but truman was a practical man. he said to the usher, you had better get some engineers in here to take a look around. so that is how my book starts. that's how i've just target. obviously i'm going to move a little bit faster now. truman had harbored suspicions about the white house is integrity almost to the point to $0.5 the point that the move again. he would work in his oval study lated night and was troubled by the sounds a kept hearing. there were creaking noises. the curtains would sway on their own even of the windows were closed. at one point in june of 45 he wrote to his wife, i sit here in this old house and work on foreign affairs, reed reports, and work on speeches all the while listening to the ghosts walk up and down the hallway. the floors pop in the drapes move back and forth. this was the hallway. i have looked. over time german had heard so many sounds coming from the gasol way that he stopped thinking that goes might be the reason for the. at one. the chandeliers shaking and trembling started to

truman is splashing around in the bathtub. and i don't believe he was a particularly there goes beta, but apparently it was enough to get the been shaking and in the to shake this chandelier. so the guests go home. the daughters of the american revolution, no one is harmed. are given a there goes and the way. bess truman goes upstairs and she said, i was afraid that chandelier was going to come down on top of all of those people. and at that, president truman bursts out laughing. he thought that was fantastic. he thought it would be wonderful if the bathtub sli slipped throh the floor with him in it wearing nothing other than hi his readig glasses and did it come them right in the middle of the daughters of the american revolution, as one of his architects put it later, to dissent in the tub among the ladies. but truman was a practical man and after he stopped laughing, he said to usher was coming you better get some engineers in here to take a look around. so that's how my book starts and that's how i started, so obvious i'm

but truman was a practical man. he said to the usher, you had better get some engineers in here to take a look around. so that is how my book starts. that's how i've just target. obviously i'm going to move a little bit faster now. truman had harbored suspicions about the white house is integrity almost to the point to $0.5 the point that the move again. he would work in his oval study lated night and was troubled by the sounds a kept hearing. there were creaking noises. the curtains would sway on their own even of the windows were closed. at one point in june of 45 he wrote to his wife, i sit here in this old house and work on foreign affairs, reed reports, and work on speeches all the while listening to the ghosts walk up and down the hallway. the floors pop in the drapes move back and forth. this was the hallway. i have looked. over time german had heard so many sounds coming from the gasol way that he stopped thinking that goes might be the reason for the. at one. the chandeliers shaking and trembling started to

fdr shared nothing with truman. he was a running mate because he was a consensus candidate, got ratify at the convention, and they figure, well, truman's popular in the senate, and when i was to ratify the peace treaty to end it, truman does it for me. guess what, harry, you're on the ticket. that was it. he did not let truman into the tent on anything. you have a man who had to crash learn the most difficult office in the world in two weeks, which he did, and then amid that, he's president at the birth of the cold war at the claches of europe as they grabbed all the eastern states and took them over to installing puppet governments and all that, and despite the enormous pressure, the man, roughly as old as fdr, put in 18-hour days, and when he got home, he cared about what was going on with the white house. he was interest the. he wanted to see the report,mented to pick out the paint color. they painted the state dining room this green, you know, a moss green. they took the paint off. there was a huge, you know, pr

at time where he was alone with president truman and it was that time that he educated truman on the threat from the soviet union. as a matter of fact, president roosevelt died four months earlier. guess who would've been president of the united states. the communists. the vice president in that early time before truman turned out to be a communist. nonetheless, the covert action was the order of the day. the cia didn't succeed in every case they tried. as a matter of fact, what they did was beyond belief. there are also while they were working on italy, turkey and greece were also dropping agents behind the communist lines in albania and eastern europe. they were parachuting in these young men with radios to infiltrate indeed they are behind the lines eyes and ears. every one of those 300 young men that was parachuting behind the lines was compromised and picked up and never heard from again. the reason is it was a joint operation with the british and it turned out our famous ken philby, who was one of the british agents that was actually working with us and not operation turned out

anything you found about truman's awareness approval? >> truman approved the president. i am sorry if i left that out. this is president's day. this was a classified military program but it had a benign public faith. they knew if you had 1600 german scientist returning around someone would figure it out. so they propagated the myth. >> was truman in on the myth? >> i don't believe trumann had actually access to the documentsidocument documents. they would not have asked to know and they approved the program as it was sold to them from my understanding. way in the back. >> this is fascinating. and important. and had i not stumbled upon the blurb in the book passage calendar i would never had known about this any of this. so my question to you is in the broader context of the short attention span circus that we call the media, mainstream media, what has been your experience in trying to get the word out about this? >> the book just published six days ago and it is doing remarkably well considering the story is 69 years old. i give credit to my fellow readers who i think we

