when truman left for france, he is lieutenant truman. he received a promotion to captain and didn't find out about it for months. so when he left for europe, he had his tack box where he kept his equipment for his horse and on it, he had written in black print "lieutenant harry s. truman." once he found out he had been promoted to captain he wrote over the top of that. so it shows both the before and after his promotion in the service. the first thing truman did when he went to france was he was assigned to special advanced artillery training school at a small village in france. and these are some of the tools he would use and equipment that for his artillery training, includes slide rules and compasses and other things like that. he had his advanced training. and then he was sent and put in command of a battery. it was battery d of the 129th field artillery. they called them for battery d. these were mostly irish catholics, some german catholics from the kansas city area. and there were no one to be feisty. they had been under several c

truman was proud of this., when he set up his haberdashery business with eddie jacobson, truman displayed this in kansas city. other people from his unit would come in and it would be a place where they could gab about the war. when he came home, there is a nice photograph of part of battery d and the officers of the 129th field artillery with harry truman front and center in that photo. in june, 1919, harry truman one his greatest battle -- won his greatest battle when he married his longtime girlfriend. this is a photograph of the reception after the wedding. their wedding was on june 28, 1919, exactly five years to the day from when archduke frantz ferdinand was assassinated and the war began. june 28, 1919 was also the day that the versailles treaty was signed, ending the war. it was a very important day for truman on many accounts. truman was a woodrow wilson democrat. he believed in woodrow wilson's ideas of international organization. in world war i, the league of nations had failed. after world war ii,

that says a lot about harry truman, wheeler, murray. as i said, i think wheeler had these friends in both political parties. he was good humored. his son, edward, loved to tell the story that his father could look any person in the eye with a smile on his face and tell them to go directly to hell, and they would enjoy the trip. so in our age -- i'm getting ahead of myself here. in our age when we're searching what political pundits call authenticity in our political leaders, we really didn't have to search for authenticity when it comes to burton k. wheeler. he was willing, in fact, seemed unable to resist taking positions that demanded real political courage even in the face of opposition from his constituents back home. he was a genuine original, i think, a true political maverick, and he had a lifelong willingness to buck the trends, to buck his own party, to buck the president of his own party and to be truly courageous. you have to think long and hard, i think, to find his type in politics today, in the senate today. that is both a

truman would do a better job of managing u.s. involvement with the united nations than franklin roosevelt would have done. fundamentally he never really backtracked on his foreign policy views. in the 1960s he was speaking out against the war in vietnam. he called president eisenhower's chief of staff in the late 1950s to praise eisenhower for not using american military intervention in the suez crisis when egypt took over suez canal and great britain sent troops to wrest it back. he applauded eisenhower for not getting involved. he was very consistent about not using u.s. military force in that way, something that needless to say has become pretty commonplace every since. >> i hate to cut the discussion off. i think we could go on for quite a while. i want to give marc time to sign books out in the lobby. say thank you one more time for an excellent talk. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> tonight millennial journalists in their 20s and 30s on the future of their profession. a buzzfeed reporter talks about what it's like to be

truman. it's to take a provincial publication from missouri who hasn't thought much about the world who's kind of a local machine character and threw him on the ticket without thinking whether he could govern or lead that he was the best shot at making sure wallace wasn't on the ticket. fdr didn't really care as long as he was thrown on the ticket didn't prevent him from winning the election. deep down he probably knew he was going to die. i think that he thought he could cover through and win the war if it ended before his term he could resign and be the first secretary-general of the united nations. during the 82 days as vice president he meets with fdr twice .. and it doesn't get a single intelligence briefing or a single foreign leader he isn't briefed on the atomic bomb or right into the house. he's basically out of socializing. april 12, 1945 comey takes his last breath into truman inherits one of the most overwhelming portfolios of the crises of any president in history with less prepa

