the privately funded truman library institute proudly supports harry truman's legacy and partnership with the truman presidential library and museum and a variety of impactful ways for more information about the important work. we do please visit truman library institute.org. well, you're there you can watch all of the stops in the stop series on the past events recordings page of the website or on the institute's youtube channel. there are guest conductors will guide you through the museum's immersive introduction film truman's formative years his journey to the western front of world war one his relationship with kansas city boston pendergast and and his partnership with tom beach. today the train has gone quite the distance from independence to washington dc in the last room of the plot of politics gallery visitors find truman in the nation's capital as a us senator. visitors can follow his evolution from the senator from pendergast in the letters. he wrote home to best and margaret to the truman committee exploring the group's efforts in an interactive puzzle alongside artifacts

truman library and museum, a series of interviews that they put together and conducted with harry truman talking about his library and his work there. and on their website, you can find all of these audio interviews. but he was asked about the people who come to the harry s. truman library and museum. this is part of the conversation. [video clip] >> what kinds of people come to the library? >> all kinds, all kinds. mostly youngsters, who are interested in the history of the country. i usually have a room full of them down here once a week. and after they have been through, i talk to them and they can ask me questions. and the questions they ask, i always tell them, they are much more intelligent than the press conference questions and newspapermen ask me, because the youngsters ask for information and the newspapermen are after headlines, and that is all. -- that is all right. >> are there other kinds of people who visit the library and who come see you? if so, would you tell us about some of them? >> oh, all kinds of people come here. and very often, officials of states, cities, and co

trumans was much less than 10% of that. so, and i don't know the costs of -- i don't know the costs, it would be interesting to sort of compare how this has changed over time, but there is definitely in a sort of sense of grandiosity and issue here. aside from the issue -- a problem, aside from the problem that is mostly self presentation . president trump, who is immensely practiced at self-promotion is one of the few presidents who has also been a builder. one can imagine from looking at other structures that have borne his name how he might want to conceive of a presidential library presentation. it's a very, i don't, i think that the structure is very problematic in many ways, both in terms of content and the idea that a president presents himself. i don't have a solution to this. i just think that as this phenomena has developed without any systematic examination of all these different issues, but certainly developing these institutions that have been developing since 1940, let's say, no one has sort of stepped back to

welcome to whistle stops a special program series from the truman library institute. thank you for joining us today for our final trip down the tracks. i'm cassie perkarski director of strategic initiatives and hosts for our journey through the all new permanent exhibition at the truman presidential library museum after spectacular 29 million dollar renovation at every stop along the route. this series has provided you a special access to the fascin

of course truman had the answers. henry recalled, they wanted to call him -- but they didn't do it because they had a lot of respect for him. the boys did not call him a sissy but later in life truman called himself a sissy when he recalled those years. looking back truman said reading history to me was more than a romantic adventure, it was solid instruction and wise teaching which i somehow felt i wanted and needed. i could see that history had extremely valuable lessons to teach. i learned from it that

i am here. >>> tonight the uss harry truman bulking up its fire power. >> reporter: u.s. and allies in a united show of force facing aggression from russia. the uss harry truman is in europe refining cooperation with nato allies to make sure the alliance can operate more coh coherently. >> we just go out there integrate to different nato partners. we work to kind of smooth the communication processes. >> reporter: as russia continues to amass troops near the border with ukraine, the u.s. says it will help further strengths nato all alliance. this is the first time since the cold war that fall carrier strike group has opinion placed under nato command. it's been in europe longer than planned. the stand off with russia intensifies to reassure america's allies the u.s. is fully committed to collective defense. russia pulled together more than 100,000 troops near ukraine and moscow could order an attack at any time. while president biden has said he would not send u.s. forces to ukraine, the harry s. truman can fortify nato's eastern flank despite russia's massive naval prese

this is an early picture of truman president truman with churchill at winston churchill and joseph stalin the world leaders at the global leaders at this point and looking pretty happy at the end of the world though. we new trouble was brewing certainly before the end of the war george cannon wrote the the long telegram a famous document studied and is worth studying many times over and he wrote it from from russia, and it's called long the long telegram because indeed it's very long for a telegram spanning soviet culture and other other issues it became the basis for what was called the containment theory of dealing with the soviet. in other words if you contained the soviet union because of the nature of the people indeed the entire culture and political system would implode so it was known as the containment theory. however if we read the document there is lots of information about culture about people's and even about the threats to americans via women religious organizations labor unions all of which we see in these cards. so truman articulated what was called the the truman doctrine

