Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
Why wouldnt the government have protections . It just wasnt done why wouldnt the government have a pension for officers and everybody else and not the president in fact he had very little money he had to borrow money quite secretly to pay for the move back home. This is not well known a doesnt mean he didnt have money but he needed cash to cover all of the expenses to move out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide income he undertook the writing of his by autobiography in memoirs which no other president had ever done except for Herbert Hoover but his time was much briefer than trumans and his covered far more tumultuous history. So to undertake the twovolume that more was a major and ambitious task. And then he built his library. Now it was a previous president ial library but it was established after he died in officer truman was the first one to officiate over the president ial library and again he was beginning something one of the things i try to emphasize in t
That Coalition Says it will allow some flights out of some airport people who need medical treatment. And mexico demands urgent talks after President Trump says hes working to designate mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. With sport ill have the very latest for Wednesdays Champions League plus. Another upset at the top here in doha qatar saudi arabia are beaten by kuwait a team runs 87 points. And hes 19 people have been killed in a brutal rebel attack in the volatile eastern democratic republic of congo is amid growing anger at u. N. Peacekeepers for failing to protect civilians allied to Democratic Forces are believed to have carried out the door attack on a village near the city of theyve been blamed for. String of recent massacres around benny which sparked days of violent protests against the un and the army the un now says one of its peacekeepers killed one of the 6 protesters in recent days from Goma Catherine sori reports another tense day. There barrymore he door body of
Loved ones and we are in a remote corner of the pacific where 75 years after world war 2 the search for Fallen Soldiers goes on. Thank you for joining us in a dramatic escalation of iraqs antigovernment protests crowds have torched the rainy and consulates in the holy city of najaf 100 surrounded the building lighting tires blankets and anything else they could find while chanting iran out they accuse tehran of propping up iraqs government which have been railing against for 2 months. Not earlier we spoke to our reporter mommy job until an on the phone from baghdad he explained more about how suspicion and im sure about iran has played into the post. Theres a good old eric here in the by by the thousands and our government demonstrators that. Is far too beholden to store in powers and among those foreign powers that are exerting too much influence in this country is the country which is their neighbor and that they will work extraordinary about what happened this evening is that the ir
Republic of congo for oil fields anger against u. N. Peacekeepers accused of failing to provide protection and a grim task for flood survivors in kenya digging to find the remains of missing loved ones. I am. Thank you very much for joining us u. S. President donald trump assigned to bills into law that back hong kongs for Democracy Movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and on kong special trade status will be reviewed every year the territorys leaders say it will damage relations with the u. S. While china has expressed extreme regret on the move saying it will respond with firm count and measures will get more reaction from beijing with Andrew Thomas very shortly for a sabbatical hane in washington d. C. Patty president toms team had voiced reservations about these bills why did he sign them. Because he had no choice congress forced his hand this vote was near unanimous there was just one voting no