after fdr , harry truman would have to do it. in the second world war, fdr had to do it several times as i explained with his chief of staff over premature decisioning to launch d-day in 1942, and 1943. before american forces, not just the forces, but the combat commanders. they had shown that they could beat the market in open battle. 's is a tough enemy. so, i would say that fdr's contribution to military command is his willingness where he felt necessary to step in and save lives. i think that's what a president has to do. he has to think of the human equation, not just whether his military advisors should be allowed to go there and wait. at once having made his strategic decisions, fdr was truly remarkable in letting his team get on with the business. and the support that he gave to eisenhower once the das decision was reached. he is in direct contrast to the way that adolf hitler tended to interfere with the command decisions, especially in battle of his generals. >> let me go back to the center again. thank you very much. h

so he chose harry truman. often times, it has been writt written, that roosevelt just made it through the capillary choice of obscure senator from missouri. there is one account of the meeting that roosevelt and truman had after the democratic convention of 1944. they met on the south mounds of the white house, on the andrew jackson magnolia and had lunch. truman was shocked at how jittery fdr was and how old he looked at how wasted he looked even to have seen him at close range for some time. according to what truman said to one person in the circle, he said fdr told me after every great war, america needs a time of rest, and i chose you because there's a good chance you might become president. i want someone who is slightly right of center who could consolidate the changes that we have made. i think this is not an accidental choice by fdr. he had this very much in mind to someone who would serve the nation well if truman would become president. even fdr knew hugh there was a big chance he would. >> wallace a

your book whether it's madison or lincoln or wilson are roosevelt or truman or johnson, in each case, there is a slight lease set of circumstances in which the president has decided how to exercise his authority as commander-in-chief. and how to include or in some clay cases not include congress in the decision-making process. so could you talk a little bit about roosevelt's relationship with congress but also compare him with these others to some of the other stories are really quite incredible. sumac so it is happened again. anyone here, allowed to ask a question to this extremely literate audience. anything at work question mark 1942. couple of nations, year after pearl harbor, have we been in any war since 1942? [laughter] someone has not been reading the constitution for the last number of decades. fdr is sort of at the center of this because he had to deal with the result of woodrow wilson. he took us into world war i without really explaining it to americans. either before or during the war. then at the end of the war, suddenly, essentially announced we want to do a piece organ

after fdr, harry truman would have to do it. with macarthur. the second world war, fdr had to do it several times as i explained, with his chief of staff, older over premature them decisions to launch the day in 1942, and 1943, before american forces, not just the forces that the combat commanders. they had shown that they could be them in open battle only had a very big expert right here so, i would say that fdr's great contribution, to military command, is his willingness, where he felt necessary to step in, to save lives. i think that is what a president, often has to do. he has to think of the human equation. not just whether his advisors are military advisor should be allowed to go their own way. but once having made his strategic decisions, fdr was truly remarkable in letting his team get on with business. and the support that he gave eisenhower, once the d-day decision was reached, it was really exemplary, and direct contrast as you pointed out to the way, that adolf hitler, tended to interfere with the commander decisions, especially in

after fdr, harry truman would have to do it. with macarthur. in the second world war, fdr had to do it several times, as i explained, with his chiefs of staff over premature decision -- premature decisions to launch d-day in 1942, in 1943, before american forces not just the forces but the combat commanders had shown that they could beat them in open battle and we have one of the great experts right here. tough enemy. and so i would say that fdr's great contribution to military command is his willingness where he felt necessary to stay in, to save lives. i think that's what a president often has to do. he has to think of the human equation. not just whether his advisers, military advisors should be allowed to go there. but once having made his strategic decisions, fdr was truly remarkable in letting his team get on with the business. and the support that he gave to eisenhower once the d-day decision was reached at cairo and tehran was really exemplary, and is in direct contrast, as you pointed out, to the way that adolf hitler tended to interfe