perhaps academic ability he certainly made up for in work ethic and he became truman's attorney general and became very successful in being an aggressive attorney general in part because he recognized that he was not the best lawyer in the building. and so what he did was manage the department of justice and say what can we do to advance the administration's agenda now, we expect that of our attorneys general. in the president certainly expects it of the attorney general but at the time but prior to that the attorney general had generally been a kind of like we think of now as the at least lawyers think of now the solicitor general as it's exceptional lawyer with these impeccable credentials now said look you can get someone in there like a president trump had senator jeff sessions in there and carrying out his his agenda and president george w bush had alberto gonzalez. neither of those are these great incredible legal minds they were effective though for the time in which they were there and carrying out the president's agenda and that i i would contend that that began in earnest with

susan: we have a quote from harry truman. this is from the truman collection. [video clip] >> i set up the original central intelligence agency that were then in the government for the benefit of the present. -- the president. i had all of the intelligence supports, some were just duplicates, summer arranged -- some were arranged. he can then veto whatever was necessary. susan: you write that the intelligence community has undergone a number of reorganizations, and the organizations have followed three general patterns. halting development, fragmentation, democratic tensions. can you speak to the first 20 years of the cia operations, and bread went from harry truman's description of a central agency to what happened next? amy: i love that audio of harry truman talking about how he envisioned the cia. what really stands out is he viewed it as a collection and coordination outfit. that quickly changed. the cia, under president truman, once the cia was created, there was vague statutory language authorizing the agency to perform that the president may direct. the

trumans was much less than 10% of that. so, and i don't know the costs of -- i don't know the costs, it would be interesting to sort of compare how this has changed over time, but there is definitely in a sort of sense of grandiosity and issue here. aside from the issue -- a problem, aside from the problem that is mostly self presentation . president trump, who is immensely practiced at self-promotion is one of the few presidents who has also been a builder. one can imagine from looking at other structures that have borne his name how he might want to conceive of a presidential library presentation. it's a very, i don't, i think that the structure is very problematic in many ways, both in terms of content and the idea that a president presents himself. i don't have a solution to this. i just think that as this phenomena has developed without any systematic examination of all these different issues, but certainly developing these institutions that have been developing since 1940, let's say, no one has sort of stepped back to

this is from the harry s truman library. a series of interviews that put together and conducted with harry truman talking about his library and his work. on the website you can find all these interviews. they are audio interviews but he was asked about the people who come to the harry s truman library. this part of that conversation. [video clip] >> what kinds of people come to the library? >> all kinds, all kinds. mostly youngsters interested in the history of the country. i usually have a room full of them down here, oh, once a week and after they have been through, talk to them, i let them ask me questions. and the questions they ask, i always tell them, are much more intelligent than a press conference questions the newspaperman asked me. because the youngsters have information and the newspaperman are after headlines. >> are there other kinds of people who visit the library to come see you and if so, would you tell us about some of them? >> oh, all kinds of people come here. very often officials of states, cities and co

truman" can effectively fortify nato's eastern flank. the carrier's f-18 jets can quickly reach the area close to ukraine. the "truman's" commander says years of integration with allies are now paying off. >> we're committed to our alliances, our partnerships. we're able to operate plug and play anywhere in the world. and from an adversary point of view, if we have the strong partnership, then that's stronger than any individual adversary could ever be. >> reporter: the u.s. says russia would pay a high price for any further invasion of ukraine, and the pentagon has just announced it will deploy additional u.s. troops to germany, poland, and to romania. >> the current situation demands that we reinforce the deterrent and defensive posture on nato's eastern flank. president biden has been clear that the united states will respond to the growing threat to europe's security and stability. >> reporter: but the u.s. and its allies say they hope diplomacy will prevail. as one of america's strongest deterrent forces remains on guard. fred pleit