was gone. >> he was gone and truman was gone. president, gerald ford and richard nixon, and they helped me with key issues, might say like fraternity brothers having graduated from the same school. >> stephen: was there a hazing? >> i went through a hazing when i ran against gerald ford, but later, when i defeated him, subsequent to that, he and i became, according to the historians, the two closest friends that ever graduated from the white house. >> stephen: are they right about that? >> they're right. >> stephen: when president obama was inaugurated, there's a photo of all five living presidents standing with each other. >> yes. >> stephen: you're standing a little bit off from everybody. do you enjoy hanging out with the other presidents? >> yeah, i really do, yeah. >> stephen: do you guys get together and do things? >> in the south, we don't get all that close to other men, you know. [ laughter ] >> stephen: jimmy carter, thank you so much! president jimmy carter. his book is "a call to action." we'll be right back. [ cheers

when he went to truman and truman was not willing to do anti-lynching legislation, he went to the streetions and he got poor folks of all races to unite together. that is when he became really dangerous. it got to the point during the era --he was all of a sudden deemed un-american. it took a toll on his mind and his heart and he was depressed. as the play starts, his wife has brought in a stock of cotton to remind him of where he came from and to give him some strength as he goes before the house un-american activities committee . how will they decide if i am un-american? that leads him on a journey through his life. tavis: how does america, how do we pay the debt that we owe to paul robeson? that we doing justice to him when we treated him so horribly. >> it begins with people knowing the story. to me, i was really upset when i first found out. i was listening to cds of spirituals and i said, who is this man with this incredible voice? never had i heard about him and school. -- in school. it starts with telling the story. in attainment is the greatest -- entertainment is the greatest s

tonight, steve sestanovich on american foreign policy, from truman to obama. >> i think the president's challenge is both to reassure allies, to reimpress add veer as and to rebuild a consensus about what american purposes are abroad. that is hard because we don't have a consensus about what those purposes should be. we're going to have a debate from now till the presidential election as to what foreign policy should be. >> charlie: continue with a biography about hillary clinton. >> we talk to a lot of republicans in this book who give her credit for working across the aisle and not being -- i think she called herself a workhorse not a show horse, and for sort of doing that, for working behind the scenes, for trying to move legislation together and not hogging the spotlight as some thought she might. >> charlie: we conclude with the former governor of ohio, ted strickland. >> charlie, there's something wrong when the supreme court basically equates money with speech, and that means these billionaires have a lot more speech than the average american, and the average american is feeling

to more years of harry truman route would have had communism in america. actually thought that that there was this type of retrenchment so there are issues that presidents pullback from campaign rhetoric. the case of the president who beats up on china and then sees the of light that is a could one. but broadly speaking i am struck how often rhetoric in up dictating wealth. when he was running the famous'' is it's the economy stupid a very strong critique of the bush administration policy which she did i implement for two or three years by he repudiated the first bush passivity in the balkans no dog in that fight approach. and the need for a new direction. two examples there with their own instincts imagining himself to be teethirty then september 11 turned his head around. just one further thought, those presidents who do that who were taken by surprise are ones who don't have a lot of foreign policy experience or taken by surprise by a crisis that they have to cope with. that was true of johnson who pointed to put it the economic side. it was a true jimm

mayor humphrey is fighting for all the principles advocated by president truman.ost housing forget, civil rights, for prices people can afford to pay, and for a labor movement free of the taft-hartley law. >> when he released that tape in 1984 tip o'neill said, "i ran on the democratic ticket in 1948. i have not changed. reagan has." my next guest is going to be my cousin kirk o'donnell's daughter, holly o'donnell. if kirk were still with us, he would be so proud of the work holly's doing now. you should stick around to see this. that's coming up. my grandson's got this blankie that gets filthy. but he's got such sensitive skin that you worry about what you use in the laundry. my tide, downy, and bounce all come in free & gentle. so we get a cleaner, softer blankie. uh oh. [ female announcer ] tide, downy, and bounce free & gentle. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition in charge™. [ banke

