An hour with President Bill Clinton

from the community of christ auditorium in independence missouri if you have friends and family in the fifteenth of president clinton it's the final match for this year's anniversary for you for writing the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of harry truman presidential library and no fear i sometimes think the most important lessons learned former president to learn is never to forget that he ate there anymore you listen i am delighted and profoundly honored to be an outside my great friend ike skelton for that introduction katie lived a day with his son lieutenant colonel when

skelton who's served our country for twenty years that i thank them both for what they've done so nice and security one of the best things about being president when i was is that i knew i can always get the right answer about what we should do for the american military if i just as i can the pain he is a national treasure of missouri should be very proud and i also want to say as he indicated that you know and i loved his wife susie very much the only thing that's keeping his whole life and been absolutely perfect for me is that she's not here although i suspect she is and it might be that telepathic way i can i will both get directions on our remarks after this event she certainly would never shy about right either one

of those when i was brought in a lot of like congressman emanuel cleaver venue with his family in three years long friendship he supported me so strongly when i ran for president he was even willing to jog in a charity road with the homeless he remembers that we've also somehow managed to make it dr ron thank you for your lover and how it's words like you've done recently assigned to come over from kansas and for answering the question was among fans is nothing anymore you've haha where i'm aware for thousands of former k barnes former congresswoman thank you for your friendship to me and you're in four years support for what it is president bill nelson remembers barbara gordon the members of the missouri legislature public

officials were here eyesight you so much for coming harry truman was a hero to me from the time i was old enough to look at i'm a farce by word of mouth because my family didn't have a television until i was almost ten which meant that the first time i had a chance to watch politics an audit related was a nineteen fifty six conventions where i watched president eisenhower renominated and adley stevenson renominated and john kennedy try to become the nominee for vice president he losses of best thing ever happened to him as we all know what i knew about truman i knew from the stories of my family amalie roosevelt and love harry

truman you identified with harry truman because he came from such a modest circumstances and who identified with harry truman because he was for civil rights something that was relatively rare among white southerners in the forties and fifties and sixties of modest means and limited education who like harry truman because he wasn't embarrassed to be a bookish i came from family members and i was the first person my family or your college and my grandparents on my mother's side went to a tiny tiny loans boom town called want all that still exists and has assigned fifty people around had about sixty years ago but my pride themselves on believing that thinking was important and that

what he knew matter and so by mr harry truman and they tell me tomorrow in nineteen eighty four i was profoundly honored as young daughter to be asked to speak at the democratic national convention simply to give attributed to harry truman and i couldn't help thinking if we learn a little more about us politics and we give them one better than my part in the nineteen eighties and it ninety two hours only for president we kicked off the general election campaign on labor day right here in independence because i wanted people to believe that if our were like that i would travel on to the values the policy direction and the attitudes of president truman question after i was elected

your mother was uncommonly kind to my wife and to my daughter with whom she had an aside as you might imagine and one night early and my first turn your invited your parents to better at the white house and she fretted about it the whole day you know swing through to be riding setting to be ripe she would just brimming with gratitude and anxiety and the white house now has this beautiful dining room on the second floor where lincoln bedroom as a and the queen's bedroom in the presidential living quarters and showrooms of informers that was established by jackie kennedy with this incredibly beautiful wallpaper going back to the early nineteenth century protecting various american saints in place a military sense

with all the rage when it was revealed one is as candy do that famous tour of the white house so we set up a ventilator you're not in chelsea we never had another lesson mccain we ate the kitchen and i felt more like oh what we wanted to put on the dog you know for margaret now before jackie kennedy and president kennedy came to the white house first and we went downstairs to dinner every night and there was a private dining room right off the state line the smaller one where the first family from the town on us is open to making hundred for a hundred and fifty years plus until the county's move in the white house so this was really the first time margaret and her husband had ever had an hour in this room

