president of the united states," a short biography created by an independent producer while the 33rd president was in his first term. ♪ narrator: the president of the united states, harry struman, 32nd person to serve as the american nation's chief executive. a man to whom many millions of people look for guidance, a man whose responsibilities are today as great and his influence as far-reaching as any other man on earth. ♪ on the walls of president truman's office are portraits of george washington and simon bolivar, which indicate his aims and ideals. the little town of lamar, missouri, was harry s. truman's birthplace. here in the rugged farmlands of the midwestern united states, he began the life and career which has taken him so far. ♪ on this quiet, small-town street, in a very unpretentious little house which his father had built amid the simple rural surroundings, the future president of the united states was born on may 8, 1884. ♪ the nearby, somewhat larger town of independence became the truman home when harry was seven years old. here, as a serious minded country boy, he grew up. here he went to church. and in the sunday school, he met the six-year-old little

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s. they came to the united states, picked up a bunch of b-17's and they were sent to wendover. they had to have somebody to run wendover and i had no idea. i happened to be standing in the right place at the right time, for me. they just said one day, you are going to leave los alamos tomorrow. you are going to do this and that. you are going to end up supposedly in wendover. i took a devious route to do that. i had to go to albuquerque. i had to change from g.i. cl othes to civilian clothes. i went out and got on a c-47.

back in the united states, tropical s storm isaiaias swept rapidly up the east coasast on tuesday, spawningornadoes, uprooting trees, killing at least three people and leaving millions without power. isaias is the earliest ninth named storm ever recorded in the atlantic, with 2020's hurricane season on pace to break the previous record set in 2005. in more climate news, europe is sweltering under a heat wave that's shattered records across the continent. london marked its hottest day in recorded history last friday with a high temperature of 100 degrees fahrenheit. paris hit triple digits as well, while spain's northern coast recorded an all-time high of 107 degrees.s. at the white h house on tuesday, president trump twice mispronounced the name of yosemite, one of the most famous national parks in the united s states. trump's gaffes came as he read a speech at a signing ceremony for the great american outdoors act, a bipartisan conservation law allocating billions of dollllars to national parks. >> when they gaze upon yosemite''s towering sequoias. amy: the fossil fufuel giant bp said tues

the united states has recorded more t than half of million new cases so far in august. that's sore cases than any european country has recorded since the pandemic began. this comes as millions of parents are now deciding whether it is safe to send their kids back to school. and your report by the american academy of pediatrics found that nearly 100,000 children contracted covid-19 in the last two weeks of july. meanwhile, the centers for disease control reports children of color are disproportionately being hospitalized. latinx kids are eight times more likely to be hospitalized than white children. black children are five times as likekely. latinx and black children also make up nearly three quarters of cases of the rare but deadly multisystem inflammatory syndrome which has been associated with covid-19. we are joinened by the prize winning science reporter ed yong. his new article "how the pandemic defeated america" is the cover story in the atlantic. yong begins his piece -- "how did it come to this? a virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliate

. ♪ the president of the united states, harry s.ruman, 32nd person to serve as the chief executive, a man to whom many look for guidance, a man his responsibilities are great and whose influence is as far-reaching as any man on earth. ♪ >> on the walls of president truman's office are portraits of george washington and simone bolivar, which indicates his aims and ideals. the little town of lamar, missouri was his birthplace. here in the midwestern united states, he began the career, which has taken him so far. ♪ on this quiet, small town street in an unpretentious little hout that -- house that his father built, the future president of the united still -- united states was born on may 8, 1904. ♪ -- the nearby town of independence came a truman town when harry was seven years old. here he grew up. here he went to church and in sunday school he met the six-year-old little girl who now shares with him the white house and the nation's capital as his wife. ♪ independence, he attended public school and became fired with ambition. in this

