truman's presidency. true's education was rigorous. in high school, although and he never did attend college. however he had dreamed his young man of becoming a military general and of going to west point. after graduation in 1901. he took odd jobs though, including railroad timekeeper in a bank clerk. this college dreams were shattered when his father's financial fortunes took a downward turn and he had to leave independence for for the town of grandview, missouri, which will say more about here in a moment. but again, harry truman was a lifelong learner and really self-educated man. he drew lessons of history throughout his life and career and drew upon them in just a regular conversation and they helped guide his his personal philosophy and his his leadership style and decision making next slide please. okay, this is a picture of the grandview farm grandview is the town just south of kansas city. it's in the greater kansas city metro area though. not far from independence. and is here at truman is actu

, the grandson of harry truman. welcome and thank you for joining us on the 75th anniversary. clifton: thank you. edwina: hi to clifton. clifton: hi, edwina. tim: the miracle of joining together like we are today -- we have almost as many people watching the speech as we did in the gymnasium 75 years ago. i would like to begin our conversation today with putting the journey into context geopolitically. 75 years ago, the world was a different place. we were at the end of world war ii, the allies had been victorious in europe, they had won the war, but winston churchill lost an election, the general election of 1945, and he was while accounts somewhat down and despond and until he receives the invitation from westminster college with an invitation by the president saying this is a wonderful school in my home state of missouri. i hope you can do it, i will introduce you. clifton, you might be able to start here. a postscript is something that your grandfather did quite often. clifton: he did. if you look at the truman

of course, after the speech, truman distanced himself, uncharacteristically for truman. he said, "i had not seen the speech." eleanor roosevelt did not approve of the speech. she thought it wrecked the alliance her husband and churchill had started. so truman somewhat distanced himself immediately after the speech. but in the end, truman had great affection for churchill's words, and used the speech in many ways as a blueprint for the truman doctrine plan that was the united states' recipe for waving -- waging the cold war. host: let's talk to clarence, who is calling from east lansing, michigan. clarence, good morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen. host: good morning. caller: i have been inspired since january or march about the speech. i never really realized that was given. so far, just been receiving snippets of churchill's speeches he gave. i think he is one of the greatest history people in history, one of the greatest statesmen that ever lived. possibly, we may have been speaking german or japanese or italian if it were not for people like him, you know? i feel

until truman started to speak and then churchill realized that truman was the right man for the right job, but they really forged their relationship in some ways on the train ride from washington to missouri on march 4th, 1946 on the way to the iron curtain speech, you know, they were an overnight train. there was a little bit of poker diplomacy the two men played cards and shared churchill shared early drafts of the iron curtain speech with harry truman. who approved and said you know, i think this is going to create quite a stir but i think you're on to something here. truman said to churchill of course after the speech truman distance himself and said, you know uncharactive question and characteristically for truman. he said i hadn't seen the speech in advance. you know, eleanor roosevelt was was livid after the speech. she did not approve of the speech. she thought it was a threat to the alliance that her husband and and churchill had started so truman some what distance himself immediately after the speech but in the end truman had great affection for churchill's words and and ag

hope you can do it, harry truman.hen the president signed that postscript churchill immediately took notice and new he would be back on the world stage if he had president truman next to him on a platform. i am not sure churchill knew where westminster college was when he accepted, but truman's endorsement of that notation was really the trick that did it. churchill began plans in october, november to travel the united states for several weeks in miami. very smart man. in january of 1946 spent some weeks in miami relaxing, painting, handcrafting the "iron curntain" speech. the college asked but they had help from the president. he appealed to churchill as well. host: we talked about this a little bit, but tell us what winston churchill's political status was in the u.k. at that time? his party had been voted out of power. does that mean he had no political influence? the speech was just his opinion only? guest: he said as much from the platform here. he said what you see is what you get. he said that famously from the

when's been churchill and harry truman. and at 4 pm, real america features an audio recording of winston churchill's entire march 5th 1946 iron curtain speech, accompanied by images and brief a motion picture segments. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span 3. 75 years ago, in march of 1946, winston churchill delivered his iron curtain speech at westminster college in fulton missouri. as part of the colleges of green foundation electricity areas. up next, former secretary of c, madeleine albright from the same lecture seek series, in september 2019, she discusses challenges facing the 24 century. westminster -- >> i cannot tell you what a privilege it is to have been invited to deliver the 59th green foundation lecture i look at the green foundation a lecture series with a lot of awe. you've had former presidents and prime ministers and nobel prize winners, and even a rock musician. i am none of those things. but i am a professor and so i love captive audiences and am a former diplom

