President of the United States, Harry S Truman. And man to whom many millions of people, a man whose responsibilities and whose best farreaching as any on earth. Indicate his aim by mail. The town of lamar, missouri. Here in the land of midwestern so far. Tates, on this quiet smalltown street, unpretentious in which his father had built in the rural surroundings, the future president of the United States was born, on may 8 1904. 1894. Nearby the somewhat larger town of independence, they made home when henry was harry was seven years old. Here he went to church. In sunday school, he met a girl who now shares the Nations Capital with him as his wife. In independence he went to public school, and a small town drugstore he got his first job at three dollars a week. Town of kansas city was not very far away. Here truman journeyed every afternoon. His job was prepping newspapers for what seemed like a constant avalanche from the presses. As muchmore than twice as the drugstore job. At 17 ye
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Days cooling trade. And the crystal blue caribbean sea. Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at the rubric dot com. And now abc world news. This is bbc world news america reporting from washington im john obrien. The death toll rises in texas weather flood waters still pose a serious danger. Will live at the scene with the very latest on the recovery efforts. Now the storm has passed houston is left with catastrophic flooding. The rescues contains wned. Talking to north korea is not the also says President Trump so what comes next in this nuclear standoff. On thursday marks twenty years since the death of Princess Diana today have sons visited the Memorial Garden that was built in her own. Welcome to our views on Public Television in america and around the globe. Often nearly a week pounding the texas coast the storm known as hobby has cup a deadly pop off. More than twenty people have lost their lives and thir
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Pods. Its one thing that someone has created that nobody else can create an is a completely different business out there. Host michael patchy has been our guest on book to be think very much. Afterwards is next on book tv. With senator Mitch Mcconnell who talks about his life and politics was senator lamar alexander. This is a book about a shy boy who grew up in alabama, overcame polio, was inspired by henry clay at the university of louisville to become a senator, did, and then sent out to be the majority leader in the United States and it ended. But mitch, i have a confession to make. When i was i was asked to do this here is what i thought. How can anyone get Mitch Mcconnell to talk for an hour . Because in your own book, he, he you point out that you only speak to the press when it is to your advantage, you talk about a time when bill gates came in to see you in the two of you just sat there people were uncomfortable waiting for one of you to speak and you are recounted. Someone on