. >>> american history tv also interviewed clifton truman daniels, harry truman's grandson, he recently attended the presidential site summit hosted by the white house historical association for descendents of former presidents. this is 15 minutes. >> clifton truman daniels the last time we talk to just come back from japan with a group of survivors of the atomic bombing there. you have been up to something else associated with this legacy, tell me about your project? >>? if you're talking about playing my own grandfather on stage, it is, it must be 40 years old now, a play called give them harry a play which originated 1945. giving speeches about my grandfather for the past few years, people are beginning to say you're starting to look for your grand like your grandfather. and i must've had that play in the back of my head i mentioned this to a few people and they encouraged that. and a friend of mine in wilmington north carolina at the center for the performing arts said let's do it. and we did the play in october of last year, each show and had a successful run and now i have an agen

the truman library hosted this event. it is 45 minutes. >> today's special guest is our -- archivist tammy williams. she has been with us for many years. she started here as an intern, if your children, grandchildren, kids next door the something to do next summer, encourage them to look into our internship program. tammy is going to share with you the story of the trumans' love and devotion to one another, using their love letters back and forth to share that story. without further ado, i will welcome tammy williams to the stage. tammy? [applause] tammy: i joke around. i am the person who gets to talk about this because i am the chick on the staff. [laughter] tammy: i have a very close affinity for harry and bess. i have always loved first ladies. ss important to me, independence and the truman story. we will talk about harry and bess and how they came to be married and some of the letters they wrote back and forth to each other. this is their high school graduation picture. they attended the same school from the age of

harry truman, i read about north korea, did one thing, i love truman but don't love one thing, and i write about this, which is after he sends macarthur and the armed forces to resist north koreans in korea, his aides say when will you be going to congress for your war declaration, that is what the constitution says. truman says i don't have to. i love james polk. he told congress to go to hell and i will do the same. i love truman and his reading of history, he and i do not have the same understanding of james polk. the problem is truman said i'm not going to go to congress for a war declaration because it will be a big debate. it might embarrass me at 5 months from now in june 1950 i have to deal with midterm elections. it was true in 1952. the result was we got into this war which was the right thing to do but truman didn't even bother to go to congress to ask permission as the founders wanted and the founders were terrified from the beginning that presidents would become dictators and one of the ways that would happen more quickly than any other would be presidents could take us

and truman allowed snyder to be involved in everything. they had been best friends since 1928.snyder was put on the committee for palestine he be put on the national security council, he'd be put on the nato council. he would be responsible for persuading truman to hire dean atkinson as a secretary of state.in january 1949. and he would have the final word in april 1951, with his friend truman, alone in the white house residence to fire general macarthur. it's among the people that are overlooked by the historians. 1948 was defining step and it's the berlin blockade. that's when the u.s. realized it needed the british empire. the u.s. asserted that we were spread so thin. we had 12 tanks in europe. capable of combat. the occupation troops in japan were undertrained and ill-equipped. when stalin isolated berlin, the united states realized that the empire was indispensable. and to show the extent to which we did not understand british vulnerability, despite recurring currency crisis in england, we had expected the british would split 50-50 o

clifton truman daniels is the grandson of our 33rd president and honorary chairman of the truman library library. lynda bird johnson robb is the first child of our 36th president, lyndon johnson. she lived in the white house during the last years of her father's tenure in office from 1966 to 1969, and for over two decades has served as a trustee on the lbj foundation. and susan ford bales is the fourth child and only daughter of our 38th president, gerald ford. she was in the white house during the bulk of her father's presidency from 1974 to 1977 and since 1981 has served as a trustee of the gerald ford presidential foundation. moderating our panel is david rubenstein the cofounder and co- executive chairman of the carlyle group and our country's leading patriotic platypus. generously contributing to the preservation of our nation's history and culture. he is also the host of bluebirds the david rubenstein show, peer to peer conversations. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage matthew mckinley, tweed roosevelt, clifton truman daniels, lynda bird johnson robb , susan ford bal

nothing drives me crazy or when a republican says they are like harry truman. i say, if you was here he would have choice words for you and probably take off his jacket. our state is very proud of him. he did do some courageous things. whether the creation of israel or integrating the armed services. even though he had a background, one might assume one is not tolerant. he made decisions that showed he did. >> did anyone in your family meet him? sen. mccaskill: he was a graduation speaker when my mom graduated from college. i was probably at events and i don't recall meeting him. i wish i had been old enough that i would have had a conversation with them. >> when you ran for reelection you are not a crazy democrat, what did you mean? sen. mccaskill: that was one of those things that everybody took it for what they wanted it to be. i was watching people walk in restaurants and scream at people in restaurants. i don't think that helps the cause at all. we had a state senator in hopedri that said she president trump would be assassinated. extreme of confrontation.

