ross would move on to become harry truman's press secretary during truman's presidency. truman's education was rigorous in high school. and he never did attend college, however. he had dreamt as a 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 and a bank clerk. his college dreams were shattered when his father's financial fortunes took a downward turn and he had to leave independence for a town of grandview, missouri, which we'll say more about here in a moment. but again harry truman was a life-long learner and a really self-educated man. he drew lessons of history throughout his life and career and drew upon them in just real conversation and they helped guide his personal philosophy and his leadership style and decision-making. next slide, please. okay. this is a picture of the grandview farm. grandview is a town just south of kansas city. it is in the greater kansas city metro area, though. not far from independence. and it is here that truman is -- actually picture

ross would move on to become harry truman's press secretary during truman's presidency. truman's education was rigorous in high school. although and he never did attend college however, he drugged as a young man of becoming a military general, going to west point after graduation in 1901. he took odd jobs, though, including railroad timekeeper and a bank clerk. his college dreams were shattered when his father's financial things took a downturn. he had to leave independence for the town of grand view, missouri which we will see about in a moment. harry truman was a lifelong learner and release self educated man. major lessons of history throughout his life and career, and drew upon them in conversation and they help to guide his personal philosophy and leadership style and decision-making. next slide, please. this is a picture of the grand view farm. south of kansas city in the greater kansas city metro area, though, not far from independence. here, truman is pictured here, on the right, he assisted on his families farm. i mentioned his father had speculative businesses

and the da's office arrested conrad truman. and charged him with his wife's murder. >> my mom called me and i fell to the ground, crying and so happy that he was finally behind bars. >> going into trial, what did you think? i >> thought we had a strong circumstantial case. >> at trial, the prosecution argued domestic violence ending in homicide. the defense? self inflicted gunshot wound. the jury sided with the state. conrad truman was convicted of 's murder. >> it was like, finally, got him. finally got him. >> and as far as you knew, that was it? >> that was. it >> did you think that was it? >> i did. >> but if you think that was it, well, then you haven't been watching enough "dateline". >> coming up -- heidy's heartbreak. >> she did not know her dad and she had always wanted that. that really bothered her. >> and conrad truman's hope. >> this is going to work out. it has to because i didn't do this. >> when "dateline" continues. okay, we're not gonna ask for discounts on floor models, demos or displays. shopping malls can b

any undercut the truman administration. what he did was made it clear there'd be no length between korea and foremost that which upset the truman administration. but truman was stuck with that macarthur had announced. kit clearly by lay truman administration had called for. in december of 1950, truman had issued an order to make no announcement on policy without government concurrence. truman reminded macarthur of that statement that came out of the department of defense. and in classic macarthur fashion he completely ignored it. then joseph martin the house minority leader wrote to macarthur and sent him a speech that he had given and which he argued that if the united states was not going to be in it for full victory than the truman administration should be indicted for the murder of thousands of american men. and asked macarthur to comment on that. macarthur wrote back and this was a red in the halls of congress, quote my views and recommendations with respect to the situation created by read china's entry into the war a

eddie loved harry truman and harry truman loved eddie. he had to decide what to do. he had been lobbied very hard by jewish leaders in the united states were pushing truman to support the partitions. the united states supports the petition -- partition. this is the end of the british mandate that expires in may of 48. now we are in march of 1948, two months before the mandate ends. he is sick of the issue. he says jesus christ could not please the shoes -- juice -- jews when i was -- when he was alive, how can i? he thinks the soviets will move right in, it will lead to war, it will lead to the annihilation of the jews and it won't serve american interests. marshall is against it. as is the state department. truman had an affinity for jewish people as a man of the bible. you have to love harry truman. he is the most powerful person advocating for a jewish state. he flies to washington, walks into the oval office and says i want to see harry, my friend. he is not invited and has -- has no appointment. they say you can go see harry but don't bring up the palestine issu

eddie loved harry truman and harry truman loved eddie. he had to decide what to do.is really frustrated because he had been lobbied very hard by jewish leaders in the united states who were pushing truman to support the partitions. it would create two states. estate for the palestinians and a stay for the jews. the partition plan past but now it's becoming crunch time between november of 1947 and the end of the british mandate that expires in may of 48. now we are in march of 1948, two months before the mandate ends. he is sick of the issue. he says jesus christ could not please the jews when he was alive how can i? , he thinks the soviets will move right in, it will lead to war, it will lead to the annihilation of the jews and it won't serve american interests. george marshall is against it. he thinks the soviets will move right in and it will lead to war, it will lead to the annihilation of the jews and it won't serve american interests. and because oil may be cut off from the american consumers so marshall is against it. as is the state department. truman had been

