Related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. Each ill present additionally and then will have questions in the chat box. I hope you enjoy the presentation, and look at our first artifact, but from april shortly after truman became president. Then were going to look at some documents from july. You can see my timeline here, the first five documents were going to show you, and then well have another five to finish off as we get into august. Even some from later that context to this topic. So the first information that truman has about the Manhattan Projects comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. This very famous letter some of you are probably familiar with, when the secretary of war writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. Now stinson it mentioned this after hug inauguration, just in passing, and tell him they need to talk about it in the future. Two weeks later, he sends this letter to tr
Documents from july. You can see my timeline here, the first five documents were going to show you, and then well have another five to finish off as we get into august of 1945 and even some from later that connect to this topic, the 60s. So the first information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. This very famous letter some of you are probably familiar with, when Henry Stimson, the secretary of war, writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. Now stimson had mentioned this to truman after his inauguration april 12th after fdrs death, just in passing, tells him they need to talk about it in the future. Just two weeks later, he sends this letter to truman, telling him they need to get together quickly so he can tell him in the project. You can see some interesting handwritten notes here. At the bottom what i like to point out in Harry Trumans own handw
Up, Rosalynn Carter. She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five books and in 1984, or bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. Mrs. Carters subsequent book have focused on caregiving Mental Health care. A subject she has championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 years Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach, ending the Mental Health crisis. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and really neat to see so many peopleinterested in my book. Ive been on a book tour this week area i started on monday and i got the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how did you get involved in Mental Health . The second one is why did you write the book . So im going to tell you why i got involved in Mental Health. I was campaigningfor jimmy carter. You cant hear me . Im telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I was campaigning for jimmy and
Provided this video. We are at the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference. Big numbers like the 75th anniversary or hundred anniversary, are always occasions for looking back and for drawing attention. I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam as we are in our own day and age, reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking in International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. Im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again, in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this face to face, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here, that i want to return to throughout this presentation, is shown by this photograph here, of Winston Churchill, harry truman and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here, is that these three men a
Herbert hoover president ial library and museum in iowa. We are here today to talk about one of the most remarkable transitions in American History, the president ial election of 1932, and hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship before and after their presidencies. This was a period of incredible trauma for the united states, the Great Depression. The two of them had known each other for quite some time. During world war i, Franklin Roosevelt was the assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson. Do you want to talk about what hoover did during world war i . Thomas sure. Herbert hoover was the head of the u. S. Food administration. The Food Administration had to essentially provide food to the soldiers going to europe and hoover was able to provide the necessary food by getting americans to voluntarily reduce consumption by 15 . He did this by appealing to american housewives to sign pledge cards where they would hooverize, which meant every day of the week, you gave up a