so we had the best time and you know marty talk and tell stories it was just a perfect event until i ran into the finest from atlanta like we talk about everything on this on us and wal mart it like this again she said ah lets our utmost president really i don't think people should eat on the sign for they sleep the power so i said you know let's follow that your dad likes of the answer is that there are all of the one else until we went to the senate we have a case you want to go down to key west as we had some friends who live there and i want to do all of them for her and i actually asked to go to somebody else's political event which is a form of

insanity and they want to get free of it but i did it so i could go see romans long white house with us and we stayed in that wonderful place i got to look at the books president truman read that through frequent the rooms that he honed in to walk around in the area the military area that he took his morning walks and when he was down there it was fascinated me and the fall in any of you haven't been there if he ever got a chance though you never and it's wonderful and as i said i had two other occasions on the president or when i was in the white house identified with harry truman for many reasons one of which is the pundits always told him during his first term that he was finished i heard that a law another is that he

was nearly wrecked his presidency by his attempt to provide universal health care of all americans and it was sort of fascinating to hear what people said actually when they were telling me about i went back and read what was said about truman and he was almost like someone had put a memory chip in the heads of my critics from that generation next i think we're gonna gonna get ovarian i'll have the last laugh the pope i admire him because he stood up for civil rights and human rights and and i'm not the way he was old partisan and bipartisan he never put any fancy garnish on what he

believed and he could be really tough when he was in a fight with the republicans and he did that because they were trying to get him every day on the other hand he could be professionally bipartisan whenever there was an opportunity for common ground in organizing america to deal with the cold war and protecting the national security of the country advancing our interests around the world and then is respectful treatment of his predecessor herbert hoover which i thought showed an extraordinary amount of class and also that sense of realizing that every former president as something to contribute we forget our heroes sign my job was when you left the white house he lives thirty four more years before he became president he was one of the world's most acclaimed humanitarians weekend i want to waste is evident mental abilities and his great experience

presenter was big enough to get there even though surefire applause line for every democrat for fifty years as to say some bad about him so i want to wear what i want to say today on this fiftieth anniversary of the library as that the enduring legacy of harry truman he is highly relevant to twenty first century america oh we try we chase the bipolar world of the cold war to a globalized world the states the complete cooperate threatened by state was terror and the prospect of terror is to get a hold of weapons of mass destruction that we all share common threads from diseases like avian influenza the threat of climate

change to the destruction of vital resources necessary to sustain life everywhere the world is losing trees and topsoil and breakable water land mammal species in general are disappearing from europe and most rapid rate in human history and increasing numbers of petroleum geologist including a lot of people who are conservative republicans believe we all have thirty five fifty years of recovery or left often assigned only a hundred years the oldest city in civilization by carbon dating is jericho in the holy land of ten thousand years that would mean we have one percent of civilization to figure out how to get along without oil seventy percent of our oil in america we used to get around the law would only going get around on all except for deadlines we haven't figured out how to build about dua with a heavy plane in the arid fly long distances but the other three percent or goes to fabrics plastics chemical lots of other things for which at the

present moment even though a lot of agricultural come visit to start we don't have a viable substitute so it's a different world a different sets of challenges united states and harry truman's time would still by and large except for south texas in pockets in california a biracial country and i raced problem was a black white ball to die while we still have that we're very much a multi racial multi religious multiethnic multicultural country trying to hang on to the idea with which we started that america was the only country founded with a purpose based on an idea and the idea was that were all created equal in the proposed law is that we had to form a more perfect union without which we could never become individually and our families all that we ought to really

much for money is still highly relevant to this increasingly interdependent world and are increasingly diverse society that benefits of the world part of that most of us have claimed that most of us the benefit from education from information technology look at what's more divorce this drought isn't it was fifty years ago when the library was the ticket but the world but the world has three huge pro it is an eagle and growing increasingly so it is unstable because of terror and the prospect

of global disease strokes and weapons of mass destruction and it is unsustainable because of the threat of climate change and resource depletion if we would like there to be a hundredth anniversary celebration of harry truman's library we have to apply the lessons of harry truman's legacy to the current day the point is now to a major plot will force we need a girl in a globalized world is not just america needs a more perfect union the wyoming too we can't just sit by with an interdependence it is on a poor unstable and unsustainable we need communities that are more equal in terms of giving people opportunity