truman had a short name like truman, you know, like two syllable. i don't remember.ame. i think the characters in "juno" didn't have long last names like that. "rudy" i've never seen. >> we should see that. >> yeah, um... >> see, tangents run in the family. >> anyway, doesn't matter. it's "mad max." it's one of the "mad max" movies. >> okay, you know what? i trust idris implicitly, especially in matters of trivia. so i will go with him--d, "mad max," final answer. >> that's a great plus one right there. you nailed it! >> ha ha ha ha ha ha! >> got it, idris. well done. llon [cheerd se] >> oh, my goodness. >> $30,000. big step. $50,000 is next. next threshold you can get to guarantees you 50 grand, a free shot at $100,000. and you still have one lifeline. here it is, your $50,000 question. [dramatic musical flourish] ♪ native to chile and argentina, the pudu is the world's smallest species of what, tending to be only about 12 inches tall at the shoulder in adulthood? [suspenseful music] ♪ >> native to chile and argentina... tending to be only about 12 inches tall at th

unlike earlier proposals, truman's was universal and would have covered everyone. polls show that initially, the majority of the public supported the idea of health insurance for all via the social security system. hello. there is nobody there. but this was also the start of the cold war. when hearings began, senate leaders called truman's planned the most socialistic measure that this congress has ever had before it. this kind of attack was familiar from three decades earlier, but something new was that the american medical association ran a campaign telling the public to fear socialized medicine. this was the first pr campaign of its kind. it may have been the most successful, because after three years, public support went down to 20% and truman's plan for national insurance never made it to a vote. again, the reaction change the -- changed the health care system. congress agreed to just one part ,f truman's larger program federal funding for hospital construction. this was the the hill burton act of 1946, which opponents supported because it provided for constru

truman hadn't been kept in the loop on anything.wonder going back to what you were saying how earlier he became ill. if he had passed a year earlier than he did, was the vice president at the time kept in the loop, did he know what was going on and who would have taken over in terms of the military strategy? >> i think his genius was to bring people around him of all persuasions after all if you think the secretary of the war was the republican secretary of the navy was a republican, people of all parties and persuasions and combined them in a common cause is no main undertaking. that is leadership at the very highest level. and yet, within the committee is reluctant to as it so often happens with opposition to bring on others who may take his place. it's almost a form of denial psychologically. i'm not a psychologist but it may be you just don't like to think that you would have to step off the stage. wallace had been loyal to him but he didn't think that he could command the support of the nation so when it came to roosevelt stand

it goes into the early 1900s, but harry truman thought it was a good idea. i think it is a good idea because denmark is losing $700 million a year with it. it does not do them any good. all they had to do was say no, we would rather not do that, or we would rather not talk about it. do not say what an absurd idea. he is not talking to me. , she isot talking to me talking to the united states of america. do not talk to the united states that way, at least under me. president obama, when they would not let him land in the philippines and when they greeted him so badly, the philippines is the one that comes to mind, that is different. they can treat him anyway they want to, that is up to him. they cannot treat the united states with the same -- with the statement how absurd. >> let your wife do it. who is the boss? >> i am the boss. pres. trump: i agree. go ahead. we have a lot of people. regard to background checks, why should anyone who wants to go -- once the buyable -- by a gun in pres. trump: the background checks? pres. trump:pres. trump: i want people to

president truman said what about greenland? he talked about it openly and i brought it up and it was discussed many other times and i thought it was not a nice statement the way she blew me off because she is blowing off the united states and we have done a lot for denmark. i know denmark well. i have many friends from denmark and many people from denmark that live in the united states. we treat countries with respect. she shouldn't treat the united states that way by saying one of -- she said -- absurd. that is not the right word to use. absurd. [indiscernible] >> louder. [indiscernible] >> well if you remember, president obama built the cells. he built the cages you people always talk about and attribute to me. president obama in 2014 built those cages and you were very embarrassed when the new york times as usual and others put a picture of the cage and said how bad trump was only to find out that it was president obama who built those cages, so president obama had separation. i am the one that brought them together. this ne

