and said let him stay there, what i really learned the most about harry truman was truman put really good people in place, personnel was policy, truman put good people in place and then he trusted them. and we have known for 15 years, the last four years, he had just said something shocking, and donald, who do you know close to you that is a good advisor that you could listen to whose advice you can take whenever you have to make a tough decision. >> and i didn't do it. and i hired you because speaking of personnel, you have been in washington and you know the best people and your job is to make me the dumbest guy in the room in every meeting we have and he laughed and it is not going to be that easy. i always seem to be learning. always have to have smart people around me. i always need people to guide me. in researching this book. he kept the best people, and kept the best people around him and when they came and gave him advice, after some would draft something up, henderson would dress up and bring it over, truman would read it and say get it done. that is what i appreciate about

and what i really learned the most about harry truman in this book was the fact that truman put really good people in place. that personnel was policy. truman put people in place and then he trusted them . i remember five years ago maybe during the campaign donald trump who we had known for about 15 years, the last four years has been longer than the first 11 but i remember he had just said something shocking and he came on our show the next day and i said donald, who do you know close to you that is a good advisor that you can listen to whose advice you can take whenever you have to make a tough decision and i had three people when i was a 31-year-old member of congress and my will was these three people told me not to dosomething i wouldn't do it . i'd have to convince them, i told my chief of staff early on i got there and i was young and i didn't know anybody and i called my chief of staff and i said i'm hiring you because you've been in washington, you know the best people to get and i said your job is to make the dumbest guy in the room in every meeting we have and he laughed and

interestingly truman did come across the manhattan project when he was a senator in charge of the truman committee looking on all responded you're in world war ii. you're getting too much detail to see the budget numbers about the project, stanton is actually the person that warned him off and saying you can invest you can't investigate that anymore but go. course now is president and stimson tells him more about the project. it's interesting to that in those 82 days as vice president, truman did not know about the manhattan project. it takes him becoming president before he is told about the project. at this point is not done a successful test but the work has been going on in two or three different locations actually as they start to develop an atomic bomb that will hear more about during the rest of this evening's presentation. this is the first document i want to share with you and the ten artifacts i want to show tonight. it really provides the context of when truman first finds out about the manhattan project. and those interesting anecdotes that he didn't know while he was vice pr

truman gave his word truman was not going to back down. talk about the diary entries and it was obviously truman's diaries, he was almost heartbroken to be in conflict what he was in because he respected marshall more than any other person in washington d.c. but marshall was so concerned he wrote in his diary that he did vote in election but if he did, and if mary truman followed him through with this recognition of israel that he would vote against harry truman in the next election, which you read and it jumps off the page, everything these two leaders have been through over the past several years, it really was shocking. truman followed so it took 11 minutes after the recognition of israel for the united states to recognize israel as well. and it guaranteed existence of israel. >> we are getting an avalanche of great questions so i will resist temptations to talk about this with you and start asking questions. was the election of dwight out in higher eisenhower in his term or something else? >> it dwight eisenhower, he would have been an

and those that work at the truman library have become familiar over time of truman's handwriting. and this, of course, is when he's first meeting joseph stalin in this particular diary entry. we have other entries from july the 18th the next day when he meets churchill. from july 25th when he goes into a lot more detail about the atomic bomb testing. but he does mention it in this -- this one page of his diary. and he's talking to stalin about the different negotiations that are going to come up and is setting the agenda. so this is very much at the beginning of the potstown conference. and they're talking about china and they're talking about the soviets coming into the japanese ward august 15th which is one of truman's goals of potstown to get the soviets to join but he has a cryptic phrase in here, and he asked him about the agenda and he told truman says i told him, this is about halfway down, i told him to fire away. he did. and it is dynamite. but then truman says but i have some dynamite too, which i'm not exploding now so he kind of has this cryptic reference to dynamite a

truman's diaries were terrific.e was first of all a very good diary keeper as was president reagan and also a very good writer as was reagan. he said a lot of things in those diaries that give you the inner conversation. one of the segments i found interesting is, and it's different than most people's perception of truman because he is famously thought of as this very decisive man, the buck stops here. he made a decision and he never look back on it. he never looked back on this. it always defended and said i would do it again. but as is making the decision in germany at a summit conference with churchill and stalin in july of the 45, he was really struggling with this decision turkey was having trouble sleeping at night. he complained of fierce headaches which he had whenever he was under stress in his career. in his diary he keeps talking about this terrible weapon and he describes it in apocalyptic terms. he describes it as the fire destruction prophecy in the bible. he made the decision and as i said he never lo

