truman was proud of this. after the war, when he set up his haberdashery business with eddie jacobson, truman displayed this in kansas city. other people from his unit would come in and it would be a place where they could gab about the war. when he came home, there is a nice photograph of part of battery d and the officers of with29th field artillery harry truman front and center in that photo. harry truman one hisgreatest battle -- won greatest battle when he married his longtime girlfriend. this is a photograph of the reception after the wedding. their wedding was on june 28, 1919, exactly five years to the day from when archduke frantz ferdinand was assassinated and the war began. day 28, 1919 was also the that the versailles treaty was signed, ending the war. it was a very important day for truman on many accounts. truman was a woodrow wilson democrat. he believed in woodrow wilson's ideas of international organization. in world war i, the league of nations had failed. after world war ii, truman was deter

the warden sent this to truman. truman said, i have on my desk a sign that says, the buck stops here. well, we believe he did have it on his desk. but we have never found a photograph of it on the oval office desk. but until we actually find a photograph showing it on his desk in the oval office, we've displayed it out here. we're standing in a replica of the oval office as it appeared in truman's representation. he became president upon the sudden death of franklin roosevelt. roosevelt, of course, had been president for 12 years. and many young people especially had no other president. harry truman was suddenly thrust into the office. this office here is actually depicted as it appeared in the summer of 1950, just shortly after the korean war had started. it's decorated exactly the way it was on that -- on a particular day in august 950. many of the items around the room are very typical of truman. the desk is cluttered with a lot of trinkets that were given to truman over the course. these are the items that happe

truman. it was done by a gentleman by the name of jay wesley jacobs. and it was started while he was the senator from the state of missouri. and continued during his brief vice-presidency and then completed while he was president of the united states. and it's perhaps the first painting of president harry truman done from life. harry truman was not known very well outside of jackson county by the age of 50 when he became a senator for the state of missouri. >> it's been my privilege to be a united states senator for the past 9 1/2 years. and i expect to continue the effort which i've been making in that capacity as a united states senator to help win the peace under the direction of the great -- our great leader franklin d. roosevelt. >> and he became president at the age of 60. on april 12, 1945, harry truman happened to be in the capitol building when he received a phone call from the white house asking him to hurry to the white house and to come quietly. truman rushed to the white house an

truman. it was done by a gentleman by the name of j. wesley jacobs. and it was started while he was the senator from the state of missouri and continued during his brief vice presidency and then completed while he was president of the united states and it's perhaps the first painting of president harry truman done from life. harry truman became a senator for the state of missouri. >> i expect to continue the effort which i've been making in that capacity as united states senator to win the peace under the direction of the great leader franklin d. roosevelt. >> and he became president at the age of 60. on april 12, 1945, harry truman happened to be in the capital building then he received a phone call from the white house asking him to hurry to the white house and to come quietly. truman rushed to the white house and was received by eleanor roosevelt who broke the news to now president truman. eleanor said harry the president is dead. and president truman didn't know what to say. and he eventu

obviously didn't care for truman. truman said i am that guy. so i heard another story about a lady, a young woman from germany and she was new to the area and she was walking in the neighborhood. she was in her early 20s and had a baby, so she had a stroller. and she found herself walking regularly with a very well-dressed man who was very friendly, and aside from a man walking a few feet behind seemed normal and every week. she did not know that was harry truman she was walking with. he and bess did not have secret service until 1963 which was the time john f. kennedy was assassinated. and even then he took up personal phone call from president lyndon johnson to implore the treatments to accept secret service protection. they didn't want it. so other than this off-duty police officer, truman walk alone until about the late 1963, 64 when 64 when secret service was assigned to the truman's. independence, missouri, was his hometown. from the time that he moved to independence as a six year old boy until his death in 1972, he always regarded indep

so truman stepped in with the truman doctrine to make it the states tothe united support some of these countries. and then that eventually led to truman's bigger foreign policy initiative, which was the martial plan, named after george marshall, who was the secretary at the time but, of course, had also been the leader forces duringy world war ii. >> the only solution that i see establish a firm front. a more effective it will be. efforts topaganda convey that this is an aggressive front, of course, are propaganda. >> the idea was that the united states would provide financial assistance but the european countries who agreed to join the marshall planning had to work themselves to decide how the money would be spent. it was primarily used on big infrastructure projects that helped rebuild the infrastructure of european nations. it's considered one of the most successful foreign policy initiatives in the history of the united states. this is a letter that harry wrote to his wife, beth. beth spent part of the year back here in independence. one of the real gems of our thanction is we have

