truman. [applause] [applause] thank you everybody can you hear me okay? i want to start by saying this is a really special night for me. this is my fourth book and i traveled around country quite a bit stand on stages like this. and i've never there's no place in america no place -- that has so much affection for a hometown hero. so just to play even a small part of that celebration is a blessing. another reason why this is really special is because there's a lot of people here. which is wonderful. i can remember a couple of times speaking to more people to this but maybe one or two, and it's so much more fun to get up on a stage and talk to crowds of people than -- i remember earlier in my career just pack houses of etchty seats everywhere you look. and it's been a long road to get here. [laughter] alex touched on something just now -- another reason why this is a special night is because this book is dedicated to my father he's supposed to be sitting right here -- or right there wherever he

and mary ellen truman, truman became president and she went to the whitehouse . the sort of gently said mom, you're going to put you in the lincoln bedroom and she said i just as soon sleep on the floor. and when he introduced harold to one of his friends, a congressman from mississippi, you know, this man never met a republican until he was 18. and he said he wasn't missing much. so you get the idea, the background that truman had, yet he transcended it because this was unfair to him. all people should be treated as equals. so he became the first president to address the naacp which he did in 1947. i don't mean to say that these policies only existedin the south . these are some of the things i tell my students. people think racism is something that no, it's in the south but this is a wall and we talked today about building walls. this is a wall in detroit separating a black neighborhood on the white neighborhood and their race riots in chicago, detroit in the 1940s as african-americans tried to move in to white neighborhoods. and i will read this but you can se

it's meant that vandenberg had more confidence when truman goes to pot stand even though truman was for a list experienced. >> sir? >> a really influential isolationist in the 1930s-- [inaudible question] >> henry ford goes back further. henry ford actually ran for senate as a republican and democrat and got the democratic nomination in 1920. it was a scandalous election campaign with-- where the republican truman newberry who had been cast secretary of the navy, he and henry ford both spent so much money except newberry spent part of his two broad editors and was never actually allowed to take his see, but vandenberg had to hold his nose and vote for the republican because henry ford's isolation during world war i had been to be very critical of the government and basically he had some famous remark about the thinking of the lusitania, like they should have known better than to get on this liner. so, at that time buying into wilson's arguments he would have found henry ford anathema. later he helps try to revise tax laws under roosevelt where henry ford's business was so important to t

i interviewed clark clifford, who was an aide to truman, and clifford said, part of truman's skill was, he said, with -- was sort of not trying to put himself in the middle -- famously called that european recovery the marshall plan -- but also said, atchison and vandenberg were big eeg goes and truman was willing to step back and let them figure it out. >> i think also you have seen with president trump, said a lot of things on the campaign trail and is not exactly perhaps -- realized the world asia bit more complicated place than it was when he was campaigning. sir. >> how about the -- [inaudible] -- was he funny [inaudible] >> he was very earnest that way but was a much -- well, he was not an intellectual. he had much more interesting life than the average politician. he became the editor of the local republican party just before his 22nd birthday, and he was at that time actually -- he would write an editorial and send its off to henry cabot lodge during the league of nations debate, and lodge writes back to him and says, i don't know if you are the first to propose reservations al

[inaudible] >> truman is ranked very high as president and since he left 25% approval rating the fact that to air is truman and so now we honor him so greatly but in the 1948 elections that was the weird one for truman because strom thurmond had the dixiecrat party and henry wallace that we can be friends with russia creating the progressive parties of the democratic party is split and people thought do we could win under that circumstance but truman squeaked it out in 48 but could not run again 1952 because americans liked quick wars and korean war was dragging on and truman cannot even run for reelection given adelaide stevenson the opportunity to be the nominee. so with electoral politics to surprise the pundits if you are a politician then your hero is harry truman the hail mary victory you could still pull out at the end. >> david mccullough has a magisterial book but if you want real insight why truman was such a great leader and why, historian leaders and political scientists read the book on truman and macarthur it is a fantastic insight onto the mindset of here is a guy a hab