communities in which everyone feels a responsibility for the success of the enterprise and communities in which there is a genuine sense of belonging you look at the latest terrible terror story coming out of the united kingdom think of it free cars full of explosives and nails designed to kill people apparently all loaded by a cabal of medical doctors from different countries who came to the united kingdom to find a home they were not invaders and as far as anyone knows that night they were not terrorists when they showed up there but they felt no sense of belonging their identity was so different from that of the country than have added that they're willing to contradict the very reason of their

professional life to advance some other identity so it's all i got to do with truman well i believe that we can only build a whirl with more communities locally nationally and globally unless we do the following four things first we do have to have a security policy that recognizes that we must have a strong military but no matter how strong it is it will never be possible to kill sailor occupy everybody that suggests authorities say if that's true it means both the military and nonmilitary ways our policy should be to cooperate with others whenever we can act alone only when there's absolutely no other alternative that was true in those policy at the end of world war two

united nations was the dream of franklin roosevelt harry truman oversaw its beginning and supported it completely nato political operative alliance designed to counter the threat of communism the truman doctrine hell that we would support anyone with military assistance if they would stand against communism that matters there were some little country on the far reaches of the cold war is long but we knew we had to do it together i think if harry truman were here today he would remind us of these things even the korean war let me remind you it was fought with united nations mandate partly presence saw these were dumb enough to walk out before the vote but he had it nonetheless so at the time were alive today what we say i think you would

say no matter how painful it is you have to stay the course in afghanistan we have to win there in the world wants to win we have to roll back the taliban we can't let out can i have more running we have to stand it on iraq he would say i think we jumped the gun should let the inspectors finish but we are where we are i hope we can protect the kurds and least give them a chance to hold together but it's fundamentally a civil war and i don't have to resolve but our military as i say everywhere by entering more casually some americans as dramatically reduce number this would return the last three years among the rockies i don't support a policy i don't think he would have but how to get from here to where we need to be won not be easy i think you would support president bush and finally adopting a diplomatic approach to north korea and in talking to the iranians and to the syrians about what to do in iraq we talk to the soviets throughout the cold war and they were threatened the law sought the

face the earth and races from human history it's not weak to talk to people who are against it it's been moved to pay hubble a very german would have supported the international agreements on climate change the comprehensive test ban treaty and the international criminal court for criminals wants our soldiers are protected by the rumors that we made because we were in countries where the us has to go in other words i think the legacy of harry truman and the un and nato in the truman doctrine i would say we have to have a military plus strategy we have to cooperate wherever we can enact long only for force do cars are so few things we can accomplish alone in the world the second thing i think herman would say is that in any environment where you can't kill taylor occupy everyone who

is or might be against you yeah to try to make a warm or partners with your enemies don't forget that's what i did with the marshall plan that was the best money american ever spent the pain has been the success of the united states in the last six years in the bush years arguably the most successful military operation we have conducted in a muslim country except for what was done in afghanistan after nine eleven with the humanitarian relief and in asia the world's biggest muslim country after the tsunami approach united states went from party to sixty percent because our helicopters drop food and medicine are younger workers they're helping put people's lives back together the religious and nonreligious non governmental groups or they're helping people but there was like together i worked there for more than two years first with former president bush and helping to raise funds to solve problems and there is a un

corner and i saw this the country over two hundred million people nine eight percent of them muslim who were completely against is because of our policy in iraq once we establish human contact realize our better selves an interesting window after the tsunami approval of some of the mud and a year later had dropped from fifty eight down to twenty eight percent not because he did anything to them but because he didn't do anything for them when you're flatly you're back in your kids are dead or your parents or go or you have to start your business all over you all of a sudden the ability of some

