And you walked up those steps onto the Wallace front porch and you rang the doorbell and when you crossed the threshold into that house, if you were Harry Truman, you were stepping into a different world, where people didn't work with their hands, where to all that he knew at least, they had no such thing as debt or worry, or concern about weather and insects and all the -- all the burdens of farm life. NARRATOR: On March 21, 1947, against his own better judgment, the President issued an extraordinary executive order: he established a loyalty program, making the political beliefs of every federal employee subject to investigation by the FBI. NARRATOR: On December 8th America went to war. ARCHIVAL SOUND ON FILM: TRUMAN "In his infinite wisdom, almighty God has seen fit to take from us a great man who loved and was beloved by all humanity. The topic of death is usually a wrench, but this instead is like a song full of loveliness; plus you learn some that's destined to come in useful, sooner or later. That really wasn't the question, the question was would they surrender. MARSHALL SHULMAN, Assistant to the Secretary of State: If you want the Congress to support the appropriations needed, there has to be a bit of a crisis atmosphere. Truman doesn't quite know how to react to this. MARSHALL SHULMAN, Assistant to the Secretary of State: We were working on a speech and Mr. Truman came in from his office and sat down, in a very dejected way, and he said, "You know, normally I sleep like a baby, but this time I could hardly sleep all night long. Truman returned from his tour of a devastated Berlin to find Secretary of War Stimson with a coded telegram. Truman gets blamed. „Harry Potter“: Darum ist 2017 ein ganz wichtiges Jahr für Fans der Reihe. “In school” can mean Middle School, High School, College or other post-secondary education. Barbara Magerl The Philadelphia Inquirer NARRATOR: When Truman took the oath of office, Americans were fighting the greatest war in history. DAVID MCCULLOUGH, Biographer: He wasn't coping very well and people were beginning to make fun of him. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. Here was a good man, a loving man, who made a decision to use the cruelest weapon in human history on a densely populated city and spent the rest of his life justifying that decision. He hated the idea of killing "all those kids.". Truman had known Ross since high school, and the sudden loss of his lifelong friend was a terrible blow. On Capitol Hill, Republicans attacked Truman. KEN HECHLER, White House Assistant: I've never known an individual who loved his wife and his daughter and his family so deeply but they of course were always interested in trying to get excuses to go back to Independence. On July 7th, the start of his fourth month in office, Truman steamed across the Atlantic on the United States cruiser Augusta. He says "Ninety days, ninety days. MACARTHUR ADDRESSES JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS: "I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that 'Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.'. Mr. Stuart Canin He knew the old man was mad. It sounds paradoxical but, if done right, films about a life ending can be the most life-affirming films you'll see. But don't you think I am a terrible tightwad if we walk?". NARRATOR: The President had committed Americans to a battle against communism all across the world. Coming Soon. NARRATOR: Truman had already managed to persuade a reluctant Congress to give him $400 million for the Truman Doctrine. ROBERT LIFTON, Biographer: I think Truman and everybody else at one level knew that Roosevelt wouldn't live out his term. After three other men turned him down, Pendergast settled for Harry Truman and backed him in the Missouri primary. WALTER LAFEBER, Historian: What we know now is that Stalin knew exactly about the development of the bomb because of Soviet spies at Los Alamos in New Mexico. Alan Brinkley Once a beautiful girl from a much admired family, she had become a reclusive troubled woman, grown more and more dependent on her only daughter, ever since the tragic death of her husband. I didn't know anyone who thought otherwise, anybody. "Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now," he told them. NARRATOR: As the convention got underway, the Democrats prepared to give their nomination for the fourth time to Franklin Roosevelt. He took over the presidency upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945. Canine power is far from the only thing the film has got going for it. ARCHIVAL NEWSREEL: TRUMAN SOUND ON FILM: If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world, and we shall surely endanger the welfare of this nation. NARRATOR: Harry's introduction to politics was rowdy and boisterous. Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library Well-written, well-acted, and patiently crafted, Truman takes an affecting look at a long friendship separated by distance but undimmed by time. After three years in office, Truman was at last enjoying being President of the United States. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. But why the hell didn't he tell me in the first place?". And she always would be. And I said, "He gives every assurance of it, Mrs. And everybody got so sick of that. ROBERT DONOVAN, Journalist: What Truman wanted and what the American policy-makers wanted was to get out of there as decently as we could. He said on a number of occasions, "Our enemy is abroad. "Dear Bess, I have two breast pockets in my blouse. "Rank insubordination.". But Harry never complained about his luck. Roger Branit The major problem was that the Red Army occupied much of Eastern Europe and was driving towards Berlin. NARRATOR: Even when they had met for a private luncheon at the White House during the campaign, Roosevelt told Truman nothing of importance, posing for photographers and making small talk. MacArthur told the President he feared his army was about to be destroyed. He was not troubled by any obligations he had. GENERAL EDWIN SIMMONS, Marine Corps Historian: MacArthur's behavior in this time period if very strange. Don't say anything to antagonize anyone. He said, "I wonder how much better off the country would have been if I had become a concert pianist? We don't want to do that." Edwin Marcus NARRATOR: It took five years, Harry said, before he could summon the courage even to talk to her. NARRATOR: Harry borrowed several thousand dollars against his livestock, and gambled it on a zinc mine. "Well," Truman said, pacing up and down the floor, "if that's the situation I'll have to say yes. That's one of the reasons he is so appealing to us. He was a farmer, a World War I veteran, a failed haberdasher, and the devoted husband of the enigmatic Bess Wallace Truman. David Murdock, Cinematography NARRATOR: For nearly eight years, Harry worked at his father's side. But in the summer of 1943, he began to hear disturbing talk. DAVID MCCULLOUGH, Biographer: The night of the election, the head of the Secret Service went to New York to be with Mr. Dewey, because he clearly was gonna be the next president. NARRATOR: Tom Pendergast was a raw-boned, thick-necked, spat-wearing Irishman. One month later Stalin declared that communism and capitalism were incompatible. We'd seen it as they'd taken over the satellite countries in Eastern Europe, as they had poked and prodded and pressed elsewhere. But Pendergast had other candidates in mind. Sign up here. Here was this imperious figure, very much different than the midwestern common man, who was Truman. And his mother had raised him very well. Harry S. Truman Library I don't think Mrs. Truman was happy at all. NARRATOR: His speeches were blunt, his voice flat, his style coarse, even crude. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. NARRATOR: At 5:25 P.M. Truman entered the first lady's second floor study. Listen to what he says, "Please convey my congratulations to your loyal wife, charming daughter and dear mother -- whose great joy and happiness is shared by thousands of Americans. "I have told the Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. There are things in life and art that are simply so beautiful that they must be witnessed, and Darn's performance in "Truman" is one of those. NARRATOR: Four years earlier, Dewey had run a strong race against the undefeatable Franklin Roosevelt. The Vice President met alone with the President just two times. DOROTHY HEIGHT, National Council of Negro Women: Well, I think everybody was thrilled...And I think the appearance that he had with the NAACP resounded all over. Truman tried to convince voters that President Roosevelt supported him, but Roosevelt never did. He didn't want to do it, I'm sure. That's okay. ARCHIVAL SOUND ON FILM: SAM RAYBURN'S VOICE "Just a moment. He believed that the best way to fight communism was by building a strong America, and to Truman, that began with a balanced budget. Kansas City became notorious for shoot-outs, arson, kidnappings. By a combination of grit, luck, machine politics, uncommon ability and strength of character, he wound up president at one of history's most difficult turning points. Bill Thomas, Production Assistants  All through elementary and high school, he had shyly loved her -- from afar. Secretary of War Stimson wrote in his diary that the President was "tremendously pepped up." The President remained fond of Stalin. Which struck me, as a young officer, right away, you know, sort of odd. Were I an Italian or a poet I would use