truman, reagan, and george w. bush are the only three presidents besides trump to achieve it. in that sense, trump is in relatively exclusive company. a second take away from the chart is that the changes overseen by trump actually track most closely with john f. kennedy excepting kennedy's third and final year, the level of defense spending in percentage terms declined whereas trump is on track to achieve increases for a third year, as i mentioned finally. the third and final take away from this chart is that if there is one president since world war ii who deserves to have the moniker historic it is harry s truman. the annual percentage changes he oversaw while preparing and entering the korean war and executing national security 68 to increasee competition against the soviet union are literally off the chart. so much so that i had to build another chart to show you how truman's changes in percentage terms compared to every other president since world war ii. the main take away here is that if we are talking about historic changes in defense spending, we better be talking ab

president truman said what about greenland? he talked about it very openly and is a big deal at the time. and i brought up again and it was discussed many of the times, and i thought it was not a nice weight the way she blew me off because she's blowing off the united states. we've done a lot for denmark. we done a lot i know denmark well. i have many friends from denmark, many people from denmark to live in the united states, and we treat countries with respect. she shouldn't treat the united states that way by saying what -- she said absurd. it's not the right word to use, absurd. [inaudible] >> louder. [inaudible] >> well, if you remember, resident obama had separation. president obama built the cells that he built the cages that you people always talk about and attribute them to me. president obama in 2014 built those cages and you are very embarrassed when the "new york times" as usual, and others, put a picture of a cage who said how bad trump was. only to find it he doesn't -- was as obama who built those cages. the pres

truman. the annual percentage changes he oversaw while preparing and entering the korean war and executing national security strategy and se68 to increase competition against the soviet union are literally off the chart. so much so, that i had to build another chart to show you how truman's changes in percentage terms compared to every other president since world war ii. the main take away here is that if we are talking about historic changes in defense spending, we better be talking about harry s. truman. now, i will pivot you talking about the third question in the report, the most important question in many senses. that is whether or not dollars follow the strategy. the argument i make in the report is that we need to develop diagnostic tests in order to try to assess whether or not strategy and budgets match. when i say diagnostic, i am using it in a medical sense. we are trying to evaluate whether the budget and strategy match. the problem is that there is no well-defined way of doing th

we declassified all of trumans.we are working on eisenhower's we declassified all of kennedy's, johnson's, nixon's and ford's and we are about to start on carter's. these are available on the cia public website. i hope you fight this surprising . we would generally think that when a president is elected or reelected that he would clean house. start afresh. you never have a hold over secretary of defense or secretary of state or secretary of whatever from a previous administration. it's not done. what does that pattern hold with the cia? we've had 12 transitions since truman starting in 52/53. in only six of them have presidents picked new directors. i color-coded these blue and red ford democratic and republican to see if some partisan angle could be developed and i'm not seeing one. let's take out one anomaly if you will. you may expect that a new president appoints a new director because he's the satisfied with the old one or he has a new foreign policy agenda or he thinks the incumbent is politically tied to the

truman used to invite fred to be chief justice and they discussed all matters with politics. what was happening, fordyce was on this pick comic shift taking place under his feet and the rule that guard washington that was changing on the spot. i was hearing about this and this reminded me of the nanny gate scandal. these ethical rules were the norm and just changing. that was another thing that the opposition to pre-demanding more from was a cultural issue on the day was obscenity. pornography, what they called smart. give a social relation going on in the 60s and playboy is the second most subscribe in the arethe airhugh hefner is becomia household name. he of older americans over traditional views of these things and pulls used to show about three quarters of american opposed pornography in their communities. in the court was stuck in the middle. they've developed the first moment rights of the content providers industry readers of this, material but also give the way to these communities to keep up adult materials from the neighborhood. it was impossible to do. because wha

and last week we looked at how harry truman expanded it with lo the national securityoked a sta dwight eisenhower, however, formalized it. he ran his office very much like he did the military. the bureaucracyri becamety a ve entrenched and well focused and executed component of the american presidency under eisenhower. in for example, he had weekly cabinet meetings and he formed a the office of congressionald gd liaison so he could have a formal link to the legislative process.coul and this was especially important becausese throughoutlk 1950s the democratic party controlled congress.1950 sos, eisenhower recognized thato get things done he needed to gnd have a really smooth operation indo terms of links with congre but he also brought this organizational focus to this shifting media environment and transformed the white house into a production studio. and to do that he worked very wd closely with hollywood figures and madison avenue television executives and companies to navigate the new mass medium of television that ultimately really transformed american political communication durin