covid-19 bringing the death toll to nearly 109,000 -- the second highest in the world after r the unit s states. on monday, dozens of indigenous protesters blocked a major highway in the amazon to push the brazilian government to do more to protect indigenous communities during the pandemic. south korea is facing its worst covid-19 outbreak in five months. more than 400 cases have been linked to a church run by a conservative pastor who tested positive just days after he took part in an anti-government protest in seoul. meanwhile, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake that hit masbate province in central philippines earlier today, killing at least one person, caused significant damage to a coronavirus quarantine center. the philippines, which has the highest caseload in southeast asia with nearly 170,000 cases, is easing a second lockdown on its capital manila starting this week. popostmaster generalououis dejoy has agreeded to testify before congress next week amid the uproar over changes at the u.s. postal service that democrats say are designed to interfere with the november election by making it harde

the days of ronald reagan and created the first new branch of our armed forces in 70 years, the united states sin 70 years, the united states space force. and with that renewed energy we also returned american astronauts to space on an american rocket for the first time in nearly ten yea rs. the first time in nearly ten years. and after years of scandal that robbed our vetera ns scandal that robbed our veterans of the care that you earned in the uniform of the united states, president trump kept his word again. we reformed the va and veteran's choice is now available for every vetera n choice is now available for every veteran in america. our armed forces and our veterans, still this land of heroes, and manyjoin us still this land of heroes, and many join us tonight. still this land of heroes, and manyjoin us tonight. tonight we have among us four recipients of the middle of honour. six recipients of the purple heart. a goldstar mother. of a gallant navy seal. and wounded warriors from soldier strong, a group that serves our injured veterans every day. we are honoured by your presence and we th

. >> sreenivasan: mail-in voting is not new in the united states. s the possibility that most states will offer it in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. even with the postmaster general's testimony that the postal service will be able to properly handle all the ballots, the president's continued attacks, withoth evidence, on safety and security of voting this november is taking a toll. i spoke with audrey kline, national policy direonor at the na vote at home institute in denver, colorado, about the facts and the history of voting by mail. >> i think it's really important to start with understanding that the printing, after a request responsibility of an election official. and then, the delivery of the ballot is the responsibility of the u.s.p.s. but to uerstand the edale of the untates postal service,nd you have tostand that they're moving 450 million pieces of mail every day. so, 150 million mail ballots-- like, in theory, everyone were to vote a mail ballot on the same y, it's still just not enough to overwhelm the system. we have other, sort o

united states information agency. between 1953 and 1999, the agency distributed a number of films around the world to educate people about the american system. up next, "harry struman: president of the united states." a short biography while the 33rd president was in his first term. ♪ >> the president of the united

election nixon won the in a landslide over democratic nominee george mcgovern, 39 states.0 s >> the president of the united states. [cheers and applause]

the nations of europe have experienced a 30% greater increase in excess mortality than the united sta s statesthink of that. we enacted the largest package of financial relief in american history. thanks to our paycheck protection program, we have saved or supported more than 50 million american jobs. that's one of the reasons that we're advancing so rapidly with our economy. great job. as a result, we have seen the smallest economic contraction of any major western nation and we are recovering at a much faster rate than anybody. over the past three months, we have gained over 9 million jobs and that's a record in the history of our country. unfortunately, from the beginning, our opponents have shown themselves capable of nothing but a partisan ability to criticize. when i took bold action to issue a travel ban on china, very early, indeed, joe biden called it hysterical and senn phobic. and then i introduced a ban of europe, very early again. if we had listened to joe, hundreds of thousands more americans would have died. instead of following the science, joe biden wants to inflict a painful

germany and russia enfranchised women before the united states, canada in 1917. .he united states in 1920 subsequently, france in the 1940'sitaly in the 1940's. the united states, when you look at the list of the countries and dates in which they enfranchised women, united states is about middle of the pack. they were not the leader, but will -- they were not the last country to enfranchised women. host: thank you for waiting. good morning. colleen,hanks so much, for what you are doing. i have a story of my great grandmother, who happens to be a socialite from canada city, missouri. one of the things you might is what happens to people who were upper-class that were involved in this women's suffrage union. my great grandma married an alcoholic. as a result, she joined a women's christian temperance union. was part of a throwback from world war i when the guys came home and world drunkards. -- were all drunkards. that got the women really inspired to go forward with their suffrage process. it got people outraged. my greate things grandmother did later in her life was to write cowboy novels. the reason why that was is we wer

