harry truman. by the time he left office in 1983 he was the most unpopular president in american history before or send. his popular purple rating was lower than that of richard nixon's at the death of watergate. truman or the constitution could have run for for president again in 1953 that even the democrats wanted him to get out of town because he was dragging down the dash so he says enough families. spot there remained very low to the 1950s when americans look to the outcome in korea and said this half-hearted unsatisfactory attempt is not something i want to repeat because again americans were thinking wars are to be phot all-out to win. macarthur was a more compelling figure during the 1950s. truman begins to rise a little bit during the 1960s as the korea story is repeated in vietnam except that it was discovered by the late 1960s there are worse outcomes than a land war in asia namely leading to an american defeat in the war. by 1968 lyndon johnson would have given his right arm for a korea

because truman gave the order. so the of military gave up addition one negative position and enter'' -- bureaucrats come and go. so with the results so the military was the segregated when an american forces were beaten up and they had to throw whenever they had. they started to put it to black soldiers with white soldiers the army said it would not ruin raw so they all discovered so they can do the job it is so k.. so was the order so he gets credit for pushing in that direction. so to do what was possible. so she was from missouri so that is what it meant to be a black person in the south. >> the things that he was able to accomplish? the whitehouse wishing him a merry christmas and to say only half of those items began with harry 20 years earlier and he very much appreciated the groundwork harry truman had laid to that. fifty-one years ago lyndon johnson signed the of medicare/medicaid act so he honored them in that way. >>. >> in the pacific he signed up with his mother signature but was killed 1942. and ended

then to beth truman. and he honored them. >> one last question. [inaudible] >> in the pacific ocean during the second world war, he signed to get in in 1942 and had no great love for macarthur. he ended up in the baton death march dying in a hospital, but to this day you can forget macarthur and never forget our military. i've heard that they're trying to identify through dna all the living relatives so these people can properly be buried and put to rest, so my hat's off to our government and to all the military forces. thank you. [applause] >> indeed. . >> let's just-- i we need to wrap up so we can do some book signings, but i just wanted to ask you one final question, kind of a-- what does it all mean? i mean, what does this -- what does this moment in history tell us? i think that we often talk about constitutional ramifications and the military being demented in this way and talk about the truman doctrine more to europe than asia. and quickly, what are the big things that do you think we learned? you

harry truman was. the down side, famously was that roosevelt, although it was late in the war and wisabelle had vey advanced cardiovascular disease and had plenty of reason to expect he would not likely live out that term from 1945 to 1949 had something like only about two meeting with his vice-president, harry truman, of any seriousness during the short time that truman was vice-president. the result was when roosevelt died on the 12th of april, harry truman was left to try to figure out what roosevelt had in mind just before the end of the war in europe. a few months before the end of the war in japan. you have this surreal saying of truman in the white house wearing a green eye shade. he actually called in for all the documents the last few months that franklin roosevelt had been dealing with that he could read and somehow figure out what was on roosevelt's mind. he was reading the minutes of the conference trying to figure out what was on road velt's mind. roosevelt had not told him. the most famou

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then truman will feel he has to march into the gap with the truman doctrine. i believe it must be the policy of the united states to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subrogation by armed minorities or outside pressure. a very bold statement. and the public is not quite ready to get behind this yet. what this is going to require is a creation of a red scare. you have to restore the image of the ogre. the soviet bugaboo. i know you talked about joseph mccarthy in the espionage seminar. one of the reasons we play up all these russian spy trials and russian spies we catch is to prove the american people about the russian threat. the soviet threat. joseph mccarthy is a creation of josef stalin and harry truman. he's the result of this red sphere that's created to get the american public to support the truman doctrine and in june 1947, the marshall plan. remember about this diseased tissue? we've got to save europe. one of the greatest act actions of -- it's not completely altruistic. we have our interests as well. but june 1947 we commit the marshal