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anything you found about truman's awareness approval? >> truman approved the president. i am sorry if i left that out. this is president's day. this was a classified military program but it had a benign public faith. they knew if you had 1600 german scientist returning around someone would figure it out. so they propagated the myth. >> was truman in on the myth? >> i don't believe trumann had actually access to the documentsidocument documents. they would not have asked to know and they approved the program as it was sold to them from my understanding. way in the back. >> this is fascinating. and important. and had i not stumbled upon the blurb in the book passage calendar i would never had known about this any of this. so my question to you is in the broader context of the short attention span circus that we call the media, mainstream media, what has been your experience in trying to get the word out about this? >> the book just published six days ago and it is doing remarkably well considering the story is 69 years old. i give credit to my fellow readers who i think we

it is called "maximalist: america in the world from truman to obama." i am pleased to have steve sestanovich back at the table. great to have you back in the studio. ukraine. >> yeah. >> russia. where are we? >> it seems we're looking at a rolling dismemberment of ukraine. and i think it may turn out to be too strong a statement. i hope so. right now, the way the russians seem to be handling this is to challenge the authority of the ukrainian government and to warn that if they try to assert its authority in the eastern provinces where the support is weaker that russia will respond. respond they will, as the foreign minister said, as they did in georgia in 2008, the threat of war. >> they're threatening war if what happens? >> if there is an attempt to oust the pro-russian separatist groups that have taken over buildings and squares in eastern ukraine, in small cities and towns. >> which they intended to do. >> the ukrainian government has said a number of times that they want to do this. they have held back because they know the use of force may not be

truman grew up in a modest home worked his way up the political ladder and never attended college. taft grew up in the white house and graduated the top of his class. it was an immediate national figure when he was elected to the senate in 1938. he was considered a presidential candidate. tomb of the most partisan people considered leaders partisan to the bone phot like crazy over a wide variety of issues but debt at the end of world war ii had reached the level of national income. like it did two months ago in united states. the second time in american history in both of those individuals resolve that we would not garrow anymore. we would pay down the debt because they wanted to preserve a better future for their kids and their grandkids and they did not want to cause further risk and rising interest rates that would cause the u.s. to have to disarm or continue to borrow. there are some great stories and their and in 1950 they reached two great compromises that lasted for a long time because they had that principle. they were forced to make hard choices. one is to decrease the con

harry truman and robert taft, world war ii, two people who couldn't be more difficult in the background. truman grew up in a modest home working up the political ladder never attended any college, taft in the white house graduated top of the class in harvard and yale, and was an immediate national figure elected the senate in 1938. was will be considered a presidential candidate, two of the must partisan people considered by their peers, leaders of their party, partisan to the bone, fought like crazy over a variety of issues. at the end of world war ii debt reached the level of national income. higher than national income. in the united states. the second time in american history and both of those individuals resolved that we would not borrow any more. we would try to pay down the debt. they wanted to preserve a better future for their kids and grandkids and did not want to cause further risk that rising interest rates would cause the u.s. to have to disarm or continued to borrow. some great stories in sayre. in 1950 they reached two great compromises that lasted long time. because they

he left of harry truman? i lived in the d c area for a while and i went to book events. i asked different guests there, newt gingrich, he gave one of the better answers, as an academic historian, he put obama to the left of george mcgovern. it seemed like a pretty straightforward answer. i wanted to know how you feel about that and, as far as foreign policy goes, what do you see in the future after obama? part of myst: problem with this answer will be that i don't know much about harry truman. but i want to reject the left right scales. even though that is the way that we now measure politicians, it is a multidimensional scale, to be real. bepassing health care he may perceived as to the left, but i believe that harry truman was the first democrat to try to do that. it just so happens that obama happened to do it. my knock on president obama would be that in places where he can lead, he has not been as effective as many folks might have hope. let's take health care as the example. theuld argue that health-car

truman was considered them to be a conservative democrat from missouri. read what he has to say here and there a few democrats who could talk and his language today. focus on the american working class to a centrist party which sadly -- it receives a lot of corporate big-money as well. i agree with you. i caucus with the democrats. on this issue. the democrats about to stand with the working class of this country. [applause] they have got to have the bucks to take on big-money. there are more good democrats that are working really hard and you know. they do not get into the media terribly often cared they will not get on tv talking about the important issues. i think we have got a question here it's. -- a question here. >> thank you. my question is in tune with education. the union later a couple of weeks ago did a story on an effort that i am making with introducing an alternative or an improvement to the affordable care act. has even gone as far as to putting up a website ww w.citizencare.us. what i have done is about three years in the making. , i made