. >> in the 1930's, the united states experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. people were not able to make a living on their farms. they begin moving other places looking for new land to live on. people were in dire straits. wasof the worst hit areas agriculture. a program began under one of the advisors to president franklin theevelt to document conditions under which people .ere living this is when we didn't have television. of folksdio but a lot did not have electricity. they sent out photographers to take pictures of what was happening and they put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines and trade journals and things like that. it was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs because nobody wanted to face up to what was happening, but lori stryker who was an economist from columbia university was really persistent. he was the head of this project and went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people and pushed and pushed against these pictures to get them published and out to the public so th

and met far graver challenges, and knows how tough fights are won, the next president of the united states, john s. mccain. [applause] it was just a year ago when all the experts in washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to the security of the country he loves. with their usual certitude, they told us that all was lost, there was no hope for this candidate, who said that he would rather lose an election than see his country lose a war. but the pollsters -- [applause] the pollsters and the pundits, they overlooked just one thing when they wrote him off. they overlooked the caliber of the man himself, the determination, and resolve, and the sheer guts of senator john mccain. [applause] the voters knew better, and maybe that's because they realized there's a time for politics and a time for leadership, a time to campaign and a time to put our country first. [applause] our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by. he's a man who wore the uniform of his country for 22 years and refused to break faith with those t

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beverly: in the 1930's, the united states experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. the great drought. people were not able to make a living on their farms. they begin moving other places, looking for a new lands to live on. people were in dire straits. one of the worst hit areas in the economy with agriculture. a program began under tugwell , who was one of the advisers to president franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. this is back when we did not have television. we had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. so they could not listen to the radio podcast of find out what was going on in other parts of the country. they sent off photographers to take pictures of what was happening and put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines, journals, things like that. it was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs, because nobody really wanted to face up to what was happening. but roy striker, an economist from columbia university, was persistent. he was the head of this project

united in our stance against racial injustice." athletes have often been at the forefront of the fight for social justice in the united states. kpix 5's maria medina is live in san jose with a look at how drastically the conversation has changed in a short amount of time. maria. >> reporter: well as dennis said, tonight the san jose earthquakes postponed their game. it is a show of solidarity we've never seen before in the sports world. and we certainly didn't see it four years ago.>> our focus today cannot be the last of it. >> the movement started by the milwaukee bucks and spread quickly throughout professional sports leagues. the wnba, mlb and mls. >> it's very difficult to be heard until you have attention. our athletes are now demanding attention. >> the san jose state assistant professor is also an advisory board member for the universities institute of the study of sport, society and social change and says the walkout today is historic. >> we know in our society there is also an power in name recognition but it remains to be seen just how historic it will be. my hope is there is strategic action behind this and there is a next

s. she lives in the united states nd came here when she was 18 years old and went to worcester college, married an american and had a child and lives in oregon and is a force of nature, a remarkable woman. host: how popular was the decision to drop the bomb, here in the united states? guest: very. there's not a lot of sympathy. e talk a lot now about the carnage, the innocent women and children. there was not a lot of sympathy for the japanese. pearl harbor, an atrocity involving u.s. soldiers. there had been pictures of american prisoners of war being in prison japanese camps in asia. so right after the war, i think 87% in a gallup poll, supported dropping the bomb, universal. and one other concern, we tell the story of somebody else, a man who was working, unbeknownst to herself, at oak ridge, enriching uranium. she was terribly concerned because her boyfriend, later her husband, has survived europe, and was now going to be shipped to the pacific. they did not know all the details we have discussed today, about the loss of life from invading japan. but they knew if the war continued i

