Truman was this man of integrity. But i never really understood the trajectory of this man until i was writing my last book, the arsenal of democracy in. That book there was a book where senator truman goes to detroit to investigate the Car Companies and their failure to produce airplane pieces. It struck me as amazing that this on cure person should become the most powerful president in the history of the world. Even my last book was done i was beginning in my head to structure this one. In your book to talk about a newest session. What does that mean and what were they . When you research this book, you end up eating a lot of Peanut Butter sandwiches and going through cheap hotels. You talk about something newest asession. It just means this is a document thats new. And it will list the date when it showed up. So the great truman biographies all came out in the 1990s, right . Anyway, so i knew if i found these documents that they hadnt been available to biographers in the 1990s and i
Colleagues that i have been through a lot of battles with together, as well as a new friend, jonna mendez, who i have on excellent authority the piece of critical information that, after being a Washington Post reporter for decades, recently decided she could not do without the New York Times and became a paid subscriber. [applause] thats all you need to know tonight. We already love her. Tonights topic is trump and the Russian Investigation and this consuming, competitive, maddening story we have been a part of over the past year, some as reporters, some as readers. No doubt if you came tonight, you have been following this quite closely. And i dont know if tonight it will all be clear, and if it is, please tell us because we would love clarity on anything. [laughter] hopefully it will be a lively discussion. So to start, i thought i would first of all say it has been almost a year since the Intelligence Communitys assessment about what happened in the 2016 election came out, about ru