we begin with the uss harry truman. >> in 1913, harry truman was a young missouri farmer, experiencing some business difficulties as he did from time to time. but as always, he did not give up easily. he wrote to his sweetheart and future wife bess these words. harry truman was a man of his word. it took 85 years but on july 25, 1998, harry truman's ship has come in. [applause] president clinton: of course, president truman's home town of independence, missouri was not exactly a center of naval operations. coming from the state just south of missouri, we are completely landlocked, and harry truman was an army man. but in 1944, he spoke at the christening of the battleship missouri, on whose decks japan surrendered a year later. he felt an affection for the ship, and as president came to rely, as all presidents to, on the world's greatest navy. the american people still feel a strong affection for harry truman. he seemed to some an ordinary man, but he became an extraordinary president. he represented the best in us and he gave us the best in himself. he never failed to live up to the w

harry truman was an army man. but 1944, as a united states senator mahe's poke at the christening of the battleship missouri. japan surrendered a year later. lifelong affection for , asship and came to rely on all presidents do, on the world cost greatest navy. the american people still feel a strong affection for harry truman. she seemed to some an ordinary man, but he became an ordinary president. -- extraordinary president. he represented the best in us and he gave us the best in himself. he never failed to live up to the word of his fellow missourian mark twain, who he kept on his desk at the oval office, always do right. this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. 50 years ago, when harry truman became our president, america faced a mountain of crises. europe lay shattered. a cold war bred danger around the world. terrible new weapons made every false step of potential catastrophe. and angry voices were being raised at home by americans against other americans. at such a time and after the rigors of

okay, so truman and the soviets. truman becomes president on april 12th, 1945. he says to reporters, guy, i feel like the moon, the stars and the sun have fallen on my head. poor harry truman. he saw roosevelt once more or less for a photo op. he has been a senator during the 1930s but focused completely on domestic issues. he was head of the truman committee which was a committee designed to prevent waste in war. production activities. and he does that very well. and that's one of the reasons he's chosen to be roosevelt's president when roosevelt runs for the fourth, for his fourth, fourth term. but he knows absolutely nothing about foreign policy. so basically all of his information is inherited from roosevelt's advisers. but he does have views. he has strong views about the soviet union. this is the senator who said when reporters asked him after the germans attacks the soviet union, well, what do you think about that. and he said, well, if the germans are winning, we should help the soviets. if the soviets are winning, we should help the germans. this of cou

truman said, why is that? he said, if you appoint him secretary of state, in about two or three months, people will start saying that general marshall would make a better president than you are. and he said, general marshall would make a better president than i am. but i'm the president and i want the best possible people around me. now, that's somebody who knows who he is. he's not -- he's not in -- bedazzled by the fact or envious or jealous by the fact that eisenhower and marshall and all these other people are taller than he is and handsomer. no, not at all. he had one of the best cabinets we have ever had. >> easily. >> as did washington. >> yep. >> one of the luckiest breaks in our whole story is george washington was there when he was there at the beginning. >> no doubt. [ applause ] >> never forget, please, george washington stepped down after two terms because he didn't believe someone should stay beyond that but he was commander in chief not just for the eight years he was president. he was also the

because of truman's inning norrans about the atomic weapon, truman felt that it was really important that vice president be included in national security decisions. so truman pushed for -- i think it was in 1947 -- national security act which made the vice president a statutory member of the national security council. so, that again -- just like being included in the cabinet, there is a case where you had a statutory law making the vice president a member of the most important security council in terms of national security. getting back to this idea that the vice-presidency healy as an institution and clearly the individual who occupies the institution, has become indispensable to the american government. we're going to see lesser and more involvement, again, depending on the relationship. the current administration, i would imagine the vice president is sort of on the outskirt of the inner circle, however the vice-presidency as an institution by the cumulative effect over the years, will continue to have some major responsibilities and major influence in things. maybe not as much as