this is a very recent change. >> ted truman has lead the discussion.tine lagarde actually do? how did she bring the u.s. back into the fold? calling out her larger shareholder. you made a commitment. you made a deal. it was your deal. it is your message and you need to leave up to it. -- live up to it. and then become the imf is weaker without u.s. involvement. that is why it is so important. these are people who spent 30 years of their lives advocating for u.s. leadership in these organizations. they are just saying we are throwing it away. and the short term, we will have a dysfunctional system. term, we will have to start a chinese dominated institution. europe is going to go either way. this is fragmentation that is against u.s. interest. >> this goes to a bilateral agreement. how is important is it for president obama to push for a multiple -- multilateral dialogue. >> what you have been emphasizing his he has to show leadership, but in the u.s. to get support for the multilateral dialogue. this idea that it is just congress holding out, there are

>> well, truman is my favorites. >> jimmy: truman is your favorite.likely you'll meet him. what did you talk about? >> we talked about architecture. >> jimmy: about architecture, really? what specifically did you speak about? >> his presidential center. >> jimmy: oh, wow. you might want to visit some day. >> well, it's over in arkansas. but it need plane tickets though. >> jimmy: i'm sure we could figure that out if you really want to go. >> what do you know about president clinton? facts bout him? >> he met jfk. when he was young. he was think about being a saxophone player but when he met jfk, he wanted to be president. >> jimmy: do you think meeting him made you want to be president? >> i still want to be a chemist. >> jimmy: you still want to be a chemist. >> jimmy: how did you become interested in the periodic tables of the elements? >> well because like -- my second big interest is was geology. i was like -- what are these made of? of course, everything is made of elements. everything, you are made of elements, everything is made of elements. >>

well, if you look at the democratic party, look at what harry truman talked about in 1948. truman, as you may recall, was considered then to be a conservative democrat from missouri, conservative democrat. read what he has to say. there are very few democrats who will talk in his language today. democratic party has moved from a center left party focused on the american working class, to a centrist party, which sadly -- and it has to be admitted, and anyone who doesn't know it should know it -- also receives a lot of corporate and big money as well. so i agree with you. believe me, we have caucuses. i'm an independent. i rant and rave on this issue, that the democrats have got to stand with the working class of this country. [applause] and they've got to have the guts to take on big money. but the other point that i would make -- there are more good democrats out there working really hard, than you know. but they don't get into the media terribly o. they're not going to get on abc, cbs and nbc talking about the important issues, and that speaks to the first point that the q

eisenhower were thought truman was on the wrong track.kennedy thought eisenhower was on the wrong track. ronald reagan thought the last three presidents before him had been losing the cold war and this pattern has continued. to me, that makes the past much more like the present. we are able to see our controversies about syria and ukraine in a more meaningful historical context if we understand what a mess the past was. i should say that i wanted to make this argument with as much vividness as i could in the book with color and drama and lively stories. i am assured an audience last week in california there is plenty of presidential profanity in the book. a woman came up to me afterwards and said it was that presidential profanity of mine that made me want to buy this. [laughter] so there are many different tastes. i felt in the course of writing at that perhaps i had gone too far when my editor called me up and said, why is the prime minister of great britain always bursting into tears on the phone with the president? he. >> claimed this

health care is truman yet and you know it didn't didn't go anywhere and truman also vetoed i think two two or three times vetoed taft hartly i mean when did the republicans how did the republicans just come out of the woodwork all of a sudden forty six forty eight good question. what is and are there parallels for today well truman came into office and immediately projected a legislative agenda built on the four freedoms and the second bill of rights immediately and everyone not everyone but the majority progressives who were the majority of america welcomed this but then when workers went out on strike to demand higher wages now not later having suffered the same price controls and having been kicked around by big business as far as they were concerned for a few years and there were massive strikes around the country truman shifted he still believed in what he said but instead of mobilizing instead of doing what roosevelt did placing himself ahead you know if you like the populist leader to champion the cause of working people he began he began to talk to walk away from the very thing