truman opted not have a state funeral. instead his body lay in state in independence, missouri and nixon was the first person in line to pay respects that day. and then at funeral funeral held at national city church nixon presided over the affair but did not speak. so, unusual in recent days but not unheard of and, of course, these circumstances are a bit more extraordinary to those to which we have been accustomed. >> again, very unusual for a sitting president to not speak at the funeral of a former president. the 2016 campaign left a lot of bad blood between the trumps and the bushes. there was actually some question as to whether or not the president would go to the funeral given the fact that he went to barbara bush's. i don't think there is any way you cannot have a

harry truman was probably read about in presidential history than almost anyone else. when he was a kid he had these classes, parents said we can't afford to replace them so truman said i, therefore, read every book in the independent missouri public library which i thought was an exaggeration but it was a small library. so we probably did. what truman said when i was having to make tough decisions like firing macarthur of whether not to use atomic bomb, i thought back to appropriate presidents that it never ann exact parallel but there were enough similarities that i have a bit of insight to make the decision. prep something after jackson get something that abraham lincoln did. one thing truman said was not all readers would be leaders but he said every leader has to be a reader. because this is my language not his, but why would you if your president for all of us as voters what ever would you want to deny yourself the collective wisdom of billions of people who have walked the earth and find out what mistakes they madee and what successes they had, particularly prev

i'm sure i drive wilson scholars crazy but --e even harry truman he took us into korea without asking for a war declaration from congress. that opened the war -- that opened the door for later presidents to do the same thing which was not a great thing for the united states, in my opinion. >> let's hear from one more caller, paula in washington, d.c. you're on with historian michael beschloss. >> caller: well, an honor to be the last caller. >> the last will be first. >> caller: i really am ready to get this book and read it. my question to you is, in doing your extensive research which i know just started with this book, do you feel that most wars are predicated on a lie? >> are predicated on a lie. i must tell you with huge regret, having written this book, and i write about this all the way through, there has been much too much lying and presidents have taken us into many too many unnecessary wars, and i think one of the ways to stop that is to read history and see where people went astray. look at the presidents who bold-faced lied to congress. polk to some extent, mckinley, certa

presidency, harry truman presidential library archivist talks about harry and bess truman, and a life in missouri to the white house. she discusses their 53-your marriage. -- 53-year marriage. the truman library hosted this event. it is 45 minutes. >> today's special guest is our -- archivist tammy williams. she has been with us for many years. she started here as an intern, if your children, grandchildren, kids next door the something to do next summer, encourage them to look into our internship program. tammy is going to share with you the story of the trumans' love and devotion to one another, using their love letters back and forth to share that story. without further ado, i will welcome tammy williams to the stage. tammy? [applause]

my husbands as the truman administration is a cesspool of corruption. how can i answer him/" "you can tell your husband that if any government is a cesspool of corruption, every single citizen is is possible when the government is a republic. governments do not become corrupt unless their citizens have allowed those standards to exist. youou live in a democracy, set the standard as the individual citizen. you elect your representative and the government belongs to you. you and i have to correct anything that is wrong. heard.always be if anything is wrong, the blame is ours." children often wrote to eleanor. here's a question from a concerned younger citizen. "i am in the sixth grade. or can i do to make the world more peaceful?" can learn to live harmoniously with people of your own age even though they might be from different races and religions. if you do that, you will be preparing your generation to live better and more peacefully in the world as a whole." not every questionnaire was so polite. here is one with an edge. "our newspaper published an a

and fdr and truman and eisenhower. men who believed in causes larger than themselves. six feet two inches, handsome, dominant in person. spoke with those big strong hands, making fists to underscore points. a master of what franklin roosevelt called the science of human relationships he believed to whom much is given, much is expected. and because life gave him so much, he gave back again and again. he stood in the breach and the -- in the cold war against authoritarianism, and the breach against unthinking partisanship, he stood in the breach against tyranny and discrimination. on his watch a wall fell in berlin. a dictator did not stand. doors across america opened to those with disabilities. in his personal life, he stood in the breach against heart break and hurt. always offering an outstretched hand, warm words, sympathetic tear. if you were down he would rush to lift you up. if you were soaring he would rush to savor your success. strong and gracious, comforting and charming, loving and loyal, he was our shield in dangers hour. of course there was ambition , too.