dwight eisenhower, harry truman, thomas jefferson, john f.kennedy, ronald reagan, and rounding out the top ten greatest presidents, lyndon johnson. of course, there's the bottom of the scale too. unfortunately, who were the ten worst presidents? again, this is according to c-span's rankings. martin van buren, chester arthur, herbert hoover, fillmore, william henry harrison. you know, harrison was only president for about a month, so i'm not quite sure how bad he could have been, he wasn't there long enough to do anything. john tyler who, of course, succeeded harrison, warren harding, franklin pearce. other johnson and james buchanan, certainly i do think deserves to be at the bottom. i'm going to come back to that in just a second. so i think we can all pretty much agree that these ten folks belong where they are. i'm also asked an awful lot what is the best preparation for being president? well, there's really no one thing that qualifies you for being president. obviously, many presidents have taken very different routes to get to the white

just three days after hiroshima truman ordered the bombing of nagasaki. this second bomb caused seventy thousand more deaths. the us kept pressing japan to capitulate. a compromise was reached the us backed off its insistence that japan's emperor hirohito step down. in return hirohito declared that atomic bombs were what had brought japan to its knees. he conveniently omitted the fact that before this he had allowed hundreds of thousands of his subjects to be burned and killed by napalm bombs. the emperor had got what he wanted now japan could surrender. but the ruins of hiroshima and nagasaki were not quite like other bombs. citizen. the americans quickly discovered the deadly legacy of radioactive poisoning a slow long time killer. to many hiroshima and nagasaki were indictments of the victors inhumanity army reports about conditions in the two japanese cities were classified top secret the american general staff began arguing that the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki was a necessary evil. leslie groves the head of the manhattan project formally presen

and so grahamming puts his arm around truman, big, tall -- billy graham was 6-4, truman was about 5-8. they get down on their knees together, and they pray. and graham can remember the prayer to this day. and that was fine except that when he left the oval office, he went out onto the north lawn and proceeded to tell the reporters who asked him exactly what happened inside, and he got down on his knees and reenacted it on the north lawn. as you know as a white house or respondent, this is not -- correspondent, this is not what people do when they come out of the white house, and that picture of him reenacting it was on the front pages the next day. >> host: so he learned a hard and fast lesson about dealing with the press corps and about that nexus between politics and the media. what'd he learn from that? >> guest: first of all, to be discreet. if you're going to presume to minister to presidents -- which was a huge products -- you'd better keep your mouth shut. and after that he did. he also learned that no matter what, you know, this was a young evangelical preacher out of north ca

. >> it's a big story that goes back to the truman administration and even before that.o putting it in -- chunking it up, basically and putting it into perspective to give people an opportunity to reflect on each of the periods that we cover in the exhibit because there are a lot of -- there's a lot of information to deal with and there's a lot of kind of personal reflection that's necessary as you go through the exhibit and i'm convinced that people can't do this in a quick, 20-minute visit which is the average attention span of folks doing exhibits these days. it's an exhibit that they don't have to come back to. >> what do you hope as people wrap up the exhibit and walk through. what do you hope they take away from it? >> some better sense of what happened and that they feel challenged to answer questions themselves about what was the reason, what did we get out of this? what impact did it have on the future approaches to conflicts and those kinds of questions. >> you told us you're a vietnam vet. what was that experience like and how did this exhibit -- what did you