truman is doing something that who would have recognized. earlier in this class very early on we talked about this is a classic move. he's doing something a woodrow wilson would have recognized very very clearly. he took a specific issue of us foreign policy. and he globalized it. he maximized it. he put it into historical and ideological context. the aid itself was not important here. it was the larger stakes the truman wanted to stress in this request for aid. and he concludes his speech. with language that i think reveals a very important argument the truman wants to make and it tells us something about the way he thinks about how the international system works what he says in this final paragraph and you have the text. the seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want they spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. they reach their full growth. when the hope of a people for a better life has died. we must keep that hope alive. the free peoples of the world truman says look to us for support for maintaining th

harry truman knew better. the people of missouri were highly pleased by churchill's visit and had enjoyed what their distinguished visitor had to say. and for those trapped behind the iron curtain, buy on and lied to by the corrupt governments, denied their freedoms, their bread even their fate. in a power greater than that of the state, for them, churchill was no warmonger and the western alliance no enemy. for the victims of communist oppression, the iron curtain was made all to reel in a concrete wall surrounded by barbed wire and attack dogs and guards with orders to shoot on sight, anyone trying to escape the so-called workers paradise of eastern germany. for today, we come full circle from those anxious times. ours is a more peaceful planet because men like churchill and truman and countless others who shared their dream of a world where no one wields the sword over would drags a chain. this is their monument here, on a grassy slope, between the church of saint mary the virgin, and champ auditorium, a ma

this is not encouraging if you are harry truman. those communist parties are very active and activist. they are fermenting strife, public disorder, protest, etc. economic crisis, plus the growth of political communist parties in france and italy make the picture look very bad, indeed. the u.s. cold war strategy has to attack these sources of instability. how do they do that? the argument is that the global economy has to be restarted, and economic activity in europe is the key to long-term, enduring success. that is the direction in which truman's cabinet is beginning to move. the occasional check being written to greece and turkey is not going to do it. the piecemeal approach, give a little money here, give a little money here, not good enough. there has got to be a bigger, bolder plan. the united states needs a plan for economic recovery. it's in that context, the tensions in germany, greece and turkey issue, context of growing economic chaos, that the u.s. secretary of state george marshall goes to the university of virginia -- s

so truman was selected fdr didn't have much of a relationship with truman. he knew him because he'd been in the senate. they didn't have much of a relationship with truman and during that period after the election fdr was with someone ill he traveled a lot. he went to the the alta conference. he came back. he was really focused on the starting up the united nations. they only had three meetings the entire file of correspondence between them is only a dozen pages, but i think fdr assumed he had more time and that eventually he would bring truman into the narrative and explain these things to him, but there's you know, my theory is always been that fdr's plan was that as soon as the war ended that he would step down as president of the united states and become the head of the united nations, which was the organization. he was most passionate about and he wanted someone like truman to be president in that stage because he felt he could work with truman and that truman wouldn't compete with him in that role as the post war leader of the free world. and so i thin

truman did not want to do that. the joint chiefs of staff did not want to do truman and the jcss opposed escalation they feared a soviet move in europe. feared a land war against china in east asia and therefore truman basically told macarthur the joint chiefs of staff the chairman of the joint chiefs at that time was omar bradley told macarthur. no, you can't do that. macarthur really got incensed over this wrote republican congressman joseph martin condemning truman's policy as appeasement. as appeasement dirty word in 1950 given what had happened in the 30s with nazi, germany. the press printed the letter and this created a firestorm of i guess conflict in the joint chiefs of staff and in washington over macarthur. and is unwillingness to political guidance in this war. and eventually as a consequence of this. truman fired macarthur here he is meeting with macarthur in october of 1950 on wake island. pacific so on april 11th 1951 douglas macarthur was canned by president of the united states very traumatic affair

i don't have to tell this audience the truman was both remarkable leader and a remarkable man. nor do i have to tell you about his lifelong affection for this state or his special connection with westminster college. and as you all know it was truman's invitation that winston churchill accepted and came to deliver the seventh green foundation lecture in march 1946. one reason that churchill accepted the invitation was that truman had promised to introduce him at the speech. it was an unusual gesture by a sitting american president towards a former british prime minister. but perhaps even more unusual was the fact that truman gave churchill a ride from washington to missouri aboard the presidential train the ferdinand magellan. the two of them were joined on the long journey by a number of truman's associates from back home. one historian likened the scene to a political rally and party bus rolled up into one. with alcoholic beverages flowing freely except when people pause to eat. you might think this atmosphere appealed to winston church in but it actually told one of truman's

