truman this or truman that. quietly and learned and, watched, kept his mouth shut again. skills we could use a little bit today in washington. not only many of you probably know this from around here. not only was he unknown, but he was. those who didn't know him, viewed as a as tainted as a tool of the kansas city political machine and its boss, tom pendergast, in washing town. among the press and those in the know. truman was generally kind of disdainfully known as the senator from pendergast. he narrowly this reelection campaign and a brief break from that, truman came back into washington in early 1941 and on his desk were from constituents of fairly stream of letters from n about an army camp under construction in the missouri ozarks called fort leonard wood. it's still there, as you know. let me just set the scene a little bit. 1941, war, 1941, early 1941 war has been going on for a year and a half in europe and in the pacific and in china and in japan. but the united states was not in the war everybody kn

there's truman.eral of the the other senators othe cmittee, some little kid who i keep wondering if he's still alive, that th little boy and and and this was fascinating stuff for me. this is right in my wheelhouse as a guy, son of an autoworker who's, you know, grew up learning a■■z about this stuff. and so i finished the article, but this led me down one of those giant internet rabbit hos lot, too, to the website of this place here, the truman library, and to reading about some of the young men and women truman hired on the staff for this investigating committee. one of them was this guy. it's a guy named bob irvin in 1941. he was 23 years old. he had just from the university of michigan law school go blue. he came to washington looking for a job. someone told them, hey, there's an opening over in the senate investigating committee. and he joined the truman committee. february, 1942. i know all of this because decades later, somebody from here at the truman library, went out to california with a ta

here at the truman library. matthew is an associate producer for national public radio, and he has reported from four continents from four npr news and other outlets. he is the of six other books, including one of my favorites, harry truman's adventure the true story, a great american road trip, which was named one of the best books of 2009 by the washington post. in addition to reporting and writing, matthew has held jobs as a convenience store clerk. gas station attendant, halloween costume salesman and a hot dog vendor in a traveling circus. even he's a vegetarian. he holds a degree folklore from the university of pennsylvania. in his bio, he modestly says, i'm an award winning journalist and author, but so is practically every other journalist and author author. please join me in welcoming matthew algeo. thank you. kelly. so all good bits were there. took most my shtick. make. i'm actually going to take this out for a little bit. i really need to thank kelly azalea. kurt at the truman library. not just for t

and clifton truman daniel. here he is and of course, i would also like to to welcome our moderator, the kurt graham director of the harry truman presidential library and museum. and as you will see from our from our attendees, unfortunate ali, ulysses grant dietz was unable to join us this evening. so we do apologize for that. but ladies and gentlemen, the 2024 presidential families forum. thank you very much, dr. kurt graham. the floor is yours. for. his. just turn your phones up. okay. well, good evening. good afternoon. whoever we are, it's great to. great to be here with you. i have to say a couple of things for. oh, here we are. that let me start that over. good evening. welcome. great to see you all. great to have you here. i, i feel a little bit like some dude that's like following, you know, the winning cast into the oscars or something, you know, these famous descendants. i mean, there's just such a such a great pleasure to be with such wonderful people, too. but i just wanted to say, before we start i

it also made senator truman a national figure. the truman committee' investigations ranged far and wide, sometimes even including household goods like this umbrella that you can see here in the case. the tag on the umbrella there marked by the committee, said that it was an illustration of waste and material and manpower because of its shoddy construction. and it didn't last very long. so in wartime, even a regular consumer goods were considered to be critical. wartime commodities. the truman committee also requested tips from the american public, which he received many of. there are many, many letters that he received where individual americans were pointing out things that they had witnessed of of waste, fraud or abuse. and we have one letter here that from somebody to from a citizen to truman thanking him for his for his actions, uncovering, uncovering the fraud. he was one of many people who wrote in to truman to express either tips or their their support at the conclusion of this investigation. after saving billions of dollar

there was no chance for further mediation by the truman administration. in november 1331, republican general eisenhower became the president of the united states. the selection of two brothers for two sensitive and key positions was the important point of his cabinet. announced that we have enemies who are plotting to destroy us and any american who is not aware of this fact is like a soldier who has fallen asleep at his post. now foster was called the great architect of the cold war. mossadegh sent a message to eisenhower and from the new president. he asked for help to regain the natural and basic rights of iranians. eisenhower wanted the iranian oil crisis find a decision faster. there were not a few leaders in the middle east who could follow the example of iran and create a headache for america. eisenhower's response to mossadegh's request seemed encouraging. but the nightmarish consequences of mossadegh's decision for iran's oil even before eisenhower came to power, the members of the future government had forced him to negotiate with secret agents