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he arranged a meeting with harry truman and the white house and harry truman was not terribly impressionedwith this flamboyant young evangelist. beginning with the ieisenhower administration, graham manies to insinuate himself into the eisenhower administration and even offered to do diplomatic missions in the course of his travels around the world. he had a less close relationship with john kennedy for a number of reasons, including kennedy's catholicism. but through the years established some relationship with every american president through barack obama. >> and again, we just saw the hearse arrive. a busy can imagine carrying the family members and north carolina delegation people who were close to the reverend billy graham who will be part of this ceremony. we expect to hear from the leerds of congress and do expect to hear from the president of the united states. on this day. >> barry black also the chaplain for the united states senate which will be also important. >> what do you think he did to have such a direct impact, reverend on political figures in this country? >> well, you k

from missouri, he was thebo first president that billy graham met with in 1950 and president truman like lots of us midwesterners was closely held with his faith when billy graham said can we pray, i think was president truman who said i guess it wouldn't hurt anything. that was the first opportunity that billy graham had to pray with the many presidents that he prayed with and i'm sure prayed for after that. his mom and dad were dairy farmers like mine. he was born in charlotte north carolina. president trump said this morning there was a prayer meeting in 1934 on the graham farm that his father made the place available to have a prayer meeting and the focus of that group of leaders from charlotte north carolina was to pray that god would send a leader who would take the gospel around the world, probably nobody at that prayer group had any sense how close they were to someone who was just about to begin the processgr to do that. that was the c year that billy graham became a christian. from that time on he said my purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with

, harry truman, running against thomas dewey. before the election, pulls widely for case -- forecast that thomas dewey was going to win. here we have him saying what the use of going through this election at all? here we have polls that he is going to carry virginia, get 333 electoral college votes. when ended up happening is the truman won the election and became president. depicts the activity in congress after the election of franklin roosevelt. can see members of congress going from the house with the assistance of a young page carrying lots of ways toion relating to solve problems that arose during the great depression. he is sweating under the burden of the legislation they are trying to pass. is from 1906. in it, berryman is sort of poking fun at the legislative process. the bill here was quite popular at the time, intended to regulate the rates the railroads could charge. but really, the particular piece in the cartoon is almost irrelevant in terms of the timelessness of the cartoon. you see this bill coming out of the se

, president truman, desegregated the military. continuing. whereas a fugitive slave working outside of boston, ssachusetts, as a sailor and during this time, his time off, he worked as a rope maker near the wharf. whereas in early 1770, competition for work and wages became stiff, as british soldiers were contending for the same unskilled position as the locals. that would be him and other locates -- locals. whereas this situation created tension which slowly escalated to violent confrontations. whereas on march 5, 1770, he led a group of rope makers and sailors into a confrontation with a group of british soldiers and subsequently was shot and killed. ereas a black man is generally considered to be the first casualty of the revolutionary war. and is remembered as the first of many notable african-american heroes. whereas amentia ross was born into slavery in maryland and escaped to freedom in the north in 1849. to become the most famous conductor on the underground railroad. whereas amentia ross was a leading abolitionist before

but it was gutted in totally rebuilt during the truman era as a tribute to lincoln so he never slept also never slept in that bed. it is authentic that mary lincoln bought that we are not certain he actually slept in the bed so where did he sleep? he slept here. this is the floorplan of the lincoln era it says lincoln office and lincoln bedroom at the end of the day would go through this private passage built for privacy but also for security. walking down the passageway to the library him and mrs. lincoln had bedrooms right next to each other for the entire four year duration they were pretty much confined to that small area on the second floor. that is the president's bedroom bedroom this is looking out on the south on. today still the site of the presidential bedroom that is where president trump sleeps today and the real lincoln bedroom. i tell people if you don't like trump it has always been there. so there is mr. lincoln again. so this sets up a couple of stories that i think are amazing about lincoln. everybody knows what happened when he went to for the inter- ford theater j

he turned instead to the border state moderate harry truman. byrnes was really embittered by roosevelt's spurning of his candidacy and he had a very -- tense relationship with truman. he was -- he earned time magazine's man of the year 1947 for helping a nervous nation. when truman made assaults on the ramparts of jim crow by integrating the armed services and by supporting the naacp suit against segregation in public schools, byrnes cut his ties with the president. it was this extension of the new deal civil rights above all that aroused byrnes successful pursuit of south carolina's governorship in 1950. four years into his term as governor, he became the leader of a massive resistance to the 1954 landmark case brown versus board of education. like many southerners, byrnes lambasted the decision as an intrusion on state sovereignty but he drew on his experiences a former justice to showcase its supposed following and to help groom a generation of would-be segregationists. byrnes abandoned the new deal democratic party had worked so diligently

