why would conrad truman want to kill his wife?ances, i'd say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, that's where we got murder. >> reporter: at the same time johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the state's own medical examiner couldn't say whether heidy's death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical examiner carries a lot of weight. >> reporter: so johnson and wallace showed the m.e. a 96-page power point presentation of all their evidence including those measurements, hoping something would sway him. the presentation worked. the medical examiner changed his ruling to homicide. it sounds like one of the things that got the medical examiner to move from inconclusive to homicide was the measurements of the crime scene suggested that her body was too far from where mr. truman said she'd been shot. >> exactly. >> reporter: so after a ten-month investigation

so, truman's attitude changes completely. he calls in general marshall, and he says marshall, you know, we came here with the intention of getting the soviets to live up to their promise to invade to come into the war. can we get them to back off that now that we have the atomic bomb? we don't need them. ,n fact, we don't want them because we don't want them to participate in the occupation of japan. had, at yalta stalin promised roosevelt that within three months of germany's surrender he would come into the war against japan. you know, there was a nonaggression pact between the japanese and the russians. neither of them needed a two -front war, so they had this nonaggression pact, but stalin wanted piece of action -- of the action in japan after the war, and remember there was as 1905 war, which the japanese won, and they took a lot of territory from the soviets, and stalin certainly wanted that back. -- germanyonths surrenders on? may 8. mr. sherwin: may 8, and one -- y, june, july, august 8 three months? -- why three mont

he said he wished margaret truman was a man so harry truman could understand what he went through in losing his son. he kept the letter in his desk drawer. it is part of the exhibit. when you see the original letter and hear the language of the letter and see harry truman didn't dismiss that, didn't think it was unimportant and kept as reminder of the responsibility of his office, that is overwhelming. there is some inspiring recross. it is great to see original artifacts when you can. my concern is really about two things, how much money we spend on promoting presidential legacy and not on getting records out and national archives takes responsibility for a partisan exhibit and events. host: tom, berkeley springs, west virginia. line for republicans. go ahead. caller: i have a question. the money that people donate to build these libraries and the money they donate to the endowments for the maintenance of them, are those contributions tax deductible? guest: they are. tax deductible to the private foundations, as well as for the endowment and the building of the library. host: do we

it is what truman called an ironically the campaign of truth . the thinking here is if we just tell our story to the world, tell the story about communist chicanery to the world, they .ill take our side in other words, speaking at, not listening to and productively, not terribly effective. a game chance happens in 1953 along with stalin's death that same year. a shift in american resources devoted to public diplomacy and different targets for them. on your lower left, that is christian visiting india in december 1955. this, too, was part of a big pr tour. the other pictures i found in the photo archives, the bookmobile and cambodia to your u.s. library and by cultural center in baghdad on the lower right, and those of us will notese of humor that those who have come to washington for training are being met by vice president richard nixon at the time. through the 1950's, the global south, what we will soon be calling the third world, proved its relevance on exactly these .inds of claims kind ofave a burgeoning, a kind of coalescence of activity in

truman wanted a stick of butter and mrs. nesbitt refused to give it to her.which is interesting, so they had a few tussles before that but i think that was the final blow. she was gone a short time after that that's a great question because after that alonzo feels was a long time butler became maÎtre d' and another guy was maÎtre d' and field starts to get prominence in the white house and eventually he becomes maÎtre d' later. that was a pivotal event over a stick of butter. at the first lady want something she should get a but that doesn't always happen. >> the position of the chief executive chef, these tenured appointments or do they carry over from administration to administration? >> like everyone else they serve at the pleasure of the president. so typically the white house kitchen if there's going to be changes usually the chief of the executive chef and maybe the pastry chef. when a president comes in they can decide who to staff the kitchen. most presidents decide to carry over the previous cook but they might bring an additional cook to make meals

luce made reference to president truman and what he did with nato and uniting our world. that was at a time when democrats were really democrats. today we don't have that unity that we did back in the 1950's. that is why i think we have problems is that society has changed. our values have changed. and we just need to go back to that time. president truman was criticized a lot for dropping the h bomb but at that time what were we going to do? that is what we have to do. we have to go back to the way democrats and republicans were back at post-world war ii time. guest: an interesting question. you need to remember what republicans were like in the 1940's. if you were to pick an era of republicans that actually agreed with what a lot of trump stood for it would be van denburg and taft from ohio who were very much against american involvement in the world neo neoisolationists and opposed to truman's plan, nato, u.n. all the things that we now associate as a bipartisan thing. so, i don't really know what to think when people say democrats are not democrats or republicans are