democrats on the capitol hill, because he does not want mail balloting to be expended in the united states. let snt politician and women's rights advocate in afghanistan has been wounded in a gun attack. afghan officials say fawzia koofi was returning from a meeting in the eastern province of pa rwan when she was attacked — she's reported to be in stable condition. ms koofi is a member of the negotiating team due to hold peace talks with the taliban in the coming days. the taliban have denied involvement. israelis have continued to gather around prime minister benjamin netanyahu's residence in protest against alleged corruption. these protests have been happening every weekend evening for the past few weeks. the demonstrators argue mr netanyahu should not remain in office while on trial for corruption, a charge he denies. they are joined by protestors who accuse the unity government of mishandling the covid—i9 crisis. in thailand, two men sentenced to death for killing two british backpackers in thailand have had the sentences reduced to life in prison following a royal decree. the burmese nation

election nixon won the in a landslide over democratic nominee george mcgovern, 39 states.0 s >> the president of the united states. [cheers and applause] pres. nixon: mr. chairman, delegates to this convention, my fellow americans, four years ago, standing in this very place, i proudly accepted your nomination for president of the united states. with your help and with the votes of millions of americans, we won a great victory in 1968. tonight, i again proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. [applause] let us pledge ourselves to win an even greater victory this november in 1972. i congratulate chairman ford. i congratulate chairman dole, anne armstrong and the hundreds of others who have laid the foundation for that victory by their work at this great convention. our platform is a dynamic program for progress for america and for peace in the world. speaking in a very personal sense, i express my deep gratitude to this convention for the tribute you have paid to the best campaigner in the nixon family, my wife pat. [applause] in honoring her, you have honored millions of women in

state killer. let s get some of the day s other news. the uniteds in more than two decades. the deal will increase market access for hundreds of millions of dollars of us and eu exports ranging from american lobster products to european glassware volunteers in mauritius say the government is blocking efforts to help clean up a recent oil spill. the authorities say the area has been restricted for health reasons. but there s concern the government is trying to silence criticism of its handling of the spill. us actress lori loughlin has been sentenced to two months injailfor her part in a college admissions scam. along with other wealthy parents, she paid bribes so her children could get into top universities as fake athletic recruits. more than 50 people are facing charges over the scheme. the captain of manchester united football club, harry maguire, has been arrested while on holiday on the greek island of mykonos. he's due to appear in court later this morning. our sports correspondent 0lly foster has the details. yes, the world's most expensive

any military attempt by the united states or great britain to force the russians into doing something they don't want to do will be met with force, so if the united states. s to try to push the soviets around in europe, they have to expect that it's going to have to be done with full military force in place, and that the united states can't do. so kennan's argument, later becomes known as the containment doctrine, his argument is that what the united states should do is try to limit soviet influence as much as the united states can in places where it can do so relatively cheap. contain the soviet union and allow the internal contradictions of the soviet union to work against it. wait for the soviet people themselves to realize that this system is not workable and kennan was aware that this could take decades to achieve. so what he's arguing to truman is patience, build up the west, in effect he's arguing for creating a bipolar world, one pole led by the united states, one pole led by the soviet union, and what kennan wants to do therefore is build up the democratic systems of western europe and the post-war world and later, of course, to build up through t

words, peoplele arrig to thehe united states in the early decades and even century of history of the united states were not arrivings white people, ththey were arriving a ssh or polish or hungarian. upon arrival, they were assigned to thehe category of, the idea f race, a fairly new income going back only 500 y years, so they d to then navigate and readjust their identity in order to meet the expectations off this caste system t they were enterining. and so did other people coming from other parts of the world. latenited states in the 19th c century andnd early 20th century went through a great deal of trouble to cure this population, particularly those who are not coming from northern europe. anyone coming from outside of northern eurure then had to be fit into this cacaste system, ad that meant there was a dissolutionmount o of and tremendous amount of restlessness about trying to figure out who would fit. there were a lot of legagal challengeses of pepeople comomim asia, people coming fromom other parts of the world, toto petitin for the recognition ultimately for the recognition of being able to fit into what would be the category of the predominant

