Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book 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 assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu
There is no phone or telephone there. There is a nice view but i have my back to the view but i wont be tempted by it. It is far enough from the house. There you see general washington and some of his soldiers marching along. I hope they show it at the end of it. Always a little slow catching up. Thats my example. Thats the one. He is hes always a little behind. I work out there because when the children were young i did not want them to have to be Walking Around it is a call for me to really look in front of me. That is one of the earliest photographs of the capital i love that photograph. It is carved as it is indicated there into that mantelpiece at the state state dining room at the white house. That is the map of boston which figures very importantly in the book i am working on now and of course it figured very importantly at a contemporary map. I take everything and there is a wonderful korean drawing i think its one of the best and most representative of him ever done. I love dr
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
The attempted assassination why would the government why would any had a pension . But no penchant for president in fact he had very little money and had to borrow some money. Quite secretly and then for the move back home. This is not well known he did have money but he needed some cash to cover all of the experiment on dash expenses. And when he got home in order to provide himself some income he took the writing of his autobiography in memoirs that no other president had ever done except for hoover but his time in office was much more brief him that covered the more tumultuous history so that was a major ambitious task and then he built his library for there was a Previous Library but it was established after roosevelt died in office so truman was the first over the president ial library and then he began something new so then to imply or emphasize in the book is that truman was in part a creative public figure he had been a builder all of his life he built the famous truman balcony
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