all the luscious language of two continents. Harry Truman came from a background of hard-working, plain-speaking middle Americans. NARRATOR: "I made the only decision I ever knew how to make," Truman wrote. So that everybody becomes a target. On the other side are the free peoples." ROBERT DONOVAN, Journalist: There were periods there when Truman didn't look up to the job. TRUMAN: And here's one from Mr. Buger from St. Louis. Truman was now going to have to go to these penny-pinching Republicans and get $400 million. The Soviet dictator had already determined that he would surrender nothing of any consequence when the bargaining began. PAT HANNEGAN, Daughter of Democratic Party Chairman: My father and the other political advisors felt that Jimmy Byrnes would be a liability to the ticket. Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of America who took over the presidency after sudden and sad demise of the then President Franklin D.Roosevelt. Stalin struck him as frank and straightforward, a sort of political boss type, who would keep his word once he gave it. KEN HECHLER, White House Assistant: Here was one of the products of one of the most corrupt political machines in the nation... the Pendergast machine.... yet he was able to rise above it. I stared at him just as long as I could politely do and then he put his elbows on the table and he sank his -- his thumbs into his eye sockets and sat there for a while. NARRATOR: He questioned witnesses relentlessly, attacking them for bad planning, sloppy administration, graft. Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, to John & Martha Truman. And he felt obliged to do something. The official drink on board the Dewey train was the martini. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. And then he sort of straightened in his chair and you could feel the sense of obligation that he had, which lifted him and his dignity and his sense of principled commitment. He did not want to send American soldiers to fight a land war in Asia. Rand Mcnally He's been hooked on this woman ever since he met her at the age of five, and he has never been able to get interested in any other women since. 2020 Skelton Award . Essentially after he signs the order at Potsdam, it's all on automatic pilot and, unless he changes his mind, up to the military. The President was deluged with wild telegrams, denouncing him as a pig, a little man, a Judas. NARRATOR: The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, President Harry Truman met with reporters. Mrs. Wallace gave Bess the impression that it was Bess' duty to take care of her. In a small, windowless room beneath the convention floor, he sat with Vice Presidential nominee Alben Barkley and waited. Instead, after just six weeks, the war seemed lost. Was it right? Alonzo Hamby  The analysis made within the State Department at this point indicated that the way to deal with this was not militarily. DAVID MCCULLOUGH, Biographer: And, suddenly, the North Koreans, instead of being this invincible invading army, were caught in a giant pincer. "Dear Bess, I'm seeing no outsiders. We're going to get rid of you. New York Times Pictures NARRATOR: Truman sat for months in the Senate Chamber without making a single speech. ALONZO HAMBY, Biographer: My own impression is that he really wanted to relate to his father. To escape the drudgery of his daily life, Harry stole time to write a young woman from his high school graduating class -- Elizabeth Wallace -- Bess. While negotiators searched for a compromise, a frustrated Truman proposed a solution no President had ever dared: he threatened to draft the striking railway workers into the army. Harry was responsible for 700 employees and seven million dollars a year. But he meant it -- because he saw the country being -- the very life of the country, at stake. Changed his understanding of himself. He left it tucked deep inside his desk drawer. The best and worst of small town America helped shape his moral imagination. ALONZO HAMBY, Biography: There's a great conflict here and politically Truman has to choose -- is he going to go with the South? ALONZO HAMBY, BIographer: It seems a pretty sure bet that privately he believed that most blacks were inferior to most whites, and I think it's fair to say that neither he nor Bess would have been pleased if Margaret had brought Sidney Poitier home for dinner. On July 20th, the party bosses summoned Truman to a suite in the Blackstone Hotel to listen in on a phone call that, unknown to the Senator, they had rehearsed in advance with the President. Most of the students in his class were girls. NARRATOR: At last, Truman had found a home in the Senate. When the segregationist "Dixiecrat" party nominated Strom Thurmond, Truman desegregated the armed