truman.k the oath as the first president nearly 160 years ago. ♪ the colorful pageant moves on. inauguration day of 1949 expresses the mood of the nation, a country striving for a peaceful world yet mindful of the military needs to make and keep that peace. in harry truman's own words, it marks the beginning of not only a new administration, but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive, for the united states and for the world. ♪

truman, do solemnly swear. >> i harry s.man, do solemnly swear. >> you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> and will to the best of your ability. >> and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. [applause] narrator: to the nation and the world, a solemn, resolute president, declares. >> mr. vice president, mr. chief justice, fellow citizens, i accept, with humility, the honor which the american people have conferred upon me. i accept this with the resolve to do all that i can for the welfare of this nation and for the peace of the world. the american people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this nation from the beginning. we believe that all men have a right to equal justice under law and equal opportunity to share in the -- we believe t

truman.k the oath as the first president nearly 160 years ago. ♪ the colorful pageant moves on. inauguration day of 1949 expresses the mood of the nation, a country striving for a peaceful world yet mindful of the military needs to make and keep that peace. in harry truman's own words, it marks the beginning of not only a new administration, but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive, for the united states and for the world. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> the honor of your presence is requested at the ceremonies attending the inauguration of the president and vice president of the united states, january 21, 1957, committee on arraem

truman's were terrific.he was first of all a very good dietary keeper and a very good writer as was reagan. he said a lot of things that give you the inner conversation. one of the things i found interesting and it's different than i think most people's perception of truman because he's famously thought of as this the buck stops here, he made a decision and never looked back on it. he never looked back on this. he defended and said i would keep doing it again and again. but as he is doing this with stalin in july of 45, he was really struggling with the decision. he was having trouble sleeping at night. he complained of headaches that he had whenever he was under stress in his career. and in his diary he keeps talking about a terrible weapon. and he describes it in an apocalyptic term. he describes a it as the fire destruction prophecies in the bible so you know, he made the decision and never looked back. he gave it the inner turmoil and struggling that i think he should have. he wrestled with it. >> tough

truman, do solemnly swear -- >> i harry s.man do solemnly swear. >> you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> and will to the best of your ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. [ applause ] >> through the nation and the world, a solemn resolute president declares -- >> mr. vice president, mr. chief justice, fellow citizens, i accept with humility the honor in which the american people have conferred upon me, i accept it with the resolve to do all that i can, for the welfare of this nation and for the peace of the world. the american people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this nation from the beginning. we believe that all men have a right to equal justice under law and equal opportunity to share in the common good.

buttons honoring hari s truman. the elected president of the united states. mrs.n, elvin barkley's daughter, the president elect, and chief executive depart for the inaugural ceremony. the man from missouri, to take his oath of all office. in capital plaza, more than 100,000 people are on hand to witness this. even more on television, and hear over worldwide radio. the distinguished guests are admiral nimitz, admiral halsey, and general levy. supreme court justices, attend and mostly followed by the presidential party. and the chief executives wife's and daughters. a battery of motion pictures cameras arrive. alvin berkeley of kentucky, for 36 years, has taken his vice presidential oath of office. >> so help me god. >> then hurry as truman is sworn in, we buy that sheaf justice. >> raise your right hand. do you hurry as truman, solemnly swear, that you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of the presidency of the united states. >> and will to the best of your ability. >> and will to the

truman -- leads the procession. he takes his oath of office. this formally recording the most prolific -- in united states history. in the capital, more than 100,000 people are there to witness the event. more than 1 million more are there to witness it on television. marine corps -- go united nations secretary, generally, the supreme court justices go down the steps of the platform, accompanied by the chief executive wife and daughter. a battery of motion picture television's record the event. well then of kentucky, a member of congress for 26 years has taken his presidential oath of office. >> so help me god. then harry as truman is granted -- today president of united states. you harry esther men do you solemnly swear. >> i hairy as tremendous only swear. >> to take the president of the united states. >> that i will execute the office of the president of the united states. >> and will do the best of my ability. >> defend, protect, the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. [applause] >> to the nation and th

