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 previous president ial library. Franklin Roosevelt Library
Free enterprise formed in the 1930s during the rise of the new deal. He is the author of Free Enterprise an american history. Thearry glickman is professor of american studies in the department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise 2019, hecan history in has written for other books, including buying power, a history of consumer activism in america published in 2009, and a living wage American Workers and the making of Consumer Society published in 1997. Regular basis for popular publications including the washington post, though i am not sure we would call that a popular publication. The Boston Review and dissent. Article, the his racist politics of the english language, is one of the most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you for all the allndthescenes work, and the organizations that help make this possible. I am grateful. Thanks to all of you for coming out. I am honored by the size of this audience today. No historian works alone. We all stand on the
Seth meyers. [ cheers and applause seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . [ cheers and applause thats fantastic in that case, lets get to the news following President Trumps inauguration, the white house website no longer has an option for translation into spanish so, sorry, mexican immigrants, but if you want to live here, youll just have to learn to speak russian. [ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause President Trump today met with the leaders of fiat, chrysler, ford, and General Motors and he asked them one question how many people do you think were at my inauguration . [ laughter ] President Trump said today that he is, to a large extent, an environmentalist well he certainly made sure that the grass in the National Mall wasnt trampled. [ laughter and applause stay back stay back. According to sources, Hillary Clinton is seriously considering running for mayor of new york city. And just to be a dick, so is trump. [ laughter ] [ audi
Our new home. Were so honored and thankful that you guys are here, but were not here for us. All of you probably know Brian Kilmeade from his job hosting fox and friends, yeah. [applause] it is the most popular morning cable news show on the planet for 213 months and two weeks and four days, is that right, brian . Yes. Okay. You might also know brian from his nationally syndicated radio show which the Brian Kilmeade show which is on almost 150 radio stations across the country and talkers magazine called him one of the 10 most important talk radio hosts in america. And between, get this, everybody, between tv and radio, brian is on the airwaves six hours a day five days a week and, yet, hes found the time to write a string of New York Times best selling books. George washington, secret six. Thomas jefferson and the triplee pirates, Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans. All told his books have reached 2. 5 million readers around the world. Which is fairly impressive. [applause]
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