>> i also noticed the visuals were important because there was an allusion to harry truman within the even though he wasn't up for president. i think unlike the democratic ads we saw earlier in the lecture, the visuals for i like ike are very important for selling the message of the advertisement. >> so they are selling the critique of the democratic party here. but the emphasis is definitely on that positive message, that you don't want to be part of that democratic party and truman and what has been for 20 years. you want to be part of the future. >> i have two points. first, to continue on the visual point, it really helps with the rewatch ability. i could probably recite, not the bob van bit, but the other piece i could probably recite that from memory after watching it once. but i like ike, it has all these subtleties. i didn't even catch it the first three times i watched the video and i watched it many times. but also it is very personalizing, digging into sort of, i don't know if this had been explored in psychology yet, but the idea of peer pressure. i like ike, why don't you

it's fun. >> you think it's the truman show. >> yes. >> the truman show would be like a comedy. >> thiso be our president. >> every single u.s. president would acquire greenland if they had the chance. two past u.s. presidents tried to acquire greenland. that's not absurd. he is open to this. you know who is nasty? the danish leader was nasty. all she had to say was we love greenland. i appreciate the fact that the president of the united states also has loving feelings towards this part of the world. maybe we can discuss it when we have this meeting which i expect can go great to solidify u.s. and danish relationships. she rudely dismissed it as absurd. >> i would use it to extract concessions from the united states. they are under-budget on their nato dues by a couple of billion dollars. string trump along. >> hey, greg. >> there are people in greenland. she said you can't buy people. >> [overlapping talking]. >> [laughing]. >> that's absurd. >> russia is a huge threat but the acquisition of greenland would deter russia. >> you should be the next ambassador to greenland or the governo

the story becomes a major issue in the african american press and eventually reaches eric truman.e is outraged the a battlefield decorated soldier has been treated this way. he directs the prosecution of the police chief. in 1946, they are not prosecutions of white cops for speeding black citizens. this is an extraordinary event in the south. or anywhere. truman is so moved by the story of the beating of isaac woodard the in the letter in which he writes the attorney general and directs the prosecution, he also says, we need to do more than just prosecute. we need to establish a presidential committee on civil rights. out of the committee, comes the disaggregation of the armed forces of the united states. triggered by the incident by quarter. the case is tried before the united states district judge in charleston, who never had a particular interest of race and justice, went the all weight all-male jury acquitted the police officer in 28 minutes, he is horrified and it sends him on a jury of study and reflection. the eventually makes him the first of the great southern civil right

was surmounted by none other than harry truman at that time , not pres. harry truman. after delivering a speech in 1934, the future president of united states a learned about this iowa republicans interest in history. when induced truman grabbed the lapels of fred's coat and said something like "you got to know your history young man, if you want to be a good citizen" fred took that advice to heart. when he was elected to congress in 1954, he immersed himself in legislative affairs to commemorate a history. in 1962 he launched the u.s. capital historical society. since then the society has led an outstanding effort to educate the public about the history and heritage of our nation's legislative branch and the u.s. capital. stories are told that you never had a dig around the u.s. capitol building. if there was a whole, fred was in the whole trying to find the cornerstone. the original cornerstone of the u.s. capital. i don't know how may times he took me on tours of the capital, and told me things i have since forgotten and wish i could've remembered. it is so importan

