and ike's bitterness towards truman and truman or less asked him to run for president. about september or so truman goes along the -- and i'm not sure stephenson won them on the hustings and he goes on the charge that he is a snarly costs are. starley guster is apparently a fighting warrior in the midwest and no one else would have any idea what it is but eisenhower and truman would have an i.d. and apparently this is a fighting word. and snarly guster means something like kind of a turncoat. is the idea that ike would work with democrats and now he's running as a republican and so forth. this, truman knew how to get under eisenhower skin and so he did in 1952 and i think that contributed to the very frosty relations. >> david is quite right to point out that truman is from missouri and very similar but truman began his career working at a bank, working in kansas city. his roommate for the first year was arthur eisenhower, eisenhower's oldest brother. they live together in the same room. the same rooming house. been back there is a document that is in the war papers and

. >> well, macarthur did pretty well, interestingly, macarthur's -- >> rose: except harry truman. >> and should have been fired. >> and historians have been tough on macarthur lately. >> rose: really? >> the inchon landing? >> that was a single great moment, it really was but he made a lot of other mistakes. >> rose: yes. >> from his vein mores youness. >> rose: he wanted to go to to china. >> he wanted to bomb china and that's what he tussled with truman about. >> rose: yes. >> do people eisenhower chose around him and met in different to the generals when he was in world war ii, but when he became president, john foster dallas. >> yes. >> as his secretary of state, alan dulles is held of the cia. >> well, john foster dulles was a good cop, bad cop thing, bull he is was very anti-communist and fierce and life is a machiavellian struggle, that was useful. >> rose: neoconservative today. >> oh, sure but that is useful for ike who could be the nice guy and kind of bland but i might the famous -- at the time, the press thought dulles was running foreign policy and only later did the sch

and ike's bitterness towards truman and truman or less asked him to run for president. about september or so truman goes along the -- and i'm not sure stephenson won them on the hustings and he goes on the charge that he is a snarly costs are. starley guster is apparently a fighting warrior in the midwest and no one else would have any idea what it is but eisenhower and truman would have an i.d. and apparently this is a fighting word. and snarly guster means something like kind of a turncoat. is the idea that ike would work with democrats and now he's running as a republican and so forth. this, truman knew how to get under eisenhower skin and so he did in 1952 and i think that contributed to the very frosty relations. >> david is quite right to point out that truman is from missouri and very similar but truman began his career working at a bank, working in kansas city. his roommate for the first year was arthur eisenhower, eisenhower's oldest brother. they live together in the same room. the same rooming house. been back there is a document that is in the war papers and

president truman was famously said in? his letter and cautio? pace that the braves have a? propaganda machine that is??? ?most equal to stalin.???? this gets me so much of a???? piteous he is making his public? apology and that's the date the? mobilize their coalition for?? three divisions in three rings in response to truman's bl?ow ? >> are you a marine click?? >> im.? >> when did you serve?????? square. >> i joined in 1995 straight out of college.?? trinity college in hartford connecticut and graduate work a? io.???? i served on active duty for five years and up in the the reserves ever? since.???? site 17 years and now, but i'm? incognito at the naval academy? until summertime and then i get? a haircut.???? >> word you serve???????? >> i've served in afghanistan about a year ago and in the??? pentagon's been quite a few??? different positions and then also at camp lejeune, north carolina and a little independent duty station in south bend, indiana. >> what are some of the tension the marines have the navy, because

the truman had cyrus on the brain. enduring us, obviously was beneficial to zero in the jewish people because it helped create -- truman would kill a paper grave. it also does that help secure the jewish vote for the democrats for a long time to come. again come with other factors. so let's fast forward a number of years. the kind of rule of thumb for a long time going forward after that point was that the democrats were more pro-israel, associate a presidential level than the republicans. bush is to stem that the democrats were more pro-israel. in fact, i was just reading a book about the secret service that we fear honda fascinated robert kennedy, a palestinian who is mentally deranged. what the reasons he assassinated robert kennedy was because he didn't want the more pro-israel to get the presidency. these days you wouldn't really assassinate a presidential candidate because for the most part, presidential candidates are pro-israel. it was a question. i wasn't quite that clear. so you have this situation about what