truman. he had a famous line on his desk, did it say. >> the buck stop here's. >> i'll show you where the bucks began. it's called clinton soda fountain today. back it because clinton's drug store. this where is harry truman had his very first job. opened the store on the corner at 6:30 in the morning and mopped the floors, dusted the shelves, made a whopping three dollars a week. he worked before school and he worked after school, all day long on saturday, they paid him with three silver dollars. hills father eventual he made him quit working there because he was only 14. he was afraid he'd get behind on his schoolwork. here comps his handsome statue up hereafter. did you no some of othe local folks think the statue is inappropriate. >> why? >> look at it. he don't have his hat on. harry had only been vice president 82 days when president roosevelt passed away. he was summon heed to the white house for the ocean of office. wouldn't go there directly. went back in congressional hall, into his

truman did his best to replace fdr. he pledged his fealty to unconditional surrender and he gave his approval to existing military plans. truman quickly came to respect general marshall even though his wartime experience, truman's, has made him skeptical of the other brass hats. we know what he thought of macarthur. of sommerville, he said he would give us an economy if he could. so, he was obviously skeptical of a lot of these men in uniform. but not marshall. on the other hand, truman also leaned on fred vinson for advice. i thought this was one of the more interesting discoveries we had in this book. he met with vinson regularly and eventually appointed vinson secretary of the treasury. truman did not realize it at first, but he would eventually find that marshall and vinson were pulling him in two different directions. marshall continued to focus on invasion, while vinson embraced the idea of siege with the freeing up of manpower and materials for the homefront. so, a siege seemed most conducive to the reconversion

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after to second world war in one hundred forty five then us president truman issued a proclamation. declaring that the natural resources in the. seabed and subsoil belong to the united states of america. in convincing the world that the american president not only had no will but also the right to incorporate undersea territory truman used an argument that built on a recent discovery some areas of the seabed oceanic of the continental. the us had to have this kind of basis of a jew logical link between its land mass and the land mass submerge and lead to its territory and be an idea of the geological continental shelf is the basis which the us saw as. a legal basis as well. they had to finally and the bases that they found most convincing was of course science. but the. odds of being at the end they're not so close by ever when you think was there sure we yeah let's encourage fifteen year old like first name years. in this industry are by target. the arguments that the continent continues on made up the core of truman's justification this was the more convincing because the historic

it is where harry truman had his first job. he opened up the store at 6:30 a the morning and made $3 week. he worked before school and after school, all day saturday. his father made him quit working there because he was only 14. he was afraid he would get behind on school work. here comes his statue. did you know some of the local folks think the statue is inappropriate. >> why? >> look at it. hat on.not have his he had only been vice president 82 days when roosevelt passed away. he was summoned. he went back into his office and picked up his hat first. gentlemen do not go without their hats. harry truman had a hand in the lovely court house there. he helped get the bond passed to get it rebuilt. he traveled in his own car, at his own expense, looking at buildings before deciding on this design. this is designed after independence hall in philadelphia where the declaration of independence was signed. mississippi, the built in 1827, 191 years ago. i do have the papers, the records, and the documents. the man who built this sam.

almost nobody in a truman's circle arguing not to use it. i think what you said is correct but i am not aware of anybody who knew about the atomic bomb and knew what it could do that argued against using it. even people who were horrified at the thought of using it believed it was the only strategic option on the table. what truman's experience in world war i did to influence that i don't know, but it led to the same decision that people with no experience would have made. >> all the way to your right this time, gentlemen. oncould you please comment the initial american attack on canty need in may of 1918. since you already comedy about 1919, it is my understanding that billy mitchell wanted to airdropped the first division at some point in the 1919 offensive. it was -- >> it was almost canceled because the germans had launched an operation where they brushed aside 50 french divisions. -- whenwhen the french americans were being raised from their training camps to the front because the crisis was so severe. it was essential to prove american

the president of the united states harry truman a man. who are reaching of any other man on earth. how he truman asserted his country's influence with nothing claiming this ocean was a territory to retreat under water that could be annexed just. part of the united states. enormous quantities of oil befell in the gulf of mexico but the oil lay beyond the three miles island in which coastal states could exercise their song rights truman wanted more he wanted new term story for the night it states the superpower needed more more oil urgently oil reserves on the mainland no longer sufficed. our dependence on the minerals and raw materials is so fresh and our supply so uncertain that we are moving as rapidly as we can and by every means that ingenuity and. to expand facilities to step up production find new sources of elop substitute and bring in increased supply from foreign sources. after the second world war in one thousand forty five then us president truman issued a proclamation. declaring that the natural resources in the. seabed and subsoil belong to the united states of america.