in the middle of the airflow, truman -- airlift, truman deployed atomic bombs.he first deployment outside the united states of american atomic at tax. attacks. this helps inspire in april 1949 the creation of the north american treaty organization. canada, iceland, norway, portugal, france, the netherlands. everybody understands the core of nato has got to be a re-armed germany. if you're going to re-armed germany, there are some hard choices to make. they are going to be the core of the anti-communist coalition in europe. you have got to have a strong germany. you have got to have commitment from the germans. getting the war prisoners out of jail. remember, pieper becomes a poor salesman. but they do make deals to get the germans on board to rearm against the soviet threat. you have also, i mean, it is not just in germany make deals. you know, who is going to be most afraid of a rearmed germany? obviously, france. how to get france on board? we have to agree to give them massive support in indochina. so the reason we get involved in vietnam is because we want g

guest: boy, god bless my father, may he rest in peace, i'm going to say truman, because truman, given the situation he was faced with at the beginning of the cold war, he put in place institutions that were lasting and that were designed to safeguard american interests in the broadest sense, which is to say, to bring in american to create and solidify alliances, to try and ensure that hostility or aggressive tendencies would not necessarily lead to war. he was a great institution builder. his administration was. having said that, he promulgated the truman doctrine, which essentially was an ideological clarion call. george cannon, the father of containment, hated the truman doctrine because he thought it would put politicians, it would limit their flexibility. that was, this is what happened. the fall we talked about, the fall of china, and how it haunted lyndon johnson, and he felt the fall of saigon would destroy him. that was probably the truman doctrine. we are called on to defend freedom wherever it is threatened. that is much more broadly ideological and capricious than it should

so then truman will feel he has to march into the gap with the truman doctrine. supporting free peoples resisting attempt by armed minorities are outside pressure. a bold statement. again, the public is not quite ready to get behind this. it is going to require the creation of a red scare. restore the image of the ogre. .he soviet bugaboo you talk about joseph mccarthy and the espionage seminar. one of the reasons we play up is these russian spy trials to prove to the american people about the soviet threat. joseph mccollum -- joseph mccarthy is the creation of harry truman. the result of the red scare created to get the american public to support the truman doctrine and in june 1947, the marshall plan. remember about this diseased tissue? with do save europe, one of the greatest actions. not completely ultra stick, we have our reasons as well but in 1947 we submit the marshall plan. for fourrican gnp years to europe. think of the immense investment. our total foreign aid right now is less than 1% of gnp. towe give 4% of our gnp europe for reconstruction. it fear

truman.applause] >> we will now open the program at the national anthem and god save the queen. ♪ ["god save the queen" playing] ♪ >> friends, i would like to join ask you to join me in prayer. a source of goodness, you have gathered us here so that we might commemorate that march 70 years ago when so winston churchill stood in this place and called upon the citizens of this nation to stand in internal solidarity with our brethren in the british empire and commonwealth. at -- i pray that you were a blessing on the right honorable alan watson, and that all receive your message as you lead us to recall prime ministers -- prime minister churchill's work. -- prime minister churchill's word that. amen. >> please be seated. faculty, staff, students, alumni, trustees, friends, and distinguished guest, the right earn -- right honorable alan watson. that sirven years ago winston churchill stood right this gymnasium -- 70 years ago that sir winston churchill stood right here in this gymnasium. few peop

when winston came over to make the first speech, truman had been in europe, and as one -- truman haded his speeches with victory in europe. that was very different to winston when he tried to get congress to be more sympathetic, and indeed financial support for europe. one said to him, look, britain is broke. germany is destroyed. france is likely to go communist. italy is chaotic. spain is a fascist dictatorship. quite a mountain to climb. remember winston is half american, and he said once, if my father had been an american and not my mother, i would have got here on my own, and he really thought he would. he realized what people are telling him, but he realized that if the americans were not only going to defend europe with the monopoly of the bomb, but actually restore europe, invest in europe and invest in britain and loan britain the money it needed to get itself back on its feet, then the europeans got to something themselves. six months later, the university of zurich, and i was there last month to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the speech. now i'm going to say something -