truman didn't ask for one, you see how this is going. when was the last time the president asked for a war declaration? 1942. it has never happened ever since. have we been involved in any

i think that describes the truman presidency. anyway, we'll get to that. his president si changed few minds among the commentators. a 1958 book, an important journalist of the ear remark described eisenhower in a wonderful phrase, a captive hero. he was a captive hero. he was a general who had been set up in office, he was imprinted by right wingers and nothing more than a kind of ventriloquist dummy mouthing the words that other people wrote for him. william shannon next new york post's washington column is in concluded eisenhower accomplished nothing in eight years, the ion hour era is the type of the greatpose appointment, and schorls agreed. in july 1962 the harvard historian, arthur schlesinger series, the far, publish heed the fame mutt results of a poll, he asked 75 historians no, doubt all his buddhys to rank the presidents. eisenhower placed 22nd out of 31 president friday in pole. the bottom third of the class. he was nestled between chester a. arthur and incredibly andrew johnson who was widely now considered to be the absolute bottom of the bar

. >>> american history tv also interviewed clifton truman daniels, harry truman's grandson, he recently attended the presidential site summit hosted by the white house historical association for descendents of former presidents. this is

as the massive carrier, the harry s truman pulls in to port. thousands of sailors coming off the boat have not seen their families in months. their history making mission was a strategic success, but it was at times unsettling for the sailors and their families. we went out to meet the sailors for the final days on board. from the flight deck, the size of four football fields, to the cramped hallways. >> nobody knows what it's like to be on a ship. >> reporter: these young men and women in uniform were reflecting on their journey. what is the hardest thing about being at sea and away from family? >> missing my first child's birth. >> reporter: for this culinary specialist, the mission, his first, has been one of excitement and sacrifice. >> i'm going to get you. >> reporter: his wife, taylor, went in to labor in october. >> i called my wife, i was like, baby, you all right? everything good? she was like, you know, i'm just having a baby. i was fortunate to be on the phone with her during the birth. so every scream, growl, push, i got to hear. w

i had a choice i could have found a new president like harry truman, i think the world of harry truman. or i could decide to keep my guys. i could not let them go. each time i left one as i went from lincoln to fdr to teddy and taft, i would have to move the books out of the room. i felt like i was leaving an old boyfriend behind. [laughter] i figured take the guys i know the best. who i have spent so much time with. i spent 10 years with abraham lincoln and another five years on the movie with abraham lincoln. i spent seven years on teddy roosevelt and i took longer than it took world war ii to be fought with fdr. i knew lbj. i decided i wanted to look at them through the lens of leadership asking a question , that i have not fully asked myself. where does ambition come from? does the man make the times or the times make the man? are leadership qualities born or -- inborn or not? i spent so much time with them that i felt it was weird to spend days and nights with them and think about them so much. my only fear was in the afterlife there will be a panel of the presidents i ever studie

you know, think of harry truman. harry truman left the presidency in 1952, '53, with a job approval rating of 22%. one of the worst -- the lowest measure at that particular time. he is now considered one of the best five presidents or ten presidents depending on the list you see. so in retrospect looking at harry truman's presidency, he could have run for reelection in 1952, but chose not to because he was so unpopular. so he wasn't term limited out because it didn't apply to him when they changed the term limit law, but he didn't run because he was so unpopular, but history looks back and sees how did he do, he comes out pretty well. >> did you want to make a point? >> well, you know, ford -- ford, i think, was very unpopular with the press because he pardoned nixon and there was a lot of criticism of ford and he was probably our most athletic president, as i've said, and i remember one time there was all these stories about him tripping and falling or something like that. >> right. >> and ford said, those reporters