[laughter] >> did she lobby harry truman to get her post at the u.n.? mary jo: no. in fact when he first called, she turned it down. she said i cannot do that. i'm not a lawyer. i don't know anything about mass international law. this is 1945. nobody knew what the u.n. was going to be. there were people on both sides of the atlantic he thought it would be a failure like the league of nations. so this is not exactly a plum job. he was not offering to make her ambassador. he was sending her into the jaws of the lion. they were going to try to set up what she would call the machinery for the effective use of the united nations. she was certainly interested and followed all of the preparatory work. the dumbarton oaks agreement and all of that stuff. she had been involved in promoting it. had franklin lived, he wanted her to go with him in san francisco in may of 1945 for the u.n. conference where they would sign the charter. so she was in it. one of the last thing she did in the white house, the day franklin died, she was meeting with state department officials about th

president truman began it when he left town by train. a huge crowd was at union station telling former resident truman goodbye. cbs news coverage of the inauguration of richard m. nixon continues in a oment. president johnson, former president johnson, and the immediate past first lady just leaving the white house -- the capitol. >> how do you feel leaving the office, sir? [indiscernible] >> mrs. johnson is right behind him. >> what did you think about the speech? >> it was memorable. >> there is very little opportunity to talk to the johnson family, who are getting into their limousines. obviously, the security people here have been asked to keep us as far from the car as possible so they would not have to stop and talk on their way out. i am sure the reason is it is richard nixon's day, and they are going off to lunch at the clifford home. mr. cronkite: i can't just a word or two there. he said something about his health. did you catch those words? >> his health? mr. cronkite: did he say i am glad i have my health? >> i didn't hear it

after to second world war in one hundred forty five then us president truman issued a proclamation. declaring that the natural resources in the. seabed and subsoil belong to the united states of america. in convincing the world that the american president not only had no will but also the right to incorporate undersea territory truman used an argument that built on the recent discovery some areas of the seabed oceanic of the continental. the us had to have this kind of basis of a jew logical link between its land mass and the land mass submerge and lead to its territory and be an idea of the geological continental shelf is the basis which the us saw as. a legal basis as well. they had to finally and the bases that they found most convincing was of course science. but the. odds of being at c.n.n. not so cursed by ever do you think was there should be there mirror she again let the entry if in yet was like this name here. in this ng that's me i'll bite again. the argument that the continent continues on made up the core of truman's justification this was more convincing because the hi

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after to second world war in one hundred forty five then us president truman issued a proclamation. declaring that the natural resources in the. seabed and subsoil belong to the united states of america. in convincing the world that the american president not only had no will but also the right to incorporate undersea territory truman used an argument that built on a recent discovery in some areas of the seabed oceanic others but continental. the us had to have this kind of basis of a jew logical link between its land mass and the land mass submerge and lead to its territory. and be an idea of the geological continental shelf is the basis which the us saw as. a legal basis as well. they had to finally and the bases that they found most convincing was of course science. the. odds of being at c.n.n. not so close by ever when you think was there should be there mirror she again let the entry fifteen years or the christening years. with every hour witness in the three hour bite again. the arguments that the continent continues on made up the core of truman's justification this was more

this weekend, we take you to independence, missouri, home to harry and bess truman. saturday at noon eastern on book tv, we'll explore the roots of independence and why it served as the starting point of america's great westward trail. >> downtown was the place to be if you were outfitting for the trails. we had several blacksmith shops there, several places you could get horses. really just outfitting general stores. you needed flour, anything to get you out west, you were going to get it here. so you can imagine a big buzzing community downtown. >> and on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, a tour of president truman's historic sites, including a visit to his home and his library. watch the c-span cities tour of independence, missouri, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv. on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore the american story. >> the senate special agent committee held a hearing on combatting scams that target the elderly. over the next two hours. members hear f