gripe ottawa one more bomb in bali that the material means compared to the willingness of an american soldier to put your kid back in school and salt if you think about the marshall plan harry truman so he said look this is not at this is an investment sign sort of investments we made in the american community just before and not long after i was born when i was born in arkansas at the end of world war two capita income is about half the mass where we have a lot of people had no sewer systems light water out of a well didn't even have a rabbi letters they then they are yet reached everybody and a less remote village didn't have telephone service on nineteen sixty six no self respecting politician of either party would have ever run for office in arkansas sign a water sewer program or a telephone extension initiative

for the aria a was somehow foreign aid to poor people who live in rural america why because we recognize we want as a community and investing in us help all of america grow stronger that was the argument from the nih about the marshall plan investing in europe and in japan helping them grow stronger bill does the best allies we had in the cold war and enabled us and down to build the greatest middle class the world had ever seen that is the argument we need to make to day when we think about how cheap it would be to follow the proposals might in the congress including one my wife might put the hundred and thirty page ads in the world who never go to school and school the pick and of my presidency bob dole and george mcgovern who jointly sponsored the food stamp program late sixties

came to see me with an idea to give money to poor countries to feed their kids once a day who are hungry but only if the kids think it's politically so as grounds to up three hundred million dollars in the ivory coast the farm budget and we did this was known as school are almost in the countries where we put this money increased by six million it cost you fifty bucks here but these kids go for year and we made a lot more friends and fewer adversaries we know what it would cost to build health systems in the world to deal with aids tb malaria infections related to bury water believe it or not those for basically one and four of all the lies people about issues of a heart attack strokes wars accidents harris says in its natural disasters one in four people one of those things

and it's not that expensive so in the places where the bush administration has put its money that to the global fund on aids tb malaria arthur dent in america's own age programme people playing better of us boys were held in arkansas with its pretty good incentive we know what it cost to help people who were poor like most of our folks were work their way out of poverty in the same ways that a lot of us our families did last year muhammad yunus of bangladesh won the nobel peace prize for running the grameen bank for thirty two years i'm making about eight million loans now ninety cents on the village women with an almost ninety nine percent repayment rate is the most important thing when he started the project in that country was less than our day

today it's about five hundred dollars last year the economy grew six percent for a cataclysmic political crisis you know why because fifty eight percent of the people whom are that money used it to lift themselves above the international poverty line and so many people die and lifted the whole country it's investment we invest in austin and we ought to think about it just like the problems that work in america when we have twenty five percent unemployment in the great depression it's cheap and it's always cheaper than normal others did it and it just one example of art although i strongly support what we've done in afghanistan which the runner billion dollars a year we spent five hundred million plus now in iraq about twenty five million people are if we signed on to this agenda hole that

is if we said only the rich countries in the world or finance these health education and development initiatives necessary to achieve the so called millennium development goals of the united nations cost our country about forty billion dollars maybe a little less now because all the money we're spending sounds like a lot of money but the government would like to appoint a trade somewhat generous but that's about right in other words we get about two billion people two billion people for approximately five months of the buddy ryan budget on twenty five so ms amato when you support or oppose the policies and he supported honor percent it's still expensive and harry truman i believe would sigh look you gotta spend some

money like got it with a marshall plan to michael ward more partners and fewer animals it's always cheaper than the one the war the third thing i think we should remember about from his legacy is that in the midst of all these problems in the war which required this guy who was a county judge in missouri and then became a senator whose major foreign policy experience except for fighting a war a war while rival and well was looking into waste in defense expenditures as a senator then less than three months every because vice president i guess he's joined our horizons and marston much less whenever was and i was about three months he becomes a president on his thirties when he really had was a lifetime of reading steeping in history paid attention to what was going on in the

world looking at the world around him he has to deal with all these questions he could have been forgiven if the abandoned any domestic issues except it that are from award an empty stomach on without having flanks he had to do that but he didn't forget he kept pushing civil rights he not only ended discrimination in the military he ended it and federal employment generally which was quite significant at the time and more likely to show up in the lives of americans and communities on the country and he did try to get help here because he realized that it was both socially and just and in the end would be economically stand and he was your write about bulb so i would say to all of us no matter how much we worry about terror all these other things