but truman himself testified -- i think truman and roosevelt talked only two or three times after theguration. and there were always other people in the room. and truman's daughter, margaret, wrote a biography of her father that quoted him as saying they'd never talked about these things. >> thanks for coming to georgia, by the way. appreciate your visit. was there anything on that last trip to warm springs that you found out, any anecdote or little piece of information that surprised you about that last trip? he had developed this warm relationship with the people in warm springs over the years. was there anything different about that -- maybe he was just so much sicker when he came -- >> well, that seems to be the case, that he was so much sicker. his chief secret serviceman, a man named mike reilly -- later had ghost written a them our -- had said when he lifted roosevelt out of the car, of course, roosevelt had always to be lifted out of cars, he, usually he, roosevelt would put a hand on the door or the roof of the car to help with the transfer of his body. and he said that on ar

the truman administration made a decision that they had not thought when truman first came to power that they're going to stand up to and contain the soviet union. the fulton speech, churchill gets a letter from the president with several you come give a talk. and there's a script script in the hand of harry truman. it's a nice college, please, and i'll introduce you. so churchill was there in a heartbeat. that turned out to be part of a plan by truman and developed with churchill in that speech announces the cold war. speemac, anytime said churchill spend in the wilderness office crew? >> oddly enough on the long line from 1931 until 1939 a shorter one from 1945 until 1951 on the rest of the three years or older. it means your party is not empower, it means that you are not holding one of the leading positions in your party and likely to succeed if your party wins. but that was not very long in his life. >> in your book you reprint churchill speeds from 1946, i have now stated the two great changers which menace the homes the homes of the people, war and tierney. what is the tierney par

because the truman administration made a decision that they very much had thought when truman first came to power, that they were going to stand up to and contain the soviet union. and the fulton speech, so churchhill gets a letter from the westminster college in fulton, missouri, and there is a postscript, would you give a talk? there is a postscript in the hand of harry truman. it's a nice little college. please come. i will introduce you. that is a paraphrase. churchhill was there in a heartbeat. that turned out to be part of a plan by truman, then developed with churchill and speech really announces the cold war. >> host: how many times did winston churchill spend in the wilderness throughout his career? >> guest: oddly enough only one loan one from, 1931 until 1939. a shorter one from 1945 until 1951. and then the rest of them were three years or under. the wilderness means two things, really. it means your party is not in power, and it means you're not holding one of the leading positions in your party and likely to succeed if your party wins. well those periods were not very long

one of truman's last official acts as president. ike had just been elected. truman is in his lame-duck phase, but this was an important moment for him. because he loved these documents, too, he knew the value of these documents. and he says to the assembled crowd, if these documents are simply enshrined in these cases, the ideas contained in them will die. that, in order for them to live on, the ideas embodied in them to live on, they must be enshrined "in our hearts and minds." i think in transit, inherently, most americans know this. i think the one million people that file through that rotunda every year know it. they may not express it in those words, but i think they know it, just like adams and jefferson and dolly madison knew it. just like stephen pleasanton knew it, just like abraham lincoln knew it, just like fdr. for 240 years, this is the 240th anniversary, folks, the ideas have been protected and preserved by others. harry truman said to this crowd, that needs to continue to happen with this generation and future generations. that would be us. let

i can only tell you donald trump isn't close to harry truman here. we're getting overworked on this. he's setting a principle. he's going to respond to his critics. no good for him. >> secretary rice, what do you say to that? this is a modern form of communication and president-elect is talking directly and this is the sign of the times? >> well, this is the 2 1st century, and twitter has a medium that communicates directly to millions and millions of americans. and this is about specific personal criticism. a lot of people read this kind of personal criticism and what are they going to do? they'll feel critical of this person as well. this is bullying. this is not using the bully pulpit. this is bullying. >> jeffrey, does dump seem thin skinned to you? going after alec baldwin. he's about the be the most powerful man in the entire world. >> karl rogue note third down years ago about his feeling that the bush white house, the bush '43 white house made a mistake when the critics were going after bush in iraq and bush lied and that they didn't answer i