finally i will get harriet truman's medicare through. in the first 18 months he figured out the timing of each one of those. he had a vision of what the country might be like with a social foundation that expanded with the new deal was. i don't know that they all have that. i would like to go back to what you are talking about. theink we forget about anxiety of these people and how they sleep at night. the way lincoln could sleep in the midst of that terrible worry at the war, he would read a shakespeare comedy and would go to his aid and read it aloud so he could laugh when he went to sleep. when teddy was worried about winning an election and whether he might lose or not, he would write dozens of letters to his friends and family saying don't worry, if i lose it is fine. i have had the best run of anybody. he would not have to feel pity if you lost. fdr when he couldn't sleep at night, he had this amazing ritual where he would imagine himself a young boy wants more and his-- once more sled would go down the hill. here is this paralyzed

truman pops up in president bush's diary.nned by the level of popularity that unfold in the spring of 1991. he said, you know, 89%, 91% and bush said there's nothing like it since truman. here's the realist in him. he knew it was soft support. he foresaw economic problems ahead. he knew that americans moved on very quickly. that they didn't vote about the past. they voted about the future. he was a much more astute politician than he gets credit for, for being. the other great thing, everybody says how he was a terrible campaigner. from the very beginning it drove him crazy to be told that. there's a wonderful story about when he was running for the senate in texas the second time in 1970 he goes into a fundraiser and gives a talk and not wildly successful and he's coming out and the campaign volunteer with him says you need work on these speeches. and he said you're driving me. so there was a competitive streak in him too. i think the foreign policy legacy as been striking to me that's what people focused on. it doesn't surp

but historically, his parallel is with harry truman who think about this, we have one of two first -- one-term presidents who book ended america's long twilight struggle with the soviet union. you had truman who was run out of office in 1952 was almost universal universally low with approval ratings in the '20s and when he left office considered a failure and we look back and see it was truman that brought us nato, the marshall plan, the truman doctrine, the very things that contained the soviet union and on the other end of the cold war, you had george h.w. bush who actually managed remarkably the fall of the berlin wall in '89, the fall of the soviet union in '91 and doing it with grace and understanding it was no time to gloat and really, history will remember him as singularly responsible for a united germany. germans certainly believe that, that over the strenuous objections of the french and many other countries that did not want to see germany reunited, george h.w. bush knew that that was essential to balance for the balance of power in europe and it was for a new modern post c

truman" pulls into port.in months. their history-making mission was a strategic success but it was at times unsettling for the sailors and their family. >> daddy! >> reporter: we flew out to meet the sailors for their final days on board. from the flight deck, the size of four football fields, to the cramped hallways -- >> no one really knows what it's like to be on a ship. >> reporter: these young men and women in uniform were reflecting on their journey. what's the hardest thing about being at sea and being away from families? >> i'd probably say missing my first child's birth. >> reporter: for culinary specialist devin dias, his mission has been one of sacrifice. his wife, taylor, went into labor in october. i called my wife i was like baby, are you all right? everything good? she was like just having a baby. i was very fortunate to be on the phone with her during the birth so every screen, growl, push, i got to hear. what changed my perspective is i heard him when he first came out. i it brought tears to

truman actually been fired attorney general mcgrath, who fired the special assistant looking into this there is sort of a moment there. we will go back and forth to -- no doubt, the watergate resignation in the saturday night massacres, but the topics pick up quickly in the 70's -- in the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. we have come to today's subject which is at various moments and increasingly so, capturing the attention, rightfully so, of the nation. allow me to introduce our panel today. we have president jimmy carter's chief policy advisor, a writer of a recent well reviewed book which touches on the subject of today's program. in the clinton administration, he was u.s. ambassador to the european union undersecretary of commerce under secretary of state, deputy secretary of the treasury and special representative of the president on matters retaining the holocaust area issues, and in the obama and trump administration's he continues his work on the holocaust as a special advisor to the state department. professor jonathan turley, a nationally recognized legal scholar and analyst who i

truman" pulls into port.at haven't seen their families in months. >> go see daddy! >> their history making mission was a success but it was at times unsettling for sailors and their families. we flew out to meet the sailors for their final days on board. from the flight deck -- the size of four football fields -- to the cramped hallways. >> no one knows what it's like to be on a ship. >> these young men and women in uniform were reflecting on their journey. >> what's the hardest thing about being away from family? >> probably missing my first child's birth. >> this has been one of both excitement and sacrifice. devon's wife taylor went into labor in october. >> i called my wife i was like baby, you all right, is everything good? she'slike well, you know, i'm just having a baby. i got to hear everything, every growl, push i got to hear. i heard him when he cried. it brought tears to my eyes. >> this navy paralegal, faith guidry jackson, is worried about her children, too. >> i've been out of the loop for three