a president truman would see that. like the marshall plan, the paris agreement recognized that in the modern world, there is no over there anymore. today over there is here. and here is over there. and our president just fundamentally doesn't understand it. he claimed that withdrawing from the paris agreement would, quote, put america first. in fact, this move threatens to put america last. last in innovation, last in clean energy, last in science, last in our moral responsibility to hand the next generation a safe and stable planet. that is why states and cities all across the country are making their own commitments to honor the paris agreement. now it's just us, nicarauga, and syria on the other side. and that's why towns and cities and states all across the country are scrambling to fill the void of leadership left by the administration, to show the rest of the world that we're serious too. in my home state of colorado, we know that we can protect our economy and our climate, that we can grow our economy and protec

aside from harry truman and john adams how many other presidents have you interviewed?laughter] well there may not be many books in president trump library but the name and this big letters. but that leads me to second question as historian, what specific steps could andrew jackson have taken to prevent the civil war? [applause] [laughter] >> we can go all nights -- >> if we're not going to stick on question withs on that. i don't have anymore. >> you could be interviewing douglas tonight. [laughter] >> oh, my -- oh, my -- [laughter] can you believe it? [laughter] really it's -- it's wow. i'm, i want to restore our recognition of who we are and why we are the way we are, and what we stand for. and i -- i think more and more that as important as grade school, high school, college, university, advance degrees afl that is an essential that maybe is as important as anybody is how we're brought up as home. how were we raised to behave about telling the truth, for example? for treating people with kindness. tolerance, empathy and hard work. i grew up in pitts burg, pennsylvan

and that man you see is harry truman. this photograph we are looking at is actually at the 1945 inaugural. if you look closely at it, fdr is really not in good health at this point. in fact, he dies three-month after this photograph is taken -- he dies three months after this photograph is taken in 1945 and is succeeded by harry truman who is standing to the left in the photograph. shortly after the inaugural, fdr departed on a 75 mile journey to yalt whicha was the final of the great conferences he attended, with the big 3 -- talent, churchill, roosevelt -- stalin, churchill, and roosevelt. after that, fdr returns to the united states and appears before congress in march of 1945, reporting on what he had done at the conference. what is a story about this speech to a joint session of congress is that roosevelt delivered the speech from a seated position. and he did that because he was exhausted and suffering from poor health. and in the course of that speech , he directly in knowledges his disability -- directly acknowled

truman high school -- truman community college, north side graduate. they have a north side graduate who is going on to become an aclum us in next two years at northwestern university. he always wanted to go big ten. but because of the chicago star scholarship, which is free. have i mentioned free yet? it's free, because of the partnership of star plus, he's going on to northwestern, graduate debt free. i'd love to have a state budget and united states government backing us up. but that's how we're going to do it. we'll increase the quality of our students and more importantly, for the students that don't go on to northwestern, they are not just coming out with an associates degree, they are coming out with a degree that was designed by the industry so they know the credentials, and they are not just getting a job, but if they are in health care they are getting a job as a career that leads them to the middle class. key difference. you're in health care, you want to be a nurse. we got a way to do it. second, you want to bounce yourself up as a higher g

either from presidential library or their accompanying foundation from the franklin roosevelt, harry truman, jimmy carter, george h.w. bush and bill clinton library, again, the library or the foundation. we also have former united states senator and his wife paul kirk here tonight and former embassadors alan solomon, nicklaus burns and several members of the new england course. join me in welcoming them for all their troubles. [applause] >> so after the first hour of dialogue, there will be a chance for question and there are microphones on either aisle as you get up and ask those. if you don't want to get up or in the other room or if you're streaming, you can also just tweet us at jfklibrary. we will do the best to answer as many as we can. after the event, agreed to sign books. you have them, great, if not the bookstore has them. if you're interested in having a book signed, go out at the end, my left, your right. if you already have that are not interesting in line go out my right, your left just to help the traffic flow to go to go smoothly for that. if you haven't read this yet, this

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, even further back, since the truman administration. and the president has signed more bills than any time since the truman administration. so, i do not think it is getting in the way of things. it may not be reported. sadly, it is fun to talk about director comey and all of these other things, but what is not getting coverage is what we are getting done. and we are continuing to get things done, but i support the investigations, and i think they need to work through to their conclusion and we will see where it goes from there. mr. wong: you guys passed the health care bill in your chamber, the house. it is now over at the senate. gop leaders on that side would like to see health care tackled before the july for recess. 4 recess. do you think that is possible? mr. stivers: i think artificial timelines are a problem. we found that out in the house. i don't think we should set artificial timelines. i think we should work on issues until we get a consensus, or in this case a majority because we need 50 votes plus the vice president to brea