he was doing a book on truman capote's movie. he wanted to know what the literary background was and had recommended that i gave him like gay lit 101 for the 40s, 50s and 60s. the book was called 5:00 a.m. i'm not getting the whole title right. and i ties him for about an hour with great conversation and we ask the questions and answer them. i said wow, this is great stuff. where can i read it? the book existed in one deserve to ask is that it really was a good story and nobody had written it. so then i began working on it. >> thank you. >> yes, i read gore vidal's homage to shays, which is one of his early books, was in a class >> an early collection of his essays. it might've been the first collection. i sort of was wonderful. and you mentioned that he made most of his money off of this essay books and you can see why. >> is that right? >> yakima movies with israel breadwinner. at one point he realized them spending more time on my essays than i ever did on the tv. he loved working on this essays and it shows. a beautiful piece

truman said in a letter of really incautious haste, that?? the marines have a propaganda machine almost? equal to stali? he's in so much trouble that he? makes a public apology, and?? that's the day they mobilize th? congressional coalition to get special protection for three?? divisions and three wings, in? response to truman's blow up. >> host: are you a marine??? >> guest: yes, i am.?? >> host: when did you serve? where? >> guest: joined in 1995,? straight out of college.?? >> host: yale? >> guest: trinity college in hartford, connecticut, and then? yale. i served on active duty for fiv? years, reserve ever since. i have 17 years in now, but i'm incognita here until summer time, and then i get my haircut? >> host: where did you serve?? >> guest: afghanistan, just?? about a year ago, and then in?? the pentagon and quite a few different positions, and then? also at north carolina, and? little independent station in south bend, indiana. >> host: what are some of the tensions that the marines have with the navy because there

foreign policy exposed ari ratner senior fellow with the truman project truman national security project and joining us from our new york studios is you like clifton a reporter with american independent news network thank you all for joining us tonight on let me let me start out on libya for ari congressman peter king today. obama may have doctored the libyan documents this as the republican party totally jumped the shark well i think it's frankly an insulting insinuation i worked at the state department on our policy in libya and on our policy in the arab spring in general and no one is doctoring reports this is a very difficult situation very difficult situation for america and for libya. and that this is being doctor for political purposes it's actually kind of funny considering that's the republican side that's been doctoring it for political purposes it's also not the republican tradition ronald reagan did not speak during the entire presidential campaign when he was running against jimmy carter about the iranian hostage situation except to support the president and now wants did he

we are showing a picture -- live shot i should say of truman going nap pi time. >> we got truman about a week or so ago. >> he opened his eyes like talking about me. >> he is a senior. he is about 10 years old, a hound great dane mix. basically not wanted by his family. we don't know the story. they brought him to the shelter. they didn't want him any more. we found him and we are taking care of him until he finds a new home. >> with the senior pups, there are health things that come along with ownership. as far as you know, can you isolate anything that a new owner may have to look out for as far as health or temperment issues. >> usually rescue has information about the dog, basic health screening is done ahead of time. you will find out if they have lyme disease, heart worm. they are common in shelter animals but easily treatable. >> we know senior dogs -- i'm a dog owner. i don't know about cats. i have to assume the same thing. sweet, wonderful, easy going for the most part and can add a lot of love in your home. >> yeah, you don't have to worry about the puppy years chewing furni

people make a lot out of it, but harry truman and john f. kennedy used to say that word almost every moment, so did l.b.j. i think if anything we see a precedent that seldom uses that. he used kick ass, and it created a little bit of a stir, but he seems pretty cautious.

. >> there was a sign on harry truman's desk that said, "the buck stops here." obviously, there may be a president obama's desk that says, "the buck stops over there." >> then senator clinton seemed to like the truman approach in the 2008 campaign. >> i believe we need a president that believes what harry truman believes the buck stops in the oval office. >> top advisor to republican romney vowed with foreign policy on the table tonight, the president will face some heat. >> i think governor romney quite properly will be asking questions, probing and trying to ask the president to man up, accept responsibility. and explain to the american people the failure that result in four american deaths. >> what big question is if he was briefed on intelligence regarding earlier attacks on the consulate in benghazi. andrew card told fox today the state department would have looped in the white house. >> it would have been known in white house situation room and known by national security advisor. the homeland security advisor and chief of staff. i suspect the president. >>

