left and truman and in 1950s, the history archives at the truman library in one of his classmates inld's, calling a great historian as you remember the particular instance truman it help straighten out ngthe voice during a conversati. as a in oklahoma and in kansas between 1990, in 1992 in a very day which in start of the, an attorney and how many were killed and copies of the canvas and of course, truman had the answers would and henry recalled that they wanted to call him out but they wouldn't do it because they had oney respect for him i. and later in life he would call himself that when he those years in looking back, truman it said reading history was far more interesting than a romantic it instructions by teaching and i wanted and i needed it. and i see that history has extremely valuable lessons i i learned from it as a leader and a man ability to know what to do when they don't want to do and to write it did in the writings of the book about people, and the truman gallery from his readings and from that it we hae the following about truman's abilities. above all patriotism wa

truman was aware of that as well. i think 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 accid

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truman. they provided his political base, and good time with the local npr affiliate when i was out there a few years ago, and i hope to be back soon. the truman court, the idea of the book came to me when i was researching my last book, which as you mentioned, was the double v, how wars, protests, and harry truman desegregated america's military, because what we now know as the civil rights movement began with the effort to desegregate america's military. and harry truman was the first president in the post civil rights era, including franklin roosevelt, the first president to openly express public sympathy to all white audiences. american citizens of africa happened to be african-americans. about america's military which is the largest and most diverse institution. americas military, which is now the largest and most diverse institution, i saw this work on the side, which i actually began resurging in my first book root and branch. with thurgood marshall, his working through the judicial sy

truman did keep them in line as safe as he could and was pretty successful at it. the thing about this particular one, literally the night he and some of these officers left, i think they were gone for about a week, it's like the cats away and the mice will play kind of thing. literally that very night he left things got a little bit out of hand. he left i think it was lieutenant zimmer in charge and he was a very nice guy, basically the fellow in charge of handling the wagons, lumber, oversaw, various men taking care of and operating the horses, a very nice guy. everybody liked him but he did not know how to impose discipline. frankly, he just steamrolled right over him. he got in a whole bunch of trouble nearby, he got drunk, causing all kinds of motion. mps were involved, a lot of them, thinking back to the movie scenes you've seen, that was his battery. as soon as he was out, rolled over the hill so to speak but ultimately, may be only about a quarter of them were actually apprehended but everybody knew the folks who were involved in this stuff as he left when

his commanding officer was on a couple of occasions went to bat for truman when truman was flouting orderso fire into the neighboring sector, which he kind of had to do. later gave him a thumbs up on that, on his activities. that major gates had to intervene and help make sure truman did not get court-martialed. but anyway, this is after the fighting here. different men from his unit were given leave in groups. the officers pretty much went as a group. unfortunately as you probably are aware had a bit of a reputation. there were a lot of irish guys. truman was able to keep them in line in a very efficient job of it. it was very effective, stern, increase their food rations. while at the same time there was a lot of -- there is a lot of carrot and stick to his approach rick did work very well and they really respected this guy. gave him credit for different things. in fact during the fighting which they probably should have given to major gates but again that is another story. but truman did keep them in line. kept them as safe as he could and was pretty successful at it. the thing about th

president harry truman and winston churchill sat up on the back of the open limousine.ween them, the president of the college, dr. frank mcclure, sat down lower on the seat. churchill smiled at the crowd giving his v for victory sign and waving his cigar as the car weaved along the route. at last the motorcade entered the grounds of westminster college. the gymnasium was packed with invited guests and dignitaries. loud speakers outside the auditorium delivered the speech to an overflow crowd. a special section near the stage was reserved for the mothers of local men who had died in the war. the atmosphere was one of anticipation and uncertainty as churchilled had kept the content of his speech close to the vest. in the buildup to this moment, churchill held court with the u.s. press corps on the train trip to missouri. i think no commenting is a splendid expression, he told reporters who asked what he would say in fulton. i'm using it again and again. throughout his life churchilled had a craved the -- churchilled had craved the world stage ors and here he was once agai

one person who convinced truman to recognize the state. truman will not see him. so jacobson gets on a plane, flies halfway around the country, walks into the secretary's office, matt connolly and said i need to talk to truman. and matt conley knew of the friendship he said absolutely but one thing, do not talk about palestine. he said of course comes into the white house and start making chit chat. finally truman says what are you doing here? you have never come to ask for anything. what are you doing here? he says you have to see. truman gets his backup and goes into a ranch. talks but has been disrespected by the jewish people did not want anything more to do with the issue. at that point he said for the first time that is an anti-semite. he knows the fate of the state is hanging in the balance. he sees the bust of andrew jackson. he knows andrew jackson is harry truman's idol. and he says what would andrew jackson do. i don't think so. he would do what he knows to be like. the thing to do now is to recognize. third truman turns red in his face, turns his back

