President s day. They are all different but truman grew into the draw. He impressed people from the very beginning that he was a workaholic. Worked about 18 hours a day, stickler for punctuality. , stickler for punctuality. He actually had six clocks in the oval office. He was punctual all of the time. Six clocks clocks in the oval office and he worked his fingers to the bone. As you know, he had that sign on his desk that said the buck stops here. He is trent was a no bs kind of guy. If you think that Franklin Roosevelt lived in challenging times which he certainly did, just imagine what harry truman had to deal with. He world war ii had ended on his watch, hitler surrendered two weeks after he took office and then he had to decide whether to use the atomic bomb against japan. The korean war, the berlin berlin airlift, the creation of nato, on and on and on. Whether he should fire Douglas Macarthur, all huge decisions any handle them. He never looked back. Truman always said i sleep w
Bronoman recalls leadership during world war ii. Good morning and welcome to the roosevelt president ial library. Were glad to have you today and happy about our annual reading festival and this wonderful turnout as well. Especially on our 75th 75th anniversary which were celebrating june 30th. I think that president roosevelt would be quite pleased to see everyone and to see this turnout and to know that his library, as he intended, would be used torii search and scholarship to continue to explore the issues of his era, and especially how they still have an impact today on political and social life. Now im going to speak for just a moment about how this works. Many of you already know there will be 30 minutes during which mr. Bornamman will speak to you about his book, and then well follow with ten minutes worth of questions we ask you to good to the microphone because were fortunate to have cspan with us today, and its great if your questions can be heard so that everybody can benefi
To the drive to get into the dutch east indies, cut the lines of communication between the Natural Resources and the flowe of oil up to japan and certainly he had a strong point about that. By the time he has gotten back to the philippines and really gone ahead and moves in to. [inaudible] in 1945, those operations as first Natural Resources and everything, the lines of supply to japan have already been cut by american submarines. The industries to which they run have been pounded by b29 a nuth bombers. So the only thing at the end that i would say the nutshell is that, there seems to be good evidence that despite the joint chiefs not able to decide one way or the other that that twin driver across the pacific to keep the japanese off balance him, there is absolutely no question that a both fronts fronts there were some horrific battles. Nd it of going into macarthur with the savior conflicts, i shall return as opposed to week, is there any discussion as a whole army and navy behind th
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