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we ve hosted a series of conversations about the truman era, joe, and it makes us realize we should be talking about truman more and its impact on the world stage back then. his presidency and still today. let s bring in another great panel to continue the timely discussion. former u.s. senator, now an msnbc news and msnbc news political analyst, claire mccaskill is here. she knows truman more than anybody. columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius and historian and rogers chair at vanderbilt university, jon meacham who unofficially advises president-elect joe biden. jon, you were the first while i was developing, while i was writing the book and sort of developing my thoughts. you were the first to draw parallels between harry truman and joe biden. and saying at the time if joe biden ended up being elected there would be some parallels between the two that were too hard to miss. yeah, it s, you know, a coming to power at a moment wher ....
already questioning his commitment to bipartisanship and a senate impeachment trial of the last president, president biden made covid the focus, taking executive actions that don t require congressional backing. he signed a series of orders, memoranda and directives aimed at boosting mask wearing, setting up mass vaccination sites and using the defense production act to make the supplies needed to increase vaccine production. the white house also released 198-page document outlining the new national covid strategy and of the seven goals it lays out, the one that comes first is perhaps the most telling, it reads restore trust with the american people. whether the president can do that, of course, remains to be seen. and our commitment to holding elected officials accountable on that score does not change from one administration to the next. that said, the contrast with the last president was certainly apparent today as this president put the bad news first and did not ....
is all about it is a freedom and equality an opportunity. we do put him on a pedestal rightly. but also he was a human being and he had great ambitions to do great things and he certainly succeeded in that. abraham lincoln was born in 1809 in kentucky. he lived there just for fear as he moved me six or seven up to indiana and lived through his teens in indiana. he grew up on the front here. so he had a lot of hard work to do clearing land essentially being a farmer in many ways and again lived a very difficult life though. i think one that he was determined to move beyond so you see a very young lincoln already putting a real focus on learning as much as he could and finding those rare books. he could read and read them cover to cover over and over again because he knew he wanted to do something more with his life. from an early age abraham lincoln said he knew that if slavery wasn t wrong then nothing was wrong. we believe it s somewhat speculation that he would have s ....
encapsulated what it means to be american. what the whole idea of america is all about it is a freedom and equality an opportunity. we do put him on a pedestal rightly. but also he was a human being and he had great ambitions to do great things and he certainly succeeded in that. abraham lincoln was born in 1809 in kentucky. he lived there just for fear as he moved me six or seven up to indiana and lived through his teens in indiana. he grew up on the front here. so he had a lot of hard work to do clearing land essentially being a farmer in many ways and again lived a very difficult life though. i think one that he was determined to move beyond so you see a very young lincoln already putting a real focus on learning as much as he could and finding those rare books. he could read and read them cover to cover over and over again because he knew he wanted to do something more with his life. from an early age abraham lincoln said he knew that if slavery wasn t wrong then no ....
constitution was put in place to guarantee that the power would not concentrate in washington. because our founders knew that when political power concentrates, so this economic power. that is when you get the corruption and greed capitalism and major corporations coming to the politicians to help them compete rather than competing in the marketplace. what has happened over the last several decades in america is that centralized concept has changed and the fact that more and more power and control and money has come here trade that is why you see the exponential growth of lobbyist here in all sectors is because this is where the money is. this is where the power is. this is where we can change things. but that is never the way it was supposed to be. so those principles that began with individuals and individual liberty and decentralized political and economic power has been changed with policies and we detail it back from fdr all the way back up with what we have done w ....