truman was aware of that as well.hink it's more of a stylistic comparison and an example of a shock to the system if you take president obama and his harvard education you take franklin roosevelt with his bay nature and harvard education. suddenly it's flipped over its a shock to the system. i think it is an excellent point spent a good amount of time spent thinking about over the last couple of years, how that was a shock to americans reading their newspaper in listening to their radio saying who even is this guy in what is happening here? and he is in charge and we are at war. it kind of came to a head later times some part of what came to a head because the supreme court nominee as he began to nominate his friends. >> was a brings us to tom clark, one of his friends. he nominated tom clark to be attorney general of the president of the united states. tom clark, at the time was a year older than i am now. i am 44 now he was 45 at the time. clark admin and unexceptional law student and came to washington by accident

by the first time i did in the events of the truman library and join the board of the truman library. >> host: one of the books i remember reading is exactly to that point. [inaudible] i fell in love with your grandmother a young young child and never let anyone else. >> he was six she was five. my great-grandmother truman, had taken him to the presbyterian sunday school even though they were baptist. she took him to presbyterian sunday school because her closer to home. i grandfather from the end of his life remembered that day, standing outside the classroom, looking in seeing a little blonde girl and he fell in love right then and there and never look to anyone else that we know. they had a great relationship. the dear beth letters, i won't call it a companion book, but i wrote dear harry and 2011. the truman library owns 1361 letters that my grandfather wrote to my grandmother between 1910 in 1955 i think it is. >> are her return letters safe customer. >> note my grandfather came home one day in 1955 during christmas time and found her sitting in front of the fire burning her lett

winston churchill comes to america, truman invites him to make the famous iron curtain speech. this is a wake-up call to the world, churchill says stalin can no longer be trusted, these are no longer allies, we got to change foreign-policy. total scandal in america. the idea is to keep working with stalin. churchill put differently, he can't be trusted. one of the soviet sniper clocks working at a soviet embassy in canada defects to the west and defects with a huge bundle of explosive documents that reveal soviets have been spying on the american nuclear program, what is taking place with western allies developing a nuclear warhead. these two events are really important and the third thing, don't know how well known it is, george kennan, the famous diplomat in the american embassy in moscow writes his famous long telegram, in a similar tone to churchill set out the facts that the soviets cannot be trusted. in 1946 these three things happen, with haole continually banging on the drum, this is when truman begins to change his foreign-policy completely and you end up with the trum

when truman left office he was phenomenally unpopular in february of 1952, harry truman had 22% in public opinion polls just 22% approved of the job he was doing as president. but since then we have come to see the foreign policy has a lot of wisdom to them. shepherding the marshall plan through congress, these things were seen as essential members with expansion. at the same time it truman's demeanor his honesty has plain spoken ways gain greater appreciation when he was succeeded like lyndon johnson and richard nixon who is not a crook when he actually was a crook. eisenhower, in other president has been approved his ranking has improved over time and eisenhower left office people thought he was genuinely a nice guy. but he had not really worked hard at his presidency. he spent more time golfing then leading he was a preside or not a president. new archival evidence shown that as an image eisenhower strategically allowed people to have of him. he worked extremely hard behind the scenes to point to pushing himself to a heart attack. he claimed to not engage in personalities. but he manip

some big things happen in the spring of 1946, winston churchill comes to america, truman invites himmake his famous iron curtain speech in missouri. sort of a wake-up call to the world. churchill says stalin can no longer be trusted, no longer allies. we have to change foreign policy. speech caused total scandal in america. the idea was to keep working with stalin. churchill put it firmly, he can't be trusted. there's a second thing that happened about the soviet working in the soviet embassy in canada deflects to the west. he deflects with huge bundle of highly explosive documents that reveal the soviet had been spying on the american nuclear program is different about what's been taking place with the americans developing a nuclear warhead. so these two events and the third thing, i don't know how well known it is in america is certainly not don't at all and my country, and england. the famous diplomat in the soviet american embassy in moscow writes his famous telegram in a similar churchill sets out the fact that the soviet cannot be trusted so in 1946, these three things happen i

coming up next, did president truman set the precedent for a politicized high court?es provided his answer in the truman court, law and the limits of loyalty. >> my name is steven i'm so direction are of program and marketing for the kansas city public library. welcome to this special trim and day, three days removed installment in our virtual signature event series. our guest tonight is ron james author of the soon to be released truman court, fall in limits of loyalty. james is a graduate of yale university and duke university school of law. hayes practiced in washington d.c. for the last two decades the author of two previous books, charles hamilton houston and the struggle to end segregation.