we met truman -- i met lewis v. truman as a result of it. he shook our hands and talked to us just a little bit. but -- >> what was his rank? >> huh? >> what was his rank? >> he was a colonel at that time. but when he left korea, he was the head of the division and he was a one-star general. so harry sent them over there to get him promoted. but he's buried out here at grand view. >> what's his name? >> lewis truman. first cousin of harry. >> all right. >> then what happened? >> well, we left on r&r on easter sunday morning with a different location on our front line then. they moved us away over to north of seoul. it was north of seoul in a very mountainous area. there was a hill right in front of us called, we called it another name, but it was called marilyn monroe hill. it was shaped like a big breast, human breast. and, anyway, it was about 1,500 yards from where we were. we were the closest people to the enemy. we left there. and i came back from my r&r. there was an awful fight going on, and i got to see a pilot -- a plane had been sh

the author of five books including most recently fright house, rivalries in the white house from truman to trump. receiving his ph.d. in american civilization from the university of texas, doctor tevi d. troy spent a dozen years in public service. after leaving government service, government -- he appears frequently on television and interviews to discuss presidential history and other issues, he and his wife lived in maryland along with their four children. welcome to history happy hour. >> happy to have you on. >> we will get to that for sure. your book examines the relationship between presidents and popular culture in the united states. why do you think that this relationship is important and worth examination? >> that's a great question colleen. thanks robin we ought to discuss. this from the very first days of the presidency, presidents needed to appeal to the people, the way to appeal to the people is to show that you have common concerns with. them america has always had a vibrant popular culture. today it's based on electronic means, and olden days it was based on this later, p

the two were joined on the long journey by a number of truman's associates from back home. one historian likened the scene to a political rally and party bus rolled up into one with alcoholic beverages flowing freely except when people paused to eat. you might think this atmosphere appealed to winston churchill but he actually told one of truman's aides, quote, i deplore some of your customs. you stop drinking with your meals. my flight yesterday was decidedly less eventful, but i was excited nonetheless to make this trip to fulton. i was also thrilled a little earlier today to be inducted into the national churchill museum association of churchill's fellows. this is a milestone year for the museum as it celebrates it's 50th anniversary, so i'm so grateful to be associated with its important mission. as someone whose earliest memories are of london and the british countryside during world war ii, i have always felt a connection to winston churchill. my family and i were in england because churchill's government was playing host to many governments in exhile. so we saw first

truman carried this poem when he went to france as artillery captain in the first world war.e carried the poem in his pocket on april 12, 1945, when he was suddenly summoned from the u.s. capitol building to the white house to be told he had become president. truman became president the month the united states and the united nations was born in san francisco. by then, however, dreams of a world made tranquil by universal law had melted in the cauldron of war. today, we know what churchill never doubted. nations are here to stay. nations, not supranational entities, are the prime movers of history. in the united states -- and the united states is more indispensable than ever. let me give one example. the two thirds of the planet that is covered with water, the oceans, the great global common, will be policed unkept orderly by the united states navy or it will not be orderly. we are 75 years on from when at churchill's urging here, the united states unfurled a flag of world leadership. 75 years later, our nation is wiser than it once was. about the sinews and the limits of its

author of five books including most recently fight house rival rivalries in the white house from truman to trump. after receiving his phd in american civilization from the university of texas, dr. troy spent a dozen years in public service after leaving government service, dr. tory became a senior fellow at the hudson institute. toby appears frequently on television and radio to discuss health care presidential history and other issues. he and his wife cami live in maryland along with their four children. welcome to history. happy hour, teddy. hey, thanks for having me on and i'm always happy to talk about what jefferson red. excellent. well, we'll get that to that for sure. but to start us off your book examines the relationship between presidents and popular culture in the united states. why do you think this relationship is important and worth examination? it's a great question colleen and thanks for having me on to discuss this look the from the very first days of the presidency. the president's needed to appeal to the american people and the way to appeal to the people is to show t