trust me truman community college never had a northside graduate. they have a northside graduate who's now going onto become an alumnist. because of the chicago star scholarship, which is free -- have i mentioned free yet? it's free. and now because of the partnership of star plus, he's going onto northwestern to graduate debt free. that's how we're going to do it, and we're going to increase the quality of our students. and more importantly for the students who don't belong to northwestern, they are not just coming out with an associates degree. they're coming out with a degree that was designed by the industry, so they know the credentials. and they're not just getting a job, but if they're in health care, they get a job that's leading them to the middle class. key difference. you're in health care, you want to be a nurse, we got a way to do it. second, you want to bounce yourself up in a higher grade as a nurse, we have an educational system. so we're more than just a job. we're a career that helps you get up that economic ladder. >> with the new

when president truman signed the nato treaty 70 years ago, he called the alliance, and quote, a long step toward permanent peace in the whole world. nato has guaranteed the security of the american people and our allies for decades. and now -- some people don't remember what those decades were like, fighting the threat of communism. article 5, the collective defense provision, is the core of that security guarantee. article 5, as the gentlelady just mentioned, was invoked only once. when america's allies joined in the fight against al qaeda after the september 11 terrorist attacks on our country. i, like many of my colleagues, have traveled to afghanistan and raqqa and other places and seen that our nato partners have shed blood in the name of article 5 and our common fight against terrorism. our commitment to article 5 is a commitment to brave men and women across the world who risk and give their lives for the nato alliance. previous administrations, both democratic and republican, have strongly and unambiguously stood by nato and article 5. i was very sad, i'll be very honest with

president truman felt that eleanor roosevelt would be the theect person to represent united states athe organizing s.eting of united nation none of the men were too happy to have her as a member of the delegation. they were trying to find a spot for her to do the least damage, because as she said, they thought she didn't have the qualifications to be a good delegate. they put her on a committee called committee three, which was going to work on more social kinds of programs. that would end up being the most important committee they had at the united nations, because her proudest achievements was the universal declaration of human rights. in the 30 articles are in that all the, it outlines rights every human being on this planet should have. in order to achieve world peace. she always felt that was the one thing she accomplished that made everything she did prior to that worthwhile. on the second floor of mrs. roosevelt's home and we are now entering her bedroom. and this was a room she probably didn't use it a lot during the year, because she was traveling. when she was first lady, sh

it was truman. by the way, missouri today -- i should mention that bank they robbed owned by union militiamen, it existed before the civil war. it was one of those banks that was owned by leading aid checksts who cut cuttings game and lost control of the bank. the banks, that is where the money is, and yet they were also political targets. very shrewd people. robbed to james trains that is because he understood the national bank act. the creation of the greenback and giving national charters, they were required by law to keep reserve deposits in new york. so, all your long, they are shipping cash to new york banks and when the harvest happens, they ship cash back so everybody cash for the transactions of the harvest, etc. there's a seasonal flow of cash. it's going by express car. they usually did not rob passengers. they robbed trains going the right direction. it was flowing south at a time when they were flowing south for the cotton harvest. these are not rubes finding some easy excuse. -- i coul

trust me, truman community college never had a north side graduate.they have a north side graduate who is now going on to become an alumnus the next two years at northwestern university. he always wanted to go big team, couldn't afford, but because of chicago star scholarship, which is free, have i mentioned free yet, is free, not because of the partnership with the star plus he's going to northwestern and basically graduate debt-free. i'm only a city. i would love to the state budget and the united states government backing this up. that's how we're going to do it and we will increase the quality of our students and, more important, for the students that don't going to northwestern they are not just coming out with an associates degree. they are coming out with a degree that was designed by the industry, so they know the credentials, and they are not just getting a job but if they're in healthcare they're getting a job that's a career that leads them to the middle class. key difference. you're in healthcare, you want to be a nurse, we've got a way to

but nobody would have said that this is harry truman's mode of being all the time.seen as an authentic moment of outrage and not a kind of permanent presidential style. >> woodruff: matt dowd is there a level of dignity that americans expect from a president? i mean is there a defined or undefined line over which presidents shouldn't go? >> well, the americans expect our president to be human beings. and as imhe perfect as all of us are they expect us to make mistakes and all that. but they like if you make a mistake then awe poll giez or then you correct that behavior and said you have learned, are you going to do better. you are going to achieve better. will you serve a higher purpose in that. let's keep in mind that donald trump didn't win because of himself, he won in spite of himself. a quarter of his voters voted for donald trump believing he was not presidential and did not have the temperment but they had hope that he would grow into the office and become more presidential. that does not seem to have happened, and i don't think it will happen for a 71 year o

