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.. this brief infil -- film. ♪ >> my mother has been a leader in the field of physical disabilities. i think she has done more than any other single human being alive and she is still striving to make sure people with special needs are equal, mainstream, are viewed as capable, viewed as athletic and she will not rest until that is a world wide acceptance. >> we had a sister, rose mary, who was challenged, intellectually, and eunice would spend the extra time with her making sure she felt included. >> that was a good 40 years ago, and i can't think of a positive experience really fo...

all right. [laughter] >> so that's how harry truman, former leader of the free world now cash strapped was able to afford eight nights at the waldorf. it's kind of interesting harry was in -- i'm going to forget the floor. his suite was directly above herbert hoover's. hoover lived at the waldorf at the time. and truman and hoover had a sort of back and forth -- they had a complex relationship. truman kind of rehabilitated hoover's reputation after roosevelt died, they changed the name what was it boulder dam back to hoover dam and so they had become quite close but then in the elect...

in the same family-owned and in the same business. if you happen to be taking u.s. 40 through western maryland and frostburg the princess has been preserved and they have a little plaque that says harry and bess truman ate lunch here june 21st, 1953. they went to washington and saw friends he gave the speech in philadelphia and went to new york and spent eight interesting days with margaret as their guide sightseeing in new york. they stayed at the waldorf towers. i was curious how harry was to afford this at the truman library, he saved everything. harry never wrote a letter that he...