the question is -- why did harry truman do this? another reason, harry truman was a huge reader. he was the last president not to have graduated college. think about it, president's not read during college? sort of unthinkable, today. no matter who wins this election, every president dating back to the post-1980 election will have had a degree from either harvard, yale, or in the case of george w. bush, both -- and you would not have guessed him on that, right? but back then that was not the case. harry truman, as i said, was a huge reader. he started as a child, his parents strongly encouraged his reading. insisted on it. at one point his father talked about how he saved a whole bunch of money to buy a set of mark twain's books. he also read the bible over and over again, getting his vision and conception of the jewish people from his frequent reading of the bible. there was another book that frequently influenced him, great men and famous women. it was this book about rate figures in history. one of the people featured in this book was cyrus the great, the persian king that all

and in the truman administration, almost all political concerns or outsourced to the national committee. the white house staff was smaller. there were different norms. it was improper to have someone on the government payroll making ectoral planning decisions. t jimmy carter designated an aide to deal with political affairs not because the white house wasn't political because he was accused of handling e litics in the white house poorly said he wanted someone close to him he could trust, wh could help him keep in touc with the key members of his party across the country. and ronald reagan institutionalized it. he founded the white house office of political affairs which every president since has had, and that's given us the situation we have now where you are used to having the key mpaign advisers like david axelrod and david plus and karl rove who are in the white house on the government payroll. they are there to help the president do his job, but there are certainly the conc

employed during harry truman's administration through to ronald reagan's. collecting people imeel ya that offers a -- memorabilia that offers a three dimensional timeline of the presidential families. john f. kennedy jr.'s baby pen. even a burnt wooden post from 1814 when the british set fire to the white house which arrington found at work during the truman reconstruction. >> we found the table in the tar pen ter shop. >> reporter: he also helped with the kennedy renovations and collected items from the first lady herself, including a handwritten thank you note after the death of her son patrick. >> they're real people and they have real lives. a lot of this collection demonstrates that fact as well. >> i'm sure when he was collecting them, he was just -- never thought it would be of great, big value. but today we're reliving part of history. >> reporter: 1,000 things that arrington saved will be auctioned off today. starting bids ranging from $25 to $12,000. just like presidential life, the collection is bittersweet. wedding and inauguration announcements

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this gets and then sell much trouble that is then theyor t mobilize the coalition in blow response to truman blow up.ve? >> host: are you a 1995,? marmion? >> i joined in 1995 straight out of college. in from hartford connecticut. ti i served on active duty and in the reserves ever since. now i am and cod nidal per gries served in afghanistan one year-ago then the pentagon. also at camp with juneut and ina in south bend indiana. te >> what are the tensions? there is said dependent relationship? of >> i would not say that nowtoo but you can hide in the past re with that too much work in the present but it is a? su remarkable success story. nes in this interesting in the 40's the navy says we take??? care of you.??????? ? pay for the equipment that you use. you should be happy that we are here. after the amphibious forces the story changes. now they say don't cut the funding you don't of the ?rine task forces.??????? it is a little reverse.????? the institutional power is??? radically different.????? 3% of active duty.????? today there are 200,000.r 14% of

truman's lighter, jfk's monogrammed baby pen. even a burnt wooden post from 1814 when the british set fire to the white house which arrington found at work during the truman reconstruction. >> found a table in the carpenter shop. >> reporter: he helped with the kennedy renovation and collected items from the first lady herself including a handwritten thank you note after the death of her son patrick. >> real people with real lives and a lot of this collection demonstrates that fact. >> i'm sure when he was collecting them he never thought they would be of great value but today we live in history. >> reporter: 1,000 things that arrington saved will be auctioned off today starting from $25 to $12,000. just like presidential life, the collection is bittersweet. wedding and inauguration announcements, memories of an assassination and a funeral. >> when i dug down the bottom of the box i found the presidential limousine packet. the limousine that president kennedy was assassinated in and the actual packet that is touting the safety fe

the five smokestacks' you literally me have truman wassince president. the others came along not long n 1950.hat i in less than an hour, this plant shuts down. it is something a lot of say needed to happen. neighbors say pollution from on the potomac was burning down their quality life big-time. put water in, it turns black. paul says for years this dust hisconstant in neighborhood. be all over the neighborhood, all over the house. the windows have open. he and another resident concerns, they were told dust, but thend tested.d to have it it turned out to be really dangerous. also turned out to come old plant thatar- is shutting down. if the wind goes in the wrong n -- it goes directly room.y he lives in the high-rise next to the planned. everybody told me it would be shut down. the plan tonner says the main closing theare because natural gas is efficient than coal. says thatrson plant has other pollution issues that would have addressed, very little of the dust residents about was from the planned. paul and his wife connie they believeing the plan to hur