two presence of god and the other direction was truman and eisenhower and when truman left office he was phenomenally unpopular approaching were nixon was when he left office when he was involved in the potter great quantity scandal and harry truman and the 22 percent in public opinion polls, 22 percent approved the job he was doing as president rated ssn we have come to see that his foreign policy, establishing nato and jeopardizing the marshall plan through congress and they were n as members of additional soviet expansions throughout your bed and at the same time truman's demeanor and his honesty and his plainspoken weight gain greater appreciation for that when he was seen by people like by lyndon johnson who lied to the united states involvement in richard nixon it was not a crook when he actually was a crook. and eisenhower, and the president improved is ranking improved over time and when he left office people thought that he was generally a nice guy but did not really worked hard at the presidency and he spent more time golfing then lady and he was a desire not a president. w

coming up next, did president truman set the precedent for a politicized high court?es provided his answer in the truman court, law and the limits of loyalty. >> my name is steven i'm so direction are of program and marketing for the kansas city public library. welcome to this special trim and day, three days removed

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but on january 3rd 1936 president truman does sign the bill into law. then to cement the changes that they proposed. >> and exciting way to spend christmas eve. and then to talk about the shorter-term benefits. but it is a fair question to ask they all enjoy equal access particularly female service members. really important. today the 60 million americans over 1 million african-americans 300,000 women and then to make full use of the g.i. bill. those who apply for home loans and then to be permanent and with education benefits but then they expired after seven years and then it just went away. and then they wanted to marry and have children and support their husbands who were program.in education energy take advantage but then there are unintended consequences and with the demand for admission at the colleges made that quote is on the number of women they would admit so they could accommodate all the male veterans. even women's colleges started to admit male veterans to handle the overflow. so women, relatively fewno educational gains to the male popula

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s. president harry truman proposed a universal national health insurance program. harry truman couldn't do it because the american medical association, in particular, was very opposed to creating a system like most european countries had. and they began using the term socialized medicine keep in mind this was during the early part of the cold war. and there was a great fear in this country of communism. in the early 1960 s, now back in power, the democrats again tried to introduce a european style system. a plan to met with resistance. a massive publicity campaign was launched to warn the american people of the dangers of socialized medicine. the propaganda paid off and the democrats bill failed to pass. in 1965, they got their revenge. president lyndon b johnson signed into law to public health insurance programs, medicaid for low income families, and people with disabilities and medicare for the over 65. mm hm. mm hm. witnessing 1st hand the despair of americans who cannot afford treatment. prompted the former insurance executive wendell potter to change his life ah, 10 years ago. on

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so what president truman does is called upon omar bradley to take on thissituation . bradley had sent these men into battle and it's very personalfor him . to ensure that their way home is eased and taken care of. he's a little hesitant to take on the job. this is the job that fdr called the hardest job in washington, the va administrator so you can tell he has some trepidations about it but really he had such loyalty to the men that he served with that he takes this role on and he's installed as va administrator on august 15 and that's just one day removed from victory over japan day so he really has kind of no time to waste in taking this role on. so he brings about immediately doctor holly who is the chiefsurgeon in the european theater and is personally one ndof my favorite figures in all of this . he is a very blunt medical administrator, you can tell he has no time to deal with any of these washington bureaucracies. he says something like to help with scenery, i need to find the hospital . you can tell he needs it now. so bradley and holly another va physician d