s. the united states had a broken the japanese code, and they were receiving about a million messages a month from the japanese. wonderful crucial threa-- one o threads they were following is where the buildup of troops were with a planned land invasion of the united states and there were intercepts that the troops were building in far greater numbers in exactly the locations where the american forces were going to land. so there was certainly some hesitation about a land invasion once they started to read the intercepts. the other part of that, of course, is they really decided that the japanese, though some of thoser a surrender through the russians, they really were not ready for unconditional surrender. so i this is the intelligence code breaking really just reinforced to truman and secretary stimpson's opinion to use the weapon as quickly as possibility and end the war as quickly as possible. truman, when questioned later, he obvious reminded people about pearl harbor and the fact that the attack had happened when th arguments of that nature. >>> he was also a close confident dance

.>> our next president of the united states of americpra, joe bittnd s of izona, president trump slammed biden and the democrats on national security. >> if biden wins it will be a giant jailbreak for ms 13 and vicious criminal gangs. >> joe biden will be a president we will all be proud to salute. >> former security officials have thrown their support behind writing. in another showreofblic ss en a led her voice to a video highlighting the three decades long unlikely friendship between her husband and joe biden.>> tomorrow night is a big night, it is time for kamala harris to shine, so what can we expect from her?>> well, this will be her second biggest beach as running mate. it will be live in delaware tomorrow night and it officially makes her the first california democrat to be on a major party presidential ticket as she will officially accept the vice presidential nomination. the dnc says tomorrow's focus is a more perfect union, so while the last two nights have tried to make a case against the incumbent president trump, we could see senator harris talk about some of the policy pro

britain it was churchill who almost singlehandedly won world war 2 and and here in the united states is american g.i.'s who won the war but of course. we are completely and utterly aware that. russia lost 25000000 people for winning the war and i know that russian troops. whether once who liberated consideration camps absolutes in the us and. where there's an. incredible sacrifice. on the side of russia and i do believe that. it's ignore it because of crisis of political interests it's very much a question of what are the facts maybe 600 ourselves 1000 american soldiers lost their lives in the 2nd world war 2526000000 russians those are facts that cannot be ignored and today it's not that important what really happened it's worth dressin who owns the narrative who owns the narrative and occupying the narrative has created some sort of dockside it. ideology is in flux added to information that we see every day i don't believe that the demonisation of russia is a very very big mistake they think statues a part of a narrative i know that they're tearing their statues there they are attacks my understandin

britain it was churchill who almost singlehandedly won world war 2 and and here in the united states is american g.i.'s were the war but of course. we are completely and utterly aware there. are. 25000000 people but we need a war i don't know that russian troops. well the ones who are liberated consideration camps and shiites in the us and. incredible sacrifices. on the side of russia and i do believe. it's ignore it because of crisis of political interests it's very much a question of what are the facts maybe 600 ourselves 1000 american soldiers lost their lives in the 2nd world war 2526000000 russians those are facts that cannot be ignored and today it's not that important what really happened it's worth dressing who owns the narrative who owns the narrative and occupying the narrative has created some sort of dockside it. he's in looks at it the information that we see every day i don't believe that the demonisation of russia is a very very big mistake they think statues a part of a narrative i know that they're tearing their statues there they are attacks my understanding of history. is different i