. >> the buck stops here is of course truman's sign on his desk. >> i'm in charge at the state department. she may not realize she lost the election. there are two bucks. obviously hillary is responsible for the lapses of security, but equally obviously obama is responsible for the cover-up. i have another question for mrs. hillary rodham clinton. our u.n. delegate, jerry kramer -- kramer just announced two days ago that's u.n. is about to impose a tax on the internet and regulate it, and gift u.n. the power to assign e-names and ip addresses, and give every country the power to census orb the internet. i talk about this in the book "black helicopters." this is coming to pals. and hillary clinton's delegate at the united nations is participating in it, not objecting to it, standing there and letting it happen. to me that's the buck that should stop there. take this marvelous internet and put it in the hands of the chinese and russian -- >> sean: there's a lot of areas where they'll tax us. in other words, this will be a worldwide tax on top of taxes we already pay. it's in the book "here

gave, a set of proposals that truman gave in early 48, and all the southern governors meet in north florida outside of tallahassee at a governors conference, and that's where the whole thing starts. and he said with got to leave the democratic party, we've got to leave it now. and thurmond, worked out by his closest advisers said no. they said what we need is a 48 hour cooling off before we can figure out what we're going to do and i kind of thing. thurmond offered a resolution for a cooling off period, and that's what got adopted. but then at his asking people what they should be realized not too many people were interested in going off. they want to stay fired up there and thurmond been kind of double down and said i need to get involved in this. the reason, many people in south going to recognize this at the time, is that thurmond was looking ahead to 1950. his gubernatorial term would be up in 1950. he couldn't succeed in soft on politics and the want to run for the senate. and to do that yet to get to the right of johnson. so in some way it's ironic. thurman runs for president

in the book by contrast the recent presidents carter, reagan, clinton, bush and obama with the truman administration. almost all political concerns rustlers to the national committee. the white house staff is smaller, different norms. everything is improper to someone in the government payroll, make an electoral planning decisions. the jimmy carter designated an aide to do with legal affairs not because the white house is political, but he was accused o handling politics and the whie use poorly. he wanted someone close to someone close to him who he could, who could help them keep in touch with key members of  y across the country and ronald reagan institutionalized it. it's on the white house office of political affairs, chevy president since has had none is given as the situation now where you're used to having the key campaign advisers by david axelrod david karl rove who are on the government payroll. they are there to help the president do the job come but they're certainly the concern that you ha

kennedy, harry truman and even bill clinton. they also threw ronald reagan in there. but it was interesting to note the foreign policy team for mitt romney talking about democratic presidents after that debate performance last week when a lot of pundits on the right and the left were sensing that mitt romney was moving to the middle on domestic policy. we might hear some of that on foreign policy later on today, soledad. >> interesting point. jim acosta for us this morning, thank you, jim. >>> a recent poll shows president obama has a seven percentage point lead over mitt romney when it comes to who would handle foreign policy better. let's get to richard williamson, former ambassador to the united nations for special political affairs. mitt romney's senior foreign policy adviser. nice to see you, sir. thank you for talking with us. let's focus on some -- actually what jim acosta just said. let's talk about that first. as you heard there was a phone call with some of the foreign policy advisers. and when they listed sort of the foreign policy that maybe mitt romney wo

he has to say, when i look to my predecessors, i think of ronald reagan and harry truman, i think of the idea of peace through strength, american credibility, a strong economy that gives america the credibility it needs in china and elsewhere in the world. if romney pins him as another bush, he's in trouble. >> well, i think romney has to be careful not to just go with the platitudes. >> should he fight on benghazi? >> absolutely. the problem with benghazi was not that obama went to las vegas the next day for a fundraiser. >> so what is it? >> the problem with benghazi is that the administration, first of all, misled the country for two weeks about what happened, or apparently misled, or it didn't know what happened for two weeks, which is just as bad. it didn't come clean about the concerns about security that happened before anniversary of 9/11, insisting the attacks on 9/11 were just caused by a youtube video. >> where are the other vulnerabilities on foreign policy for the president? >> well, i think the vulnerabilities -- just to carry on from what we've been saying here, the pr