a little unknown party hack, really, called harry truman, had one of the most important times in the history of the world it comes a small man and he comes leader of the world with all the power, frankly, like george bush, he blows it. runenry wallace would later for president. >> as an unsuccessful third-party candidate. the real drama is the 1944 convention. >> wallace was very much a visionary. he was lost in history. nobody knows henry wallace anymore. he is an extraordinary man. in 1941, use of the 20th century must be the american century. he gave a famous speech and said the 20 century must be the century of the common man. calls for worldwide people's revolution in the tradition of the american revolution the french revolution, and the russian revolution. have to wipe out monopolies and cartels. he says we have to and colonialism and imperialism, and u.s. and the soviets have to collaborate to refashion the world at the end of the world. that was the vision he had. the party bosses hated him as to the wall street people. wall street comes first. he was the exemplar of everyth

. >> and truman, too. >> yes, todd. >> and jonathan is right, president truman left the white house inght, todd, and tomorrow, mr. martin, and thank you very much. >> thank you, chuck. >> we will of course monitor the breaking news situation, a high school stabbing in pennsylvania where 20 students were injured a. male sophomore has been taken into custody for an attack that happened starting at 7:15. it happened while class was in session, and it lasted about 15 minutes until the police were able to finally bring the custody into -- bring the suspect into custody, and according to our affiliate, seven are believed to have life threatening injuries. and the school is in the process of reuniting the students with the families. we will have the all of the latest and give you all of the factual details, and with that, we give it over to chris jansing. >>> i'm msnbc bill karins, and beautiful beautiful weather coast to coast, and this is the warmest day we have seen this spring, and 97 in phoenix, and look at minneapolis at 72. the snow is melting in a hurry through northern portions of wi

truman relieved general douglas mcarthur of his duties during the korean war because mcarthur was pushing for war with china. >> general mcarthur is one of our greatest military commanders, but because of world peace is much more important than any individual. >>> and on this friday, happy birthday to singer songwriter jos stone. she turns 27. actor meshach taylor from "designing women" is 67. and rfk widow ethel kennedy turns 86. keep it here for more news, weather and sports. i'm frances rivera. thank you for watching "early today." have a great friday. have an even better weekend. >>> breaking news. just a gut-wrenching scene. black smoke billowing into the air. >> this after a fedex truck slammed into a bus carrying high school students. we're hearing the harrowing stories from those that survived. >>> good friday morning to you. it's 4:30, i'm scott mcgrew. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. some new numbers on the victims and incredible stories from survivors. we'll get to our team coverage in just moments, but, let's first begin with a check of our friday forecast with

if you go back before truman he talked about the presidency like a great white jail. he had the highest disproval rating of any president until george w. bush. go back to woodrow wilson. his terms ended in dispare. he had 2-3 strokes toward the end. reagan was elected because it was the best people could do to gate third term of reagan. we won one term. he lost in 1992 to bill clinton. clinton wins with 43% of the vote because of the third party candidate. bush gets in without winning the majority. and bush leaves office and around 2007 he had the worst gallop approval numbers since truman. obama wins in 2008. 2012, obama is the first president in history, the first democrat i believe since lbj to get over 50% of the vote. but in 2012, first president to get elected to do this with less poplar and electoral college votes. reagan won 49-50 and obama won 26. a bare majority. if you look at a map of counties it was a sea of red. under obama it was still a sea of red if you look at counties. speaking of obama, there was a poll down in 2013, after the 2013 -- after the sec

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the national guard in puerto rico, before enlisting in the regular army, he enlisted as an infin trumanthen switched his military occupational specialty to truck driver. he was deployed twice, and then he served four months in iraq as a truck driver. army secretary said a recent background check revealed no red flags. >> the background we with have done thus far, show no involvement with extremists organizations of any kind. but as general millie said to me last evening, and i know the chief and i fully support, we are not making any assumptions by that, we are keeping an open mind and an open investigation, and we will go where the facts lead us, and possibility extremist involvement is still being looked at. he had a clean record, in terms of his behowever, no outstanding bad marks. >> as brandon indicated no indication of motive yet, however, there will be talking to military associates of the accused gunman, as well as relatives and friends, and the army revealed that last night that questioning began with the accused shooter's wife. >> stephanie, rack dam, how did the 2009 shooting