and truman said why is that? and he said if you appoint him secretary of state about two or three months people will start saying general marshall will make a better president than you are. and he said general marshall would make a better president than i am, but i'm the president and i want the best people around me. he's not bedazzled by the fact or envious or jealous by the fact that eisenhower and marshal and all these people are taller than he is. no, not at all. one of our luckiest breaks in our whole story is that gorge washington was there when he was there in the beginning. >> no doubt. >> and never forget george washington was the commander in chief not just for the eight years he was president. he was also incommander in chief for the eight years he was commander in chief of the army when we had no president. so he was our leader for 16 years, longer than anybody in our history. >> harry truman is my favorite figure from history, my favorite hero. what attracted you to writing the book about harry trum

let's recall another president: president truman. president truman famously said the buck stops here. he was admired for it. this president words shirking response ability, casting blame' were exact opposite of president truman. the buck stops here. may this made president small trileptal. president thompson blame gamee makes him look small and diminished. people will begin to realize his lack of leadership and respect for him and his office will diminish. r the president should rise to the incredible responsibility of the office, not quit and take the ball home every time the game isn't going the way he likes. the president of the unitedibler states, for better or worse, is responsible for the healthcare of the country, for the a healthcare of americans who voted for him and for americans who voted against him. he took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of this country, not just the ones he likes. there is no docking responsibility as president. the buck stops with you, president trump. if the procedural votes feel next week, i

when the white house had to be rebuilt during truman's presidency, truman made sure it went back into the mantelpiece. then when kennedy was president, he had it carved into the marble part of the mantelpiece rather than wood, which would have been prior to that. what adams wrote to abigail was, "none but honest and wise men rule under this roof." he put honest first. strength of character is what matters in that job, strength of character and confidence that the american spirit is enduring and that the american spirit -- >> rose: which is the title of the book. >> yes. and i have spent a lot of time with john i a dams and harry truman and theodore roosevelt, and i feel often, and lots of other biographers and historians have expressed the psalm thought, that you -- have expressed the same thought, that you get to know these people better than in real life. >> rose: because you read the letters. >> exactly. the letters are so revealing and often touching and eloquent. and the relationship wean bess and harry truman as found in those letters, the relationship between abigail and john a

truman presidential library and museum.e's been adjunct professor, you may notice his famous accent which is in part why he's moderating our conversation this evening, but as you might know we have experts who are here with concentration in world war i, in vietnam and world war ii. so we're really covering that breadth. normally i have a podium. makes it a little easier. right -- yeah, that would be fantastic, thanks. prior to world war i the united states which makes it small army of volunteers to head into mexico. no one ever expected that they would actually head out to europe. on this 00 years ago six years after the u.s. declared war against germany the congress passed the selective service act giving the u.s. president the power to draft soldiers. by the end fl world war i in november of november of 1918 some 24 million men had registered under the selective service act. some of those arguably not enjoying the full extent of american citizenship. of the almost 4.8 million americans who eventually served in the war, in

when the white house had to be rebuilt during truman's presidency, truman made sure it went back into the mantle priest. and then when kennedy was president, he had it carved into the marble part they have -- of the mantle priest rather than the wood which it had been prior to that. what adams wrote to abigail was, may none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. and what i love about it is he puts honest first. and that's -- strength of character is what matters in that job. strength of character and confidence. hat the american spirit is enduring. and the american spirit -- charlie: which is the title of the book. david: yes. and i -- i have spent a lot of time with john adams and harry truman and theodore roosevelt. nd i feel often that lots of other biographers and historians have expressed the same thought that you get to know these people in many ways better than you know people in real life. charlie: you read their letters and diaries. david: and the letters are so reveal, so often touching and eloquent and -- and the relationship between bess and harry truman that i

ladies and gentlemen, first i want to think the truman library and the truman institute.

truman eventually gets a budget.od on air force one, the presidential yacht, they get billed against that account. it is not a free-for-all in terms of food. there is a budget that gets allocated by congress for that. that goes into the food story. to give more history than you ever wanted to know, the creation of the white house mess is a reflection of this because after the white house is renovated in the 1950s there was more need for staff because of the installation of air conditioning and truman was not going to get more money from congress for staff. he called him a do-nothing congress and that kind of sticks. he takes the staff off of the presidential yacht and makes them staff in the white house mess which is a private kitchen and dining space for senior staff in the white house. that is why the navy operation existed for running a white house mess. a lot of the food cooked at the white house mess at camp david is run by navy chefs, not the white house kitchen staff. >> thank you very much for speaking today.