truman, who steps forward to repeat with dignity. pres.i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states, so help me god. >> the simple ceremony over, the president prepares to deliver his inaugural day address. pres. truman: democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as the inalienable rights to govern himself with freedom and -- with reason and justice. with god's help, the future of mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony, and peace. [applause] >> the spell is broken. the cheering crowds turn away. in the celebration turns to gaiety and joyous greeting. as planes roar their salute overhead, the parade headed by the president marched down historic pennsylvania avenue. almost one million spectators crowd every street as they eagerly await the colorful, spectacular parade. in the march, are the great and the humble. generals and admirals, and high scho

truman was publicly noncommittal.he denied, however implausibly, any knowledge of what churchill was going to say. he was president of the united states, but on that day he was a supporting player to the most famous statesman on earth. did he feel as the british journalist allison cook suspected at the time wistful envy in the immense shadow of churchill? cook thought later that the truman doctrine was conceived as the president listened to churchill's call to action. one can only wonder, but there was a pleasing historical symmetry to the fact that precisely one year later the president would announce his own vision for confronting the new scourge of communist tyranny. churchill would indeed return to downing street as prime minister in 1951 and would focus almost all of his remaining energies on brokering a peace with the russians, but he in his country would play only a supporting role in the drama to come without either of them being fully aware of t tit, the baton world leadership was being passed from churchill

truman says we have this bomb of enormous power, whatever words he used. he was deliberately underwhelmed, probably to give the idea we'll have a few thousand of those coming up in our own production as well. i don't think the atomic bomb was as much of a secret as it's often portrayed of being, just because the science was international. the science was international before the outbreak of world war ii. >> all right. ladies and gentlemen, round of applause for rob citino. [ applause ] >>> week nights, this week, we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3. tonight, civil war scholar rod watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> michael bishop is the former director of george washington university's national churchill library and center. next, he looks at the february 1945 yalta conference between allied leaders winston churchill, franklin roosevelt and josef stalin. mr. bishop focuses on churchill's role at the meeting and how yalta i

chief justice vincent greats president truman, who then steps forward to repeat with moving simplicity. >> i, harry truman do solemnly swear, that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states, so help me god. >> a simple ceremony over, the president prepares to deliver his inaugural day address. >> democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony and peace. [applause] >> a spell is broken. the cheering crowds turned away and the solemnity turns to joy as greeting as great fleets of planes fly overhead. the parade forms a line to march down historic pennsylvania avenue. almost 1 million spectators crowd every bit of space and eagerly await the colorful pageant. in the line of march, generals and animals and high school cadets. democrats and republicans. all races, all creeds, all americans. t

but truman says i'm going there.he confronts churchill and then audrey, immediately says you've got to open up palestine to the jewish displaced persons. and he hits that if you want loans that you need to rebuild your nation, you gotta help me out here i've got lots of jewish favors and people i need to support and it's the humanitarian thing to do and it's the right thing to do. and then he lets you know this for the their argument that just is tragic. he says to the british, he says you don't have to worry that you did the weight before the war. he said that 6 million jews were killed, their dead. so the european jews aren't going to overwhelm palestine. were not talking about millions here were talking about a couple hundred thousand. the british will not budge. the british stated truman, look if you care this much about the european jews take them into the united states. that truman knows and he's much smarter about domestic politics then british politics or international politics. truman knows he can do that. t

truman in this inauguration. the colorful pageant moves on.t expresses the mood of the nation, a country striving for a peaceful world yet mindful of the military needs to make and keep that peace. in harry truman's own words it marks the beginning not only of a new administration but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive for the united states and for the world. >> weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview what's available every weekend on c-span 3. tonight former white house social secretaries lee berman and jeremy bernard talk about their book "treating people well" the extraordinary power of civility at work and in life. they share stories from the white house and their thoughts on professional and public civility. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv on c-span 3. >> you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past. american history tv on c-span 3 created by ari

and harry truman was a really unlikely president.e was the creature of one of the last urban political machines in kansas city. and he was known primarily as a political hack. but he was loyal to franklin roosevelt and he needed a new vice presidential running mate in 1944. i'm reminded how much things have changed over time in what we expect of your presidents but also how presidents and their running mates are chosen. so we live in a time when presidents -- whoever gets the nomination of the party gets to choose often without consulting anybody else, consider sarah palin or dan quail, without telling anybody else, this is my choice. that was not the case for most of american history. most american history, the presidents were told this is going to be your running mate. because the leaders of the party had the interest of the party at heart and they needed to balance the ticket geographically and by age and other things. the democrats told roosevelt in 1944, you got to get rid of your current vice president henry wallace. it was cle

truman who moves forward to repeat. >> i harry s.man solemnly swear i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states, so help me god. >> simple ceremony over, the president prepares to deliver his inaugural address. >> democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity as well as the inalienable right to govern himself with reason and justice. >> with god's help, the future of mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony and peace. >> the spell is broken. the cheering crowds turn away and it turns to gayty and joyous greetings as fleets of planes roar their salute overhead, the parade and the president and vice president forms in line to march down historic pennsylvania avenue. almost a million spectators crowd every foot of space as they eagerly await the colorful, spectacular pa generality. in the line of march are the great and humbled. general, admirals, high scho