we have to continually gauging home improvement the american people will never support doing these things around the world unless they believe were making the american dream or real here at home if you look at the challenges of america and i love talking about this prisoner out a middleman and what no one else is going to somehow i ran summer stories at my net worth was a lower than harry truman's my one and a real marker but adamo a lot of money and then i became very important for them i want to talk about is a serious we are in the sixth year of an economic recovery and these transit on the original being marriage throughout the world in this recovery we have a forty year high and corporate profits <unk> stock market every year

our worker productivity isn't proof for the working people have done their job but median wage is not average has an appearance or it's really rich people maybe in the ones in the middle are flat and there's been an increase in the percentage of people are people time falling below the poverty line and an increase in the percentage of people working full time who have lost along with their family's health insurance coverage over half of all the bipartisan american and i are caused by health emergencies health insurance premiums have risen by ninety percent second half of the increase in average wages when median wages have an increase of all so it is obvious that home improvement reporters to do something to restore middle class growth as a way for people who work their way into what this is something i would cite of members of my

butt party you can help for people if you don't have an expanded middle class the definition of not been boring more than in the middle class so in the last time we had five years in a row of rising median wages was the last five years of my career we have lots of people like the taste of the ruin our economic geniuses the bed until all stories that happened because we didn't have his way from for over thirty years we had sly way just ninety seven to the mighty ninety four or five that we had five years of rising median wages and declining inequality want because we had both good support policies and america created a bass raft of new high paying jobs you were what they were it was when information technology jobs move

out of silicon valley and every aspect of american life running a bank in independence is not like what it used to be because of information technology running a doctor's office is not what it used to be because of information technology there is no aspect of american life that has not been affected by this explosion occurred in the last seven months it was eight percent of our total employment twenty eight percent of our job growth over thirty three percent of our wage was there for the whole structure of america's living was with him and we had no increase in inequality now it's resilient so we had to do a deal with inequality and we had to do with help deal with health care cause it's about the back of the economy and because it's in giant us we do respect in the world and cover everybody sixty percent are people have no health insurance we spent sixty the summer and fell on healthcare canada next most expensive

countries spends a welcome their seventy percent of people over sixty five and people are more expensive as they get older americans at twelve percent over sixty five moore the global average the difference of eleven and sixteen seven hundred billion dollars a year so we spend seven hundred billion dollars you're more anybody else without any other system we can figure out to get health care covers everybody which they did not a problem we're granted three segments on exhibit at what if we were right at second as some us to hear in the speech and when you visit my lover you can also visit my grace it will close my life was saved by the best american medicine with my heart bypass surgery but where lousy keeping people well

and we know how to do a safeway last year started paper all preventive and primary health service as for their employees no pope i know nothing you now mr health insurance plan as one of this year the river so we have to find a way to cover everybody bring cots in line with our competitors and treat wellness know people say well well as treatment or surrogates big deal to me now cause i work when american heart association to try to combat the rising tide of childhood obesity and the attendant explosion and diabetes which leads to more heart attacks strokes blindness amputations well it's different now from when harry truman tried it and it's different now from when i tried just people have figured this at the other day one of those interminable press conferences occur in washington you know where people stand outside on for this and any other thing but it was highly

unusual because there was the following list of protest votes at and t and its union the communications workers and tell the hot tech company and kelly services the provider of part time employees wal mart the biggest non union company in america and the service employees international union the most liberal public employee unions and united states to live together and said we want universal health care and these are the principles we all agree on in the poem to pay thain if you want our will be an industry in america we gotta do this i think i'm pretty good run things i don't think that i could take over general motors under current circumstances which means you have just bought toyotas fourteen hundred dollars a car and healthcare costs and the toil in the marketplace so

if harry truman were here he would say i tried to do it and fight so they're jimmy carter so that richard nixon and so the oakland he at least got a bill out of committee nobody else ever do that but now is the time right and roosevelt that plays a teddy roosevelt first proposed the marketplace longtime iraq sometime but home improvement is our costs of the mission on income inequality best way to do it is to find a source of new jobs and the best way to do that is like a serious commitment to a plane ended in an energy future which of financial security it's below the pain harry truman was always really always loaning