so when roosevelt died, harry truman became president. when harry truman was inaugurated in 1949, after his election in 1948, he came to st. john's and had a pre-inaugurational worship service here before he was sworn in for his full term as president. subsequent to that time, other presidents have had pre-inaugural services in churches or elsewhere. not necessarily in st. john's, but the tradition began here, and it began with franklin roosevelt. that's one more example of the association of st. john's with presidents and part of the heritage of this building. it's always been available as a place, and an intimate place, for services that people might wish to have. for example, when president kennedy was assassinated on november 22, 1963, reverend john harper, the rector of st. john's at the time, was contacted by president lyndon johnson and asked if the following day, the saturday, on november 23rd around noon, if st. john's would have a brief memorial service on behalf of president kennedy. of course, the church was quite happy to com

they are going to make a tribute to our 33rd president, harry truman.te house. first is the seal. he turned the american eagle to face the olive branch of peace and he oversaw the building of the south portico, the truman balcony. the back of it, a christmas tree in the blue room. i collect these and i think this might be the best one. >> greg: it's only february. >> dana: they have to have a whole year to market them. >> juan: the white house historical society. i don't care about your politics. they do great work. >> dana: stuart mclaurin runs it. he's an amazing guy. >> jesse: not a holiday ornament. a christmas ornament. >> dana: it says christmas ornaments. it always has. they never caved. >> greg: set your dvrs. never miss an episode of "the five." "special report" is up next. john roberts is in for bret. >> quiz, what else is harry truman famous for? >> greg: he had a secret tunnel? >> john: the bowling alley in the executive office building. >> juan: way to go, john. >> john: president trump backs efforts to improve federal background checks as

truman, a speech to the federal bar association. and we are not going to transform until gestapo secret police, some people would like us to do, we are going to keep the bill of rights on the books and that wasn't just the democrats but 56 republican platform supported by eisenhower, the sacred foundation of part - of liberty. as you say before the 50s, the republican and democratic platforms in 1912, 1908, talked about the constitution as the center of their vision of liberty but shifted, tell us about the interplay between supreme court decisions and the political party in this. go. >> roosevelt and truman, no constitutional principle becomes one until it is bipartisan. otherwise it is just a political football. the fact that republican presidents, eisenhower being the first one, raised the bill of rights in the same way roosevelt and truman did was a telling moment when this became a symbol of national unity. the bill of rights because it encompasses a broad range of topics is able to provide either party, there is something for

president truman felt that eleanor roosevelt would be the perfect person to represent the united states at the initial organizing meeting of the united nations. she was actually the only woman delegate from the u.s. she knew that none of the men were too happy to have her as a member of the delegation. she figured that they were trying to find a spot for her where she could do the least damage as she said, because they felt that she didn't have qualifications to be a good delegate. so 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 that they had at the united nations, because her proudest achievement was the the universal declaration of human rights, because in the 30 articles that are in that document, it outlines all of the rights that every human being on this planet should have in order to achieve world peace. she always felt that was the one thing that she accomplished that made everything she did prior to that worthwhile. >> we are ton the second floor f mrs. roosevelt

i liked harry truman. and of course, barack obama. host: for harry truman, what qualities?imes: racially, for the he came up, he opened up the army to blacks and he did a lot of good things behind the scenes . he was down to earth. he was a down-to-earth individual. i liked harry truman, personally. host: elliott on twitter says -- when it comes to fdr, one of the governmentdents, big and welfare society he started will sooner or later bring this country down. an op-ed, taking a look at george washington this day. lookingon saw citizens for a savior to waltz and from the government to solve every problem weakens the nation and citizens ofe personal responsibility. this never ends well for everyday citizens. if the country follows elections's examples, will become less consequential because government will become less consequential in the lives of the american people. washington clearly understood power is not something to amass, barter with, or cling to, nor is it a tool for pursuing political purposes and self-promotion. washington knew the future of the nation was not dep

