qualities of a rainbow after a storm. the mom was so moved she staged this photo in honor of all babies and their parents. >> a beautiful picture. >>> each year the florida strawberry festival impressive line-up. >> this year is no exception. willie nelson. three doors down. little big town. patti labelle to name a few. you can see the full list at wtsp.com. >> like one big name after the other. >> good ones. >> great to see who is going to be playing at strawberry fest. forec

so no one would be blindsided the way truman was. now there are these top secret briefings that go to the president of the united states and as of today president-elect donana trump gets them, too. and today the rusussian governme said iwass in contact all along with the trump campaign during the time that the u.s. inteigenence agencies say the russian government was interfering with our election and leaking all the documents from the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic party dribbling out this massive a w w that undoubtedly lengthened her odds against donald trump in the u.s. presidential campaign. during the time that u.s. intelligence says that was ppenining. the russian government today said their contacts with the trump campaign not only existed during time of the campaign but they've continued all this time. what was the quote there? quite a few members of the trump mpaigngn. imagine if something like this had been disclosed ever about any other presidential candidate or any other president-elect? imagine if something l

in fact, the truman presidential library says, "truman sometimes indicated to reporters that the turkeysreceived were destined for the family dinner table. truman was actually the first president to receive a turkey from the national turkey federation. so who was the first president to pardon a turkey? lincoln, it appears, was the first on record. but it was a christmas turkey that his son had taken a liking to. president john f. kennedy was the first to pardon a thanksgiving turkey. in 1963, despite a sign hanging around the turkey's neck that read, "good eating, mr. president," kennedy sent the bird back to the farm. richard nixon also gave the birds a reprieve, sending his turkeys to a nearby petting zoo. ronald reagan was the first to use the word pardon when he was talking turkey in 1987. the turkey pardoning became formalized in 1989, with president george h.w. bush. >> let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone's dinner table. not this guy. >> woodruff: this year, the spared birds will be sent to virginia tech university, where they already have

i am not comparing donald trump to harry truman in any way except for the fact that when truman cameople thought that this was someone who could not measure up, especially because we were still in world war ii to the leg's of franklin roosevelt, did much better. so i think if we have a president who makes a huge effort to say, give me a chance, as hillary clinton was saying the other day, you know, give him a chance to lead and makes this effort to heal the country and unite it, i think people might see a surprise. >> you know, one of the president elect's campaign promises was to, quote, train the swamp in washington. when was the last time an anti-establishment candidate took office and how much change were they successful in implementing? >> that's a thread that's run all the way through american history. andrew jackson promised to do the same thing and did throw a lot of people out of office, jimmy carter came in as an outsider in 1976. usually it doesn't happen quite that way because people need partners with whom to govern and usually what we've seen in the past is those people

he came in january 1945, roosevelt died in april and truman knew nothing of the atomic bomb so searedy that experience, he wanted to bring people in so that they were going to understand what was ahead of them. adlai stevenson accepted but general eisenhower turned down truman's invitation, in large part because he said he was running against the administrations programs and he thought the public would not understand why he would be coming into the white house when he was running against it. truman was very upset and he sent a handwritten note which he would sometimes do because he could slip by his staff and they would see it and stop him. so he had a handwritten note to eisenhower commenting on his own way of looking at the turned down by the general. he wrote, i'm extremely sorry that you allowed a bunch of screwballsto come between us . you have made a bad mistake and i am hoping it will injure this great republic. the strong partisan nature of that transition no longer distinguishes the hand off of power from one president to his successor. our five panelists today are in a posit

