Exciting conversation with the head of the center for history and one of our historians on a brandnew book the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of an american institution. Ordinarily we would be doing this at the Historical House which is our base of operations on Lafayette Park at as we are all working from home and we are joining you in your home, we are trying out this new mode of communications that is perfectly fitting that were historical initiative. As you know we were founded in 1961 by Jaclyn Kennedy who had the vision at such a young age and a short period of time to create organizations like the White House Historical association. We were talking about today actually selected piece of land and hired a young irish architect to build the white house. While creating educational materials and content, it is a core part of the mission and that is what we do every day with the books we publish and our programs around the country. And our online social media content. Thi
Were told to stop and they did. Stan got me most of the way there on there was no decision. You can still at a certain level, truman as a president knew he bore ultimate responsibility. A decision not to intervene is, in a sense, a decision. When you put it in the context of truman takes over, as we know now with no preparation for that role or briefing. He announces he wants to execute the legacy of franklin roosevelt. If you do to these moments that hes in these early weeks, hes not the later, a man very much alone, finding his way. These very moving scenes you read about, he goes home with these great reading lists trying to figure out what was the legacy, what did the president really want to do. Hes searching ernlestly to find it. One of the areas he deals with, atomic policy, has been emphasized, he had enormous confidence in marshall, knew this was a policy roosevelt endorsed. Compared to other things he was facing, this seemed like a simple matter. This was the president s poli
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And emails from work, now banned on the weekends. How does that sound . Where it is now the law. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening in what has already been an exceptionally destructive week for tornados we saw still more today. There was touchdowns in texas and kansas. Tonight forecasters say there is an enhanced risk of severe weather, including hail, lightning and tornados extending from southern nebraska to kansas tonight. Several strong tornados likely into the evening and so take a look right now we are keeping a close eye on these live video streams are coming from some of the Storm Chasers spanned out in the danger zone scanning the skies for trouble. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in abilene, kansas watching it all unfold. Reporter late today a new round of severe storms slamming several states. A tornado touching down in brian, texas, another in northeast, kansas. The relentles