my husband says that true -- truman administration is a cesspool of corruption. him?an i answer eleanor says, you can tell your any government is a corruption, every individual citizen is responsible when the government republic. governments do not become their citizens have allowed those standards to exist. democracy, you set the standards as the individual citizen. elect your representatives and the government belongs to you. to correct ve anything that is wrong and we can always be heard. if anything is wrong, the blame ours. children often wrote to eleanor. from a question concerned younger citizen. sixth grade. what can i do to make the world peaceful? you can learn to live of yourusly with people own age even though they might e of different races and different religions. if you do that, you will be preparing your generation to and more peacefully in the world as a whole. not every questioner was so polite. with an edge. our newspaper published an of you smiling all sweetness an light as -- and as you shook hands with russia's ambassador at the of the u.n.ng who

harry truman probably read about in presidential history than anyone else. when he was a kid he had thick glasses, parents said we can't afford to replace them and truman said i read every book in public library which i thought it was an exaggeration, it was a small library, he probably did. when i was having to make tough decisions like firing mcarthur and whether or not to use atomic bomb, i looked to presidents but enough similarity that i would have inside that would help me make the decision, perhaps andrew jacksons, abraham lincoln did, one thing that truman said not all readers would be leaders but every leader has to be a reader because this is my language not his but why would you if you were president or all of us as citizens and voters why ever would you want to deny yourself the collective wisdom of billions of people who walked the earth and found out what mistakes they made and what successes they had particularly previous presidents and generations of americans. what the founders wanted was a country to be very different from england and in on

truman declared a national emergency that nationalize the american steel industry. really a matter of national security. he hoped that would keep the mills up and running but the supreme court struck him down saying only congress has the authority to seize private property, not the president. did this set of president that could stop president trump? 20 me judge janet napolitano and there's a lot of thinking on this but you say no? >> he can't do it. the president and the united states cannot do this. the emergency power that truman attempted to use did a couple of things, it seized private property against the owners and spent government money to pay those who are on strike or to replace strikers so the supreme court struck a deal for two reasons, only congress can seize property when it pays for it and only congress can authorize the expenditure of money and president truman didn't have the authority to do either. and the executive order which encourage people to go back to work and many did was perfectly valid. the president has valid emergency authorities and a

we take you to independence missouri this weekend home to harry and bess truman. saturday at noon eastern on book tv, we will explore the roots of independence and why it serves as a starting point for america's great westward trail. >> downtown was the place to be. we had several blacksmith shops there and places you could get horses and really just outfitting general store. flour or bacon or anything that gets you out west, you will get it here. if you can imagine a big buzzing community downtown. >>> on sunday at 2 pm eastern on american history tv a tour of president truman's historic site including a visit to his home and library. watch the c-span cities tour of independence, missouri. saturday at noon eastern on c- span 2 book tv and send it 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3 working with our cable affiliate as we explore the american story.>>> president trump nominated him to the third circuit u.s. court of appeals in 2017. after senate confirmation judge bevis joined the appeals court and the author and former university of pennsylvania l

>> truman -- >> oh, i see. no. well, of course, like everybody else, churchill liked ike. but he actually wanted adlai stevenson to win the 1952 election. and he was, he was nerve bragged because he thought thattizen -- nerve wracked because he thought that eisenhower wasn't going to pursue the policy of nuclear appeasement that he wanted to pursue towards the russians after the russians exploded their nuclear bomb in april 1949. at that point the great anti-communist winston churchill -- who, of course, had been pro-soviet during the war and anti-soviet at the time of the iron curtain speech -- then went pro again because he saw british interests were not best served by having a heavily nuclearized soviet union. he thought eisenhower would not address that whereas the democrats might. >> yes, sir. we have a microphone. right here. >> thank you also for coming here, it's been real treat. and having read your book on halifax many, many years ago, i can't wait to read your book on churchill. you probably get this question a lot since "the darkest hour" came out, the movie, a