>> truman and eisenhower amount of euros in the left.he beginning is there goes say is identifiable early on but the pain in the beginning, you got to realize it was nobody knew how to jews no one knew the condition how many out of the there is a sense that department has been used for voted everybody else and we can't single out the jews. the jewish organization in the u.s. and britain said jews have suffered more than any other group they need special treatment. american state department and nation said no, the british said absolutely not. the jews will be treated like everyone else they were treated like everyone else and suffering was intense. finally in july, two months after the war was over, truman sentenced the finding mission led by dean harrison and the university of pennsylvania, he sent harrison who was now that you, send them to visit the camps. harrison comes back with a report and says we are treated just as fast as the germans did. truman read this report and says eisenhower, who got to take eisenhower goes to work. >> yo

he had hardly met harry truman. so truman becomes president.he's going to be this straight-talking guy. he did hold press conferences. this is another important part of the story. through the truman era, presidential press conferences, as they were called, were off-the-record events. these were for background. the president could be quoted only with his explicit permission. when harry truman would hold press conferences, he would say something or other and reporters would have to say, can we quote you on that. we live in this age of utter transparency. if a president says something inadvertently, it's considered true game. harry truman discovered there were limits on his candor. when he was thinking aloud, saying in the middle of the korean war, yeah, maybe we'll use nuclear weapons. can we quote you? yeah, you can quote me. and that makes the headlines, and the world all of a sudden is alarmed there's going to be a nuclear war. truman doesn't have that much in the way of quotable jokes. but i'm going to share a story with you. this is truman o

it was signed harry truman.not only was this a chance to deliver a speech from the american heartland that would demand attention from churchill's own celebrity. it was also a chance to take a long train trip from missouri and back from the president of the united states. he would have many hours to submit a relationship with the leader he only briefly met in putt stand and regain support for churchill's post war mission. having the president by his side for the address would imply support for the message. he swiftly agreed and the date was set. march five, 1946, thus the president with received a warning about soviet designs and a college gymnasium in his home state. but for journalists and news cameras, he uttered perhaps the first public declaration of the cold war. from stanton in the baltic to try us at the adriatic and iron curtain has descended. behind that line lay all of the capitals of the ancient states of central and eastern europe. warsaw, berlin, prague, vienna, bucharest, belgrade, and sofia. all

. >> chief justice vincent greats hairy s two men to repeat with moving simplicity -- >> i truman do that i take the office of the united states to the best of my ability, preserve, protect the constitution of the united states. >> the simple ceremony over, the president prepares to deliver his inaugural day address. >> democracy is w w!c and intellectual capacity and right to govern himself through justice. the future of mankind will be a shirt in a world of justice, harmony and peace. the spell is broken. the cheering crowds give way. they go to katie enjoys greetings as great fleets of planes swooped overhead. the parade for the president and vice president forms a lying to march down pennsylvania avenue. almost 1 million spectators crowd every space as they eagerly await the spectacular pageantry. generals and at morals and high school cadets, democrats and republicans, all races, all creeds, all americans. the president and vice president are surrounded by 129th field battalion, led by captain harry truman during world war i. [applause] and there goes the guards with its 48 brig

truman then was trying to stop that.at point from the perspective of february 1945, that was a big success. stalin knew he would get away doing whatever he wanted in poland but there was also a formal agreement to support a democratic process so there was a hope for churchill and fdr. france was not only given occupation of germany but also sit on the security council so there were some modest reasons for churchill to be happy as well. and stalin, basically, got to keep his booty in eastern europe, the red army would take over, would be his to decide. so there was this euphoria to a degree. there was one exception when it comes to the americans who were not participants in the conference per se but there on the margins. the group of americans were the american airmen and also the ground specialists of the u.s. air force that was stationed in 1944 and 1945 at the three american air bases in today's ukraine. they are the main characters and heroes in my book which is written now on the basis of open kgb archives because am

