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In the pacific. Welcome to washington journal. Washington journal on the 75th anniversary. Guest thank you. I am glad to be here. Host we have heard from harry truman after the hiroshima bombing. From your research and the study of the war and the bombings in particular, why did harry truman do it . I think the decision to use the bomb was really implicit in the manhattan project, so it was really assumed from the time, for the time truman came to office in ,pril after the death of fdr that this...

The eventsmore on that led to the bombings when we talk president Harry Trumans grandson, Clifton Truman daniel. 75 years ago today, the uso and the Nuclear Weapons bureau. Gay,ed from the b29 enola the bomb called little boy would explode with an impact of 15 kilotons and be responsible for the death of 237,000 people. That and the bombing of nagasaki on august 9 would propel japan to surrender and the end of world war ii. Good morning. It is washington journal for this thursday, august 6, 20 2...

Of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those signs that said white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something. And i would ask my mother as my father my grandparents my work why segregation why Racial Discrimination it was the best way it is dont get in a way dont get in trouble but trouble w...

Biography is alienating those the way the visual presentation there, the way they are written so i wanted the reader to feel like they had never read the president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book at the beginning of each section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts so that was part of it, i did think a lot about my reader and the other part, washington has been called by an adams family series editor, president ial editor. They edi...

Booktv. Org. And no one book tv, were showing you some programs about u. S. President s. First this past february, lexus took talks about a biography of George Washington bridge offers her thoughts about why her book is different than other books on the same. She spoke with no times colonists in politics and prose bookstores in washington dc re read. I want to president ial history because the presidency and especially the one who it was it bill sora, who everyone pressured into it. Its really i...

California ranks 4th in the u. S. There were seven additional deaths recorded in the bay area today with roughly 7,000 cases. Georgia and three other states continue today a gradual reopening of nonessential businesses after a weeks long stayathome order. Nearly a dozen more states will follow suits in the coming days but not everyone is behind restarting these local economies. On friday some nonessential businesses in georgia began opening their doors. The states governor expanding the reopenin...

About leadership and character and the lessons he learned from studying commanders through history. Its the subject of his book sailing to north. [applause] thank you latest denman. Please be seated. It is my distinct honor tonight to introduce a very special guest and a good friend. This is the second of our jack bergman distinguished leadership series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months ago. Jackma brennan was Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps...

Socialism sucks, is more irreverent than most Public Policy books we usually organize events around here at cato but i can assure you the authors we are featuring today are serious accomplished economists with decades of scholarly work. Inevitably, they have drinksn their hand, probably because we chat at receptions, hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative, and fun. Thats also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortuna...

The stimulus package, but senators still working through some sticking points. It has not passed yet. What is your read . Romaine the market clearly waited on that. Around mid today midday today there was an outline from Bernie Sanders saying he had objections to the bill surrounding unemployment insurance, and he was willing to hold up the bill if these issues were not addressed. That seemed to take some wind out of the rally. We were doing very well up until about then. Day,a little later in t...

A trip to shift gears of war crime. Internationally sorry intentionally directing attacks against hospitals and places containing the sick and the wounded and against medical units using the red cross or red crescent emblem. Is a war crime the number of People Killed by the corona virus has now passed 1800 after china reported 98 more deaths the head of a Major Hospital and one han thats at the center of the outbreak has also died of the virus has sarah cox from hong kong with the latest updates...