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truman is in for a surprise. by oversight, the champagne bottle, like this one, has not been properly prepared. etched to break the glass on impact. now mrs. truman, unaware that her bottle is not prepared -- [laughter] >> the new first lady joins in the crowd's laughter. for military aid needs the crisis -- meets the crisis. [laughter] >> but to a navy, forewarned is forearmed, there, armed being the hammer. watch it just under the airplane's nose. and the hammer misses on the first try. all is well that ends well. despite the seller bottle, mrs. truman gives her blessing. host: you can watch president trump's commissioning of the ford. you want to hear on c-span and on c-span.org. first one of the stories we did not get to this morning is about the senate health care bill. a senate parliamentarian dealt a major setback to the gop repeal bill. here is the story from "the hill." host: sanders the ranking member of the senate budget committee. the revisions that would likely be removed include all season order to

we begin with uss harry truman, the ninth nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the u.s. fleet.

truman said you have to wait 50 years for the dust to settle. it has been 50 years and he will begin -- it is not just who went before him but who has followed him and how does he compare and what are the consequences of decisions he made or didn't make? we need to look much more at the importance of decisions presidents didn't make that were as important as decision they did. the decision eisenhower made not to go into vietnam for example. the decision john adams made not to go to war with france which the whole country resigned to do which would have been catastrophic had he done so. this is all a big part of it. kennedy, the problem with kennedy will be it is cut off so soon. we very rarely take a president as seriously as the others who has only served one term and here is a president who didn't even serve one term. yet look what footprints, what a mark he left on our sense of who we are. >> host: as someone who read the volumes robert caro wrote about johnson which are terrific books and tell great stories, interesting that you really have

for a while harry truman had us and now i they we have everybody, mike. i would say i think because they will give you a pinocchio.

truman. when the united states entered the war in 1917, the army was not prepared to fight in an international war. one of the things they were lacking besides a number of men was also artillery. world war i was a war of artillery. 60% of the battlefield deaths were caused by artillery, by the projectiles that were fired over the battlefield. so when the americans went over to france, they primarily used french artillery pieces. one of the major ones was the french .75 millimeter gun. it was advanced for its time. it had an incredible recoil system. so when the gun was fired, the barrel actually moved and the gun stayed in place so it didn't have to constantly be readjusted. when the americans, of course, started using these, they used four guns in a battery. a battery was commanded by a captain. one of the batteries in the 129th field artillery in france was from independence, missouri. his name was captain harry s. truman. harry truman, of course, went on to become the president of the unit

the one you know best is harry truman. david: he said the only thing in the world is the history you don't know. and now we have a leader who doesn't know much in the way of hist aand has said so. dismisses biography, dismisses book, dismisses reading, dismisses history. but my feelings about the importance of history, as you've said, go back several decades and that's what this book is a collection of. i think it's -- we must encourage, stimulate, and bring history back to its importance in the whole system of education. charlie: a couple of things. eisenhower said there are four key qualities to measure a leader by, character, ability, esponsibility, and experience. david: and dwight eisenhower

but this is the opposite of harry truman saying the buck stops here. you can't say, fine, i'm hands off, i'm not going to own it, because it's happening on your watch and you have a moral and political obligation to try to fix it and help people's lives. >> that's why this business move doesn't work in this particular context, because this is a business, to use the analogy, that is on his balance sheet. so he can't walk away from this. he has set responsibilities. and if he were to walk away, as he suggested he would, which means, how do you walk away? how do you let it fail? you don't provide the federal subsidies. you don't let insurance companies know whether or not the insurance mandate, that creates a healthier and wider pool, exists. if you do that, people will lose care. it is mostly on his watch. >> he's provided everything