for truman, nuclear weapons were a backstop. they were there, he had no compunction about reminding the soviets in times of tension that we had as a monopoly at first and then we had more of them. but he was not about to use nuclear weapons first and foremost. eisenhower came into office in 1953. there were about 1200 nuclear weapons in the american stockpile at thattime . and eisenhower put all his money in the nuclear basket. he decided that massive retaliation, a strategy of massive retaliation and the promotion of nuclear weapons as the first line of defense. as opposed to a backup would be a cheaper way to guarantee american security. to promote american policy to the soviets. to protect europe. it just seemed like a civil feeling so it was great. we went from 1200 nuclear weapons in 1953 to get this, 22,000. were 23,000 area under eisenhower. when he worried about the military-industrial complex in 1960 and his farewell address he knew from whence he spoke. he had the complex and the nuclear arms race as we understand it,

he was the main adviser of truman.45, 40, six he was really looking for a position so that's on truman. that was the question. his health. >> his physical. -- >> thank you. >> this is a great question. i've been teaching for a number of years at harvard. one of the students wrote a very good paper asking exactly that question. the way that he approached that was he looked at the minutes of yalta discussions and how often heftier would participate in the comments and how good the comments were to the degree that they correspond with his vision and the position that was taken by the state department. the conclusion that he came with and i agree with the conclusion that clearly fdr was in a bad state in terms of health. his contributions to the discussion and discussion was fewer than tehran but he never really wavered from the position that he wanted to take. very often, more often than not, that position was not the same as the position of the state department, but that doesn't mean that he didn't know what he was doing

to advise truman on the yalta agreements. was the time when molotov was traveling to the first chanting convention of the united nations in san francisco. he also came to washington and harriman convinced truman that -- violated the right. -- was quite dramatic when he was saying no one is talking to me like that. truman fought him back saying stick to your agreements and no one will talk to you. so that was really the beginning. so up till 47 truman was unprepared. he was very harsh and volatile. in april of 1945, when he goes to potsdam, his closest adviser was the former a ambassador to moscow. his first name escapes me right now. he was in moscow during the show trials and believed when he saw there. so he was a sovietphile. he was the main adviser of truman. so it's 45, 46. he was really looking for a position so that's on truman. that was the question. his health. >> his physical. -- >> yes. thank you. >> this is a great question. i've been teaching for a number of years at harvard. one of the students wrote a very good

so during truman's time, truman believed the house was haunted. he talked about the fact he could hear footsteps. he said sometimes the chandelier would just start swaying. and then sometimes he would even be in bed and all of a sudden he would hear pounding at his door. he would get up, he would go to the door, he would open it and there was nobody there. so there are all of these unexplained noises and phenomenon that truman experienced, and he believed the white house was haunted. yes? >> that was before the renovation, right? >> yes. >> it turns out because the white house was so shot at that point so things were creaking, things were falling apart, a piano leg fell through one of the floors. that is how they discovered it. >> the idea of the chandelier just swaying. i mean, some of the chandeliers were literally pulling the floor down. and remember, a lot of the interior structure was made of wood. so i've always thought that the loud pinging noise could have been would stress literally popping. because, remember that in 1927 when calvin cool

[applause] >> shaking hands with harry truman. mrs. truman sits down again.king over, and he is kissing his wife, he is kissing mrs. eisenhower. this is a thrilling moment. the tension is broken. he looks out over the crowd now. vice president nixon is standing. he is waving, the famous wave. the famous wave to all the crowd. dwight eisenhower: my friends, before i begin the expression of those thoughts that i deem appropriate to this moment, would you permit me the privilege of uttering a little private prayer of my own? and i ask that you bow your heads. almighty god, as we stand here at this moment, my associates and my future associates in the executive branch of government join me in beseeching that thou will make full and complete our dedication to the service of the people in this throng and their fellow citizens everywhere. give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people, regardless

former president truman and his family.t of american men, are led by the cadets from west point. they play as our military leaders to come. i the future officers of our mighty air arm follow next, the cadets from our air force academy. cadets from the naval academy and anÁpolis come next. for many hours, the endless parade of marchers pass and review before the new leaders of our land, the president and vice president stand for them all. >> once a naval officer himself with a distinguished war record, the president watches with heightened interest as the navy band passes in review. here are two men, two men who lead one of the greatest nations on earth in its most trying period, an era fraught with peril when men struggle for freedom and challenged by a godless tyranny. the leaders of a nation that symbolizes man's right to the determination of who shall govern them. that determination has been made by the people of america. they stand before you. mr. tennant dorie miller helped the wounded aboard and fired anti aircraft gu