ike was almost contemptuous of truman. truman felt like like stabbed him in the back. jfk, and he's contemptuous of this kid who he thinks is not serious enough for the job he just held. >> the same animosity was between johnson and nixon. johnson had nixon in twice during the transition. the cabinets have dinner, there staffs have dinner. it's in that meeting between johnson and nixon right before the inauguration in 1969 that johnson says to nixon, you know, you ought to have the taping system ripped out. it's the worst decision i ever made. >> oh, my gosh. >> you know how that story ends. these are private moments of very, very intimate advice. they usually involve -- truman handed ike three binders about foreign policy. who knows if ike even read them. both sides really, particularly the outgoing side, try to lend a hand because they alone, that person usually knows unlike anyone else, just what the other guy is stepping into. and there's no preparation for it, even if you have spent your life in politics. of course, donald trump is a relative newcomer to that. >>

harry truman was the president then. so a little presidential history to go along with it. winds out of the northeast three to eight miles per hour. tonight, 59 degrees, clear skies across the area. our 7-day forecast? we're not done with the 80s yet. 80 degrees. that's what i am looking for for the high tomorrow. so another warm one. the sunshine? it continues for the rest of the a high temperature. then even for the weekend, mid-70s. the coolest day on the 7-day forecast is sunday, 74. that's still four degrees above normal. >> michelle: okay. if you got your sticker from voting, you know it says i voted. by the way the ones in las vegas are so awesome. have you seen them? hopefully you have if you voted. if not, get out there and get one. then we want to see it. post it up on social tweet, facebook, instagram. make sure however you do it you use the hashtag #i voted lv and we'll try to give you a shout-out on the air. >>> we're keeping an eye on voting across the country. this what's it's looking like in cincinnati. we have all these cool live cameras all over the countr

truman, who with her daughter will do the honors in her first public appearance. by an oversight, the champagne bottle hasn't been properly prepared. etched to break the glass on impact. now mrs. truman unaware that her bottle is not prepared. [ laughter ] >> let's see how her military aide meets the crisis. [ laughter ] >> that could never happen today, because staff work for first ladies has greatly improved, the sad thing is, history thrust her into this role. she was happy being a senate wife. she was reluctant to be in this big -- >> she spent much of her time back in missouri. this was her first political event. they were flying air ships. she look ed pretty game out there, but she was thoroughly embarrassed and never did public appearances. they were living in blair house, because the white house was under construction, which bill knows so much about, she had almost weekly gatherings at blair house, social functions bringing in veterans and their families to enjoy blair house, she also was a regular volunteer at the uso. what i like about this is, she absol

so he knew truman and loved him and you know, truman was a hero of the working class, and somewhere then last week, my brother kevin stayed up all night wanting trump to get elected, so what happened between my dad and truman and kevin and trump? and i think a lot of what happened is the democrats forgot how to talk to the working class which joe biden can do and bernie sanders can do but obama forgot. amazing, a quarter of people who voted for obama then switched to trump. that is a crazy statistic that so many obama voters, but when people, this was an amazing thing. so david plouffe, the genius behind the obama win had a pies the other day what happened to hillary and one of his bullet points was, the voters that turned out, the voters really did want change. [laughter] >> said the architect of the change campaign years ago. >> so those stupid voters, they really did want it, what? >> thank you for your question, sir, appreciate it. >> hi, good evening. go ahead. >> one much your colleagues on "the new york times," david brooks, had a article last week and in the last sentence of his

. >> but truman was very hesitant to declare war at that time there are many reasons but little think is known as well but is interesting they're very scared of the signal it would send to the world. why? remember with the first rolled for the and the second world war was declared but before either was declared by the time truman is in korea there are atomic weapons and the fear was if we declare war this signal that would send to china or other countries about the conflict that this is is a signal we may not want to send. especially having atomic bombs dropped in the united states for crowfoot so they downplay that operation not as an end run around the constitution but politics to keep it contained if he says that is a police action not that i don't want to do what congress tells me but want the world to see this as world war iii but fear they have illogic and for which is more in keeping with the constitutional system of. >> so as a follow-up was beyond a war? si did answer that as deceptively and as a scholar >> there is a book called the vietnam war so i say it is a war. but from