truman. that original press pass still exists because it mant so much to her. because once she got those credentials, her life changed. she was able to do so many more different things. people all over the world recognized her, as a -- you know, as a wonderful journalist. she's paving the way for all kinds of women, all kinds of african-american -- all kinds of ethnic minorities all over the world. so she wants to get into this whistle stop tour. this was, remember, 1947 she is receiving these credentials. this is 1948, i want to be on the whistle stop tour with president truman. what happens? she thought it was going to be a struggle but in actuality, truman's press secretary says, okay. remember, there had never been any african-americans on these tours. so he said. okay, there was one catch. it cost $1,000. so, you can imagine how much, you know, $1,000 at that time -- that's a lot now, if someone said give me $1,000 for the trip. you can man what's going on in 1948, when she's trying to g

truman. i found of course, it is a very prosperous town now and all of the damage had been repaired long since. >> what was -- >> go ahead. >> excuse me. >> go ahead. >> what was his response? >> he didn't comment. i sent him a report just so he would know and wrote a story about it. but, he just, he wanted to know what the people thought about him. the mayor of hiroshima is a socialist, and he said, "mr. galloway, we the people of hiroshima do not hold a judge against mr. truman, but we wish he would stop saying that if he had it to do over again he would do it again." so i happened to know that years after he would say, you know, you look tired, why don't you sleep in. he lived ten miles after the city, and when the place was nuked, he was not there and he was asleep, and it saved his life, of course, and i said, mr. mayor, if harry truman had it all to do over again, and the situation was exactly the same, you better sleep in again [ laughter ] he was not amused. >> i was going to ask you

truman. that original press pack exists. it meant so much to her. once she got the credentials, her life changed. she was able to do so many more different things. people all over the world recognized her as a wonderful journalist. she's paving the way for all kinds of women, ethnic minorities all over the world. she wants to get into this whistle stop tour. remember, 1947, she's receiving credentials. this is 1948, i want to be on this whistle stop tour with president truman. what happens? she thought it was going to be a struggle. truman's press secretary says, okay. remember, there had never been any african-americans on these tours. he said okay. however, there was one catch. it cost $1,000. you can imagine how much $1,000 at that time -- that's a lot now if somebody says you need $1,000. you can imagine in 1948 when she's trying to get this. one of the things that dunnigan was so good at was able to network to get things. she was a sharecropper's daughter, she didn't have many resources,

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amanda truman. thank you.anda truman. thank you. thank you for watching the - week. amanda truman. thank you. thank you for watching the top - thank you for watching the top you can reach me and the team on social media. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @benmboulos. this is bbc news. i will see you soon, bye—bye. hello there. sunday was a day of contrast — cool in the cloud, warm in the sunshine — and in actual fact, across south—west england, we saw temperatures into the mid—20s. a beautiful sunday afternoon for many. the next few days look likely to stay quite quiet across the whole of the country. quite a lot of dry weather around as well, but it will be mostly cloudy, and i suspect the temperatures easing away just a touch, around average if we're very lucky. high pressure still dominates the story. it's a blocking high that's preventing weather fronts from moving in off the atlantic. but a little bit more of a breeze always down towards the south, and that's going to continue to push this cloud in off th

truman had put in his pocket that year in 1910, a copy of tennessee's poem oxley whole. it includes these lines about a world without wars. the world subdued by international law, world tranquil. so the word no longer the battle plagues, and the parliament man, federation of the world. there the common sense of most, and they round and and they kindly at the universal 19 and nice words, not church chilean, churchill knew better read and truman carried this poem when he went to france and captain in the first world war. they 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 that he had become president truman became president the nations was born in san francisco and by then however, dreams of the world may tranquil, universal law has melted into the culvert of war read and today we know what churchill, the nations are here to stay. nations supranational entities, the prime movers of history in the united states which churchill loved as much as he loved his american mother, is more i

truman was a president of the heartland. but what does it mean to say he was a president of the heartland? here i'm referring to his -- his midwestern