former president truman and his family.esenting the best of american men are led by cadets from west point, all soon to play roles as military leaders to come. the future officers of the lightning air, the cadets from our air force academy. and those from the naval academy in annapolis, leaders for the years ahead. for many hours, they will pass and review. the vice president and president will stand for them all. once a naval officer himself with a distinguished war record, the president watches with heightened interest as the navy men pass for review. here are two men, two men who lead one of the greatest nations on earth during his most trying period, an era -- trying period, and era rife with trouble. the decision has been made by the people. they stand before you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] >> ronald reagan, a republican and former california governor, wa

herbert hoover for example under truman, even though he was republican and truman was a democrat, ran the hoover commission on the organization of the federal government. that was before office space was granted. although hoover was plenty rich enough to take care of himself. by the way the president's adult children, eric, ivanka, and don junior are rich enough to provide their own security. host: if you are curious to know what the presidents are spending on office space, roll call found this information from congress.gov. we are paying $542,000 for obama's office, $513,000 for bill clinton's office, $500,00's dallas office. guest: they can have offices anywhere they want. host: former presidents can choose to put them anywhere, i assume, in the united states they want? guest: that is correct. president trump could have his office in florida presuming he gets the benefits. which i think is likely. host: let's go back to the phone lines and go to steve calling from wake forest, north carolina on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. donald trump should not be remov

. ♪ former president truman is escorted by senator clinton anderson.senator from rhode island, theodore green. robert kennedy was to be the next attorney general. ♪ ted kennedy, another brother of the president to be. members of the united states supreme court arrived in the stands. ♪ mrs. eisenhower and mrs. nixon followed by mrs. johnson, , followed by mrs. kennedy. ♪ [applause] [hail to the chief] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] [three cheers for the red white and blue] ♪ [applause] >> the joint congressional inaugural committee having escorted, now seat the presidential parties on the platform. [applause] [cheers] >> mr. president, mr. vice president, distinguished guests and fellow citizens of this great representative republic, we are here today to inaugurate the 35th president of this union of free people. it is my high honor to begin this event by presenting the united states marine band under the direction of lieutenant colonel albert sholper, which will play a special arrangement of a song we all cherish. "america the beautiful." ♪ [

and then after that, president truman renovated the white house, thesmma3 famous truman renovation.e one massive construction site. >> i want to stay with the roosevelt for a second, they have been in office for such a long time, the longest number of years of hosting the easter egg roll. what were the particular things that the roosevelts, they have what the kids as well? >> it was just a good time. fdr was not known to make too big of an appearance because he was concealing his disability. but eleanor roosevelt was there, she was very much the leader of the easter egg roll of that time. she is the first lady or presidents to speak live directly from the easter egg roll on the radio. usually, the rather was very good, there was one year when it was not so good. it was a naturally very very cold. only about 5000 kids showed up. which is a very tiny number for something like this. she morales urged everybody to run around, jump around, have fun, as they warm. >> while we are talking about presidents of war, tell me what happened during the bush administration when the iraq war were g

truman. george washington took the oath as the first president nearly 160 years ago. the colorful pangent moves on. inauguration day of 1949 expresses the mood of the nation, a country striving for a peaceful world yet mindful of the military needs to make and keep that peace. in harry truman's own words, it marks the beginning of not only a new administration, but of a period that will be eventful, perhaps decisive, for the united states and for the world. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captions performed by national captioning institute] >> the honor of your presence is requested at the ceremonies attending the inauguration of the president and vice president of the united states, january 21, 1957, committee on arrangement, senator styles bridges chairman, senator theodore francis green, senator john j. spark man, house majority leader, house minority leader joseph martin jr. ♪♪ [music] ♪♪ >> specifically musical score by the united states marine band, captain albert shellper, director. music composed and arranged -- ♪♪ [music] ♪♪ >> in