ha and that is harry truman in 1948. know, the beginning of that year down to the summer even democrats were saying truman is a loser. we better find someone else to run for us. but, all through that fall suddenly not the meek and polite truman of the first several years. it was give them hell, harry. the point -- this guy didn't go back and read truman's speech. speech -- truman all through the spring was the president of the united states. in the fall, he was the democratic nominee. that historian clearly isn't very competent and didn't go back and look at truman. truman would have never given this speech. as the a historian himself, he knew it was beneath the dignity of the president. it was a betrayal of his constitutional responsibility and it was an insult. notice that, by the way, biden never really gets strong emotionally about putin, about houthis, about iran, but he gets very strong emotionally when he is attacking americans if you go back and play it every really emotional attack in that speech is against his

went down in history. like the truman doctrine.in fulton , winston churchel called for a cold war, now truman translated this policy into practical terms. formally. quote: to support free peoples in their struggle against armed minorities or against enslavement carried out through external pressure. but it’s realistic to interfere in the internal affairs of any country if it meets the interests of the united states. then the president asked the congressmen and received 400. base in inderzhi, where nuclear weapons were placed, and after 5 years greece and turkey were admitted to nato. the truman doctrine became the starting point for the us course towards global confrontation with the soviet union, which more than once brought the world to the brink of world war iii. march 12 , 1999 is considered the first stage of nato expansion after the end of the cold war. on this day, poland, hungary and the czech republic became members of the alliance. some of... the most developed countries of the former eastern bloc, with the most combat-re

, truman sat in the hall, truman sat in the hall, draft.hel then gave several interviews in those same march days, and he was mistaken in one thing, he said that by proposing to completely openly use force methods against the russians, against the soviet union, he said: it is necessary to do it now, when he was asked why, he said, but because what they are also working on will not appear to them soon, but in about 8 years, he had. flowers, money and fire. deadly fire at the capital's flower warehouse. the fire lasted 2500 km. fire at a flower base in moscow. well, i think that indeed this statement that the world today is balancing on the brink of war is an absolutely correct statement, which absolutely corresponds to the circumstances that we see in different parts of the world, first of all in the middle east, east asia and europe, but it seems to me that there is only one question: when this war will start, it seems to me that this is the key question here, that is , either it will start, that’s how macron threatens us. today now, but li

well, a harry truman was devoted to bess truman from the time he was five years old and saw her in sunday school. he never loved anybody else. he was he, in fact proposeo her many, many times before she finally accepted. and he was devoted to her really his whole life. and he wrote her letters on virtually everything in the white house. politics is all life it was. he was just completely emotionally open to her. e exception where he when he became when he became president, of course, he was covered. all of a sudden, he had all of these incredible problems after fdr died of what he was going to do. and he was not accepting. he wasn't really all that prepared. you hadn't been, in fact, given that much information about some of the c of the agreements that roosevelt had made. but he when he and at christmas time of 1945, when he came home, it took a but it was a big snowstorm. he was late and bess was just upset about it and wasn't, i guess, very nice about it. he wrote this letter, which he was smart enough not to actually send, but his daughter margaret found years later. i might also add

truman spoke in congress and formulated a strategic doctrine that went down in history as the trumanoctrine. if a year earlier in fulton , winston churchel called for a cold war, now truman translated this policy into practical terms. formally, quote. to support free peoples in their struggle against armed minorities or against enslavement carried out through external pressure. but it’s realistic to interfere in internal affairs of any country, if this is the case. interests of the united states. then the president asked congressmen and received $400 million to fight the left in greece, which was destroyed as a result. and for the modernization, as was said, of turkey, in order to threaten the soviet union from there. an american military base was created there in incerlik, where nuclear weapons were stationed, and 5 years later greece and turkey were admitted to nato. the truman doctrine became the starting point of the us course towards global confrontation. with the soviet union, which has repeatedly put the world is on the brink of world war iii. march 12 , 199 is considered the