in villages and in britain's windsor castle and provided counsel from every president from harry truman to barack obama. he also stood up forto u what ws right, denouncing segregation, oppression, preaching jointly with the reverend martin luther king jr. in the 1950s and lived a life of integrity and honor. he spoke words of comfort and hope at the national cathedral following the september 11 terrorist attack, reminding america that god is our refuge and strength and ever present help in trouble. he will be deeply missed. i send my condolences to his children and grandchildren and the numerous great and children, yet graham himself said, my home is in heaven. i am just passing through this world. today we honor the life that he lived, his faithfulness to the calling and his impact on millions of individuals around the globe. if i may take just another moment before my colleague from north carolina speaks, i want to read you some remarks that were made by individuals who played an important role in american history. president bill clinton said some were pressuring graham to segregate h

there is no harry truman wing of the democratic party no more. there is no joe lieberman wing. it's really very similar what's happened in britain with jeremy corbyn and the labor party. this is a prescription for them to take themselves into political irrelevant rance. because working class democrats. the people who voted for ronald reagan. many of the same people and their children who voted for donald trump in the industrial midwest are appalled by this kind of behavior. and the democrats are bringing it on themselves. i think it was so revealing. you couldn't have scripted it better. >> laura: yuajuan. >> i think the ambassador is right about the parties going to the extreme so that i think he is right. the democrats are being driven to the farther left because of the antipathy toward trump but remember republicans had a strong antipathy towards president obama and were driven to the right. when i look at this and going back to what you were discussing at the top here, laura, i look at president trump coming out last night and saying i've got the biggest tax cut for you eve

a preacher to the masses and counselors to presidents from harry truman to the present. is dead. there is nobody like him. he'll be missed by christians and all religions, a very special man. joining me now is randall balmer, chair of the department of religion at dartmouth. thanks so much for being with us. billy graham, a century, a remarkable century of life in a remarkable inflew ens, not just on american religion and america in general. what was the unique role do you think in the last 100 years? >> it's hard to boil it down to a single thing. i think more than anything what he did was bring evangelicalism into the mainstream, that is to say, he grew up in a very narrow -- what woe could call fundamentalist home and foresake the narrow constructed fundamentalism of his childhood in favor of a broader evangelicalism and cooperated with other religious leaders and so forth. he was a very charismatic individual and the power of his care is ma made evangelicalism acceptable to many americans and throughout the world. >> made his faith accessible to everybody, from every

looking now at 1950 lincoln cosmopolitan used by truman and john f. kennedy for a short period but often associated with dwight eisenhower. as originally built convertible. did not have plexiglass top that has credited to eisenhower, he saw vehicles in europe during the war. it is not armored the war is over now. no thought of security or at least thought to it be a vital concern. but it does provide protection from weather. so in the event of rain or snow the president can have some protection. otherwise it can be taken away and all the panels neatly stacked into the trunk but it doesn't have to be used and that would allow the president to stand up in the car. a couple of handrails on the back seat that would allow them to wave to crowds. which explains the rectangular windshield. that is of all things a bug shield. so as the president is standing up there waving to crowds he doesn't get a face full of flies. a problem only the president would have. but this is standard lincoln stretched a little bit and given perhaps a little more rigorous upholste