members of their staff who in a most unusual way proved that they had learned the lessons, harriet truman george marshall offered a helping hand it to us, the people that had been devastated at the end of theer nazi era and this again, in spite of the-- also which, they helped a hoping hint to thehe germans because they thought one would have to prevent at all costs the terrible events unfolded after the first world war two etiquette and this is why we stood fast through all of these decades have let me tell you, these were not always easy times because there were many instances when people were deeply afraid. i would like to remind you of the deployment of the-- [inaudible] >> part of this chapter of our history is also the fact that at address this to you secretary, as american soldiers, far away from their hometown, their home region, far away from their families in many instances stood up for our freedom and i know for a lot of people over here it seems that they had to go to some faraway place and it was very much a national kind off cooperation together with the representatives. the

and even those who do not have the benefit of a college education like harry truman, he read history all their lives. and realize that it is essential to the role of a leader, whether it is the presidency or leadership of any kind. cause and effect. history matters. tv.org forgo to book the complete weekend schedule. ♪ journal live everyday with the news and policy issues that impact you. coming up sunday morning, newt gingrich talks about his new book "understanding trump." and humane society president and ceo wayne discusses his book "the humane economy." also financial times columnist on his book "the retreat of western liberalism." be sure to watch c-span's "watch it to journal" -- "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. on sunday and join the discussion. timrrow on "newsmakers," walz will look at overhaul of the veterans affairs department and the accountability at which the house passed earlier this week. he serves as regular member on the veterans affairs committee. a reporterg him is from politico. 10:00 and 6:00at on c-span. barack is completely presented to his story and tha

he went to truman community college with a b average, for free. maintained his b average, and now he's going to northwestern university with a scholarship for his education. he will come out with a degree in neuroscience from northwestern university and basically, basically have no college debt. put that in your pipe and smoke it. that's our educational plan in a nutshell in chicago. go from kindergarten, 12th grade to pre-k to college model. finally what we embarked upon is what was just described, let me give a full description of it, which is today if you look at college acceptance and community college acceptance and the armed forces, and i want to get back to the armed forces, i forgot about it, chicago has 65% of our kids already going to college or community college. they are taking college credits in high school. they got international baccalaureate, a.p. or dual credit-dual enrollment. we match the united states in both those categories even while our population is different than than the overall united states demographics. what we want t

since the truman administration. i don't think it is getting in the way of thanks current it may not be reported. sadly, it is spun to talk about director comey and all these other things, the what is not getting coverage is what we are getting done and we continue to get things done. i support the investigation and i think they need to work through their conclusion and we will see where it goes from there. >> you guys pass the health care bill. gop leaders on that side would like to see health care tackled and voted on before the july 4 recess. do you think that's possible? >> i think artificial timelines are problem. i don't think we should set timeline spirit i think we should work on issues and to get a consensus or in this case, a votesty because he 50 with the vice president to break or 51 votes without the vice president. i don't like artificial timelines, but i'm not going to micromanage the senate. let them do their job. we are focused on tax reform and moving things forward and we will continue to do that.

truman scholarship foundation. the clerk: mr. deutch of florida. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until approximately 4:30 p.m.

truman goes, what am i going to do now, it's with marshall. general marshall is known as the finest diplomat who ever served in uniform. why did he go to china and try to do this impossible task of bringing the nationalists and the communists together to form the 1st united front. someone should have asked him. when truman said, marshall, i need you to go, he went. he did the best he could. you stay there from november of 1945 to january of 1947. he is attempting to find a way to get the congress -- the communists and nationalists together. he will send back and there are 9 u.s. officers sent to nine king -- nanking to build the division. that mission falls apart. it never happens. the other thing that marshall was trying to do was to get a cease-fire between the communists and the nationalists. we are 4 million japanese home, we are trying to give the nationalists from fighting the communist. a little organization called the executive headquarters, they had one nationalists officer, when communist officer and one american officer. they would

is laid the foundation for the truman administration and the entire postwar world. please welcome joseph lelyveld. [applause] >> thank you very much. i have heard some very good talks here today. i don't know if you will end on a high note. it is nice to be back here. i spend perhaps not as much time as a conscientious biographer should spend in the archives over here but once i learned how to use franklin, the search engine on the website, i took some shortcuts. i never came up with a satisfactory answer to the question of how i got interested in roosevelt in the first place and why i was writing about him. i was mainly a foreign correspondent, overall editor and i have not been that drawn to american politics so when people ask me that question as they often do, the flippant answer was it is the right exit on the throughway. i have a house on the other side of the river. i could get here in 25 minutes door to door. when i tried that no one understood what i was saying. i gave up on it. the awkward truth is i couldn't and cannot today remember exactly what drew me

and even though those who didn't have the benefit of a college education like harry truman read history all their lives and realized it is essential to the role of a leader.

