Harry truman, and the Manhattan Project. Joining him are fdr president ial library and Museum Director paul sparrow and historian edward lengel. Edward i am edward lengel. I am senior director of programs in new orleans. Im joined today by two gentlemen. The first is paul sparrow, who is director of the Franklin D Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the roosevelt Library Museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for q
critical nato summit with ukraine s longstanding request for nato admission dividing the allies. it s been 100 days since russia detained reporter evan gershkovich whose mother is hoping for the best as her son sits in a russian prison. i rely on president biden s promise. bringing him back, i think, it s a team effort. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where today s monthly jobs report shows payrolls rising by 209,000 in june. indicating the labor market could be losing steam. the unemployment rate barely ticking down to 3.6%. this with treasury secretary janet yell. announcer: yellen in china trying to ease tensions between the two largest economies while criticizing beijing for its treatment of american companies. joining me now, dominic chu. first the jobs numbers. does this increase the possibility we could avoid a recession, even achieve a soft landing? the elusive soft landing. the jobs numbers just add more confusion to the american eco
Have noteworthy careers including several nobel prize winners. Fromirst, Cynthia Kelly the Atomic Heritage Foundation, discusses the origins and purposes of their oral history collection. The voices of the Manhattan Project is a website that contains 300 oral histories and we hoped someday will be the central repository of the memories of the Manhattan Project veterans. Tell us about the Manhattan Project itself. It was the effort in world war ii by the United States and its allies, primarily Great Britain and canada, to build an atomic bomb. Manhattan, just as you think, its after that island and now its part of new york city. But the project was run by the army corps of engineers, and while they toyed with a name that would be Something Like special materials project, and thought such a name would arouse suspicion, because it was sort of clumsy. Thehey follow traditions of army corps of engineers and name the project after the place where the projects headquarters were. And its headq
Russia and some of our other toughest competitors around the world. When our businesses compete and win, it means better paying jobs here at home, higher wages, bigger paychecks for americans. And so were going to continue to keep focused on tax reform that delivers tax relief to hard working American Families and that creates greater growth in our economy, better paying jobs and higher wages for people in this country. And the focus, of course, of tax reform is to improve the quality of life for American Families. And you do that by lowering individual tax rates so people get to keep more of their hardearned money. You also do it by lowering corporate rates so that businesses can have more money to pay higher wages and to increase the activities of those businesses. Additionally, there is a lot of money in u. S. Companies that is still sitting overseas that wed like to get back here, but the tax code makes it a lot harder because those companies are taxed twice; once in the country wh
Togeth from new mexico and we thought we would come down together and talk about our former colleagues have passed away recently. He was born to italian immigrants in 1932. He was heres a brochure sun, wn attended catholic school, graduated from our own university of new mexico, on the University Team he taught high school mathematics, though they practice and got his start in politics on the city commissiond and was selected in 1973 and became the longestserving senator. He was a husband, father and bur grandfather, he married nancy berg out of law school. She was a good friend of ours and we spent an hour with her iw albuquerque a little of her week ago and as one would expect as a mother and grandmother Pete Domenici was a statesman that worked across party lines to find pragmatic solutions. Nator o one of the strongest fighters our state will ever know. We belong to different Political Parties and we didnt always agree on things but i always put appreciated that he cared deeply abo