'm going to say truman because truman, given the situation he was faced with, at the beginning of the cold war, he put in place institutions that were lasting and that were designed to safeguard american interests in the broadest sense which is to say bring in american allies, to create and solidify alliances, to try to ensure that hostility or aggressive tendencies wouldn't necessarily lead to war. he was a great institution builder. his administration was. having said that, there was a lot -- he promulgated the truman doctrine which essentially was an ideological clarion call. george kennin, the great diplomat and father of containment hated the truman doctrine because he thought it would put politicians -- would limit their flexibility. and this is what happened, we talked about the fall of china and how it haunted lyndon johnson and he thought the fall of saigon would destroy him and that was partly the truman doctrine. we're called on to defend freedom wherever it is threatened and that was certainly much more broadly ideological and capacious than it should have been and should

mcarthur meets with truman at wake island. discounts warnings of chinese intervention. take pyongyang, the eighth army in the eighth area. operating in this area over here. finds some chinese volunteers, mcarthur discounts them, launches an attack to be home by christmas right before thanksgiving 1950. at this time. 00,000 chinese attack. u.s. army fights a desperate army here on the river. meanwhile, u.s. marines here at the rz advisory are surrounded by the chinese and again to fight their way to 60 miles down on the coast. it's one of the marines said, it's not retreat, it's attacking in another direction. flocked their ways through the mountains back. u.s. seventh division which had reached the river here, turn around and pull out december 12 through 24, 1950. this is an important moment in history. because there were 100,000 korean refugees that have lived in the north and don't to want stay. and they show up in the port and there are no orders about what to do with it. the commander here, almond, controversial figure but i have to say this for him, almond says wha

harry truman wrote to his daughter --. someday i hope to meet you. when that happens you will need a new nose a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter below. i can only tell you donald trump isn't even close to harry truman here. i think we're just getting overworked on this. what he's setting here is the principle. this is the 21st century. he's going to respond to his critics and good for him. >> do you think this is just a modern form of communication that mr. trump is bypassing the media and talking directly and this is just a sign of the times? >> well this is the 21st century. and twitter as a medium that communicates directly to millions and millions of americans and this is about specific personal criticism. a lot of people read this kind of personal criticism and what are they going to do? they are going to feel critical of that person as well. this is bullying. this is not using the bully pulpit. this is bullying. >> jeff, does donald trump seem thin-skinned to you? going after alec baldwin? i mean he is about to be the mos

so i'm also fighting for the word of harry truman. this debate reminds me of a fight i had in congress a couple of years ago. back then, congress had approved a trillion dollar spending package. oh, man, the elves get busy around christmas time. omnibus spending package is code for you have no idea what's in it. and we looked and poked around in it, and we found that they were cutting the pensions of thousands of missourians who drove trucks for a living. now, we're talking about the people who take a shower after work, not before work. this place is really good at taking care of the people who take a shower before work. we're really good at that. when they repeal a.c.a., they're going to give a big old tax cut to the 1% again. we're going to do that. we're going to throw 22.2 million people off health care. but boy, oh, boy, we're going to take care of that 1%. but we're not so good at taking care of the people that take a shower afterwards. that bill allowed those truck drivers to have their pensions cut. i was the only member of th

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 house or the senate. soledad: now obvio dramatically. obama has never gotten great credit for what he did for the economy. >> i think that is true. most people around the country don't know what the stimulus plan did. it did a lot of things but it was hidden as opposed to roosevelt's recovery plan where he made sure everyone knew what he was doing for the country. politically a president has to be a policy person and politician, he will not be judged as successfully as a politician as he was getting bills passed. soledad: let's talk things he said he was going to do. close gitmo. >> couldn't do it. >> he could have done it, but he would have had to get congress to agree with that. and that cano happen. he did however -- he knocked down prisoners in gitmo from several hundreds to 60,

my father was more of an fdr democrat, but his favorite president was truman.e got considerably more conservative as he got older. he was a big hundred and the first amendment issue, i think, tended to make him more conservative. my mother remains a kind of fdr democrat, i would say. host: brothers and sisters? guest: i grew up with three sisters. i now have a sister who is a court reporter in santa fe, new mexico. was the news director of a radio station for in jackson, wyoming, so the family has kind of moved to the west. i partly live in california. host: how much of a pacifist are you? guest: i would not describe myself as a pacifist. i think i probably would call myself more of a realist, i think that u.s. power should be used fairly abstemious ly to protect the country. i think, very often, we get our attemptcrossed and we to use military power in ways that it is not effective. i would not call myself a pacifist. became, covering the balkan wars, and interventionist when it came to bosnia. seizeght that sees -- should be lifted. this was a critical moment