forces, winning the votes of black Americans, and changing the American military forever. NORWOOD WILLIAMS, White House Butler: I think that she felt that Miss Bess was above him. BARTON BERNSTEIN, Historian: The fire-bombing raids prepares the way for even more devastating bombing. Not one pollster or radio commentator or newspaper columnist had got it right. Many Americans still argued that the Russians were not a threat to the United States. Labor and business were once again at each others throats. I mean, that's not just a figure of speech, even members of his own family. Instead, Truman faced disaster, and in the days after the Chinese attack, he drifted. Who is to rule our nation? NARRATOR: He told Stimson, "This places a terrible responsibility upon myself and upon the War Department." Brown Brothers, Sterling Pa I don't think that was the issue. Vice President for only 82 days, excluded from Roosevelt's inner circle, he knew nothing about the war raging across three continents and two oceans except what he read in the papers. Why it's taken this superb movie two years to cross the ocean is a mystery. His father gambled and lost. He couldn't get appointments. You know I think Marion had a good time in Chicago. And I don't think she ever really enjoyed the public eye. Vanessa Ezersky And he gave it everything he had. WALTER LAFEBER, Historian: I think the Potsdam conference can be seen as the beginning of the end of the Russian-American friendship. She didn't like the limelight and one of the reasons that they didn't want the nomination was a fear that her father's suicide would become public, that the country would find out that this disgraceful thing had happened in her past. LUCIUS BATTLE, State Department: I was scared by it. Just confirm how you got your ticket. Why do you insist on goin' into China. Battery D was trapped, its big guns mired in the mud. NARRATOR: In less than two weeks, MacArthur had turned the war around. Harry S. Truman (Lamar, 1884. május 8. … Where old habits of the mind and the mouth prevailed. He adored good music. (Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area.). NARRATOR: As the campaign drew to a close, the New York Times was predicting Dewey would run away with the election. Harry was 35. NARRATOR: The pressure on Truman grew increasingly intense. But it would still be months, Stimson said, before any one would know whether the atomic bomb would work. That is to take a Battery through and not lose a man. He knew that to order the troops across that line risked provoking North Korea's ally, China... that the Chinese army was already massing on the North Korean border... that the Chinese government had already issued explicit warnings. Dear Bess, I was so lonesome last night...even if my combination of words makes you sick sometimes... Dear Bess, Happy Birthday!...If your dress doesn't fit you send it back and we'll get a larger one. They stay home. Real iron. And being MacArthur, it couldn't have been his fault; it must have been someone else's fault. And afterward, he turned from the piano and looked at me and sort of smiled and said, "You know," he said, "If I hadn't gotten into trouble by getting into politics, I would have made a hell of a good piano player at a whorehouse." Whatever was left was the defense budget for that year. And Truman got his $400 million within a matter of weeks. DAVID MCCULLOUGH, Biographer: Bess Wallace and her family lived in one of the biggest houses in Independence. ARCHIVAL SOUND ON FILM: DEWEY "I've sent the following wire to President Truman. But the feeling was there and -- and you could sense that he really loved music. It weaves finely the emotions with the practicalities, realities with humour, Julian's marvellous luck in having a few loving people and a great friend, and Julian's bravery and fear. NARRATOR: In spite of his nervous slip, the speech was a resounding success. The Democrats, Truman knew, didn't stand a chance. "As you have been directly responsible for the loss of our son's life in Korea," Truman read, "you might just as well keep this emblem... One major regret is that your daughter was not there to receive the same treatment as our son.". Our enemy is not here at home.". DAVID MCCULLOUGH, Biographer: Joseph Stalin was nothing like Tom Pendergast. Truman was heading for a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific to meet with General Douglas MacArthur. Don't say anything controversial, just be calm smooth, speak in platitudes... ARCHIVAL SOUND ON FILM: DEWEY "We believe in honesty, loyalty, fair play, concern for our neighbors, the innate ability of men to achieve. Let's put it the way -- this is what they said. ARCHIVAL SOUND ON FILM: In just a moment you'll hear the voice of Speaker Rayburn as