, truman was sitting in the hall, truman sat in the hall, read, as the legend says, and truman, a fewt union, he said: we need to do it now, when he was asked why, he said, but because what they are also working on will not appear in their country soon, and about eight years later, he meant atomic weapons, he was mistaken in his calculations, the soviet union had an atomic bomb much earlier, for example. then and this stopped, after 3 years the usa, and it stopped the uk, only this can stop those who wander on the edge of the abyss and threaten to drag us there, bravo, advertising, someone is trying to do something for you. it’s important to inform the prime minister on rtr through the water, a man has disappeared like canal water, i’m absolutely sure that something bad has happened to your daughter, you need to talk to ostrovskaya, no, i ’m sick, they’re offering me an operation, but do you think everything will work out, anna medium, tomorrow on rtr, dad imagined that i would have a completely different husband, and how many more ahead? i foresaw my fate, now everything is just comi

this guy didn't go back and read truman speech, speech with truman all through the spring. was the of the united states in the fall? he was the democratic. that historian clearly is not very competent and didn't go back and look at truman. truman would never have given speech because as a historian himself, he knew that it was beneath the dignity of the president. it was a betrayal of his constitutional responsibility. and it was an insult. notice that, by the way, biden never really gets strong about putin, about houthies, about iran but he gets very strong emotionally when he's attacking americans. >> if you go back and play at every really emotional attack in that speech, his against his fellow americans, which is a really bad sign. >> now it's completely twisted. and newt, we understand the president about 90 minutes ago in philadelphia and he kicked off his big campaign speech this way. >> fox our freedoms really are on the ballot this november . donald trump of the republicans are trying to take away our freedoms. that's not exaggeration. >> well, guess what? we will

and the book that he came up with was truman.and obviously that changed the trajectory of david's career. it became it was it was really a massive bestseller. it also was a book that a lot of people were reading in the cycle of that years presidential election, because all the people running for president, when that book came out wanted to be thought of as the next harry truman. the guy who could make the tough decisions, who was, you know, who had tenacity and and so it was an influential book for the for the time. but david was just such a class act and didn't it didn't waste a word on the page. he was he was not a verbose writer. he he was he was an artist himself. he literally he he he made watercolor illustrations. and i often thought that his his artistry extended to the page that that he was writing like a painter. and you could you could see the characters in his books. i loved working. i got to publish his book on the wright brothers. and and that was a kind of a classic david mccullough book, because he could. it allowe

truman, our 33rd president. in 1945, he had been vice president for just 82 days when four-term president franklin roosevelt died and he suddenly inherited the presidency in the midst of the second world war. truman learned quickly that he had been kept in the dark about some pretty important things like the manhattan project, development of the atomic bomb. he was told about that 12 days into the job. so in 1952, truman began the courtesy of allowing intelligence briefings for party presidential nominees. he pledged that any future commander in chief wouldn't get thrown into the deep end of the pool the way he had been. now, in a normal world with normal presidential candidates, that makes a lot of sense, right? but 72 years later, our 46th president, joe biden, has an opponent who has been indicted four times, including 41 criminal charges regarding his handling of classified information. in his speech later tonight, biden will draw a clear contrast between himself and donald trump, including the many, many wa

truman because president.risis of history when world war must be followed by an organization for world peace. >> he ended up winning an election study everybody. you may have brought about richard nixon who wrote from the political graveyard. 1962 losing the race to telephone you bitterly proclaimed i am done with politics. >> i want you to know just think how much you will be missed. you have nothing to kick around anymore. >> he came back and won the white house 68 and 72. >> this will be an open administration, open to new ideas, open to men and women of both colors. >> we know how that ended but he was a great steward for no while. there were great comebacks unexpected but we might be witnessing the greatest of all. the same man that pulled off the biggest upset in political history and 2016, donald j trump. i know there's a lot of runway left, eight months until the election but here on one nation we are able to take a step back a deep breath and give credit where credit is due for what we've seen so far.

states has stoodts democratic friend and ally israel as it has since the very beginning when harry truman stood up and the first state leader to recognize israel. i traveled with my colleagues two weeks after the attacks to mourn with the people of israel and support the defense of israel, to ensure that they knew that the united states was with them. in my meetings in israeleaders rhode island, it is clear to me that this attack has had a profound impact on israelis and jewish peopleeverywhere. this attack has touched the deepest nerve, reopened the wounds of the past, and left many wondering now how but if jews will ever be safe from persecution because of who they are. as i have continued to make clear, israel can and must defend itself against the military threat from hamas. any nation that is attacked in this manner has the inherent right to self-defense. the united states will continue to support israel as it works to degrade and defeat hamas. ut i also say i have deep reservations about how this war is being conducted. i believe good allies, good friends stand together and we stand

that was harry truman, feisty, scrapy, happy warrior.ng that really worked perfectly, just as a tactic for public speaking was, you know, biden was unveiling point after point, that a great majority of the american people agree with him and the democrats, disagree with republicans. beginning with supporting ukraine and supporting a strong nato. not only did he get applause for those things, but almost as if it was a setup, you had the house speaker sitting behind him, mike johnson, alternating scowls and smirks, just sort of a continuous advertisement that republicans are not on the side of the majority. >> it felt like the president was playing a little rope-a-dope there and won the exchanges with the republicans. >> right. >> on that, we just had congressman auchincloss, democrat from massachusetts, on the show a moment ago. he was outraged by the heckling by republicans in the chamber, you know, shouting, "you lie." marjorie taylor greene going on and on. he said they need to grow up. speak to us about this setting. this is the kind o