can anyone tell me what truman would have deemed it in the national -- and place person.st in the cold war with the soviet union. we're battling for the hearts and minds. this is a way of signaling to the rest of the world our humanitarian commitment. any other reason why we should truly press.÷ú jooir post war economic at the end of the war, there were an estimated 10e million people left homeless and in some cases stateless, 5th in europe alone. truman wanted to akwom date a greater share, in order to assist your post recovery as was cut out. financial aid was not enough. theunited states had a world law by grags. and yet coop resisted, even fully aware of the horrors of the nazi death camp. congress resisted. can anyone tell me why swoufb so essential at this time. . well bear in mind at this moment sometimes, everything is still in myplace. so admitting people outside of the national or yes or nos, quote t. as highly expected. it existed on capitol hill. when this persons act finally passed, it passed three years after the war and hadzv excess. >> even though presiden

in 1946 the truman administration changed the discharge forms to keep troop levels to fall to danger lows. and so to pursue its global ambitions from 1945 on wards, the united states needed the government that could sustain the legitimacy that it had earned in wartime. that government was capable of projecting american power across the world. but only to the extent that it fostered a personal sense of national mission among its citizenry that proved fractious in the long run. over decades it only become for difficult to agree on what national citizenship demands and who can claim it. the stronger the united states grew, the less it's citizens could agree on the ben fish yefs or the purposes of the powerful government they had created. the crisis of legitimacy in which we live today has been a long time in the making. thank you. [ applause ] >>> i'm short. hi, everybody, i'm very grateful that you stayed on saturday afternoon. as i'm watching all of these phenomenal posters in jim's powerpoint, i can't help but give a shout out to the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and mus

harry truman can get some credit for that. hoover lived long enough that people could see that he was not the cause of the depression, he was not malevolent and making this happening -- happen. measurehe regained some of respect from the american people, and as time goes by, we can perhaps be more detached weighit and way things -- things more adequately. >> time for one more question. earlier thatned hoover supported the treaty of her site and league of nations. -- heole do you think the thought the league of nations might have had in place of relief organizations, if any? mr. nash: i don't know about the relief aspect. he did not like the treaty of versailles in a lot of ways much and yet he felt that the necessary thing to accomplish was to get europe back on its feet economically. he believed -- i don't think he had the confidence in collective security and so forth, but that was built into the mechanism of peace, so he said if we can get them thinking about restoring order, restoring the economy, peacemaking, and just hav

guest: boy, god bless my father, may he rest in peace, i'm going to say truman, because truman, givenhe situation he was faced with at the beginning of the cold war, he put in place institutions that were lasting and that were designed to safeguard american interests in the broadest sense, which is to say, to bring in american to create and solidify alliances, to try and ensure that hostility or aggressive tendencies would not necessarily lead to war. he was a great institution builder. his administration was. having said that, he promulgated the truman doctrine, which essentially was an ideological clarion call.

president truman behaved differently toward hoover and hoover was very grateful that he was given an opportunity to be influential again. hoover did those missions. he did not administer relief but he did important work for truman and surveying the need and getting different countries to ship food to the proper region to meet the need. hoover had some misgivings about the marshall plan, but he publicly endorsed it. i think his concern, as i understand it, was that it seemed to him to open-ended. that the europeans might take the aid and become dependents of the united states. he always emphasized in this kind of humanitarian work that people organize themselves. for example, in russia, i think the russians would have liked for him to state later, but he said no, the russians can feed themselves. he would not make himself a permanent fixture of the scene. he believed recipient nations should do whatever they could. the belgians i think he was impressed by because every time he was there, the communities work together. it was a divided country politically between the socialist, the lib