one person who convinced truman to recognize the state. truman will not see him. so jacobson gets on a plane, flies halfway around the country, walks into the secretary's office, matt connolly and said i need to talk to truman. and matt conley knew of the friendship he said absolutely but one thing, do not talk about palestine. he said of course comes into the white house and start making chit chat. finally truman says what are you doing here? you have never come to ask for anything. what are you doing here? he says you have to see. truman gets his backup and goes into a ranch. talks but has been disrespected by the jewish people did not want anything more to do with the issue. at that point he said for the first time that is an anti-semite. he knows the fate of the state is hanging in the balance. he sees the bust of andrew jackson. he knows andrew jackson is harry truman's idol. and he says what would andrew jackson do. i don't think so. he would do what he knows to be like. the thing to do now is to recognize. third truman turns red in his face, turns his back

vaughn persuades truman to write a handwritten and sends to churchill. words that truman inscribes. >> this is a wonderful school in my home state, hope you can do it. i will introduce you, best regards harry truman. >> it is this letter that brings churchill across the atlantic ocean to heartland of the united states convinced that he has obtained the world's attention. ♪ ♪ >> biggest day in history and 1946 was somewhat overcast as crowds line the street in anticipation of churchill's motorcade, 25,000 people were on hand to welcome dignitaries when they arrived in the afternoon from jefferson city. there were marching bands, flags and balloons and president harry truman and winston churchill sat on the the back of the limousine. charge hill smiled at the crowd. waving his cigar. at last, the motorcade entered westminster college. gymnasium was packed with invited guests and dignitaries. loud speakers delivered the speech to overflowed crowd. special section near the stage was reserved for the mother of local men who had died in the war. atmosphere was

truman goes on to become senator, and jacob stays as a habberdasher, a simple man, but he and truman had a common man bond that worked for them, spent all their time together was truman was in kansas city and would go to washington to see him but their relationship takes on a completely different complexion in march of 1948. truman has to make a very important decision. what do you do about the land in palestine? the you know in november of '47 decided to partition it but there were members of truman's administration, notably george marshal, most revered member of his cabinet who did not want an independent state for the youish people and telling truman when the mandate ran out in '48 he should punt out the issue, not recognize the state, leave it to the u.n., essentially no decision at all to leave it under a trusteeship and truman had a inclination to support the state of israel, but marshal's opposition plus the heckling of jewish lobbyists drew truman to a point, he didn't want it anymore, said couldn't please them, how am i supposed to do it today. at the moment, weisman, leadin

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

major general harry vaughn happens to be a military aide to president truman. vaughn persuades him to write a handwritten invitation. the words inscribed are, this is a wonderful school in my home state. hope you can do it. i'll introduce you. best regards, harry truman. >> it is this letter that brings churchill across the atlantic ocean to the heartland of the united states, convinced that he has obtained the world's attention. >> fulton's biggest day in history, as the paper put it, had finally arrived, march 5th, 1946 was somewhat overcast has crowds lined the streets in anticipation of churchill's motorcade. about 25,000 people were on hand to welcome the dignitaries when they arrived just afternoon from jefferson city. there were marching bands, flags, and balloons. they set up on the back of the open limb limousine. dr. frank mcclure sat down lower on the seat. churchill smiled at the crowd, giving his "v" for victory sign as waiving his cigar as the car we've had along the route. at last, the motorcade entered the grounds of westminster college. loud sp

winston churchill comes to america, truman invites him to make his famous speech in fulton, missouri. this is a wake up call to the world. churchill says stalin can no longer be trusted. these are no longer allies. we have to change the foreign policy. his speech caused scandal in america. the idea was to keep working with stalin. churchill puts it very very firmly. he can't be trusted and, there's a second thing that happens, one of the soviet clocks working in the soviet embassy in canada, defects to the west, and he defects with a huge bundle of highly explosive documents that reveal that the soviets had been spying on the american nuclear program, and stalin knows everything about what's taking place with the americans with the western developing a nuclear warhead, so these two events are really important, and the third thing, i don't know how well known it is in america. it's certainly not known at all in my country, in england, the famous diplomat in the american embassy in moscow who writes his famous long telegram, which in a very similar tone to churchill sets out the fact th