truman always said, not every reader will be a leader but every leader has to be a reader. >> brennan: you write as well though that in some ways founders fathers probably put a bit too much power in the presidency. >> they expected that the first president would be george washington, every later president would be like him. as we've seen not everyone turned out to be that way. but the thing the founders worried about most of all was that presidents would try to grab too much power. and through history that has sure turned out to be the case. one of the ways they have done that which i've written about is in war times, because war if you're looking for a president who gets more power in some cases abuses power, war is the quickest way to do it. i think the founders would have been very worried about the fact that a president nowadays can get america involved in war almost single-handedly. >> brennan: and get us out as well. >> absolutely. i think if they came back today they would feel that presidents nowadays have much too much power and they would feel that the job of every citizen

that the people of a given era may not appreciate it, with harry truman building the post war order, george h.w. bush being the last person who governored with a sense of consensus. there are any number of examples where history has become a kind of corrective to the impressions of the president. but without an ability to speak both through and above the press, no president can be successful. >> what about -- in connection with that, what about relationships with reporters? in the last panel they were talking about sometimes it got too cozy, it was -- it maybe stepped over the line. much of the time what we focus on is the adversarial relationship, what presidents always -- or almost always perceive as this hostile treatment that they're getting while they're in office. >> you know, there's -- wonderful examples on both sides. i think that the bottom line on this i think history tells us is that everybody is human and that we get this right sometimes and wrong other times. franklin roosevelt basically he was the founder of the modern press conference, the daily briefing. but they cou

harry truman was correct when he said that in the love of god and the love of mab will be found a solution to all the ills that afflict the world today. as much as we may wish to make our nation strong, it will never happen without observing the truth in proverbs. ighteous news exalts a nation. in a world of strife, we could use some peace and encouragement. christ said, quote, these things have i spoken to you that in me, you may have peace and in the world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer. wife overcome the world. we could use some love. jesus said, quote, this is my commandment. that you love one another as i have loved you, unquote. in a world that tells us there is no hope, we can find it in christ's commitment. quote, tribulation produces perseverance and per serverns and character and hope. now hope does not disappoint us because the love of god has been powered out in our hearts by the holy spirit who was given to us, who when we were without strength, christ died. in tarted 2,000 years ago bethlehem. luke 2. . 11. it is born to you this say a afer who is christ the l

truman as the aircraft carrier ended its months-long deployment before christmas.r country, their families left behind also make a sacrifice trying to make do without their loved ones for months at a time. we were given exclusive access aboard the truman in its final days at sea to get a look at what coming home is like for the crew members and families that are holding fast and often forgotten on the home front. >> reporter: homecomings like these, months in the making. while the sailors finishing their deployment on the u.s.s. truman signed up to serve often forgotten that their families by default do the same. take the jackson family. we first caught up with her on the ship. she reflected on how her husband lavon has handle her deployment. >> he's pretty much a single father. homework, taking them two to and from their different activities, taking them just out on the weekends to just, you know, get away from the house. just -- it's been hard on him, i know. >> reporter: from lavon's perspective back home. >> it's been crazy. it's been -- it's been real hard. >>

teapot dome, harry truman naming a special assistant to the attorney general looking at the bureau ofnternal revenue. 162 staff fired, no indictments. truman then fired the attorney general who had fired a special assistant looking into this. , noill go back and forth doubt, today. the watergate resignation, saturday night massacres. the topics pick up quickly in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. with that we have come to today's subject, which is at various moments and increasingly so capturing the attention of the nation. with that, allow me to introduce our panel. carter'sresident jimmy chief domestic policy advisor and the author of a recent well reviewed book which touches on .he subject of today's program in the clinton administration, he was u.s. ambassador to the european union, deputy secretary of the treasury and special representative of the president on matters pertaining to holocaust issues. in the trump administration, she continues. ey, assor jonathan turl scholar and legal analyst who is frequently appearing on network programs, has had a distinguished career as a lawyer . the