harry truman left is one of the most unpopular politicians 20 years later now considered one of the great presidents. time will tell but historically significant figure. >> how old do think this election cycle has affected america? >> obviously mr. trump is not anyone like we had an of office. everybody can see their elected office before or general. said he is the different types of president with a different type of background is hard to say. i wrote about presidential candidates and their impact that like mr. obama because the first woman to be the nominee it is historic but it is an open question that could lead into the era of america that is good or bad with her campaign was not successful to allow trump to come into office but did she change the democratic party? that is hard to say. looking under senator sanders the cannot be told immediately they need some time to get some perspective and as of losing presidential candidate at the time with complete disasters now 50 years later we see barry goldwater transform the republican party so will take a few decades before we know exactly

by september 1945, she had raised her boys against harry truman. his polling numbers were in the toilet. let's put eleanor on the delegation, get her out of the country, and we can have franklin's widow going to the first meeting of the general assembly. when he first called her, she said no. her secretary looked at her and said, are you crazy? you have met all the leaders of the world. you are the only head of state who has actually traveled to conflict zones. on aost your hearing military aircraft. you spent six weeks in the pacific. london, youmbing of were in london for five days and where you doing, not staying with the king and queen but staying in the bomb shelters in the metro tubes. ,ou have some experience of war not to mention your experience in the battleground in postwar france right as the war came to an end. did not know what to do with her so they put her on committee three. eleanor says, thank you so much. have the material sent to my state room rather than saying, why don't i get to pick? know, is three, as you the committee for s

i think you're right with truman.ever fdr people lived with fdr for 12 years as their president. weren't ready for anyone else to be president and truman says pray for me as if he couldn't do the job. he turned out to be a really good president. at the beginning that transition was hard just as it was for lbj. he didn't have the voice of the new england establishment. he thought they would look down on him because he wasn't. he turned out to do more on civil rights and great society that jfk ever could have done. go back to what we were saying before about the press and the relationship. the best president, the ones i've studied and lived with the most, had a good relationship with the press. they understood they will fight. they understood they'll have to take criticism. if you can deal with the president like teddy roosevelt could, every day when he had the barber's hour, he would have himself shaved in the middle of the day, press could ask questions. odd thing as he would move around in the chair but at the end of

remember harry truman left office as one of those in america and then 20 years later he was considered one of our great presidents, so time will tell what the legacy is that obviously has a historically significant figure and we will see how that goes. >> host: date for >> how do you think it has affected american? >> mr. trump is unlike anybody we've had in the white house, every president is either held office before or they have been a general in our army and he has been neither so he is a different kind of background it is hard to say what is good to have been. i wrote about the candidates and their impact impact so the quess what will the legacy be. because she i she's the first wo be the nominee and already historically significant the question is what did the campaign do. if she needs to the era that is either good or bad people will say that is not important or the campaign was not successful but did she change the democratic party that would have been the last. they love to move to the last. but again these things can be told. they need time to give some perspective. barry gol

were huge divisions that afforded ali unusual opportunities to symbolize our struggles, but harry truman had it right when he said men make history and not the other way around. for, as lauren hill so nicely put it, consequence is no coincidence. befitting his stature as the goat, muhammad ali never shied away from a fight. he fought not the biggest and baddest of his day inside the ropes, but outside the ring he also went toe to toe with an array of critics, endless succession of societal norms, the architect of a vial, immoral war, the u.s. government, he his thought, ultimately to betterment, the limitations of father time. strictly speaking, fighting is what he did. he broadened that definition by sharing his struggles with us and by viewing our struggles as his. so it was that at various times he accepted and led battles on , inlf of of his race support of his generation, in defense of his religious beliefs , and ultimately, in spite of his disease. i happen to have been overseas working in norway this past week when my buddy matt called. told me the champ have been taken to the hos

truman said he was going to do it but he didn't and it was eisenhower fired every colonel who didn't integrate. folks don't know blood plasma was segregated, white and white, christian and hebrew during world war ii and in 1958 issues executive order to integrate blood clots and the head of the red cross, one of his great military buddies former general writes you can't do this, ike said, they won't get any blood, done. [laughter] >> leadership, okay. >> well, one of the things i found so moving about eleanor roosevelt's autobiography is she did a lot of autobiography and it's so frack. it's almost impossible to believe that it published in the late 40's, books in the 50's that she was as honest as she was about her relationship with franklin. her view of franklin. it's on the last page of the book. her conclusion about what kind of wife he might have liked and what she was able to do for him and the sentence that has always lived in my mind, for years, at the end of your book, i was one of those who served his purposes and what do you think, it seems both a happy thing and with sadd

