Corner. President truman continues his swing around the circuit. The chief executive get a president. He writes to the home of his own his old friend cactus aand its a war record warm welcome on route to. He visits the alamo. The historic shrine of texas independence. In austin, a big crowd to greet the president as he continues his campaign for the lone star states 23 electoral votes. On his tour, the president spoke and visited with sam rayburn, former soup e. Deweys Campaign Manager and the confidence they had early on. Take a look. Champagne flows freely. Victory is in the air. The first returns had truman in the lead, but republicans are not worried. And then he brings good news secured we now know that governor do we will carry new york state by 50,000. Dewey represented that. Opposed to that were the conservatives, but westerners, many of them isolationists who rallied around bob rttaft. He had precipitated the split. That never really healed. When republicans took congress,s ca
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
Gov. Cuomo good morning. Let me introduce who is with me. To my right, robert state of new york. To my left, melissa derosa. Secretary to the governor. To melissas left, today we are joined by major chris west from the new york state police. Last night was a long and ugly night, all across this nation. N. Lets talk about where we are today, with the covid virus first. The number of hospitalizations are down again. Intubation is down again. Is stillr of new debts dropping. All good news. Downumber of lives lost, to 56, which is, in this absurd reality we live in, actually very good news. It will be a point at which the number of deaths cannot get any will die ofe people covid virusnd the is very good at effecting those with other illnesses. This reduction in the number of deaths is tremendous progress, from where we were. Have gone through hell and back, but we are on the other side. It is a lesson for all of us. Night all was an ugly across this nation. It was an ugly night across this
To my left, melissa derosa. Secretary to the governor. Were joined today by major chris west from the new york state police. Last night was a long and ugly night, all across this nation. As we know. Nation. Lets talk about where we are today, with the covid virus first. The number of hospitalizations are down again. Intubation is down again. Is stillr of new debts dropping. All good news. Downumber of lives lost, to 56, which is, in this absurd reality we live in, actually very good news. It will be a point at which the number of deaths cannot get any will die ofe people covid virusnd the is very good at effecting those with other illnesses. This reduction in the number of deaths is tremendous progress, from where we were. Have gone through hell and back, but we are on the other side. It is a lesson for all of us. Night all was an ugly across this nation. It was an ugly night across this state. We had a number of protests city, the state, new york cities upstate. We have seen a lot of
Observer newspaper in North Carolina. Cspan interviewed him about the upcoming president ial race and what the impact might be on voters if the Republican Convention were split between charlotte and another city. Joining us via zoom from charlotte, North Carolina is jim morrill for the charlotte observer. A lot of mixed messages between the president s tweets, the rnc, and the Business Community in charlotte. What is the state of the Rnc Convention this august . Jim that is a good question because people down here arent sure. One thing we do know is that the president wants a big rally for his acceptance speech. And he cant get that here, at least right now. So theyre looking at other cities for that. But they are planning to have the official business of the convention in charlotte. That not sure exactly what means, whether its meetings of the rules committee or things that. Or whether the actual nominations might happen here, it is all up in the air. People are still talking. There a