Cspan why wouldnt the government at that time have protections for him . Guest why wouldnt the government have a pension. There were for pensions for nobody else and not a penchant for the present in effect he had very little money. He had to borrow money quite secretly which dean acheson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown and it doesnt mean he didnt have any money. He did have money but he needed cash to cover all the expenses coming 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 for herbert hoover. Hoovers time in office was much briefer than was trumans presidency and covered far more tumultuous history so to undertake the 2volume memoir was a very major ambitious task and then he build his library. There had been a previous president ial library, Franklin Roosevelt library at hyde park established after roosevelt had d
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 had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly, which dean addison cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown it doesnt mean he didnt have any money, he did have money but needed some ca
The attempted assassination why would the government why would any had a pension . But no penchant for president in fact he had very little money and had to borrow some money. Quite secretly and then for the move back home. This is not well known he did have money but he needed some cash to cover all of the experiment on dash expenses. And when he got home in order to provide himself some income he took the writing of his autobiography in memoirs that no other president had ever done except for hoover but his time in office was much more brief him that covered the more tumultuous history so that was a major ambitious task and then he built his library for there was a Previous Library but it was established after roosevelt died in office so truman was the first over the president ial library and then he began something new so then to imply or emphasize in the book is that truman was in part a creative public figure he had been a builder all of his life he built the famous truman balcony
A boarding house near the legislature building. And putnam came to him. Putnam was old enough to have been his father, came up to his room and said youve got to get up out of bed because were going to cast the vote today. And he said i cant. He said youve got to. So he did. Some people say he was carried in on a stretcher. I found no proof of that. In any event, he got to the legislature. He gave a powerful speech, and he voted. And the measure to introduce slavery into ohio and thus the whole Northwest Territory was defeated by one vote. [applause] and yet nobody has ever heard of his name. [applause] people have said to me, if you had put this in a novel, your editor would say no, this would never happen in real life. It did happen in real life. And we should know about that and know about him and hes the one who did more than anybody else to get education passed by the Legislature Later on providing School Public schooling public learning all the way through the university of ohio.
What the experts say when they told you you cant win you can when. Please help me welcome back to ohio again, David Mcauliff mcau. [applause] thank you, governor, mrs. Joanne and all of you. I have never in my life had such an uplifting appreciated welcome as we have had since we arrived in ohio several days ago to begin our talk about the pioneers. The generosity, the good spirit, the honesty, decency so many of us were brought up on is so prevalent part of the everyday life of your state i hope you dont ever take it for granted and keep it going. You were wonderful. Thank you. Dont get too big for your britches. [laughter] the dedication to community and family which are so important or major objectives in this society, civilization, whatever you want to call it that our predecessors and all of you still believe in. I came upon this subject quite by chance. I often thought the role of luck in life to come and get a commencemengive acommencement so university in 2004. Of course i acce