>> i also noticed how the visuals were important because there was an illusion to harry truman whiche trail with stephenson although not up for election, of course. so unlike the democratic ads we saw earlier in the lecture, the visuals for "i like ike" are very important for selling the message of the advertisement. >> uh-huh. so there still is a critique of the democratic party in here. but the emphasis is definitely on that positive message that, you don't want to be a part of that democratic party and truman and what's onbeen runnin for 20 years. you want to be a part of this party of the future. >> well, i have two points. first, to continue on the visual point, it really helps with the rewatchable. it's like, i could probably recite not ta bob and ike bit because that was too important to pay attention to. but the other piece, i could probably resite that from th memory after watching it once. but "i like ike," it has all these visual subtleties like adalaid stephenson on a donkey riding on the background in sill wet that i didn't even catch that the first three times i watched

truman really inherited roosevelt administration. and throughout the rest of the war he did what ever it was he believed roosevelt would have done. he hadn't really found his feet underneath them and he didn't fundamentally start doing different things or breaking from what he thought roosevelt would do. so, ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for coming out. we will see you next time. [ applause ] >>> all week we are featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what is available every weekend on c- span 3. lectures in history, american artifacts, real america, the civil war, oral histories, the presidency, and special event coverage on our nation's history. enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span 3. >>> weeknights this month we are featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span 3. wednesday a look at a recent conference held at purdue university titled remaking american political history. we will feature programs from the gathering focusing on u.s. poli

>> did things change and did the dynamic change when truman became president? >> when truman becomes president in april 1945 when most of the fighting was already over. truman was instrumental in the peace process between germany and japan and as you well know, the decision to drop the atomic bomb on japan and so truman really inherited roosevelt administration and throughout the rest of the war he believed what roosevelt would have done, and he didn't fundamentally start doing different things or breaking from what he thought roosevelt would do. ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for coming out. [ applause ] we'll see you next time. >> all week. we're featuring american history program of what's available every weekend on c-span3. lectures in history. american artifact, real america and the civil war, oral history, the presidency and special event coverage about our nation's history. enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span3. american history tv products are now available at the new c-span online store. go to c-span store.org to see ameri

he was a crony of harry truman's. he made it clear when he took the job he only wanted to serve a few months because he wanted to go back and run the piggly wiggly grocery chain in missouri which whence he came. though he wasn't an experienced intelligence officer, served as an at shtache. he was an experienced leader but he wanted a figurehead new cig, central intelligence group up and run. okay. let's see. i am the only convicted felon. richard helms regrettably. he was caught in what i have to say was a pretty nasty gotcha episode. he was testifying before senate confirmation hearing before he went out to become ambassador to iran. he was asked by a senator, who knew full well what the answer was but for whatever reason was grandstanding to the public, did we try to covertly overthrow the government of chile. this was an open hearing. richard helms should have said i can't answer that in public, we have to go into private session. for reasons he never explained to me, i helped him with his memoir and writing, he go

he writes a stirring account of truman's come from behind campaign in 1948 devoting 135 pages to this thrilling victory. a lesson for anyone running for office you truly cannot be her own person. you can do it your way and despite what the experts say when they tell you you can't win, you can. please help me to welcome back again david mccullough. [applause] >> thank you. thank you governor and all of you. i have never in my life have had such a warmhearted and up lifting appreciated welcome as we have had since we arrived in ohio several days ago. we can talk about the pioneers of marietta and now in columbus. the generosity and the spirits and the honesty and the decency that so many of us grew up on is so prevalent and apparent in part of the everyday life of your state that i hope you don't ever take it for granted and keep it going. you are wonderful. thank you. [applause] don't get too big for your britches. i think the dedication to community and to family which are so important are major objectives in the civilization that the predecessors are so espoused. i came upon this sub