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 secessionists who cut aid check cuttings game and lost control of the bank. the banks, that is where the money is, and yet they were also political targets. these were very shrewd people. when jesse james robbed to 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 has 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 rube

he is succeeded by harry truman who is standing to his left in the photograph. shortly after the inaugural, fdr departed on a 7000-mile journey to yalta in the crimea which was the final of the great conference he attended with the big three, stalin, churchill, and roosevelt. after that conference, fdr returns to the united states and he appears before congress in march of 1945 to deliver an address reporting on what he had done at the yalta conference. what is extraordinary about this speech to a joint session of congress is that roosevelt delivered the speech from a seated position. he did that because he was exhausted and suffering from poor health. in the course of that speech, he directly acknowledges his disability for the only time in his presidency. president roosevelt: mr. speaker, members of the congress, i have taken the i hope you will pardon me for the unusual posture of sitting down during the presentation of what i want to say. i know you will realize it makes it a lot easier for me not having to carry about 10 pounds of steel around the bottom of

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 months after this photograph is taken in 1945 and is succeeded by harry truman who is standing to his left in the photograph. shortly after the inaugural, fdr departed on a 7000 mile journey to yalta, which was the final of the great conferences he attended with the big three, stalin churchill, and roosevelt. , after that, fdr returns to the united states and appears before congress in march of 1945, to deliver an address reporting on what he had done at the yalta conference. what is extraordinary 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 acknowledges his disability for the first and only time in his presidency. president roosevelt: me

wallace begins to criticize truman's tough cold war policies and truman fires him and he runs for-- glad we are getting to this because here's the beginning of buckley watching this as he is in jail and wallace runs as a party candidate. now, buckley knows wallace will not be presidents, but he's terrified that may be wallace will get one or 2% of the vote. he's terrified probably 60 to 70% of that one or 2% of the vote will be artists, writers. ideas matter. ideas have consequences. wallace won't be important, but his followers will be around for a long time and i'm going to set up my movement to resist that can push the kind of politics i want, so even though he is technically support he do we had he's a member of big l republican club he's going around to various radio stations debating the faculty. the fact that the communist party was openly and now, we know he was the director of moscow openly running a presidential campaign and they got too many intellectuals and they figured they had to do the same thing. and my talking too much? >> well, you have us to an interesting points beca

truman drive you saw the big scene from sky fox.ay again in upper marlboro prince george's county. 295 southbound crash blocks the right lane at pennsylvania avenue. significant delays building from riverdale park all the way down to pennsylvania avenue about a 30 minute delay. metro is on time. more traffic in a few. steve and allison. >> erin thanks very much. ahead at 8:00 o'clock this morning what's real until your soft drink. >> one of those things you might not want to focus on. how it tastes. >> new study testing the ice machines at three popular fast food chains and we've got the& results coming up. >> why do you think this is going to be really bad. >> what's lurking in there may shock you. perhaps that word lurk. >> lurk is never a good thing. they lurked in such a nice way. lurk. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. this july visit your local volvo dealer to receive sommar savings of up to $4,500. ♪ >> this is fox5 news mor

they wanted to give their nomination to eisenhower instead of truman, now harry truman is revered.n my book more than roosevelt, i just realized yesterday. but when donald trump starts quoting harry truman, you know he probably is worried. >> will they see this moment, is that any sort of a turning point? >> we don't know this yet. we look back on watergate and there are turning points. there were president's relatives. richard nixon's brother, jimmy carter's nephew. if donald trump is impeached, they will not be forgotten. >> are there any parallels to be drawn between the history of watergate and the history of in terms of the way that everything came out. it was a drip drip drip for months and months with watergate and we're seeing a drip drip drip here. >> but i don't know where this is going. also who, i don't know yet who bob woodward -- >> i know you have written about the russian allegations, and you said based on what is known so far, the decision to attend the meeting came out of stupidity not just an attempt to collude. >> i don't know if it was -- i think it was mike ba

