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Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover< ....
Assassination and a number of president s were already assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections from him . There were pensions for army officers, everybody else but no pension for president s. In fact he had very little money. He had to borrow some money secretly, which dean addison cosigned. To pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown and doesnt mean he didnt have any money. He did have money but you need cash to cover all the expenses of moving out of the white house. And when he got home in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, it is memoirs which no other president had ever done except for Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer than trumans and trumans presidency covered far more tumultuous history and hoovers had so to undertake the 2 volume memoir was a very major ambitious task. And then he built his library. Now, there had been a pr ....
From our archives, with Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Mccullough. He has appeared on booktv more than 50 times. All of the programs youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org, using the search function at the top of the page. First, in 1992 on the book notes Program David mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The attempted assassination, a number of president s of been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . Guest just wasnt. Why would there be a pension . Pension for everybody else but opens and for president , he ....
Even if things work you know blocks or summers for come fall this is the 1st time to back including them and ill speak for the doctrine of if you like d either of you to say but i would say to you keep away until this thing is got its going to be gone at some point its going to be gun gun and i would say you keep away and you do the social distancing until such time as you know its going well know when that time is your executive orders would last for 60 days how would you decide whether to extend this is what i look at the autonomy to see where we are with the economy basically and i think ill have a very easy decision to make i hope i hope that the economys going to be great by that time but well see but right now in light of the fact that americans are out of jobs i cant be have i cant be taken in. For another 60 days or quite like her could roll it for 30 days or i could roll it for much more than sick. Days we have to take a look at the time but well be looking at 60 days and well ....
The spread of the virus. Join the conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Next, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey holding a briefing with reporters on her states response to the coronavirus. She says testing remains a challenge in reopening alabama. This is 20 minutes. Gov. Ivey i am here to give an update on our stayathome order. This weekend is the projected peak of the illness. We look forward to seeing when these numbers start to decline so that we can make small progress. What we are doing is working. I plead with the people of alabama, keep doing what you are doing. Social distancing, personal hygiene, staying at home when you can. Our stayathome order stays in effect until april 30. Last week, i talked to you about the focus on my peoples safety and health to include also the Economic Health of our state. In my mind, those two have been closely in a wh ....