he introduces President Truman. They were his heroes and he wanted to be like they were. STUART CANIN, Violinist: The man had great feeling for music. And he was having a high time of it. She was a lovely lady, but she just never, never... we.... could never figure it out why she just didn't care for the President. FLOYD BORING, Secret Service: Never said "howdy" or nothin'. NARRATOR: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin saw the countries of eastern and central Europe as a band of protection against any attempt to invade Russia. Dear Bess, Dreamed about you last night. "I've a whale of a job before me," Truman wrote his cousin, "Have to talk to God's right-hand man.". The scandal tainted Truman and it couldn't have come at a worse time -- in 1940, he was up for re-election. Pendergast told Harry his honor wasn't worth a pinch of snuff. The spotlight did not appeal to first lady Bess Truman. "The Missouri Compromise: some people say. My suspicion is not at all. I never in my life spent such a lonesome night. Throughout Harry's years in the Senate, Bess spent much of her time in Independence, leaving Senator Truman heartsick and lonely. Was it wrong? The communists would learn their lesson, would back off, and we'd be back to before the war. NARRATOR: Harry began life with all the prejudices of his family, and most of his friends and neighbors. But did the American people want someone who was simply ordinary to lead them? NARRATOR: On May 25, 1946, even while negotiations to settle the strike continued, the President went before a joint session of Congress. For months the German capitol had been the target of Allied bombs. NARRATOR: Anxious to see his family, desperate to escape the turmoil in Washington, he ordered the Presidential plane to fly him home. DAVID MCCULLOUGH, Biographer: The spotlight was on the new president. When asked how it felt to be First Lady, she replied, "So-so." Nearly another million more at Verdun. It came from Roosevelt and from Truman. They didn't want anybody poking into what they were doing, but they thought that at the outset that they could probably control Harry Truman and that he would do just about anything the leadership of the Senate wanted him to do. Although Harry and Eddie were friends, Harry couldn't bring Eddie home for dinner -- Bess' mother objected. WALTER LAFEBER, Historian: Truman was insecure and ignorant, ignorant not in the sense of being unintelligent. I do now declare him to be the nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President and the next Vice President of the United States. I did what had to be done.". The film includes humorous intertitles and credits Truman with the work of producing, directing, shooting, and … Civil Rights was hurting Truman's chances for re-election. He held the line on some prices and let others go-up. The General issued his own proclamation, demanding that the Chinese commander surrender to him. He felt that their relationship was not as good as it should have been, it was not as close as it should have been. The Truman Foundation will present the 2020 Staats Award to 1991 Delaware Scholar, Andy Rich, and the 2020 Stevens Award to 2003 Oregon Scholar, Molly Claflin, in a ceremony at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri during Truman Scholars Leadership Week in May, 2020. In Churchill's indelible words, an iron curtain had descended "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic. "We sold shirts at 16 dollars," Eddie remembered. He had made all the smarties look foolish. "Dear Bessie I certainly enjoyed myself the evening I was there and you may be assured that I shall repeat the offense as often as I can or you will allow me. The initial idea was not an intent to capture North Korea and unify Korea. I hope you have a most happy birthday and that you will never see another one without me to help celebrate and then may they go on without end...". Prince Harry also said his royal experience felt like being in movie 'The Truman Show. At last Truman was heading home, trying to relax after the grueling round of negotiations. ARCHIVAL SOUND ON FILM OF MISSISSIPPI DELEGATE: "And we bid you goodbye. . They advocated a demonstration bomb that would convince the Japanese to surrender. And he would need all his stamina and grit to keep from going under. He was tireless and energetic -- and he won -- by just 279 votes. So he came home confident and comfortable. The sooner, the better pleased I am. Brought up to honor the difference between right and wrong, Harry found it more and more difficult to deal with the man to whom he owed his job. We had got rid of three captains. He addressed the Congress. Most observers didn't give him a chance. 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