president dating back to harry truman. the 93-year-old might be signaling for report from mitt romney. after meeting grah at his north carolina home last week, the reverend's website removed a reference to mormonism as we know he is of the mormon faith. >>> no matter who you are voting for come november, you're running out of time to make sure that you're registered. tomorrow is the deadline to do so in the district, but at this point you can only do so in person at the city's board of elections office. the deadlines to register in maryland and virginia have already passed. we've got more on voter registrations at wusa9.com. click on campaign 2012. >>> still ahead tonight, 40 years to the day congressman acted the clean act. we'll take a look at the impact on the local rivers. >>> in 1969, the river caught fire, mainly from all the pollution in the waters. that helped spark the environmental movement that came up with the passage of the clean water act 40 years ago today. our erica road takes a look at how the local water

navy is trying to determine what led to a refueling accident involving the carrier uss harry truman. a line between the two ships broke. four sailors were injured. three hospitaled. >>> a canadian border guard is hospitalized after she was shot by a man crossing in washington. a man pulled up in a van attempting to cross into canada when he shot the woman who was in her booth an then shot himself to death. police are trying to determine what led to the attack. the crossing at blaine, washington is the third busiest crossing kbrop the 14-year-old pakistani girl shot in the head by taliban is making a slow recovery in a london hospital. she was airlifted to receive special treatment and to protect her from a follow up attack. >> she's not out of the wood yet. but at this stage we're optimistic that things are going in the right direction. >> several people have turned up at the hospital claiming to be relatives of the girl. but police say they apparently were just curiosity seekers. >>> straight ahead on your wednesday morning, weather and later shrinking the ipad. apple is expected to

mantle of leadership will focus on a vision of peace through strength as in the tradition of harry truman and ronald regan. in prepared remarks released to the media the republican candidate is expected to address missteps in libya and talking about the deadly attack on bengha benghazi. he will say as president he would partner with other nations to help arm the rebels who are fighting assad's government. >>> on our relationship with egypt, romney will make the argument that u.s. aid should be tied to the egyptians upholding their peace treaty with israel. with growing tension over iran's nuclear program, mitt romney says he will not hesitate to put forces in the eastern mediterranean and the gulf region. the obama campaign is downplaying the speech describing romney over the weekend as, quote, an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy and the only person who has offended europe more is probably chevy chase. >>> get ready. mitt romney is continuing to gain ground on the president following last week's debate. a new gallup daily tracking pole shows the president leading the nation 49-46%.

from harry truman to ronald reagan, now the carpenter's grandson is selling about a 1,000 hand me downs, they include a lighter, john f. kennedy's baby pin, and a wooden post from 1814 when the british set fire to the white house. some of the starting bids as high as $12,000. >>> thanks for joining us this morning. ,,,,,,,,

the ships, including the aircraft carrier, uss harry truman are going out it sea until the area is clear it return. they are the world's largest naval installation. no cancellations at the airports yet but major airlines are offering passengers a way out. putting flexible travel policies in place so that passengers can change or cancel flights next week without paying a fee. >> a lot of people are doing whatever they can to get ready for sandy. flood sag real concern. so folks are arming themselves with sandbags and stocking up on supplies. darcy spence enner alexandria n with that part of the story. darcy? >> we're live along the alexandria waterfront. if you take a look behind me here at the marina, you can see it is very quiet, very tranquil. people spent the day and evening getting ready but say they are not quite sure what to expect. at the cleveland park metro, sandbags are in place to protect against flooding as the region prepares for hurricane sandy. >> i think could or could not happen. and it could be further south, further north. >> governors declared emergency as did d.c. ma

do know is that the early 1953 president eisenhower inherited a difficult situation from president truman and gave the order to plan an operation inside iran to bring down prime minister mohsen def and to replace him with someone believed to be more in accordance with our interest. >> so did the prime minister get replaced and did the schulman get through on at that time? >> it's a fascinating story. the shah was reluctant to move. he was presented with a plan to replace the prime minister with a military man. he didn't want to see a military man thinking he might be jumping out into the fire. he was persuaded. there were stories the way he was persuaded she was told this is going ahead with or without you. if most of death would be replaced if it goes with you so much the better and if it does not. he was persuaded to go along with it. >> professor, when you look up at the crisis, what kind of attitude did that helped develop towards the west? >> the iranians traditionally had a very pessimistic view towards the british. the british after all have participated in dividing the country int