President harry truman like to refer to his wife as the boss. Family was their number one priority. Destroyed many of her letters and spend a good part of her white house years home in missouri. Truman served as true first lady on her own terms. Cspans continuing series first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, story the 33rd president of the United States, this truman. Here to tell us more about her, we are pleased to welcome back to our set the white house historian, his latest book called the imperial season. And the history professor and author of a biography of harry truman called the coming of the cold war. Thank you for being here. Where we left off last week was the death of Franklin Roosevelt. April 12th 1945. The call comes into harry truman. Where is he . He gets the message that he is needed. He is having a drink with his cronies as he often was known to do. A lot of politics was accomplished by relaxing and having somewhat more cordial atmosphere. He received a phone cal
Letters and spent a good part of her white house years home in missouri. She was first lady on her own terms. Good evening and welcome to our continuing series. Tonight the story of the wife of the 33rd first lady, bess truman. Coming out on november 12th, a little fun for you there, nicole is a history professor called the coming of the cold war. Releft off on the death, where is he, he gets the message that he is needed. She havi he was having a dri. He thought a lot of politics was accomplished by relaxes and having a more kcorgile atmosphere. Mr. Truman was out, and it wasnt a surprise to anyone in the white house as all. They knew roosevelt was going. But no one expected so quickly. I think it was an issue of when. He looked horl. It was the last campaign and he spoke to the Congress Sitting down and he was ashen. And his inaugural address for the fourth term had to be coming from the white house. He was stood up on the north porch. And the audience was out front and it was not re
Your thoughts on the president s Foreign Policy. What is your confidence level . Democrats 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001, an independents, 202 7488002. Join the conversation on twitter cspanwj, or go to facebook. Com cspan. The phone lines are open. We will get your thoughts in a minute, but many foreignpolicy headlines in the papers with running from iran to iraq, afghanistan. We begin with the fight against isis and iraq. Here is the headline in the Washington Times this morning. Take a look at what defense secretary Ashton Carter had to say up on capitol hill when he testified before the senate. [video clip] sec. Carter we have an obligation to support those fighters, and we will have to decide under what conditions in what way we will make that tactical decision when we introduce them, but i think the main thing is that we increase that number from what is now a very small number, and im not surprised that it is running on television, into a much larger number. I think we ca
House in 2011 and left in 2016, as a special assistant to the president and senior president ial speech writer. Described as the comic muse for the president , he contributedded jokes to president obamas speakers and was a lead wry writer on four white house chanter leader presentations. He was the head write are for funny or die d. C. Are hes Adam Davidson is a staff write at the the new yorker. He has been a frequent contributeyear to to this american life. Hi work appeared atlantic, harpers, gq, Rolling Stone and other publications. They bring us tonight mr. Ly itts new book, thanks, obama, my hopey, changey white house areas. Barack obamas eight years in the white house were defined by young people. In 2011, david litt became one of youngest white house speech writers in history. Until leaving the white house in 2016 he wrote on topics from health care to climbed change to criminal Justice Reform and took the lead as president obamas goto comedy writer. Now in this refreshingly hon
I like that. I like that. [laughter] senator kaine the motto of my school, this boys school, was men for others, and that was the that was what we were taught. And that is where my faith, which had important to me because of my parents example, really grew into something more viable. It became like my north star, the organizing principle for what i wanted to do. Even as a young man, because of these Great Teachers i had and because of my parents example, i knew that i wanted to do something to devote myself to social justice. And that is why after racing through the university of missouri in three years and starting at harvard law school, i decided to take a year off from school to volunteer with jesuit missionaries in honduras. [speaking spanish] hay hondurenos aqui . Hay hondurenos aqui . Ok, un poquito, si. [applause] senator kaine well, when i got to honduras, it turned out that my recently acquired knowledge of constitutional law was pretty useless. [laughter] senator kaine but th