Cspan why wouldnt the government at that time have protections for him . Guest why wouldnt the government have a pension. There were for pensions for nobody else and not a penchant for the present in effect he had very little money. He had to borrow money quite secretly which dean acheson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown and it doesnt mean he didnt have any money. He did have money but he needed cash to cover all the expenses coming 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 for herbert hoover. Hoovers time in office was much briefer than was trumans presidency and covered far more tumultuous history so to undertake the 2volume memoir was a very major ambitious task and then he build his library. There had been a previous president ial library, Franklin Roosevelt library at hyde park established after roosevelt had d
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
Interview yesterday that he would consider accepting damaging information about his 2020 opponents from a Foreign Government it is like he always said, yes, collusion. [ laughter ] House Speaker nancy pelosi today responded to President Trumps comments saying that he would accept information on his opponents from Foreign Governments and said it is quote very sad that trump doesnt know right from wrong. Well, what do you expect he doesnt even know right from left [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause seth President Trump announced on twitter this afternoon that press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders would be stepping down at the end of the month. Shell leave the way she usually does, in the middle of someones question [ laughter ] according to politico, democrats are concerned about former Vice President joe bidens age, because if elected he would be 78 years old when sworn in you think that is bad, when our last president was sworn in, he was donald trump [ laughter ] i mean [ cheers and
Territory. In the last month, the crane has liberated more sara drake, russia captured in the last year. So the russian situation is not very good. Who has a Group Problem . How does he moved from here . What does he do . He has lost a lot of people and he has lost a lot of capabilities, a lot of tags, a lot of aircraft, a lot of missiles that hes fired with the ukrainians is a significant amount of combat power. Not yet. As i said, the phrase right for freedom is a marathon, and madison read. Theres a lot of fighting left to go. This is going to be long, its gonna be hard. Its going to be lottie. Also on the day close allies with the intentions relations between the United States and israel are going through a rough patch over plan traditional reforms in israel. But the countries president promises deeply rooted values will prevail of the sacred bonds we share is unique in scope and quality because it is based on values that reach across generations across administrations, across gove
Territory. In the last month, the crane has liberated more sara drake, russia captured in the last year. So the russian situation is not very good. Who has a Group Problem . How does he moved from here . What does he do . He has lost a lot of people and he has lost a lot of capabilities, a lot of tags, a lot of aircraft, a lot of missiles that hes fired with the ukrainians is a significant amount of combat power. Not yet. As i said, the phrase right for freedom is a marathon, and madison read. Theres a lot of fighting left to go. This is going to be long, its gonna be hard. Its going to be lottie. Also on the day close allies with the intentions relations between the United States and israel are going through a rough patch over plan traditional reforms in israel. But the countries president promises deeply rooted values will prevail of the sacred bonds we share is unique in scope and quality because it is based on values that reach across generations across administrations, across gove