, harry truman left the presidency in 1952, 53, with a job approval rating of 22%. one of the worst measures. the lowest measure at that particular time. he's now considered one of the best five presidents or ten presidents. then on the list, in retrospect, looking at harry truman's presidency, he could have run for re-election in 1952, but chose not to, because he was so unpopular. and so he wasn't term limited out, because it didn't apply to him hen they changed the term limit law, but he didn't run because he was so unpopular. >> bus history looks back to see how did he do, and he comes out pretty well. >> do you want to -- >> well, ford, you know, ford i think was very unpopular with the press because he pardoned nixon. and there was a lot of criticism of ford. and he was probably our most athletic president. and as i said, and i remember one time, there was all of these stories about him tripping and falling or something like that. >> right. >> and ford said, those reporters, they get their exercise sitting on a bar stool. >> he liked the bar stool. that was hi

and he placed truman's famous slogan on his oval office desk the buck stops here. both presidents left office highly unpopular truman is remembered much more for his achievements than his faults and i hope my book will lead to a similar reassessment of jimmy carter as president not simply as a widely admired former president. my thesis is he was one of the most successful one term presidents in american history and indeed accomplished more than many into terms. to objective surveys indicate that almost 70 percent of all his legislative proposals were passed by congress just under the legendary percentage walter mondale summed up his presidency to say we tell the truth and we obey the law and we kept the peace but some dotted by several eyes of inflation, iran, and experience by he and the georgia mafia and interparty warfare with the kennedy wing of the democratic party. i do not gloss over any of these problems i address them directly. but with no eyewitnesses likely to be around the next 20 years and with that in the level image of his administration as a failure

franklin roosevelt launched the executive office of the presidency, and last week, looked at how harry truman expanded it with the national state.y dwight eisenhower, however, formalized it. he ran his office very much like he did the military. bureaucracy became a very entrenched component of the american presidency under eisenhower. for example, he had weekly cabinet meetings and he formed the office of congressional aaison so that he could have formal link to the legislative process. especially important because throughout the 1950's, the democratic party controlled congress. eisenhower recognized that to get things done, he needed to have a really smooth operation links with congress. but he also brought this organizational focus to the shifting media environment. the white house into a production studio. to do that, he worked very hollywood figures and madison avenue television advertisingnd companies to navigate the new medium of television that transformed american political communication during the 1950's. post-world war ii era is really a key moment to the rise of advertise entertain

he started in the white house for harry truman and went all the way up to president reagan. so he had quite a epic life. >> host: author wil haygood thanks for your time. >> keep an eye out for more interviews from the national press book fair to air in the future. you can watch them and any other programs in their entirety at booktv.org. type the author's name in the search bar at the top of the page. >> here are some of the best selling fiction books. according to publishers weekly. topping the something like this "becoming" michelle obama's reflections on her life. after that it's a collection of the late columnist charles krauthammer's essays in the the won't of it all. followed by a picture book on president trump and his response to hurricane florence by the staff of the late show with steven coal bear. in killing the ss, bill o'riley and martin dugard provide a history of the capture or nazi fugitives am and looking at the best selling non-fiction books, tara westover growing up in the idaho mountains and her introduction to formal education at 17, in "educated" some

one talked about it, and 12, 1945, use april the day of the funeral is the roosevelt died and harry trumanas sworn in as our next president of the united states. now we're inside the on the s import cabin missouri. it's for the captain of the issouri when the ship is in port specifically or when he's got visiting dignitaries and he to act as a diplomat in a foreign port. a memorial association has large historic collection. the collection is all the way to uss n day with the current missouri submarine. e've pulled out some artifacts for display the two you see here are two important pieces of the ship's history. hey are both fragments of the plane, kamikaze plane that hit the missouri in 1945. right was taken by a crew member and fashioned painted. paint and you've got two very different pieces of the plane but they on the ed up back here missouri. the next two things that we have are, play here today again, from the kamikaze attack on the missouri in the 1940s. these two artifacts are actually largerces from something and they were both recovered by h division which division of the missou

and then he said i'm going to the education and then i'm going to get harry truman's medicare through. and it during the first 18 months he figured out a vision of what the country would be like with the foundation of what the new deal was. so i don't know that they all had that. i'm just going to go back to what you were talking about james. we talk about we forget about the anxiety of these people and how they sleep at night. and lincoln, the way he could sleep in the midst of that terrible worry about the war was he would be reading a funny shakespeare comedy and he would go to his aid and read it aloud so he could laugh when he went to sleep, thinking about something funny, rather than thinking about the anxiety of the war. when teddy was worried about winning an election and what he might lose or not, he would write dozens of letters to his friends and family and say don't worry if i lose i have had the best run of anybody. so he wouldn't have to feel pity from the people if you lost. fdr, when he couldn't sleep at night, finally he had this amazing ritual where he would imagine

