they gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. watch the debate live on c-span good evening. every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a well-known author. kind of hard twisted on binge watching. tonight teacherg author is historian david mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including best-selling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of man s spacefligh for some ofe northwest territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. he s a two time winner about pulitzer prize and the national book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. and coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs.s. first up in 1992, they appear on c-span s program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. the book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. here is david mccullough from 1992. you start out by saying i m a as far back
good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a well-known author. kind of our twist on binge watching. tonight s featured author s historian david mccullough the author of a dozen books including best-selling 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 c-span 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 c-span s 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 c
returned to the farm. that s 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 commander-in-chief 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. that s 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 w
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 presidents had been assassinated, why wouldn t the government have protections? this wasn t done. why wouldn t 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 well-known. it doesn t mean he doesn t 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 hoover s time in office was much briefer, truman s presidency covered far more to multi
hello and welcome to bbc news. the us supreme court has cleared the way for the us president to build sections of his promised border wall with mexico, using pentagon funds. the supreme courtjustices narrowly voted to allow the trump administration to access two and a half billion dollars from the military budget to strengthen existing barriers in border states. president trump was quick to declare the ruling a big victory on twitter. chris buckler in washington has more. president trump has long promised this border wall. he went to rally after rally, even before he was elected president, and promised he would build a barrier between mexico and america to tackle the problem of illegal immigration and there has been a long battle between president trump and his political opponents over how to fund that. inside congress, democrats have repeatedly blocked his attempts to get money specifically for the wall, so earlier this year he declared a national emergency, arguing that t