the democratic caucus is smaller than any time since truman. in this last election, we had a 20 year low in the presidential turnout. we got a lot of rebuilding to do. >> tuesday night at 8:00, president barack obama and japanese prime minister shinzo abe visit the american military base at pearl harbor. he is the first japanese leader to visit the site. wednesday night at a dock, a review of house and senate hearings from 2016 on topics including the flint, michigan water crisis and the wells fargo on authorized account scandal. >> seriously. you found out that one of your divisions had created 2 million fake accounts, had fired forsands of employees improper behavior, and had cheated thousands of euro customers, and you didn't even once consider firing her ahead of her retirement? 8:00 p.m.y at eastern, we were member the political figures who passed away in 2016, including former first lady nancy reagan and supreme court justice antonin scalia a. friday night at 8:00, our in memoriam program continues with shimon peres, moment ali -- mohamme

and if you want me not to support us, but truman says no, no, don't resign. follow the convictions said the u.s. support the entire package. but it's supposed to be united with economic and social rights with civil and political rights with the compromise she agreed to it that i regret. i'm sure she regretted in the u.s. has to this day not even have one conversation about economic and social rights. jimmy carter brought up the universal declaration of human rights during his administration . it has not ratified. as george herbert walker bush, who after the soviet union collapsed to support the civil and political causes that the university declaration of human rights. for most of the world supports both covenants, but we don't. there is a group that is fighting to get economic and social rights positive on the agenda and if hillary is elected, they will try to have hillary be the one to ratify the economic and social rights covenants. >> the unfinished work of eleanor roosevelt, i think at that moment we should stop and open it to questions from the audience

so what happened between made out and truman and kevin and trump?a lot of what happened is that democrats forgot how to talk to the working class, which joe biden can do and bernie sanders can do, but obama for god. it was amazing that a quarter of old who voted for obama switched to trump. that is a crazy statistic. this was an amazing thing. david pyle, the genius behind the obama win, you know, had a piece the other day explaining what happened with hillary and one of his bullet points was it turned out the voters really did want change. [laughter] >> said the architect of the change campaign. >> so those voters they really did want it. thank you for your question, sir. appreciate it. good evening, go ahead. >> one of your colleagues in "the new york times," david brook's had an article last week in the last sentence of this article was that he expected within a year it is likely that trump would either have resigned or been impeached. would you agree? >> well, you can't absorb the craziness of what is happening asked enough for another crazy thi

brands on the contentious relationship between president truman and general macarthur. at nine, stuart stevens recalls his time serving you under seven different presidents. on "after words" at 10 p.m. eastern, georgetown university philosophy professor jason brennan weighs many on flaws in democratic systems. and we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup at 11 with the 37th annual american book awards. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> 1776 was not a great leap forward for africans, nor was it a great leap forward for the indigenous population. it was for many europeans, that is to be sure. but europeans, as we well know, do not comprise the entirety of humanity. and i think what it set in motion is what, actually, we're seeing in 2016. that is to say, with 1776 you had the progressive expropriation of land from the indigenous population, and then that land was parceled out often times

truman could not have found a less sympathetic group of defendants at the time. you hear so much from the era were people who were erroneously believed to have communists were unfairly targeted. these 11 were just communists, very proud and public members, leaders of the communist party. they pretty much fit the stereotype the average american had to achieve. one of the defendants was eugene dennis suez the leader of the communist party u.s.a. and he'd been charged with sedition multiple times. he'd gone into hiding. he changed his name, lived in the soviet union twice and traveled the world that the soviets behest in foreign countries. they had to leave their son in the country because the russian russian government said he only speaks russian and you will seem too suspicious to be taken back to america. like i said, not an extremely sympathetic group of folks at that time and perhaps that is why the incident has been forgot the others were remembered so well. the justice department had no actual evidence that these people plotting to overthrow the american gove