truman had put in his pocket that year in 1910. a copy of tennyson's poem loxley hall which includes these lines about a world without wars? a world subdued by international law a world made safe and tranquil till the war drum throb no longer and the battle flags were feral. parliament of man the federation of the world they're the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in all. kindly earth shall slumber left in universal law nice words not churchillian churchill knew better truman carried this poem when he went to france as an artillery captain in the first world war. he carried the poem in his pocket on april 12th, 1945. when he was suddenly summoned from the us capitol building to the white house. to be told that he had become president. germany became president the month the united states the united nations was born in san francisco. by them however dreams of a world made tranquil by universal law had melted in the cauldron of war. today, we know what churchill never doubted. nations are here to stay. nations about sup

hope you can do it, harry truman.n the president signed that postscript churchill immediately took notice and new he would be back on the world stage if he had president truman next to him on a platform. i am not sure churchill knew where westminster college was when he accepted, but truman's endorsement of that notation was really the trick that did it. churchill began plans in october, november to travel the united states for several weeks in miami. very smart man. in january of 1946 spent some weeks in miami relaxing, painting, handcrafting the "iron curntain" speech. the college asked but they had help from the president. he appealed to churchill as well. host: we talked about this a little bit, but tell us what winston churchill's political status was in the u.k. at that time? his party had been voted out of power. does that mean he had no political influence? the speech was just his opinion only? guest: he said as much from the platform here. he said what you see is what you get. he said that famously from the s

townspeople welcomed churchill and president harry truman with a parade. when he 700 of them gathered in the gym and her churchill declare an iron curtain has descended across the continent. next, we look back 75 years at one of the cold war's most iconic speeches period with timothy riley of america's national churchill museum. he joined us from fulton, missouri.

truman patterson joins us now to discuss further. truman, in general, let's get your overall take as you initiate on these names. lumber prices are higher, mortgage rates are low, still your bullish on the group going forward. tell us why. >> yeah, courtney, thank you for that home prices are up double digits currently. even with lumber inflating we think that's more than enough to offset all the cost inflation going forward. we are bullish on the group. we have an overweight rating on the sector right now really this is based on a multi-year outlook we think that housing starts in the next five years by about 2025 we'll hit about 1.8 to 2 million housing starts to put that into perspective, we only did about 1.4 million last year in 2020, so we think there's a multi-year runway of mid to high single digit demand growth going forward over the next we'll call it five years. >> and so you think that we can do that many housing starts when it doesn't seem to be we have that many available lots, or do we am i not understanding the supply

when's been churchill and harry truman. and at 4 pm, real america features an audio recording of winston churchill's entire march 5th 1946 iron curtain speech, accompanied by images and brief a motion picture segments. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span 3. 75 years ago, in march of 1946, winston churchill delivered his iron curtain speech at westminster college in fulton missouri. as part of the colleges of green foundation electricity areas. up next, former secretary of c, madeleine albright from the same lecture seek series, in september 2019, sh

for truman henry. after the war of 1812, the president of the united states, james madison said, we need to establish fortifications all up and down our eastern seaboard. they recruited, interestingly enough, general simon bernard, at the french engineer who helped us establish what we call the third system forts that we used today. fort monroe is an example of the largest and best of all those forts. an 1819, it was decided that this location was be the location for fort monroe. they began construction almost immediately and didn't finish until 1834. the model that we see today is exactly what it would look like in 1834 when the first soldiers began to populate this fortification. and be the defensive for the gibraltar of the chesapeake. the frenchman, general simone bernard was a very and tell agent engineer it created many facets to this. fort and he made it one of the strongest strongholds in the united states. one of the things he did is that he had several angles on the fort. so as the enemy appr

truman couldn't get it done. kennedy nixon couldn't get it done. clinton couldn't get it done. then pelosi and reid and bacchus and waxman and kennedy got this across the finish line. and what deserves our respect and you have to look at that picture is a whole. and then to do so much more but we got it done and it is huge. use the biden expression that a big bleeping dealer won't do too much second-guessing because they got it done. >> there is response one - - respect for jonathan out there. one big disappointment of the aca was opportunities americans with disabilities. and with democrats will do better this time around. >> i hope so. just to give background the class act as part of the affordable care act to do long-term care and services which are so important for people in nursing homes a disabilities. i would say whatever problem of the healthcare system generally, exist in the narrow category of long-term care only worse. that's the worst part of health care system. it's a hard thing to solve in other countries struggle with that also. it is complex there are modest thi