i mean people once truman did plain a man donovan wrote a two volume biography of truman truman was starting when i at that arab, let's say called the early 80s had gone through a full bore the america loved harry truman and atchison was now starting to be seen as the architect of the cold war atchison's won the pulitzer prize for his memoir present at the creation. so george canon and dean atchison were in the mix later while i was working on my book walter isaacson and evan thomas wrote their book the wise men which was the and was the joint story of abrahaman atchison robert. love it john jay mccoy chip bowlen and george cannon. and it's a group portrait and i was worried like oh, maybe they got into my you know, they and they hadn't so it was actually a useful tool and quince's life. my dean atchison book got reviewed by evan thomas for the new york times. very favorably. was that a dissertation you were doing my phd dissertation at georgetown on two volumes. i did it was very long and and then i got i there was a professor at yale named gaddis smith. and he had written a volume on ash i

now, truman, though, actually came out in support of the e.r.a. when he was a senator. and then he reaffirmed that support when he became president. part of that, the significance of that shows how much the e.r.a. gained in popularity during the 1940s. as i talk about, i think it's in chapter five, he started to back away from the amendment a lot through the course of his presidency. that's because so many -- when the protectionists started to row assert thej themselves in the post war era, they really went after truman and really said to him, if you open flee support the e.r.a., we are going to withdraw our support from you. so when i went to the presidential library, truman's presidential library and i went through some of his -- some of the related source materials, some of his presidential advisers -- it is political dynamite. either way you throw it, it is going to go off in your face. he didn't come out and say he was against it but he just decided to top talking about it. and thennisen hour -- >> that doesn't sound like a politician. >> i know. eisenhower kind of

of course truman had the answers. henry recalled, they wanted to call him -- but they didn't do it because they had a lot of respect for him. the boys did not call him a sissy but later in life truman called himself a sissy when he recalled those years. looking back truman said reading history to me was more than a romantic adventure, it was solid instruction and wise teaching which i somehow felt i wanted and needed. i could see that history had extremely valuable lessons to teach. i learned from it that a leader is a man who has the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do and like it. >> the watch the rest of this program visit c-span.org/history. type harry truman this the search box at the top of the page for a list of the programs related to the 33rd president. >>> welcome to our lecture today on the growth of cities in the early american republic. a period of american history that i am fascinated by and i am really excited to share with all of you today. as we have already discussed in this class,

it's harry truman. i would say to the president, take a look at david mccullough's book, that i go to almost every day in adding so much of what you're doing today after what history teaches us was the case for harry truman. >> congressman james clyburn of south carolina. the majority whip for, of the house. thank you as always for coming to "the sunday show." >> thank you very much for having me. >>> and coming up, a new survey reveals just how much the world has changed for the lgbtq community. although the fight for equality continues, it's a whole new era today. my take, after the break. my take, after the break. .. ar. here. aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength? reduces inflammation? thank the gods. don't thank them too soon. kick pain in the aspercreme. [copy machine printing] ♪ ♪ who would've thought printing... could lead to growing trees. ♪ could lead to growing trees. meet a future mom, a first-time mom and a seasoned pro. this mom's one step closer to their new mini-van! yea

we need to make the alter records non existent, mary truman, her that the lines need the red army in the far east, where the one and a half 1000000 strong quinton army is waiting. the us and britain had a hard time retaking several islands from japan and would welcome some help with a japanese read the most was the idea that the soviet, by coming to the pacific war, truman understood this solid assures that the russians are coming in on schedule true and rights in his diary test dollar will be in the jap war by august. 15th finney japs when that occurs. ah, the invincible cleansing army was able to hold out for just 20 days. ah, the red armies outstanding, manchurian operation ended in complete victory. ah! but even those of no military reasons for it to russia, like a saki were bombed the bomb was not actually dropped on japan. it was dropped on the soviet union as a warning of what it's going to have to soviets. if they interfered with americans post war plant. ah. oh, driven by dreamer shapes bankers, those with dares sinks. we dare to ask ah, with oh, is your media a reflection o

so when i went to the presidential library truman's presidential library and i went through his some of the related source materials some of his presidential advisors, so something to the effect of like it's political dynamite if either way you throw it it's gonna you know set off in your face, so he didn't he didn't come out and say he was against it, but he just decided to stop talking about it. so and then i eisenhower's saying something happens sound like a politician. i know so eisenhower's did a similar thing. so when eisenhower's elected era supporters thought that that would be a great thing for the era because they thought that he would align with the emancipation's position and he came out at a speech and i think madison square garden and said, you know, i support the era and so they were all excited about it. but then if you go through his presidential source materials as i did at the light at his library you see that he was saying i'm private things like i don't know what the era is, so so i mean his support for it was pretty lackluster. and again, i think it was his secr