little bit before she called harry truman back and said she would do it. [laughter] [applause] >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend and every weekend, on c-span. >> the new 116th congress opened on january 3 with many senators and representatives new to capitol hill. for the first time, over 100 women in the house. next on "reel america," the 80th congress, which included only eight women. it tracks the progress of the agricultural act of 1948 through committees, and the signature of president harry truman that made the bill a law. this is about 20 minutes. ♪ narrator: washington, the center of the democratic world today. and at the heart of washington is the government of the united states of america, spreading through the city and along the mall. the white house, home of the president and the executive power of government. the supreme court, which interprets the laws. the capital, the home of congress, which makes the laws of the united states. in the shadow of this dome is decided much of the destiny of our time. ♪ ♪ narrator: the

harry truman was a voracious wanted to he encourage people to read. and we hope the exhibits here tell at least the tip of the iceberg of truman's decisions. what we really want people to do is read more about the presidency, read more about the government. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to independence missouri to learn about its rich history. learn more about independents and other stops at c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> american artifacts takes you to museums and other historic places to learn about american history. next we toured the national museum of the american indian americans exhibit with curator -- in the battle the little bighorn gallery, she shows us shields and drawings about 1876 battle. in newspaper articles, movies, television, and wild west shows. >> we are standing in the central gallery of the national museum of american indians exhibition titled "americans." this explores the nature of the american people's relationship with american indians. it's

that is a nonstarter. >> a number of laws have passed since truman. has been done a number of times. it has been primarily done to build facilities in afghanistan and iraq. >> in this case, i think the president would be wide open to a court challenge thing where's the emergency? you have to establish that. beyond that, this would be a terrible use of department of defense dollars. >>> the national park service strapped for cash is taking an unprecedented step. is dipping into money saved up from entrance fees. park managers will now bring on more staff, presumably some that are on furlough. they will patrol the parks, all trash and clean restrooms. the money is normally used for visitor services, not operations and maintenance. >>> house speaker nancy pelosi was in san francisco today holding a thank you reception for voters. people celebrated her return as speaker. also the new democratic majority in the house. event was at the clancy street triangle future cake with these words, happy blue year. she said democrats are in favor of border security bu

truman later revealed the motives for his deeds to his attorney. she disturbed man while i was hunting scared off the birds i was after. they were laughing so loudly they saw me in the forest and gave me this flippant look. he disturbed me when i was about to follow the girl. and he later said during an interrogation that he was a poacher he'd also shot animals but left them in the forest for him it was just about killing. so that contradicts the notion of him being in one in fact he was a very confused individual. after three years of murdering at will and without being identified the serial killer was finally caught when an attack on a local far astaire did not go as planned. this f.l. study had to forest a call to him stop where are you going and schumann replied to the village of the forest and then said no that's the other direction and shimon said well i'm going this way thinking he was a poacher the forester went after him shimon immediately drew his pistol and opened fire at the forest one touch off being fast and free at. truman's a gun ja

he started in the white house with harry truman and went all the way up to president reagan. he had quite an epic life. >> thank you for your time. [inaudible conversations] . >> good evening everyone. thank you for joining us tonigh tonight. i am pleased to welcome you to this evening's event and presenting the new book invisible the organization which supports programs like history literature philosophy and other disciplines and for thepl

this weekend we take you to independence, missouri, home to harry and bess truman. saturday at noon eastern on book tv we will explore the roots of independence and why it served as the starting point of america's great westward trails. >> downtown was the place to be if you were outfitting for the trails. we had several blacksmith shops there, several places you could get horses, well just outfitting general stores. if you needed flour, bacon, anything to get you out west you were going to get it here. you can imagine a big buzzing community downtown. >> and on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, a tour of president truman's historic sites, including a visit to his home and his library. watch the c-span cities tour of independence, missouri, saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore the american story. >>> illinois businessman j.b. prits kerr is now governor and delivered his inaugural address shortly after being sworn in. he desc

in the room bringing some control to donald trump they're gone by the way i was late teenager when truman fired macof it don't say i wasn't going to run for. it stay right then i would take a quick break and come right back with more politics. there are some russian and it's. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hall. aeroflot russian airlines. next guys are financial survival. when customers go buy your stuff. then else well reducing flour. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. it's hard to imagine the decades after the war a nazi don't it was still active and rich in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery at auschwitz a german company going until

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bringing some control to donald trump they're gone by the way i was a late teenager when truman fired what cloth don't say i wasn't going to run for. it stay right then we'll take a quick break and come right back with more politicking. there of rush and like this. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. teraflops russian airlines. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back to paul and said you know i'm talking with bill press for aggressive commentator and author host of the build for a show on the young turks network what do you make of the mitt romney op ed. mitt romney will first of all we remember that's beach that mitt romn

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he started in the white house wore harry truman and went up to president reagan he had quite an epic life. >> host: author wil haygood, thank you for your time. ...