of course, and the money was allocated without the knowledge of congress and even vice president truman didn't know about it. so it was conducted in secret. there were secret cities here at oak ridge. they had to build a secret city that ultimately ended up housing 75 or 80,000 people. you couldn't get in, couldn't get out without going through security. we were fearful that the germans would get access to our technology, and so it was obvious that all this had to be done in secret, and it was. people in the vicinity didn't know what was going on. it was a super-secret project. if you were hired here and worked on the project, you only knew what your job was. you weren't informed as to what anybody else was doing, so you only saw a little piece of the entire project. really with a few exceptions, you couldn't put together the entire story and under what was going on. eventually after a year or two, they actually began to produce some enriched uranium over at y-12, and that enriched uranium was carried out of here in a handbag, in a valise. in a train it went out to loss alamos, someone

truman was the president when scully called his first baseball game. the awards will be presented next tuesday. and now... to a new version... of a hard rock classic. metallica joined "jimmy fallon" last night... to perform a new take on "enter sandman." and those are all children musicial instruments the band is playing with. fallon has been doing this music series for several years now on "the tonight show." with everyone from mariah carey to adele. metallica also has a new album out tomorrow. a new life... for one of the bay area's most historic hotels. the controversial construction project... that begins today. and before you head outside, we'll get another check on the today in polk county: at longhorn, tonight's special: great steak pairings. a center cut sirloin with a choice of bacon-wrapped shrimp, baby back ribs, or parmesan crusted chicken. you can't fake steak. longhorn steakhouse. a veteran and his family are getting a new home, just in time for the holidays. present the home to u-s army sergeant "william schenfield" later this afternoon

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truman was very upset.e set the handwritten note which he would sometimes do so he can get it by staff, he had a handwritten note to eisenhower commenting on his own way of looking at the turned down by the general. he wrote, i'm extremely sorry that you have allowed a bunch of screwballs to come between us. you have made a bad mistake and i am hoping it will not enter this great republic. the strong partisan nature of that transition no longer distinguishes the handoff of hours from one president to his successor. our five panelists are in a position to discuss the shape of transition as each of our officials has gone through for one or more of them at a senior planning level. additionally, they are all additionally, they are all involved in current efforts to fortify the transition process and find areas of agreement that will ensure a presidential transition in a bipartisan setting, which is the theme of our conference. our conference is one of three and we're going to hold at texas presidential library.

the turkey pardon started 69 years ago with president truman. this is the sixth time iowa turkeys have been part of the presidential pardon. afterward both birds will retire to a place called gobblers rest. >> they live out their lives. >> we hope you'll join us light the lights. >> join cheryl preheim, corey rose and belen deleon as they help downtown denver light the lights on friday at the city and county building. it's all happening between 13th and 14th and bannock. the festivities start at 6:00, get everybody fired up, in the understood. the live broadcast starts at 6:30. so if you can't make it downtown, you can watch it live on 9news and count it down till they flip the >> it's a spectacle. it's so pretty. get down there. >>> it might be one of the most pressing questions this holiday. bottled or boxed wine? i know you erm. stuff, but can you really, my friend? >> i have never been able to anyway. wine is wine to me really, so forget it. could you tell if it came out of a box? just be grateful somebody offered you a glass of wine, right?

this is the first generation of >> it is like the truman show. people are studying addiction to cell phone. teens are addicted. they go through withdrawals if they don't have their cell phone. >> whatever they are watching on social media, their behavior what is going to get the most likes and views, probably not going to be responsible. that normalizes the behavior. same with reality shows. they know what they are looking for. a lot of young people see that as normal behavior. >> wall to wall especially when them. that has created a set of millennials unprepared to meet today's challenges. >> when they won't give my student an f because they will feel bad. >> i agree with all that has been narcissistic culture, lack of parenting, what are redoing to make sure the next generation are the responsible adults whether we are parent or not. i think the questions we should look back on us. what are we doing to help usher a responsible next millennials generation? >> anything we can do? >> i don't think parents want to see their kids go through destruct