Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Former president Harry S. Truman how farmers cannot buy the things they need or take care of their farms as they ought to be in a bad economy.

Former president Harry S. Truman discusses the debate in Congress over the Brannan Plan, which was a farm bill helped postwar farmers financially with their surpluses. The segment repeats with a different camera angle.

Former president Harry S. Truman says the American people are good, and have the opportunity to achieve their good ends because they live under the greatest government ever known, the constitutional democracy of the United States.

Former president Harry S. Truman likens Congress to a balky (stubborn) mule.

Former president Harry S. Truman discusses civil rights, executive order 9908, and reads from the Civil Rights Committee report that a single lynching is one too many.

Former president Harry S. Truman, standing in front of a map of Europe, indicates where the Allied forces were located around Germany near the end of World War II. The locations were determined by General Eisenhower, who claimed that Berlin was no longer of strategic value. Eisenhower's judgment of Berlin was a mistake, as Berlin has been under contention ever since.

Former president Harry S. Truman compares the climate of atomic one-upmanship to a dangerous intersection in Jackson County: it is so dangerous that no one ever had an accident there. He also talks about making the decision to save Berlin.

Merle Miler interviews former president Harry S. Truman. They discuss the 1948 campaign, Margaret and Bess's involvement in it, the whistle stop tour, inaccurate press coverage of it, watching the 1948 RNC, and the inaccurate polling. He also reviews the campaigns of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, and Andrew Jackson. Sound and picture. 

Former president Harry S. Truman, presumably referring to the McCarran Act, discusses his dislike of legislation that allowed government officials to harass citizens.

Former president Harry S. Truman discusses being worried about an issue (probably domestic communism), and did the best he could about it. He admits that sometimes you have to make a quick decision and the next day you wish you hadn't.