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Motion Picture MP2002-350

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman")

Administrative Information

Footage
140 feet
Running Time
4 minutes 8 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman responds to comments made by Ben Gradus regarding Henry Wallace and roles as Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President. Mr. Truman expounds on Mr. Wallace’s viewpoints. Sound and picture.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

Reel 1

0:00   Unidentified voice: "sound 37."
    Harry S. Truman, responding to comments by producer Ben Gradus, begins to talk about Henry Wallace.
0:15   Harry S. Truman discusses Henry Wallace. He declares that Wallace was an excellent Secretary of Agriculture. President Roosevelt chose him as his vice-president, a job Harry Truman states Wallace did not have the executive experience for. Mr. Wallace also ran against Mr. Truman for the office of President. Mr. Truman comments that Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Truman were friends, and that he liked Henry Wallace very much.
2:06   Harry S. Truman discusses a dinner he and Mrs. Truman gave for all those who had served in his cabinet. The Wallaces were honored and enjoyed the dinner as much as anyone. Wallace was "an able, good man." Mr. Truman was puzzled why Wallace would run against "the best friend he ever had in government." He's like every politician who started at the top, they never know what to do – you have to know how to pull a precinct before you can be a good politician.
3:37   Ben Gradus asks Mr. Truman to expound on Wallace's viewpoints. Mr. Truman says he was supposed to be a Democratic Liberal, but his politics "didn’t jive with mine." He never talked with Mr. Wallace about Russia.
    Unidentified voice says "end stick sound 38."