. >> when harry truman got the word from the british no longer defend greece against us all in design, he had to deal with a republican congress that was just elected. democrats faced a disastrous midterm election 1946 the first midterm while president. republicans are back in power for the first time in 14 years. anybody that has read the least bit about fdr knows when he was president washington was fdr's town. he did not care not only for republicans but people inside his own oval office. republicans have had enough of kowtowing to democratic presidents the past 14 years and the last thing they wanted to do to pull them out of a position they had held for their entire existence. republicans for the most part were isolationist and also finished world war ii. a nationwide is exhausted after four years of four. harry truman gets the message he has to engage a republican house and the chairman of the foreign affairs committee arthur vandenberg is the isolationist. so truman once vandenberg but also the republicans it was a constant effort to pull them into explain to them they could no

so truman had even told eisenhower back in 1948 that if eisenhower ran for president as a democrat truman would support him. so it was really unclear what? what direction eisenhower would lean? when he came into power now he was no economist, but he had worked on budgets in the army. and he clearly understood balance sheets. and it seemed obvious to him that that money coming in had equal money going out. besides eisenhower how to believe that deficits were a national security issue they would lead to inflation and they weaken the economy and this would make it harder to compete with the russians. so if anything was clear. it was of the new administration would not spend a lot of money on new programs. so even though the reconite policy issues mmm, the focus here is on personality and style. for one thing economic policy is not all that riveting to most people. and second. i'm not really an economist myself. so the book really focuses on. on the stylistic aspects of humphrey eisenhower and wilson the first question. what do you you might ask is is how wilson and humphrey adapted to their

and he never met president truman. his relationship with roosevelt had been so important to him and to the cause of the war, and there was still a lot of work to be done and still preparing to be defeated. and i'll never forget after the first time he met president truman he sort of heaved a huge sigh of relief and said it's marvelous. he's a wonderful man and we'll be able to do business. my father went back to receive the votes of the 45th election, but it wasn't on my father to end. >> did you ever think of running for the house of commons? >> no. >> were you ever interested in politics? >> yes, but i never wanted to participate. >> this is a photograph of your mother and father on november the 10th 1945. >> again, a conversation piece. i thought, my mother had just said something, that he is taking in, do you see? very nice, isn't it? it's lovely. >> how old were they when they died? >> there is a letter here, and i wanted to find it and read it that your father refers to the gray days at the end. >> yes, well, my

daniel reflect on their grandparents winston churchill and harry truman. at 4:00 p.m. reel america features an audio hearing of churchill's iron curtain speech accompanied by images and brief motion picture segments. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> up next, author and historian gary gallagher early in the civil war served on the staff of robert e. lee before becoming the south's artillery officer.

truman -- when i am doing sports , truman is in my ear telling the robot what to do.n: this advantage we write -- have right now. tom: rich truman saved me on michigan go blue basketball yesterday. jonathan: i will keep my fingers crossed, but i know you like the color blue, tom. with mohamed el-erian, bloomberg opinion columnist. i will see what he has to say. we have a viewer saying rambles all the way, no idea. we talked e.m. and the bond market later. from new york city this morning, good morning. we will ask him if queens college can play basketball. what a week it has been, tom. tom: i will take next week off. jonathan: i think you are off next week, right? tom: i am going to hang with tyler they created. jonathan: have fun, i look forward to that. from new york city this morning, good morning. the -- alongside lisa abramowicz. i am looking forward to that with tom keene this morning. he will stick with you through the radio in the next hour. equity market higher by 11 points. this is bloomberg. ritika: russia's vladimir putin is hoping to have a public conversa

professor watson to serve on the board of the harry truman foundation and calvin coolidge memorial foundation and george mcgovern library and sent republic service. professor watson is also served as a visiting scholar with any organizations including the truman presidential library, gerald ford president of museum, holocaust museum, the u.s. military academy at west point. now let's hear from robert watson. thank you for joining us today. robert: hello everyone, i'm robert watson in here to talk about my latest book "george washington's final battle". the epic struggle in the capitol city in the nation. so virtually an american schoolchild knows that george washington was heroic and stellate. he was a great and courageous commander of the battlefield and of course 104 greatest presidents through his every action and inaction everything he said and dennis a pretty much carved out presidents for the presidency but what we don't always know is that george washington and another side to him and this was typically district and it could be a visionary and a dreamer and he also could be a political