. >> soon a sought after counselor to every american president from truman on. with them at their inaugurations. >> and now on this 20th day of january, 1993. >> presiding at their funerals. >> you know few events touched the heart of every american as profoundly as the death of a president. >> a conservative southerner, graham walked a tight line during turbulent times in america. refusing to segregate his services in the deep south on one hand. >> christianity is not a white man's religion. don't let any body tell you it is white or black. he never joined the civil right marches on the other. he later said he regretted it along with his comments about joouz in a 1972 conversation with president nixon. >> you know i told you one time the bible talks about two kinds of jews, one the synagogue of satan, putting out the obscene films. >> asked about his life, billy graham, said, oh, lord i am a sirn, i still need your forgiveness. but death he said was not something he feared. >> no, i look forward to death. with great anticipation. i am looking forward to seeing

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it took president trumans executive order authorizing paperclip to require the entire bureaucracy to support this effort. but even within the state department and justice department there will be voices that are opposed to paperclip. in my book gets into many of those that oppose the operation for morality, moral reasons but also because of the danger it posed to the united states to have these ex-enemy combatants running around the country. we have hired security clearances than most of the american counterparts. so project paperclip brought in approximately 700 800 scientists but also their dependents. and over the years is kind of hard to nail down that number because in some ways paperclip even though it was not called paperclip was in operation until 1973.still bringing over germans and west german scientists. but also their dependents. where they would go initially went to places like new mexico, texas, wright-patterson air force base, ohio had a huge number of them. all over virginia. boston, long island. on wherever their work existing military bases or secret quieter facilit

uma truman lo acusÓ de sobrepasarse sexualmente con ella.cena peligrosa en un automÓvil que la dejó herida. los representantes de harvey weinstein dijeron que tuvo un encuentro incÓmodo, pero niegan que haya habido un asalto fÍsico. >> ricardo rosellÓ encabezó un meeting en el condado del bronx en reclamo de la asistencia federal para la isla, en momentos que aÚn sigue sigue pendiente una resoluciÓn para avanzar fondos para la reconstrucciÓn de la isla de puerto rico. >> en medio de fuertes protestas, llegÓ a nueva york el gobernador de puerto rico, ricardo rosellÓ, cinco meses despuÉs del paso de marÍa. el huracÁn que además de bordes provocÓ pÉrdidas materiales con un valor de unos $95,000,000,000. >> al principio, el presidente o cuando nosotros le hacÍamos las peticiones. de recuperaciÓn se ha tornado-- la recuperaciÓn se tornÓ lenta en algunas Áreas. >> ricardo rosellÓ participó en una manifestaciÓn en la denominada cita marÍa del bronx junto al gobernador de-- denominada casita marÍa del bronx junto gobernador de nueva york. >> queremo

truman. harry truman would spend some of his winters in key west, florida, at what was called the little white house. while at the little white house, he started wearing these button up shirts. we think of as a hawaiian shirt. they became very fashionable very quickly. he found them to be more comfortable in the heat. and it affected men's fashion. so a lot of men around the country started wearing these shirts. it was a real big boom for the men's clothing companies throughout the country. it became known as the key west uniform. he really liked the shirts a lot. here we are with dwight eisenhower. and what we have from dwight eisenhower is one of his paintings. after golf, his second favorite passion was painting. he painted over 260 paintings in the 20 years after he was president. he first got started painting after watching a portrait being painted of his wife. and that got him interested in painting. though when his stuff was on exhibit at a new york art gallery in 1967, he said, and i

means nothing truman and i could go on for hours with these huge chunks about the use of benny can you tell yourself he only knew. how to cover more than just one reality. where i come from we have a transatlantic way of looking at things that's because my father is from germany my mother is from the united states of america and so i realized really early that it makes sense to explain different realities. i'm out here at the heart of the european union in brussels we have twenty eight different realities and so i think people are really looking forward and moving journalists they can trust for them to make sense of. why that is not so i work at the w. hello and welcome to the bone this they get here on d.w.i. probably as much a day twenty three is practically understood there's just one game remaining on monday night sunday we had so much exciting action and joining me in the studio this week to discuss all this weekend's news we have been in this league a journalist at germany's bitset newspaper all of a knock. our very own abundantly the reporter yannick space going to thanks for jo