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president truman said what about greenland?nly and it was a big deal at the time. i brought it up again and it was discussed many other times. i thought it was not a nice statement the way she blew me off. we've done a lot for denmark. i know denmark well. i have many friends from denmark. an sur. she said absurd. that's not the right word to use. absurd. louder. the if you remember, president obama had separation. president obama built the cells. he built the cages that you people always talk about and attribute them to me. president obama in 2014 built those cages. and you were very embarrassed when "the new york times" as usual, and others, put a picture of a cage and they said how bad trump was, only to find out that it was president obama that built those cages. so president obama had separation. i'm the one that brought them together. this new rule will do even more to bring them together. but it was president obama that had the separation. we're being very strong on the border. you see the numbers are way, way down. i wa

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he said truman, like it was the end of the world.nd i don't know, 30 years later, i was back home. we sat down to have a chat after dinner. and he started telling me about how the world was going to hell and the country was going to hell, and then he paused and he said too bad old harry isn't still in the white house. [laughter] >> and that's what happens. the dust settles, and you see them differently. you judge them differently and he himself said that you have to wait 50 years. but with this book, i was writing about people you never heard of and nobody's ever heard of, including historians. and i had dreamed of doing that some day. why would i need to have a celebrity in the past saying help me get everybody in the tent? let's just do it on the story that's there to be told. i was hugely influenced when i was in college. i loved "our town". >> this is at yale. >> at yale. "our town" is a classic american masterpie masterpiece. could i ever find a situation, a story where there was sufficient the early to tell the story in their l

truman didn't like the system. they didn't pull it out, but truman didn't like it. he tried once or twice. what you get in the truman administration is the maid cleaning the desk inadvertently turns it on. you don't get much out of truman. eisenhower, he taped the president, he taped people he tended not to trust. it's very selective. kennedy tended to tape recreational activity. and those tapes were removed -- huh? huh? pretty good. they were removed by robert kennedy the day kennedy -- the day jack kennedy was assassinated. he went in and took the system and the tapes. and they stayed in private hands until after the government seized nixon. and they approached the are kierchs aare kierc archives, you know we have tapes. they have filtering devices and ultimately they have donated some to the archives. and we have no idea whether there are some held back, whether they were doctored but they're clearly tapes. johnson took a different approach. what he looked to do is tape conversation negotiating for votes. he'd call his staff and say see i have his vote. there's a

president truman said, "what about greenland?" he talked about it very openly and it was a big deal at the time. i brought it up again and it was discussed many other times. i thought it was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off. because she's blowing off the united states. and we've done a lot for denmark. we've done a lot. i know denmark well. i have many friends from denmark. many people from denmark that live in the united states. and we treat countries with respect. she couldn't stomach shouldn't shouldn't treat the united states by way. she said "absurd." that's not the right word to use. >> reporter: [indistinct] >> president trump: louder. >> reporter: why is it acceptable -- [indistinct] >> president trump: if you remember, president obama had separation. he built the cells, the cages you people always talk about. and attributes them to me. president obama, in 2014, built those cages. and you were very embarrassed when "the new york times," as usual, and others, but a picture of a cage and they said how bad trump

harry truman was one of his closest friends in the senate.e becomes a member of wheeler's committee. wheeler takes him under his wing. he befriends him, gives him an opportunity to be involved in major legislation and they become fast friends for the rest of their lives. i mentioned that he was a close friend of huey long's, he was often a guest in wheeler's home. and of course, his relationship with love fall at, and his son who replaces father in the senate. i believe that it was 19 34, he leaves the campaign trail for several days to travel to wisconsin so he can campaign for a republican running for the u.s. senate. unheard-of in our time. he was on a first name basis with norman thomas, the socialist party candidate for president of the united states. he voted for thomas for president in 1940. the journalist to win a pulitzer prize covered the senate as a republican reporter in the 1930s and knew wheeler quite well. he wrote a book about him and he said he was the most likable man he had encountered. wheeler was not a pacifist in the sen

