Former president Harry S. Truman discusses his background as a farmer, and being accused of socialism when he wanted to help the farmers with the Brannan Plan. This item is repeated with different camera angles.
These are several takes of former president Harry S. Truman recalling the outcome of the 1948 presidential election, when no one in the media predicted that President Truman would get re-elected. He also spoke of his whistle stop tour through Ohio with Governor Frank Lausche.
Former President Harry S. Truman stands in front of a screen with a photograph of himself taken during the time he served as Senator from Missouri. He say that the members of the Senate and the House are men of good caliber, but they have a rivalry to see who can get credit for legislating. In the end, it takes both to get a bill to the President's desk.
Former President Harry S. Truman discusses the allied strategy of bombing Germany cities to obliterate their factories.
Former President Harry S. Truman discusses negotiating with the Russians after WWII. He says that having the atomic bomb put the United States in a position of strength. He also discusses the arrangement in Korea, with the Russians north of the 38th parallel and the Americans south.
Former President Harry S. Truman recalls that when he became president, he was worried about the effect it would have on his wife, Bess Truman, and his daughter, Margaret Truman.
Former president Harry S. Truman sits at his desk answering multiple questions for the Decision series, including the importance of the farmer, his experience as a haberdashery business owner with Eddie Jacobson, and the circumstances that brought him into local county politics, then the Senate, then the Vice Presidency, and finally the Presidency.
Former president Harry S. Truman stands in front of a screen with pictures illustrating Allied conferences and maps of Europe. He alludes to how the Allies were fussing like a bunch of in-laws, and how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted a buffer zone between the USSR and western Europe.
Former president Harry S. Truman refers to a bill he was forced to sign that opened the door to misery, and his struggle with getting the wartime industrial economy back to a peacetime footing. This take repeats itself from different camera angles.
Former president Harry S. Truman reads a script, saying it is not possible to apply wartime conditions to peacetime thinking. He goes on to say that war is savage and an inappropriate way for nations to settle their differences. This take is similar to MP2002-487.