truman. so it's quite you go. oh well. here goes. >> award winning actor tom hollander says to become truman capote. he became a student of the author's idiosyncrasies. >> wait. go back. we're talking the governor's wildebeest wife. >> you know, you need to get the voice and the mannerisms, but you've also got to be able to be relatable. as a human being. >> tell me everything. >> capote was the best friend, the confidant of manhattan's female elite. he called them the swans. hollander says if this looks like fun, it was. >> i just loved walking down the streets with central park in the background. it was brilliant. >> i would invite all my swans and it will be a kind of grand reunion. >> and what a cast, i thought to myself. if there's one lunch table where you'd like to get a seat, this is a good one. >> there's, >> that's true. yeah. what an incredible array. >> from demi moore to diane lane, molly ringwald and calista flockhart, the ensemble is packed with star power. >> oh, my goodness, this is chloe sevigny, and now

but by 1949, truman had appointed four justices, almost half the court.so world war two really corresponds the time of the roosevelt court. but some of the roosevelt justices, of course, including black and douglas, you know, served for a considerable period of time. but there was a sort of very great turnover, very quickly, the legacy of the court. on the other hand, in my view was very long and all, you know, the areas we were talking about where the supreme court recognized protected constitutional rights in self conscious contrast to our enemies those became very cornerstones of the supreme court's jurisprudence for many decades so just as examples skinner versus oklahoma, the compulsory sterilizing law. it was the first time the supreme court recognized a fundamental liberty interest in the decision about whether to a child or not. and it became a very influential opinion. it is cited in versus wade and other reproductive cases. and of course now we have dobbs and the dissent turns in dobbs and dobbs decision that overruled roe versus wade. the disse

let's go to truman in california. i always like truman. truman in california. >> kouyate truman.. recently focusing on artificial intelligence of late off a regional bank. i had 2008, $2.5 million later in my retirement account i retired and that's what we did. i run with the portfolio investment club. i front run some into the oil a little bit and because i had too much cash already. with that, jimmy, what do you think about schlumberger in the club eventually? >> thank you for being a member of the club. i look at slb all the time. admired the company ever since they rejected me seven minutes into an interview in 1982, saying you're highly underqualified. i said you betcha. i'll tell you about these guys, they are good. i like them a little bit more than halle because i like the international but i'm not going to pull the trigger because i don't want to get an oil and gas. let's go to garrett in massachusetts. >> kouyate, cramer. i've had a rough few years. i think it's on sale and kathy wood likes it. what are your thoughts on unity software? >> i do care that jim greg hurst i

. >> the harry s truman library in independence, missouri is about a historical event.icaid was one of president lyndon johnson's "great society" programs. he signed the bill creating it in 1965, offering states federal funds for providing basic health care services to families on public assistance and people with disabilities. it's voluntary, but by 1982, all 50 states and the district of columbia had adopted it. since then, both democratic and republican presidents have signed coverage expansions. by the late 1980's, the program had expanded to cover all poor children and all low income pregnant people. >> on many many of the basics, , for example, access to primary preventive care, medicaid is performing about, as well as private insurance. ere are differences. dental care is very hard to access, particularly if you're on medicaid. affordable dental care is hard to access. but the answer is not to not give people medicaid because then they are in worse shape. john: in 2010, president barack obama's affordable care act expanded medicaid even further, offering states a

he plays truman capote eight in "feud: capote vs. the swans" at first ms.. the movie "love lies bleeding." folks, if you watch the show you know i spend most of my time in the news kitchen, mincing the day's finest cuts of duroc story pork to blend with the most topical white wine and cognac, juniper berries, and pistachios which i gently bake in a bain marie to create for you the delicate pate de campagne terrine that is my monologue. but sometimes, sometimes, folks, after getting thrown off a moving rail car by the hobos i betrayed to the yard boss, i scrape together the remnants of a half-eaten taco in my pocket and the tobacco from a cigarette butt and mash it into what's left of a very ripe grapefruit husk, then douse it all with everclear and set it on fire to cook up the vagabond's trash scrapple of news that is my segment... >> "meanwhile"! >> stephen: gotta learn circular breathing. that's the only oxygen tank i need. meanwhile, last week a whole-ass wheel just straight up fell off a boeing airplane during takeoff. take a look. jim, what have we go