you have truman and churchill. you have the picture on the ground which is where the battle is being fought between the commanders you have a personal way of telling a big story. >> it's so personal i knew them as men. it's heads up on anybody else and they won't be his allies. he knew right away there was a conflict within his own country and allies. what was the big turning point when they realized we won't come to anag agreement here. >> how do you think telling washington we must change policy but it doesn't happen. big thinged happened in the spring of 1964. truman invited him to make the iron curtain speech in fulton, missouri. this is the wake up call of the world. he said stallen can no longer be trusted and we must change the policy this caused total scandal in. america. churchill put it firmly he can't be trusted stay work in the embassy in canada and defects to the west. he defects with a huge bundle oe highly explosive documents that reveal they had been spying on the nuclear program. heex knows everyth

truman opens the door and glares at him.e to bess later on about how hurt he had felt tha after he had finally come home for christmas, she looked at him as if it was something the cat dragged in. truman had to deal not only with the grave weapons of war and piece and atomic weapons with the end of world war iipresiden to deal with his mother-in-law. his mother-in-law felt her daughter married way below her social station, and so you have this scene at christmas where the elder mrs. wallace, the mother-in-law, would sit down at the table with a present nearby, and she detested harry truman so much she would barely condescend to look in his direction. the scene took place year after year at christmastime. christmastime 1963 found a grieving nation. one of the country's most profound losses had come just weeks before in november 1963 when president john f. kennedy was shot and killed in dallas. in previous years the kennedy family had shared cheerful images of their holidays like this one from palm beach in 1962, but in a mela

but it sides with macarthur in truman is in agreement with all of this. they, a lot of legal scholars probably figures there is an obstruction of justice during this particular tribe there's also the idea someone had to be punished. everybody perhaps look the other way. the biggest trial though will be in tokyo. that will be before the international military tribunal of the far east. that's very high ranking people will be charged with crimes and with waging an aggressive war. several of them will be executed in 1948. another way the occupation things to reeducate japanese citizens is through museums and the arts. you've probably heard of the monuments in europe, they were in japan too. but in japan they were different the role wasn't one about censorship than going around protecting cultural objects from war. they are going to go to museums and religious sites throughout the country and make sure the content does not glorify militarism. there is a home in japanese institution that gives grandson's day afloat and share japanese culture with the rest of th

all-powerful days later on september 2 he is in charge of the surrender ceremony and president trumaner allied leaders combined with the japanese impression that is t all-powerful. is he on his own in japan, does he have total control, no oversight, of course not he's under the authority of truman the jcs in the far eastern commission is also supposed to be under the control of the allied counsel for japan then he wiggles three from the last commission i mentioned is under the control under president truman, he's not on his own in japan he does return to the japanese people with all authority in japan. his personality and leadership stylena in this concept and perception of japan. in legitimacy, how do you started occupation doing what the occupied people now no legitimate ruler early in occupation macarthur sent a message does not need to confirm himself with the emperor, he is the authority in japan and the emperor is irrelevant at this point to the state department and the white house they will figure out what to do w a later date. macarthur always believed they would be a key part

government, it started with harry truman. and then 58 years later, we see an agency that is refusing to comply with the law. a law passed unanimously by congress. they have blown two deadlines, now three. people, they simply do not believe the cia on this question. this is why the cia needs to make these documents public. they have no credibility on jfk's assassination. host: we were talking about the statement from this white house concerning the release. they put out a statement on october 22 saying temporary continued postponement necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operation, law enforcement or the conduct of foreign relations with such gravity it outweighs the public interest. similar to what you heard from the last administration. guest: when you look at these documents and you look at what is redacted, you know, identifiable harm to the national defense, nothing, nothing that was released last week would've harmed the national defense if had been released four years ago.

william mckinley, abraham lincoln, harrogate truman or boutwell?want to say little ballet, i think it was harry truman. kennedy: are on the board as well. we got presidential historians today. brad, you can make it a trouble with this, are you ready? [laughter] kennedy: which of these presidents was married to his cousin? was it woodrow wilson, franklin d roosevelt, john quincy adams or woody allen? [laughter] >> maybe fdr? kennedy: you are right. fdr. omg. all three of our players are on the board. let's go with round number two. which of these presidents changed the name of fdr's presidential from shangri-la to camp david? ronald reagan, right d eisenhower, jimmy carter or abraham lincoln? >> i do not but i'm going to guess eisenhower. kennedy: you guessed correctly. excellent work. you are not in the lead with two kevin, which of these presidents once proclaimed and looked on a lot of women with lust, i committed adultery in my heart many times, this is something god recognizes i will do and have done it and god forgives me broke. who said that?