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freedom, a former dhs, dod and veterans affairs appointee and currently the interim director of the truman national security project. as a national security organization, truman supports the for the people act because we know good inclusive governance is the first step towards making our nation safer while assuring that we remain an effective leader on the world stage. we support these urgent common sense reforms to reduce disenfranchisement, increase transparency and fight corruption. our broken democracy has made us a target for our adversaries abroad, including russian attacks and information warfare against the 2016 through 2018 election process. thankfully, the provisions of the for the people act address critical vulnerabilities. it's important to national security that we keep the money out of politics and demand funding and oversight for election security and make sure that digital platforms are disclosing who is buying political ads. i urge all members of congress, not just democrats to support the for the people act, transparency, accountability, and defense of our institutions t

we take you to independence, missouri, home to harry and best truman, sunday at 10:00 eastern on booktv. weeks for the roots of independence and why it was the starting point of the great westward trail. >> downtown was the place to be if you are outfitting for the trails, we had several black myth shops that you could get horses, outfitting general storage. if you need flour or bacon, anything that would get you out with you would get it here. imagine a big bouncing community downtown. >> at 2:00 eastern on american history tv we will take you to many of the truman sites including a visit to his home and library. watch the c-span cities tour of independence, missouri sunday at 10:00 eastern on booktv and sunday at 2:00 pm eastern on american history tv on c-span3, working with our cable affiliates as we explore the american story. on afterwards at 9:00 pm on sunday, author sebastian gorka on his book why we fight. >> you fight levels when your life changes. one day my father, an amazing athlete who was on the national crew team before he was arrested comes out of the ocean. i'm 8 or 9

look, if harry truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry during war time, this president doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multi-billion dollar wall on the boarder so that's a non-starter. >> unfortunately the short answer is yes. there is a provision in law that says the president can declare an emergency. >> both of those guys, democrats, mind you, earlier today in washington vice president mike pence and other administration officials met for a second straight day met with congressional aides, many of them democrats, talking about how to navigate their way out of this. this from the president just a few minutes ago. vice president mike pence, he writes, a group had a productive meeting with the schumer/pelosi representatives today. many details of border security were discussed. we are now planning a steel barrier rather than concrete. it is both stronger and less obtrusive. good solution and made in the u.s.a. let's get to cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez. upbeat words about the pence meeting but the president had his own gathering as well

this weekend we take you to independence missouri, home to marry and bess truman. saturday on book tv we'll explain the roots of independence and why it is one of america's great westward trails. >> downtown is the great place to be if you're outfitting for the trails and we have several blacksmith shops there and several places where you can get horses and outfitting general stores and you needed flour and anything you needed out west you would get it here. you can expect a big, buzzing community downtown. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, a tour of president truman's historic sites including a visit to his home and his library. watch the c-span city's tour of independence missouri, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday on american history tv on c-span tv. working with our cable affiliates as we explore the american story. for the first time in the state's history, iowa voters elected women to the u.s. house of representatives last november, both are democrats and both defeated republican incumbents. congresswoman sendy a

harry truman's political career. [video clip] side of the bookshelf has a lot of the books that truman read as a young man. the oldest books, we know, are called "great men and famous women," and it was a set of four books the were given to truman when he was 10 years old by his in 1895 -- actually, 1894. but truman also likes to read the classics. thedecline and fall of roman empire. we are standing in the office that harry truman used at his presidential library in independence. these books here are clearly books that truman wanted to have -- ad him, and so it says lot of these books say more about him as a person, what he really enjoyed, and as president, a lot of these books are things he read as a young man and as a senator before he ever became president. and: to into booktv american history tv this weekend as we travel to independence, missouri, and to watch video of independence and all of the cities we visited on our cities tour. go to c-span.org/citiestour. a few more minutes to get in your thoughts on what

the truman farm home is located in missouri, 15 minutes from independence. it was built by his grandmother in 1894. the future president lived here from 1906 until he left for world war i in 1917. up next,