truman says no. warned by zhou eniai, remember him from the talks with marshall -- they send a message through him not to go through the 38th parallel. historians are still fighting about that. would the chinese come anyway across the 38th parallel. the answer is probably. we knew zhou eniai and he knew us. we will restart the advisory mission to chiang kai shek's army in may of 1951 in the middle of the korean war and it will continue through 1979. i think i have been too long but it is a long story. >> three or four questions and then the mind meeting with people one on one? >> no problem. sir? >> [inaudible] >> it was in 1818 when the marines sorted out a dispute between the chinese and some chinese merchants. 1900 is the best day. i didn't put too many slides for that. there was a crazy american from massachusetts who built the ever victoria's army and they will fight the tai pings in 1859 and he will be killed and replaced by a british engineer captain by the name of gordon. charles gordon. the

so, you can have people like sherry truman. -- you connect people like harry truman who was in the war as an artillery officer. the industrial revolution changed the calculus quite a bit. they changed the technologies that are he brought women out of the home where women were especially good. in world war i, there was only one technology that the united states had an edge in over its rivals. unlike today, the united states was no arsenal for democracy, let me tell you. food, blood, and bone men to france to fight in world war i and other parts of the globe, but primarily on the western food, front because thed not have the facilities to make guns and planes and pinks and tanks,ucks -- planes, and even trucks. the one good thing i think it was towed medication. this is a world war -- one good thing the united states did well was telecommunication. this is a world war i poster. the telephone had been invented in the area alexander graham bell. he was an immigrant. he came from scotland and invented the telephone over here. it was superior at this time. first of all, the telegraph, imagin

she's the head of the truman scholarship award and the national democratic institute and contributes to our national life and dialogue in remarkable ways and is a tireless advocate for america around the world. thank you, madam secretary, for joining us. we're going to talk broadly about six different themes. i can't think of one we left out, but we're doing a pretty quick survey of areas of challenge in the world for us. how our role in the world helps the average american, the unite of multilateralism. the need to promote human rights and democracy at the same time that we advocate for a national security and economic interests. the commences of president trump's proposed budget cuts and the importance of maintaining a bipartisan foreign policy consens consensus. we're going to take a quick romp through north korea, russia, terrorism and nato. >> i'm delighted to be here with this great audience but especially with you. you are exactly what a senator should be in terms of delving into the most difficult subjects. >> if i might just start, in washington we talk a lot inside the comm

she is today as you know, a professor at the school of foreign service at georgetown, a head of the truman scholarship board and the national democratic institute and contributes to our national life and our dialogue and remarkable ways and is a tireless advocate for america. around the world, thank you, madam secretary for joining us. we're going to talk broadly about six different themes. i can't think of one we left out but we're doing a pretty quick survey of areas of challenge and difficulty in the world for us. maintaining u.s. international engagement and how do we uphold the liberal rules based on the international order. >> the utility of multilateralism. a word i now you have opinions about. a need to promote human rights and democracy. the consequences of president trump's proposed bucket cuts and the importance of maintaining a bipartisan foreign policy consensus. and to imlum nate those wur going to take a quick romp throughing north korea, china, russia, terrorism and nato. ready for some fun? >> i'm delighted to be here with this great audience. but especially with you, beca

who less than the usual way prove they have learned the lessons of history like george marshall or trumanoffer a helping hand the people were devastated at the end of the nazi era. so again from auschwitz they offered a helping hand because they thought at all cost the roads were too would happen again. so let me tell you these were not always easy times there were many instances where people were afraid and i would like to remind you of the deployment in 1983 and the fact of american soldiers far away from their home town and region and families stood up for our freedoms. i know that a lot of people over here and it was very much representative of the germans in this way they could guarantee peace and freedom for us and because of the contribution could be gained peace and freedom throughout zero germany so from time to time i feel there are a number of people in my own country though forget too easily purport of the greatest philosophers of our time once said the remembrance of the heart part of that is remembering the great contribution and they're also like to remind you of the taxpay

including john kennedy and even those who do not have the benefit of a college education like harry truman read history all their lives. they realized it is essential to the role of a leader, whether it is the presidency or leadership of any kind. cause and effect. history matters. announcer: good to go to the.org for the complete weekend schedule. booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. announcer: mayor mitch landrieu gave a speech about race at the center for american progress. this is just over an hour.