coming up next, did president truman set the precedent for a politicized high court? ron james provided his answer in the truman court, law and the limits of loyalty. >> my name is steven, and i'm the director of programming and marketing for the kansas city public library. welcome to this special truman day, three days removed, installment in our virtual series. our guest tonight is ron james, author of the soon to be released the truman court, law and limits of loyalty. james is a graduate of yale university and duke university school of law. he has practiced law in washington, d.c. for the last two decades and the author of two previous books. root

ah, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights. a day of some of the mel delegates were not pleased at 1st. it is all totally game. isn't there something? what was that? because she was a woman. she was an activist. right ma'am? oh, yes, israel michael or it was there were many different committees swallowed us president harry truman gave her a job on a committee dealing with social issues. they had a good opposite. it was more of a representative job, a token gesture in the denay, no nose vent, also helping but gosh, paula had her with a husband who were not under committed at the facility law. it's affected of you because about with influx of refugees after world war 2, social issues suddenly became pressing a modern look. an appeal it appeared less. oh no. one of you guys moved. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of teresa marquis lanier for that. and she was appointed the chair of the commission on human rights. so i'd love to clean it as more, le let's have them move. you can take a look recently some commissi

if you don't allow requests, you know, i to mine, ah, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights about some of the mel delegates were not pleased at 1st. it is all totally game, isn't there something? what was that? because she was a woman. she was an activist. right. manuel. lou yes is rouel. i'm a mom. her mom and there were many different committees. swallows us president harry truman gave her a job on a committee dealing with social issues. it grew up with it. it was more of a representative job, a token gesture in the name on those went also helping but gosh, paula and hope was on her through the law on the cms did. is it a facility law? it comforted of you because about with influx of refugees after world war 2, social issue suddenly became pressing a modern look and appeared appeared little knowing of jasmine. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of careers masculine renew for that. and she was appointed the chair of the commission on human rights. so i'd love to clean again as marlena with the move you can tear a lo

s. president harry truman gave her a job on a committee, dealing with social issues. it could put it, it was more of a representative job, a token gesture, in that the name on the husband also tell me what, gosh, hoya. it was a history. we were not under could did. is it a cecilia law? it's affected of you cause about with the influx of refugees after world war 2, social issues suddenly became pressing a modern look and appear and appeared less on all of you guys, men. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of terrific monkey them when you fed, and she was appointed the chair of the commission on human rights. so i'd love to clean again as marana. liquor. some movers you can get it. luckily on the some commission members complained about the pace, but she was determined to finish within the given time that he did renew it all. so for the last time it isn't on it, don't look at it. if it's money and, and it did, he gave one delegate, i think from indonesia complained. he said human rights are not respected by the commission on human rights. because she mad

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of loyalty and whether president harry truman set the precedent for a politicized supreme court with his nominations. >> the coin is flipped over. it's a shock to the system, and i think it's an excellent point scheme. i actually spent a good amount of time thinking about it the last few years about how that was a shock to americans reading their newspapers or listening to their radio and saying who even is this guy and what's happening here. and we're at war. and it kind of came to a head in later times, and it was in part because of his supreme court nominees as he just began to nominate his friends, whichbris us to tom court, one of his friends. he nominated tom clark to be attorney general of the -- of the united states. tom clark at the time was actually a year older than i am now. i'm 44 now. tom clark was 45 at the time. clark had been been an unexceptional law student and actually ended up in washington by accident. then franklin roosevelt had wanted to hire tom clark's older brother who was an exceptional law student and a big shot lawyer, and was by all accounts on his way

of all those he would deem worthy of this battle and surely not harry truman. it was wendell willkie presumed to be in good health. i'm naÏve of the election. the republican party was t destined to swerve toward a steadily more anti-communism that became indistinguishable from imperialism. in that the oneworld ideal the trajectory would and every century. it that would save the precious few years that undoubtedly would position them at the center of post-war international reconstruction and domestic politics with rizzo contra factual to suggest that wendell willkie's commitment and to coexistence his familiarity with the dramatis personae of eastern europe the middle east and asia express itself in vigorous councils of moderation and reproach against the cold war policies that rapidly displaced the atlantic charter ideals he and fdr had made in a vision of the possible world. among wendell willkie's last -- whatever we do constitutes foreign-policy and whatever we do a broad constitutes domestic alosi. this is the great new political fact. thank you. >> thank y

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