department says most of these crimes happened in neighborhoods all within a mile of each other including truman ave, elmhurst drive and oakhurst drive..sot: they probably hopped off of the freeway and said hey look let's hop in this town and see what we can get adding insult to injury--some people also left their electric garage door openers in their unlocked cars--making them even more vulnerable to theft..sot: you got to also take that garage door opener out because they will get into your garage and they can potentially get into house if you leave your door open as well. police say some other things to keep in mind include:-always locking your car doors-removing important personal belongings -and consider getting an alarm system if you don't have one. police say the city of los altos is often considered one of the safest cities in california--but criminals will take advantage no matter where you live. reporting in los altos dan thorn kron4 news. (robin) coming up on the kron 4 morning news... we continue to follow the services honoring former president george h-w bush this week. (robin) and

guest: well, with truman, korea drove truman out of the white house. it was general eisenhower who came in and decided that we are not going for victory, and you had a dmz, where two armies were lined up, and defend the -- threatened the chinese, and he got an armistice. in vietnam, you had a bunch of different stories. the chinese actually were not in vietnam. the north vietnamese were in the south. it is a very good question. i was not there, but i was writing speeches in the white house and working for nixon as an aide before he ran -- but you have to ask yourself afterwards, the vietnam war compost a lot of good things and held the line in southeast asia and this countries did not move toward communism from indonesia and did not move to the west. but should we have gone in in the first place? host: barbara perry, was richard nixon undercutting the johnson administration in trying to keep the war going through the election of 1968, saying, you will get a better deal with me? guest: that is what the historical literature says about that question. but

president truman added the national security agency in president eisenhower added the 1952. national reconnaissance office to coordinate activities regarding imagery from the spy planes and satellites. under kennedy, the defense department gets its own intelligence agency. dia is a major national agency of the intelligence immunity. as we discussed, it does important work in human intelligence and specialized technical intelligence. i got those important developments out of the way and twont to focus on the biggest intelligence subjects of the kennedy administration, which are the two major historical episodes that people remember. the bay of pigs fiasco and the cuban missile crisis. we have a fiasco and a crisis. they are both big problems. what they have in common is cuba. otherwise, they are vastly different problems. the bay of pigs fiasco was a cia covert paramilitary operation, specifically a regime change operation that went very badly. the cuban missile crisis, by contrast, was a confrontation of superpowers, the united states and the ussr, over nuclear weapons. what

one of the batteries in 31st division, inspired by the captain, anyone heard of harriers truman? it's shaped by this moment in time. it was just a generation ago where the argonne, until the people's spines because they knew the hardships and suffering and brutality of that engagement. too bad it's forgotten. we have the argonne by the memory. it kicks off in 26th of september, the americans do a great offensive maneuver of the music valley. in argonne, it doesn't go so well. they are using the terrain to their advantage. because a lot of casualties to push through there. it's moving forward and is having the desire affect that the commander hoped. they are being committed in the american sector. they are going to pour in and stop the american push. the germans see the threat the americans pose if we break through, the army is threatened. the third of the army is anyway. we call that a critical form or ability. i believe the senator -- the gravity was the reserve division. we can, we can't attack them directly but we can force the commitment and get them out of the way. that's ex

ticket as vice president and 48 and fully expected to be vice president of the united states when truman stunned the nation with the upset. but eisenhower and warren really did not know each other well. but eisenhower's intention was he considered more in a moderate republican as he considers himself a moderate republican and there was a vicious floor fight at the republican convention for robert taft to was the conservative candidate of the republican party and eisenhower was more moderate leaning at a very critical time during that convention , warren left one - - let the delegates push the nomination to eisenhower. eisenhower met with warren afterwards and saw eye-to-eye what they considered moderate and during the 52 campaign and did not know each other well. >> they came from different backgrounds that they had some similarities and differences. >> and eisenhower was one of five brothers. he was not particularly successful he was a mechanic in the creamery and in fact, eisenhower went to west point because he didn't have to pay to get in. war and grew up in bakersfield california an