everywhere you tell ya been reading up on this and it's not true that chaplin more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to get rich by richard rohr richer it was true in the industrial era it is not true now the great french writer victor hugo one so there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come my little changes to form all over america an advocate for civil rights we ought to adopt the flip side there is nothing more destructive than an idea whose time is commandant and nobody will recognize it the pool to pay one of our nato allies and our strongest allies in europe as denmark last few years denmark has gone its economy by fifty percent how much do you suppose a much more energy you think they'll use rather calm about it answer

not one watt of electricity more meanwhile their greenhouse gases were reduced because nowadays twenty two percent electricity from when united kingdom our closest ally in europe with the economy most like house has only won huge different they're unemployed writes about what it is but i like america and this decade their median wages are going up and it had no increase in inequality there is only one plausible explanation when i negotiated that with al gore and managed to us that the kyoto climate change treaty about pre weight but it was best we could do it but you would have thought that i'd call for an end to civilization as we know even before president bush rejected that the senate voted against it ninety five to that if the only goal i ever lost before actually senator

congress usually at least a way for me to send it up before that bedded down all and all things you set a horrible no bill clinton's crazy and you know he'd like al gore's two laden you know there are that are now what our friends in britain say they said we don't like this kyoto treaty but it's really too weak so we think we'll be the targets by twenty five thirty percent and they're going to so last year the current prime minister gordon brown who was in the chance for that separate room for every sector we'll have a report on how come britain had rising wages are no increase in inequality because they're going to beat their kyoto targets by twenty five thirty percent and it created massive numbers of new jobs and playing fields in energy efficiency and new technologies and

he documented by category how many have been created and it would be the same thing here if we wait if we go around and everything the jet airplanes on biofuels or hybrid cars if we represented every building with efficient lighting there's a bill in the congress today that simply says in ten years you can use any more incandescent light bulbs if it passes you know what happened was that that says listen this passes it means that america will lose the meat or at a old coal fired power plants the panda poo i'm working with a bunch of cities around the world forty am on five continents to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in my mission is to create jobs not cost us to grow in towns not shrinking so we're starting with that in the building's

lights us where the electricity will promote it automatic temperature and winding trails worth the usable better insulation and everywhere we can bring roost pick up the heat on the routines are now in and the batters was around ninety degree day if you've got a whole festival with a flat roof that has far and the cover after the saucepan shot into two hours without curator hundred and fifty degrees to that that if you saylor of song lonely and puts on down an mit fuel plates for a long hold you can cut the room temperature to eighty degrees that dramatic lore than outside air that dramatically reduces the air conditioning demand dramatically reducing the utility bills and everybody in the bill and this is a job that cannot be

outsourced it's been the police beat the mice got to be standing on the roof would be put aside and new york city have nine hundred and fifty thousand buildings you have any idea how many jobs we create for people that don't have college degrees just a very nice buildings so we can create more jobs and more american states in more different kinds of communities that we upgraded since we've only mobilize forty three producers and we could get rid of this inequality problem for at least a decade by which time some new opportunity will present itself mr drummond no career would know this family knew those other things are the end the wharton taken a job for which rationally

cannot possibly a man completely prepared but he was so security partners home improvement there's less i think is the most important all harry truman was a guy who was helping to run the family farm when he was thirty two years old who was i think fifty one he was elected to the senate may be over but he understood something that you would have expected only someone who had traveled the world of the many different cultures and much more superficial a sophisticated life to understand if you want to present themselves as every man which he did adroitly and

politics he had a wrist that every man and woman a minute what the title the heat and write the military and the front lawn service then have to do to get elected either because he thought was right what you really care so much about i get why he wanted the marshall plan we needed europe as a counterweight to khan is and what the truman doctrine help all these little countries that and more narrow minded person would not have seen as part of our security but he thought that they were and how the freedom this central challenges of the world today are all related to the last thing i said about community more than opportunity and more than responsibilities success the community there is whether you belong or not

