Assumed the role as president of the United States. A. J. Baime looks at his book the accidental president. A. J. Baime is an awardwinning journalist, public speaker and occasional onscreen personality in addition to the accidental president , the subject of tonights lecture, fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war and go like hell, ford, ferrari and their battle for speed at glory and lemans. Both won the ken purdy award as best piece of writing for the year. A longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal, and articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. A. J. Has been a featured speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and has appeared on Numerous National tv stations, including cnbc, msnbc and in various documentary films and tv shows. A significant amount of research at the Truman Library, an archive, 15 million photographs there. Hes very complimentary of the Truman Library. Please look at the comments. We
As best piece of writing of the year. A. J. Is a longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal and his articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. He has been a speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and appeared on Numerous National tv stations including cnbc, msnbc, and various documentary films and tv shows. Now my couple of comments. This book was the result of a significant amount of research at the Truman Library. We have an archive. Weve got 15 million documents and photographs there. A cracker jakarr kieck archivalh team. He is very complimentary of the Truman Library. If you get the book please read the comments. We love all the credit and praise we can get. We are grateful to a. J. For doing that. I really liked the dedication that he put into this book and for those of us in the truman business and those of us who have photographs of portraits of harry truman in our offices kind of resonates and he dedicated this bo
Appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. He has been a featured speaker and has appeared on Numerous National tv stations including cnbc, msnbc and in various documentary, films and tv shows. Is a significant amount of research. We have an archive, 15 million , oldents, crackerjack research team, he is compliment three of the Truman Library. Credit and the praise we can get very we are grateful for aj for doing that. I like the dedication he put into this book and for those of us who have photographs and portraits of harry truman in our offices kind of resonates. He dedicated this book to his father as follows. To my father who has kept a portrait of harry truman on his wall for more than 40 years, which i think is a wonderful testament to our president we love so much. That is it for me. Please join me in welcoming aj baime to the podium to talk about our favorite president. [applause] thank you, everybody. Can you hear me . I want to start by saying this is a
Blunt, representative emmanuel cleveland the second, and mr. Clifton truman daniel. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the honorable Nancy Pelosis speaker of the United States health of representatives. [applause] as speaker of the house, it is my privilege to welcome you to the United States capitol as we celebrate our nations finest president s, president harry truman. Its only fitting that this is in independence missouri takes his rightful place in the rotunda of our temple of democracy, the United States capitol. Now at this time, please rise as you are able for the presentation of colors and for the national anthem. Oh say can [inaudible] you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that sta
Kurt graham. Im the director of the Truman Library. Welcome to the Truman Library. Always a great pleasure to welcome and an eager audience. And we feel like just kind of in some ways getting back into swing of things here and having some great opportunities in the post pandemic to get together again. We as we used to and as we look forward to doing again. So thank you for being here. Were just delighted tonight to have this very special. Its such a unique opportunity, us and and for all of you everyone involved, to welcome Garry Kasparov to the Truman Library is a world chess champion, an author and a master of strategy and a great humanitarian who is concerned about the state of the world. And youre going to hear a little bit about that tonight. Someone whos spending his fame, his energy, his resources to try and make the world a better place for everyone in it. And i think there are only a handful of people who ever get to do Something Like that. And im very proud and happy to have