'but 's ambassador to the united states calleit a win for diplomacy and the region that lers tensioatnd cre new energy for positive change. the iranian tas name news ency which is affiliated to the revolutionary guards, unsurprisingly condemn mthe diplomate saying, uae israel agreement is shameful. hande's the response from they netted nations. u.n.hief good terrace welcomes any initiative that can promote peace and security in the middle east region. white house officials say as part of the agreement, israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to parts of the occupied west bank that it had considered annexing. diana boo to is a lawyer and former legal advisor to the palestine liberati organization we asked her about this. >> i think it is important to keep in mind tha there have been two processes about annexation.ne the formaln informal ocs. the informal process has gone on for 53 years and that has included the confiscation of palestinian land, the theft of palestinian land, the building of israeli only infrastructure on that land, creation of an thapd a system and denial of

united states? because the government off hohouras has t taking everytythg away that ththey have. t money goeoes from the uned stes toto honduras t to invest in continue taking away what this community needs to we need toliving -- cut. if not, our people will come to this country to suffer, to wait, to be treated as criminals as they are being treated in their own country. amy: carla garcia, thank you so much for being with us. we will continue to follow this very grave issue in honduras. carla garcia, , international relationons coordinator r at the black fraternal organization of honduras. all week democracy now! we'll be breaking with convention as we coverr the democratic national convention, which virtually begins this evening. we will bring highlights of the speeches of everyone from bernie sanders tonight and michelle obama and others. that does it for today show. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democr

united states information agency. between 1953 and 1999, the agency distributed films around the world to help educate foreign audiences about the american system. up next from the usia collection, "harry s. truman: president of the united states," a short biography created by an independent producer while the 33rd president was in his first term. ♪

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united states, canada. and then subsequently, france in the 1940's, italy in the 1940's, south africa. o the united states, when you look at the list of all the countries and the dates in which they enfranchise women, the united states is about the middle of the pack. they were not the leader, but they certainly were not the last country to enfranchise women. host: next in california, ron, thank you for waiting. good morning. caller: good morning, steve. thanks so much, colleen, for what you are doing. oddly enough, i have a little story of my great-grandmother, minnie hayes wilson, who happened to be a socialite from kansas city, missouri, and one of the things you might mention is what happened to people that were upper-class that were involved in this women's suffrage thing, because what happened is my great grandma, she married an alcoholic. as a result, she joined the women's temperance -- women's christian temperance union, and that was part of the slow back from world war i, where all the guys can one command they were all drunkards. combination -- that is what got the women insp

that destroyed much of the cropland, and in the 1930's people were actually starving to death. the united states went to teach them better farming techniques to build housing that wouldn't blow away with each hurricane, because they were living in huts made out of sugarcane. it was a very rough life. in fact it was an enormously high infant mortality rate. the children were drinking coffee instead of milk which does not have good nutritional value for young children. there was this kind of extreme poverty that he wanted to address. jack was the only one who got down there and made these photographs in part because while he was there, pearl harbor occurred and the united states entered world war ii. he couldn't stay as long as he had hoped because he had to get back to sign up to go back to the military. croix some work in st. must summon puerto rico. while he was there he fell in love with the culture and decided that after the war, he was going back, and that's exactly what happened. he went back and lived out the rest of his life in puerto rico. where he worked initially for ande government pr

>> well, more the secretary of state happen my office, but our evidence is so clear and an ambiguous, why mail -in voting s increasing in the united states pop p . we know it's been effective. i spoke to governor whitmer about this. people love this. h they sign up in droves. it has a little irony. trump had a request for a mail-in ballot today. this is not about integrity. this is a distraction and it's hurting our democracy. you know, the postal service is integral to our country. you know that old quote, "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall detract the postal service" but they never figured they'd have to meet donald trump. so we need both parties to stand up against this outrage. there is potential relief in the courts that potentially could assist. by any means necessary, we have to stop him from this continued assault on democracy which is driven, and it's pretty obvious he wants to set up an excuse for his looming loss. that's what this is about. we want to vote. he wants an excuse. i hope our voting will win. >> yeah. listen, and i'm glad you brought that part up about him requesting because this is wha