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in 1946 president truman doesn't sign the bill into law formally creating department of medicine and those changes that they proposed. >> an exciting way to spend christmas in. looking back to the g.i. bill we talked about the short-term benefit of the g.i. bill but a fair question to ask all service members enjoy equal access to these benefits particularly female service members. .. >> you know, certain barriers to making full use of the g.i. bill, for instance, some female veterans will apply for home loans, they only take into consideration if they're married their husband's income because they're considered that they're not necessarily going to be permanent. in terms of using education benefit, they have to be used within just a few years of discharge, and they expired after about, like, you know, seven years. the benefit just, just kind of went away. so for women, you know, many of them after they got out of the service, they wanted to marry, they wanted to have children and maybe to support their husbands who were obtaining, you know, enrolled in an education program, so they d

another book i read recently was a marvelous book about the truman dewey 48 election, that sort of thing is what typically you'll find in my briefcase. >> what about any books on another famous kentuckian,and reclaim ? >> i've read a lot of them. if you live in kentucky everybody's heard of henry clay . and in fact i did my senior thesis in college on the compromise of 1850 which is clay's last great compromise and his quest to hold the union together with all the strains and stresses we had related to slavery. and there's been a lot of books written about henry clay and certainly i've not read anywhere near all of them. >> do you ever recommend books your colleagues? >> i do occasionally. this harley but we were just discussing recommending to all the members of my congress who were particularly interested in the law and in the supreme court which is a significant number of our members. >> any fiction in this case western mark in your reading, any fiction in your reading ? >> i confess i rarely read fiction. the last book i read interestingly enough was also about polio. it was a novel

truman, not a favorite of camp david prefer to go to key west. had the trees pushed back on during eisenhower's time it was winterized and installed the other cabins. they still maintain that, over the years use of a family cabins have been added president nixon during his time but a lot of expansion into the camp, putting in the hourglass shape pool adding laurel which is the main entertaining cabinet you see sometimes on news report and coverage of world leaders and visiting number of other features throughout. to modernize the time they challenge the president to modernize the cabin and expanded that's been going on last for five years but a very sequential smart way to keep current but maintain the rustic nature outside. and the amenities on the inside part is not a marble, brass a four star resort is not meant to be. it is a rustic, comfortable place to get away, to think, to walk in privacy and silence. and recreate on your own or meet with other world leaders. the most unique thing the bottom right of this photo of the evergreen chapel don

ron james discusses his book, law and the limits of royalty where he discusses whether president truman established the president, politicization of the supreme court. exploring the american story. i should american history tv saturday on c-span2. >> we have more live coverage today on c-span. at 1:00 p.m. eastern, u.s. cyber security director jen easterly and house homeland security committee ranking member john katko will discuss cyber threats and challenges. we will be back in military reporters and editors association conference at 2:00 p.m. and hear from richard clarke ahead of the u.s. special operations command and that is on c-span, online at c-span.org, or you can watch full coverage on c-span now, our new video app. is grover norquist, the president of americans for tax reform. welcome back to the program. guest: good to be with you. host: remind people about your organization and how are you financially backed? guest: americans for tax reform was set up at president reagan's request and our goal was to pass the tax reform act of 1986. when we did that, i came up with a taxpay

in reality, is this the truman show president? >> reporter: a lot of people feel that way.n you hear john kerry tell french media the president biden had no idea were making a nuclear sub deal with australia. you would like to think the president of the united states is involved with what is going on with our nuclear subs. there's and engines running and nobody is behind the wheel scenario but i'm trying to look for optimism here. maybe, he referenced hunter's painting, maybe hunter was painting the oval office yesterday. is making big money, 500,$000 for a painting if you think the price is high you should read the painter. >> let's talk about rashida tlaib for a second. todd's laugh is funny, she was at an event in detroit featuring the hud secretary earlier this week and caught in an exchange about mask wearing. listen to what she had to say. so if you couldn't hear her clearly she said i'm wearing it because i have a republican tracker here. your reaction. >> the whole thing, we've seen so many examples where nobody is following their social distance guidelines. how man

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truman not a fan of camp david preferred to go to key west. had the trees pushed back from the cabins and during eisenhower's time it's very rustic and still maintained that. but over the years for the use of the family and administration guests cabins have been added. president nixon during his time put a lot of expansion into the camp, expanding aspen, adding laurel which is the main entertainment cabin which you sometimes see on news reports and coverage of world leaders visiting and a number of other features throughout. maintained since then. it's been modernized at times. that's been going on for the past four to five years, a very sequential, smart way to keep it current but maintain the rustic nature out on the -- probably the most unique thing is the evergreen chapel donated through private money, gifted to the president of the united states and camp david and commissioned in 1991 during president george h.w. bush. >> and how did presidents get to camp david? you talk about fdr within driving distance but presidents don't historically

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