Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Returned to the farm. Thats a theme that this country was founded on. If you go up to the rotunda in the capital and you look at the great painting of the tremble of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief and the Continental Army to the congress, the cincinnatus symbols are all do that painting because the Founding Fathers really believe this is what democracy entails. It meant that citizenship met any citizen should be called, could be called upon any time to serve his country or her country and any capacity including the greatest power. In the power belong to the people, therefore, power would be returned by those who held it for a time. Truman liked to say i try never to forget who i was, where he came from, and where would go back to. Thats the cincinnatus Team Obviously but it also shows that he knows who he was. He knew who he was and he was proud of who he was and the return to independence after he left the office of the presidency in 1953 was his way of
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Hour futures are solid, earnings phase one signing, lots of eco data our road map begins with trade optimism reigniting the record rally. The chinese delegation heads to d. C. Today for an expected phase one signing on wednesday plus new ceo, same crisis. What to expect from boeings new chief executive, David Calhoun, who takes over today and the future of the 737 max. Then there were four, alphabet nearing the trilliondollar market cap club, behind apple, microsoft and amazon stocks are looking to recoup some losses from dow, the dow surpassed 29k for the first time before finishing in the red. All three major indices are in the green since the beginning of the year led by the nasdaqs 2 gain as we were saying on squawk a few moments ago, jim, if lulu yes, maam of lemon is a clue to the earnings season, maybe this rally has been justified we have two conference this is ek wweek, icr in orlando andi conference in san francisco, health care. Theyre used to be able to say better than expe
Witnessed it. Passengers are being monitored. What the c sa aut it seads digging out. The massive winter storm that created Hazardous Conditions on the roads, cars overturned, others going nowhere. Blinding snow, a ground blizzard, and now get ready for the deep freeze. And caught on camera, look at this heroic rescue. The video showing a jet skier colliding with this boat, and this young man springing into action. Took my phone out, threw the hat off and dove down in the water. The message this morning from the man he saved. Hello. Good morning. As we come on the air, we have new video of Britains Queen elizabeth heading into church on ykiouncemt. Aft a on saturday, the queen releasing the news. Prince harry and his wife, meghan, are making a radical break, ceasing to be working members of the royal family. The decision stunning the royal family and many inds for royals. We begin our coverage this morning with abcs lama hasan who is outside buckingham palace. Good morning to you, lama