i think this is during truman.ut we get to a moment in time that truman, who is interested in american history, he learns the lore behind it that there are objects in the white house, we don't have an official collection yet, things just in the house that have an association or affiliation with abraham lincoln. so he designates the lincoln bedroom. and with truman it becomes a real bedroom. and pretty much it stayed the same from truman up until the association funded a major refurbishing project in the george w. bush administration. and this is what laura bush really wanted to do. it can still be the lincoln bedroom, and still have the furniture, but she wanted the interiors, the carpetting and the walls, to reflect more what it was in lincoln's time. i think nixon, clinton. and then bush. one of the things we had to do is do the research and the background on this bed canopy. you can see from the images it disappears because at some point it was lost. we don't know what happened to it. here it is in the late 1890

after to 2nd world war in $1045.00 then us president truman issued a proclamation. declaring that the natural resources in the. seabed and subsoil belong to the united states of america. in convincing the world that the american president not only had no will but also the right to incorporate undersea territory truman used an argument that built on a recent discovery in some areas of the seabed oceanic others a continental. the us had to have this kind of basis of a jew logical link between its land mass and the land mass submerge and lead to its territory. and be an idea of the geological continental shelf is the basis which the us saw as. a legal basis as well. they had to finally end the bases that they found most convincing most of course science. yeah. but the. odds of it at c.n.n. not. by ever there should be. like this name here. in the us we are by. the arguments that the continent continues on made up the core of truman's justification this was the more convincing because the historical events the legitimized this theory which by far into history. simply fa

and a woman believed to be part of a gang, that in 1950 attempted, the assassination of president trumanfire from the visitor gallery of the house of representatives. five congresspeople were hit, one from iowa, one from tennessee, one from maryland, and one from michigan who was seriously injured. ♪ observers noted the attack came as the inter-american conference opened in venezuela, and eight suggested the mode have -- and it suggested the mode have been -- the motive may have been to inflame america's relations with her neighbors. estimates of the numbers of shots fired range from 15-30, and each blood hole is a grim reminder to those present, of a terrible surprise attack. the gang, seized by shocked bystanders, was held at police headquarters, as a widespread search was launched for others who shared and the plot. -- in the plot. ♪ to the gun wielders and their accomplices goes the people the stiction of having perpetrated a criminal outrage almost unique in american history. wanton violence that shocked >>'n history tv every weekend on c-span3 explore our nation's past, american hi

in about an hour from 1949, the inauguration of president truman. a chronicle of the event produced by the u.s. army. in 80 minutes, the inauguration of dwight eisenhower. this 1957 color film documents the events around president eisenhower's second term. ♪ >> this is the white house, the home and the office of the president of the united states. last november, some 70 million american citizens cast balance of who would fill this chair. to determine the possible would follow responsibilities of this office. the choice was john fitzgerald kennedy. the youngest man ever elected. he follows a line which began with george washington, the first president and the only president elected by unanimous post. he is followed by thomas jefferson. abraham lincoln, whose name stands as a symbol of compassion and humanity. from their home in nearby georgetown on this day, january 20, 1961, mr. kennedy and his wife come to the white house where they are greeted by president eisenhower. vice president nixon, vice president elect johnson and their wives were guest of

one story i tell in the truman administration, truman was faced with the issue whether to recognize israel. now today that's not such a controversial proposition, but at the time it was a big question mark for u.s. policy and most of the national against it including george marshall who was not only a war hero, but the secretary of state and someone who was revered more than anyone else in public life and truman wanted to hear the other side of the issue and he appointed clark griffin to make the case for israel in a white house meeting he would be running up against marshall. marshall was not interested in having a junior white house aide weigh in on his purview. but truman said i asked him to be here and the u.s. does recognize israel about you marshall looked so angry he lost the argue he never again speak to clifford or uttered his name. and another one, a secretary of state, this is a frequent one between the secretary of state and white house people and eisenhower decided to bring in the former minnesota governor to be a negotiator on the arms deal and specifically the soviets and ne

truman eventually gets a budget.on air force one, the presidential yacht, when we had a lot, they actually get build against that account. it's not a free-for-all in terms of food. there is a budget that gets allocated by congress for that, so that's another thing going into the food story. to give you a more history, the creation of the white house mess is a reflection of this. after the white house was renovated in the 19 fifties, there was more need for staff because of the installation of air conditioning. truman was not going to get any more money from congress. he called it a do nothing congress and that kind of sticks. what he does is he takes the staff off the presidential yacht and makes them the staff in the white house mess, which is the private kitchen and dining space for senior white house staff. that's why the navy operations exist to this day for running the white house mass. a lot of the food cooked in the white house mess and camp david is run by navy chefs, not the white house kitchen staff. yes? >