and the favors presidents asked from truman through lbj is you have to be aligned with what we want in the greater good. >> when did that change? >> and that changed right after that really in the 70's. a couple of things when nixon came to power. he didn't have close friendships with bankers. he couldn't ask them for anything. they didn't really like him. a lot of people didn't like him. the other thing was loyalty. the bankers thought we don't have to be aligned with the presidents even though we're friends and even though we hang out, but we have this other source of money. we can be abroad to the political government where they have asked us to expand. we can go to the middle east, recycle those dollars in lateen america, impose debt on latin america. >> i think you and i walk out into the streets even here in new york and people say the administration and financial system go hand in hand. they're still in bed with each other even though this administration does not seem to love the banking system, and the banking system does not love this president. what does that say today? >> re

and the favors presidents asked from truman through lbj is you have to be aligned with what we want in the greater good. >> when did that change? >> and that changed right after that really in the 70's. a couple of things when nixon came to power. he didn't have close friendships with bankers. he couldn't ask them for anything. they didn't really like him. a lot of people didn't like him. the other thing was loyalty. the bankers thought we don't have to be aligned with the presidents even though we're friends and even though we hang out, but we have this other source of money. we can be abroad to the political government where they have asked us to expand. we can go to the middle east, recycle those dollars in lateen america, impose debt on latin america. >> i think you and i walk out into the streets even here in new york and people say the administration and financial system go hand in hand. they're still in bed with each other even though this administration does not seem to love the banking system, and the banking system does not love this president. what does that say today? >> re

president harry truman immediately sent troops to help south korea. now its remembered as a war. back then it was called a police action. >> it's best and more accurate to call it a korean conflict. congress never declared it a war. technically, we are still in an armistice, and technically that conflict is still under way. >> whatever you choose to call it, the fighting raged for three long years, much of it in the bitter cold. at the korean war veterans memorial, 19 bronze statues represent the different military services that took part in the conflict. >> they're slightly larger than life-size to depict the hazards, the tough conditions that american soldiers experienced during the korean conflict. >> the memorial has another striking feature -- a massive wall of black granite. look closely and you'll see etched images. you'll also see your reflection in its polished surface. >> so, there's a dual focus there with the idea that you can see yourself in this situation -- see yourself in this conflict -- so as to bring the visitor much closer to what's going on. >> the effect def

he left of harry truman? lived in the d c area for a while and i went to book events. i asked different guests there, newt gingrich, he gave one of the better answers, as an academic historian, he put obama to the left of george mcgovern. it seemed like a pretty straightforward answer. i wanted to know how you feel about that and, as far as foreign policy goes, what do you see in the future after obama? part of myst: problem with this answer will be that i don't know much about harry truman. but i want to reject the left right scales. even though that is the way that we now measure politicians, it is a multidimensional scale, to be real. bepassing health care he may perceived as to the left, but i believe that harry truman was the first democrat to try to do that. it just so happens that obama happened to do it. my knock on president obama would be that in places where he can lead, he has not been as effective as many folks might have hope. let's take health care as the example. theuld argue that health-care

it took harry truman to start medicare and lyndon johnson to finish it. these works take decades. presidents of different parties. and he said we're just relay swimmers in a great current of history. whenever a president speaks in another president's library, they are mindful of the history. gwen: john f. kennedy started civil rights and lyndon johnson finished part of it. but he wasn't the last president to have to speak to that issue. >> oh, no. nor is it over now. and that's one of the things president obama said. others followed. it's a continuing struggle and a continuing campaign that other presidents who follow president obama will have to pick up at the time and swim with. gwen: it was really interesting to me to hear george w. bush talk, something he said before, it takes time before people begin to understand a president's accomplishments. >> he's betting on it. he feels very confident that history will redeem him. he's told his friends that. he's not in any hurry to prove it. other presidents come, i guess, into retirement with lots of years ahead of them and begin long

these soaps with truman manage. for now the situation of the financial sector the system is evaluated negative but the head of the main financial institution for this reason that the confession was introducing more stupid fire is the core capital of the f word in season. the world market of new products will continue to be guided by the demand for the two countries especially china according to the report of expert the top of our country notecards and conditions of the meat industry by positive for the tax credit and china two thousand fourteen according to forecasts will not reach the levels of last year. the rising demand contraction of supplying has been in favor of living conditions in brazil and australia have already pushed the price of all across the world that is particularly noticeable to me first with or without the fourteenth. priscilla next to the advantage of this before. the strengthened their position in the world market. also maybe they think nobody cares that my kid that was previously held by suppl

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