what is your sense of identity so how can you be fight or to your religion to your politics your culture to erase your history and be part of a larger and larger and larger units only if you believe your differences are important and aid the search for truth but our common humanity matters more harry truman knew that in the fiber of his mom's you look at every place in the world and the way there is a problem people think their differences are more important than their common humanity what's the bigger story out of the middle east today except for iraq the brutal fight going on between hamas and fatah in the palestinian territories that story many people kill and hamas wants this magnificent military victory and seizes the thought the security of them without the security headquarters was about one sixth the size of this room to make that video and i don't mean that to trivialize it

i mean that i don't have time to fight the israelis anymore they're too busy trying to devour each other meanwhile the people to pour and pour in for well done all the tsunami we're out in these are one time was that point that the people in these tent cities it is white hot they're much harder than here much money revenue and i do know this tanzanian city were just miserable maybe segue i couldn't get em out just like anytime you have a disaster in the housings the hardest thing so i get out this tent city and each one of them elected a leader so the elected leader was there with his wife and son to meet me along with my interpreter this lovely young and an asian girl had been a television person she fell in love with a tsunami work and became an interpreter so mad men is why there were smiling industry to their sun and i looked

out of this town and i literally yes he was so beautiful and acid news gaza ever seen a more beautiful job of the young woman said yes he is very very beautiful and before the tsunami had nine brothers and sisters and they're all so although woman and the boy they took their leave and their father had lost none of his children took me around to the scam with a smile on his voice never said a word about it moments for no self pity only talking to me about what those people need and what you want me to fix just in the moment and i was overwhelmed with admiration for him so much of the tour and the last stop is the health plan and us all maternal child health worker was really impressive in an old somewhat up and there was his wife who had lost none of her children holding his two day old lady now almost

as to say this american problem in indonesian culture when a woman has a baby she gets into bed for forty days and be weighted on hand on the fourteenth birthday she gets up in the night to get her to get someone like that it was probably isn't an this mother who lost none of her own children was holmes lake with a smile or a face saying this is our newest child and in honor of your visit we want you to name him so i said it is there a war in your liner notes for new beginnings and i talked the lady an interpreter and then further what's nice is that yellow teeth are you an ally with the word

bomb is a boy's name the mother says we will win this point on he will symbolize only beginning and here's what to explore why do we have to see our visual as somebody who lost none of their tin his cherished the one they had left and had the courage to hold another woman's baby and college don't realize that whatever difference is we had in common with those people on a percentage of muscle whatever differences we had our as nothing compared to what we have income we get when something bad happens is like the world got it for harry truman because they have the communist

threat hanging out there or in a humorous way sort of the world got it in that movie independence day we all got together because we were finally threat from outer space we have to learn to live without that we don't have the one thing harry truman had going for him when he put all this together everybody had memories of world war two fresh and the cole war staring them in the face and they got it we have to do it the way harry truman did we have to think and feel and imagine and we have to learn to rewire ourselves not to give up our differences not to start appreciating them not to start realizing that we own heirloom to make any progress at all but you know we have to allocate more of our common i liken on energy and other ninety nine point nine percent of our maker that the common humanity which makes the use of our differences

worthwhile this drama left us quite a legacy what we owe him is to take his legacy and make sure our grandchildren can be are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of his library and his service last few have heard of the five president bill clinton recorded july fifteen thousand seven at the community rise auditorium in independence missouri it was a presentation of a harry truman presidential library in the recording engineer was chevy i'm kate mcintyre if you're presented with a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas security of every one of us listening to the federal one of this nomination can make is so secure i see consider innocent next time on take your concerns kofi annan former secretary general of the united

nations joined at eight o'clock sunday night on kansas public radio forty minutes last major speech as secretary general reported at the truman presidential library and museum in independence missouri we have a responsibility not only to hop contemporaries but also to future generations a responsibility to preserve resources that long us were less tense and without question and the us navy are presenting kofi annan then they might have made a lot on kansas public radio