air force space command harry truman trump is also not the 1st u.s. president to try and by greenland the last time was in 104600 president harry truman and before that in 1967 right after the u.s. completed the purchase of alaska from russia. despite donald trump's last minute cancellation of his trip to denmark he says he loves the country and expects to return to add another time but not until he says he sees improved respect shown to the united states can really help get al-jazeera the white house well john robert clemmensen joins me now from copenhagen he's an associate professor at the royal danish defense college thanks for being with us on the program from purely strategic perspective does it make sense that donald trump wants the u.s. to buy green and. well it would make sense for the u.s. to be very interested in greenland because as as your reporter just mentioned the u.s. has a strategic. strategically important base in northern greenland that's part of the missile defense system but the u.s. has been caught netting over the past decade it

when hoover -- when truman left, eisenhower came in, and hoover eisenhower'sh both residential terms. through the rise of civil rights politics, he stayed on through john f. kennedy. after kennedy was assassinated in 1963, he stayed on for lyndon johnson's presidency. when lyndon johnson left office, he stayed on through richard nixon's presidency. and finally died in the position of fbi director in may of 1972. throughout this period, as you can see, hoover lasted -- one of the great themes in this world of bipartisan politics, he lasted through eight presidents, through two dozen attorneys general, republicans and democrats alike. he was, of course, never elected to this position, but was reappointed repeatedly. over the course of his career he built the fbi from being a rather small and insignificant bureaucracy -- the investigative ,ing of the justice department into a substantial part of the security state and an institution that was created wholly within his own control and his own image. -- and in his own image. thatnswer to how he did tends to emphasize a lot of these kind of

truman didn't like the system. they didn't pull it out, but truman didn't like it. he tried it once or twice. so what you get under the truman administration is the maid cleaning the desk that inadvertently turns it on. you don't get much out of truman. eisenhower taped. he taped as a general. he taped as a president. he tended to tape people he didn't trust. so it's very selective. kennedy tended to tape recreational activities. and those tapes were removed -- [ laughter ] pretty good. they were removed by robert kennedy the day kennedy was assassinated. he went in and took the system and the tapes. they stayed in private hands until after the government seized nixon's. then they approached the archives and said, we may have some tapes, but we're not turning them over until we know what's on them. so maybe you can help us to decipher. you know, you have filtering devices and that sort of thing. ultimately, they have donated some to the archives, but we have no idea whether there are others that have been held back, whether they've been doctored, but there were clea

did not want and truman was very angry and said that's the worst decision that i ever made. but he also coined the fed's job to take away the punch bowl. i don't recall kennedy did a lot but chesney martin actually resisted to lower rates under kennedy that johnson put the cabanas on and they were at all loggerhead. but i don't think kennedy was so successful to jawbone but those i got to them with my recollection. that's a different book and a different topic. >> we have time for a couple more questions. >> what is the panel prognosis that are advocating to quadruple capital gains tax rate with the low unemployment rate? by the way voelker one --dash one --dash. [inaudible] >> i am not an economist if you know the tax capital more you get less capital return and less capital investment in the end sooner or later it will affect productivity if that is eroded than the growth in the economy becomes eroded. you focus glass but not mentioning steagall at all. so the question for me is mister abernathy says there was no data to support the separation. how do they sell that in the

the reality and it's stupid so why would president truman be interested in buying a place with a population less than a 10th that of washington d.c. where the island is rich in various minerals including coal zinc copper and iron ore or perhaps he thinks it could provide a handy strategic outpost whatever his motivations may or may not be denmark's response suggests he'll have to put the idea on ice let's take a look at some of the other global business stories making news. general electric stock rebounded friday after the company's c.e.o. bought nearly 2000000000 dollars in shares as well as market analysts speaking out to defend the company's financials shares in the us industrial giant had plummeted thursday afternoon counting expert accuse the company of concealing huge losses. turkey's military pension fund has reached a provisional agreement to take over british steel it hopes the deal will close by the end of the year britain's 2nd largest steelmaker employs 5000 workers and another 20000 and directly it was put into compulsory liquidation in may when its current owners fail to find