right after the president truman fired mcgrath, jay mcgrath sent a telegram.st congratulations and i suggest you bring a pair of asbestos introducers with you. >> "the washington post" reported moments ago that the spokesman for the president's legal team has just resigned. he's asking his legal team on his pardon powers. and that the white house is exploring ways to cast aspergss on the investigation that is looking into the president's campaign and russia. >> joining us now is a historian and he's the guy we went to to find out if there's any precedence for this. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much, rachel. >> this is, i know already, not like anything that's ever happened before. >> right. >> let me just ask you about the pardons issue that has just been reported on by "the washington post." they're saying the president has reportedly been asking whether he can pardon his staffers, family and himself and the attorneys are considering those matters. what should be our historical reference point for that. >> in keeping with your theme of doing th

he spent a recent morning at the truman bowling alley in the white house with the 2012, and 2009 bowlershe year. >> incredible. to know that bowling has brought me somewhere like that in the world, it's a once in a lifetime experience to be able to go do that. multiple presidents have wanted to remove the lanes and they haven't, so knock on wood for us, it's still there. but just one of the coolest atmospheres to ever be a part of. >> reporter: we caught up with tacket and rash after the experience. >> it's an experience like no other, to know that former presidents have been on those la little science too. how wear and tear on the lanes and the ball makes a difference in how well you bowl, as do oil patterns on the lanes. >> how are lanes different today than they were 10 or 20 years ago? >> the technology in the lane surface itself has come a long way with the resin that they use to go over, it's not actual wood. there's actual resin that we bowl on. >> reporter: i used to bowl in a league as a kid, but i hadn't picked up a ball in years. it showed in my performance. >> give me one pie

right after the president truman fired mcgrath, jay mcgrath sent a telegram.o the guy that was picked to take his job. this was the text of the telegram. my hardiest congratulations. i suggest you bring a pair of asbestos trousers with you. "the washington post" reported moments ago that the spokesman for the president's legal team has just resigned. the president is querying his legal team on the extent of his pardon powers, including whether he can pardon himself. and "the washington post" reporting that the white house is exploring ways to cast aspersions on the special counsel investigation that is looking into the president's campaign and connections with russia. >> joining us now is a historian and he's the guy we went to to find out if there's any precedent like this today. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much, rachel. >> this is, i know already, not like anything that's ever happened before. >> right. >> let me just ask you about the pardons issue that has just been reported on by "the washington post." they're saying the president has repo

my granddaughter -- harry truman. another good friend was franklin roosevelt. the night of the gathering for the parents, these little people came out there and gave a wonderful account of who they were and what they did and what should they should be known about. all of us were amazed and i know for certain that not one of those children will ever forget which president they were. it will be with them for the rest of their lives. that is the kind of thing that can work wonders. the lab technique to teaching history, this is true all the way through high school and college, get them involved in a project where they have to do the work. and get their hands duty and do the research, we should not hand them everything and say here is what you need to know, why this is important, follow this, follow that, this will be on the test. get them hooked by getting involved in the detective case aspect of it and that works like nothing else. >> you mention the importance of universities, the world-class universities we have is a great asset to the country and there are two

wallace begins to criticize truman's world policy and truman fires him. and he runs for, here's the beginning of buckley who's watching all this at yale and wallace runs as a grassroots candidate for president. buckley knows that wallace is not going to be president but he's terrified that, maybe wallace can get one or two percent of the vote but what he's terrified of his 60 to 70 percent of that one or two percent of the vote was going to be artists, writers at yale. ideas matter. ideas have consequences. wallace thought might be important that his father was going to be around for a long time and i'm going to down a movement and push the kind of politics i want. so even though he's technically doing as a member of the yale republican club and all that stuff, in various radio stations as a brash young debating faculty on various positions. it was a very seminal event for him. the fact that the communist party openly, now we know now know that it's open rate running a national campaign and they got many intellectuals and figured we have to do the same th

to remind the president of the united states that on this day, this very day, in 1948, president truman signed executive order desegregating the u.s. military. here we are 69 years later, president trump has chosen this day to commit an act of cowardice, a cowardly act, the way he did it and what he did. on this day, to unleash a wave file, hateful agenda that will blindside thousands of patriotic americans already serving with honor and bravery. it is an arbitrary decision designed to humiliate transgender americans who have stepped up to serve and defend our country. the president's allegations of tremendous medical costs are boldfaced lies and a ludicrous pretense for his hateful campaign against these brave men and women in uniform. and those who have become veterans. a study commissioned by the department of defense found, my colleagues, that the cost of providing medically necessary care to be very small. in fact, every year the pentagon spends five times more on viagra than it does for transition-related care, five times more on viagra. this morning's tweets reveal a president wi