many people may know or may not know that president truman had a soft spot in his heart for veterans. when he see this is photo of sergeant isaac woodard, he's just taken aback. i mean, it's just a horrible sight. this beating and the photo eventually leads president truman to desegregate the military, and also desegregate the federal work force. >> it is beyond troubling to hear this kind of story. it's terrifying, and impossible to really imagine the feeling it must have been to know for these soldiers you have put your life on the line, you are coming back, and the idea that you feel proud of that service makes people want to kill you for it. to have that patriotism trampled on must have been so profoundly disillusioning, negating the promise that this service represented as an opportunity. we have a viewer comment from a man named peter. he writes in that even jackie robinson, an officer for the 761s tank battalion was pulled off a bus in killeen, texas, for not moving to the back of the bus. while he was enduing a court martial his unit was called up to fight. he never got fight

this beading and the photo eventually leads president truman to desegregate. the arm the military and also desegregate the federal workforce. it's beyond troubling to hear this kind of story it's terrifying and impossible to really imagine the feeling that must have been to know for these soldiers. you've put your life on the line. you're coming back and the idea that you feel proud of that service makes people want to kill you for it to have that patriotism trampled on must have been so profoundly disillusioning, you know negating the promise that the service might have represented as an opportunity. we have a viewer comment and audience comment from a man named peter. he writes in that even jackie robinson an officer 761st tank battalion was pulled off a bus and killeen, texas for not moving to the back of the bus while he was enduring a court-martial his unit was called up to fight for general patton robinson was acquitted but never got to fight with his legendary unit. so these are not isolated isolated incidents. lynn i'd like to return to dr. leon bass b

in fact, he got so much information out of harry truman's cabinet that truman made the fbi sweep the room the make sure there wasn't a microphone in there. so tom clark who was attorney general and had supervision over the fbi, was one of the biggest leakers that pearson had at the time. sometimes the leakers were small fry. quite often they were military officers. a lot of interservice rivalry. so if you want to know about the earl, ask the navy and vice versa. in some cases, it was military officers who felt something was going on that the public needed to know about. so it was an army colonel who leaked the pearson the material about general mcarthur in korea that edition north the intelligence reports that the chinese were building up and were moving forward. so a source within the pentagon. sometimes when government agents would come to quiz pearson about his sources, he would look at them and smile and say, my sources were at the top level of your agency. in other words, your boss leaked this to me. >> amazing. all right. our next question is from katherine miller. she says on

this is a much busierfilm than the truman show. the film heart and it's helped considerably by reynolds ability to balance deadpan comedy with sensitive boyish charm, and a dash of deadpool�*s mischief. jodie comer proves her versatility as both her english avatar and the american who created her, although i was a bit disappointed that this genius coder is characterised chiefly by her love of bubble gum ice—cream and mariah carey. still, she shares good chemistry with reynolds, as well asjoe keery, who plays her former creative partner. meanwhile, taika waititi and channing tatum enjoy smaller roles that are amusing, if not hilarious. free guy isn't as powerful as the films it recalls, but it is an enjoyable actioner that brings a pacifist message to the genre, and for a disney film it even takes a swipe at our sequel obsessed culture. bring on free guy two. meantime, free guy is in cinemas now. forgive me, i'm just a bit... sorry, james, i know you said you had an office in board of trade, but... is it possible you actually work a

the speakers are truman library supervisory archivist samuel w. rushay jr.samuel w. rushay and eisenhower library deputy director timothy rives. libraries cohosted this event and the truman library institute provided the video. >> harry ostermann was president of the heartland. but what does it mean to say he was the president of the heartland? here, i am referring to

but professor watson has served on the board of the harry truman foundation and center for public serviceand then the deterrent truman presidential library and museum and the holocaust museum us military academy at west point. so now let's hear from mr. watson thank you for joining us today. >> but what you can see in my slide in for almost two years they just hunker down. it would be washington's longest headquarters but a new type of challenge emerged in it was the challenge of board. the army had not been paid they were hungry. and just as we were ready to seize victory on —- victory in the revolutionary war. march 1783 an unsigned letter circulated. but washington was alarmed to say the least. and that the new insurrection was coming from inside his own headquarters. but then the large building of the temple with that conspiracy in washington decided to respond and instead of washington being there early and it was punctual he comes one minute late and in from the back door and walks in from horatio gates and washington demands that they surrender the stage and then there is a two-par