truman" is here longer than expected. the u.s. is fully committed. russia has pulled together more than 100,000 troops near ukraine the u.s. believes. moscow could put that in there. "the hear ri7 s. truman" can deflect the flank. the carrier's f-18 jets can reach ukraine. the troop's commanders said years of integration with allies are now paid off. >> we're committed to our alliances, partnerships. we're able to operate plug and play anywhere in the world and from an adversary point of view, if we're agnostic, if we have the strong partner shap then that's stronger. they will apply use use troops. >> president biden has been clear the united states will respond to the growing threat to europe's security and stability. >> reporter: but the u.s. and its allies say they hope diplomacy will prevail as one of america's strongest deterrent forces remains on guard. certainly some pretty strong capabilities on display while we were at sea. the secretary general of nato also commended the united states for sending those additional forces to new york. it sho

truman had lost big and painfully. and president kennedy, to his credit, picked up this idea of health care, to focus on the elderly. >> a third of all americans over the age of 65 lived in poverty, unable to afford the most basic of medical expenses. it had been a chronic problem in modern american history at that point. >> so, when lyndon johnson picked up this issue, he was facing the same kinds of forces that had been arrayed against it before. the american medical association, and a growing conservative movement. the american medical association was making arguments that the government's going to come between you and your doctor. this is going to be the beginning of socialism. >> one of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. we can say right now that we want no further encroachment on individual liberties and freedoms. and at the moment, we do not want socialized medicine. >> lbj knows, given his enormous mandate in 1964, that he could get it passed in 196

harry truman, the american president when nato was found, or founded. he noted that though peace was difficult, war was not inevitable. so, it is today. there is nothing inevitable about the looming conflict. it can still be averted. the path of diplomacy may be difficult, but it is still worth the try. nato as i said, remains sure foot. thank you. i will stop there and be happy to take a couple of questions. reporter: ok. reporter: who is responsible for the shelling today in ukraine's region and how concerning is it? what are you doing to lower the risk of dangerous, potential explosive russian interaction like a close call between eight aircraft this weekend? >> we seen the reports and they are certainly troubling. we are still gathering the details. you know, we have set for some time that the russians might do something like this in order to justify our military conflict. we will be watching this very closely. in terms of any potential, potential interaction with our aircraft and someone else's aircraft, we followed our procedures very closely whic

harry truman, the american president when nato was found or founded, put it best when he noted though peace was difficult the war was not inevitable. and so it is today. there is nothing inevitable about this looming conflict. it can still be averted. the path of diplomacy may be difficult but it is still worth the track. and nato, as i said remains surefooted. thank you and i will stop there and be happy to take a couple of questions. >> first question will a go to phil stewart from reuters. >> mr. secretary, who is responsible for the showing today and how concerning is it in a what are you doing to lower the risk of dangerous explosive u.s. russia interactions the close call between aircraft this tweekend. quick sue seen the reports of the showing there certainly troubling. we are still gathering the details but we have said for some time the russians might do something like this in order to justify a military conflict. we will be watching this very closely. and in terms of any potential interaction with our aircraft into someone else's aircraft of course we will follow our own pro

david mccullough wrote a biography of harry truman and truman started moving into one of the top rank presidents so part right now, it's right for somebody to do of a book on james madison and dolly madison . we look at madison and thewar of 1812 . he's been underestimated as a president. you might start seeing madison rise but the initial point, do you wait the 20 years? it's just a decision we made and we didn't want to start excluding presidents so we decided to include them all. >> books matter. i think our friends at c-span might have their new promotion now. joining us from downstairs in our studio here at c-span i want to talk about that building that's over my shoulder just down the street . and one of those categories we asked historians to raise the aypresidents on is the relations with congress . one of the slides that we have is how recent presidents have moved a bit in that category on relations with congress. i pointed george w. bush moving from 36 to 21 and this recent survey. a lot of movement when judged about relations withcongress. somebody likerichard nixon, down e