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
He has previously written the admiral, which was the winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison award in naval literature. His commentaries appeared in the new york times, Washington Post and wall street journal and other places. So without continuing for too long we are all here to hear walter borneman. [applause] thank you so much. Its wonderful to be here in hyde park, and i indeed going to talk about macarthur, macarthur at war world war ii in the pacific but a really thought i wanted to bring this because of our historic venue. A little bit more about the relationship between Douglas Macarthur and Franklin Roosevelt. And permit me if you will to actually start with someone else, admiral william leahy. Now, you roosevelt scholars in the room know him as roosevelt chief of staff. His wartime counselor, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and really a de facto National Security advisor long before that position was set up. And four years ago when it published admirals which you mentioned
Tonight in book tv in primetime, a focus on military history. Will hear from others and historians about famous military figures and battles from the civil war to world war ii. , a look at general macarthurs relationship with fdr during world war ii. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] good morning and welcome to the roosevelt president ial library. Were glad to have you today and were very happy about our annual reading festival and this wonderful turnout as well. Especially on her 75th anniversary which we are celebrating on june 30. I think 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 for research and scholarship to continue to explore the issues of his era and especially how they still have an impact today on our political and social life. Now im going to speak for just a moment about how this works. Many of you already know, there will there will
History tv. Old weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Tvh week, American History filmsmerica brings our that help to tell the story of the 20th century. 1931, japanese troops leave for the conquest of manchuria. The first of this wars aggressive nations starting out a full 14 years ago on a career of international comfort. Shanghai, 1937. Fullscale warfare against china. The worlds were still unready to deal with this aggression. Diplomats japans attended to justify the actions and then walked out. Long series of brutal attacks upon an unprepared neighbor continued. Japan seized the new empire, set up public rulers, ruled even more selfconfident and aggressive. Japan successful imperialism encouraged others, immediately italy invaded ethiopia. That thend italy found republic in spain. Posted thens confirmation of an alliance. The access military factions to germany and italy would plunge europe into or and became fully united
Today. There will be electing 330 members to the house of commons and we will start our simulcast coverage of results as well as victory and concession speeches starting at 6 30 p. M. Eastern. We will have a here for your cspan 2. Tonight on cspans new series landmark cases three by 1830, the Mississippi River around new orleans had become a breeding ground for color and yellow fever partly due to slaughter houses in the area dumping their byproducts in the river. To address this problem louisiana allowed only one government run slaughterhouse to operate in the City District and the other houses took them to court. All of the slaughterhouse cases of 1873 were joined by former solicitor general and constitutional law attorney and michael ross, author of the book justice of his shattered dreams to help tell the history of this time in the south the personal stories of the butchers in the state of things in new orleans as well as the attorneys and a Supreme Court justices involved in this