american repertory you mentioned in the room with some the referred to the period when as he put it truman was able to run the country with the cooperation of a few will st louis years and executives and then it was no crisis with democracy that's kind of the when they very effectively of course succeeded in rolling back i want to go on to your next point about shaping idiology but you talk about the difference between madison and aristotle in that aristotle you know both of them understood that if there was inequality in the same way that john locke and bentham and others did that there would be tension between the rich and the poor madison calling for government to reduce democracy aristotle saying the solution which you obviously support is to reduce inequality and your second point shaping the idiology the we mention the power of them away mentioned the trilateral commission but specifically they targeted various segments of the society indoctrination of the young you talk about the way they actually created architectural plans for ecologists so that large demonstrations would not be p

truman wanted a stick of butter and mrs. nesbitt refused to give it to her. [laughter] that was just the final blow and was gone a short time after that. >> that is a great question because after that to become maitre d and another guy who serves to get prominences the white house and then becomes of the treaty later. that was the event over a stick of butter. >> the chief of -- that position is it tenure or is it carried on?. >> day serve at the pleasure of the president so typically in the white house kitchen usually the executive chef for the pastry chef but what has happened when a president comes in they can decide so most decide to bring in an additional cook for the family but they keep the of first cook and there was a separate dining space she turned margaret truman's bedroom into a small kitchen and pantry because the family thought of us dying room was not intimate enough so that each of the second-floor. lyndon johnson was the have a second coat just cooking for the family must have the white house chief executive chef do anything with negative ev

truman being able to run the country with corporate corporate lawyers and so on but that's kind of the ideal there should be indoctrination students should not be pre to think they don't put it this way who remains as. it shouldn't be free to inquire to think to challenge it just the kind of things that in a decent educational system young people would be encouraged to do and in the schools and universities but it's dangerous because they're questioning too many eternal verities including. that. there has to be elite domination and control this is expressed all through the history of how successful do you think looking back that they were successful well that it's not as i say they were expressing the they were articulating a consensus that led to many developments and it's been reasonably successful so for example take the a kind of a business model begun to be imposed on colleges and universities there's been a tremendous growth of bureaucracy. tilting the balance from faculty control to bureaucratic control there's. there's been course sharp raising tuition which is has her strong d

one nine hundred forty five when the secretary of war stimson told the top of visors to president truman that the russian view of their own national security might be a lot more realistic than the american view of russian national security and the big issue i think that's probably the biggest issue to the russians is the nato encircled. of course we know that back in two thousand. gorbachev was promised that if he allowed the unification of germany nato would not expand one thumbs with to the east nato is now expanded thirteen countries to the east it's doubled once again we're discussing it's doubled in size we're discussing again where this discussing ukraine again becoming part of nato it was in two thousand and eight when george bush said he wanted georgia and ukraine to be part of nato when they were talking about that again so in terms of ukraine russians have a different deaf definition and perception of their national security we need to understand it was saying we need to understand how the russians view the world which is different the americans view the world and to appreciate

president truman has always been true sincejune19.ruman put on the table but we need to ask against whom, and in order to achieve what. when we look at that in detail, as far as preventive strikes or preventive war, i don't see that on the cards. on that particular point, analysts have told us in the past that if it did come to war, the sites in north korea is are so scattered that the us would run out of conventional armaments and would have to change nuclear. that could go back quite quickly, right? it would require co—operation from us allies. the us would need access to military bases injapan and would need access to military bases in japan and south would need access to military bases injapan and south korea rent under these conditions today i do not see these conditions today i do not see the democratically elect did leaders of japan the democratically elect did leaders ofjapan or the democratically elect did leaders of japan or the republic the democratically elect did leaders ofjapan or the republic of korea backing such an op