joining us now is marine officer thomas truman.s founder of the -- foundation that helps veteran communities across america. major truman, thank you for being with us tonight, i really appreciate this on this kind of a huge day. >> that, given thank you for having. the >> first, let me ask if i screwed anything up in trying to describe the story and what you've been through so far. and also if you can bring us more up to date -- if you can give us anything about what's happened is that in his family so far. sure i think your summary was accurate and nothing to add as far as the details, i think you captured -- from what i understand, zach flew out several hours ago. i don't know exactly specifically what time with these landed. i assume that he's had a country in the middle east, if that's in dubai, i'm not sure. he might be headed somewhere in the middle east right now. >> major showman, part of the reason i want to talk to you about this is that i feel like a lot of americans, particularly americans who are professional, well off

truman.e, president eisenhower came into international prominence as commander in chief of allied forces in europe during world war ii. he directed unified operations until the surrender of germany in 1945. at the war's end, he returned home to a hero's welcome following which as a civilian he served briefly as president of columbia university. in 1950, president truman recalled ike from civilian life to organize and direct the military forces of the north atlantic treaty organization. in 1952, he signified his availability for the presidential nomination as a republican. he won the party's nomination from senator robert a taft, the highly respected leader of republican conservatives. the convention named richard m. nixon as ike's vice presidential running mate. >> i don't like texas. i doubt if anybody does. i shall do everything i can to reduce them. but i shall make no promises that i know i cannot keep. [ applause ] >> ike campaigns successfully on the issues of reform, a balanced budget,

and even though president truman had advocated on behalf of the displaced persons, he was tempted to veto this particular bill that came out of congress because he felt that it was wholly inconsistent with the american sense of justice. but in the end, he signed the legislation because he wanted to be able to assist some segment of the displaced population even though it was not the bill that he was looking for. so why did he consider this to be inconsistent, wholly inconsistent with american sense of justice, because the bill that came out of congress puts so many restrictions on who can be sponsored, you had to be low-paid in austria and in germanyor example new head who have been living there right 1945, and this excluded most of the jewish refugee population read the law was amended t years later in 1950. by august of 1952, of the 415,000 europeans that were brought in as displaced persons, only 80000 of them were jewish refugees in the majority of those were granted visas to come to the united states were ethnic germans. president eisenhower also believed it that much more had t

yet people lined up especially in 48, when truman made his stop.lyndon johnson went south, the train which was called the corn pone special. >> i know many top-notch correspondents. we have worked on many stories together, so we know each other very well. some of us are conservatives, some are liberal, some are in the middle, but we have deep respect for each other and each other's ideas. >> all presidential candidates seem to have to take one. >> do you extend a lot of material and ideas and judgments with other correspondents. it allows you to qualify your judgment like comparing information with someone else who knows a little bit more about a particular subject. >> [indistinct chatter] >> the exchange of these various. you are getting a feel of the country and where it's going. this adds something to your insight, to your judgment, to the way that eventually would be reporting the story. >> president of the united states, jimmy carter! [applause] >> harry truman, john kennedy, and -- >> when you go out to the president or the challenger of the

it's an interesting he wrote a biography of harry truman and truman started moving into one of the top ranked presidents. right now it's very right for somebody to do a big book on james mattis and dolly madison. really looking madison in the war of 1812 as he wrote so well. he has been underestimated as the president. he might start seeing madison rise. but the initial points, do you wait for 20 years? it is a decision we made. we did not want to start excluding president so we decided to include them all. >> books matter. our friends @booktv might have their new promotion clip just now. joining us from downstairs in our studio here at c-span. i want to talk to you about that building that's over my shoulder just down the street from us at c-span congress. one of those categories we ask historians to ray to the president on is there relations with congress. one of the slides we had assumed recent presidents have moved a bit in that category on relations with congress. i pointed george w. bush moving from 36 to 21 and this recent survey. a lot of movement when judged about relations wi

you had people lined up, especially in '48 when truman made his stops. >> there was no television. >> later years. lyndon johnson went south as the train was called the corn special. >> i know many high-notch correspondents, we have worked on stories together so we know each other very well. some of us are conservatives, some are liberal, some are in the middle, but we have deep respect for each other and each other's ideas. >> i don't know, all presidential candidates seem to have to take one. >> you exchange a lot of material and a lot of ideas and judgments with other correspondents. it allows you to qualify your judgment by comparing information with someone else who knows a little bit more about a particular subject. >> the exchange of views is very useful. you're getting a feel of the country and where it's going. and this adds something to your insight. to your judgment. to the way that eventually you will be reporting the story. >> the president of the united states jimmy carter! [ applause ] >> harry truman, john kennedy and lyndon johnson. >> when you go out to the president