An hour with Cokie Roberts Truman

it's been friday may eight marks the one hundred and twenty fifth birthday of president harry s truman came out entire and today on k pr press and fleas second with the truly presidential library and museum in independence missouri it wild about harry is there a celebration of truman's one hundred and forty fifth birthday featuring a top five national public radio's cokie roberts will also hear from harry and bess truman's grandson clifton truman daniel author of growing up with my grandfather memories of harry s truman but first we're visiting with suzanne mettler of the truman library and museum susan what's going on their next week lots of all start there harry truman's one hundred and twenty fifth birthday is friday may eight he was born in eighty four mr misery and so thursday i would begin a long weekend of events honoring this special time on thursday attorney and the wobble been

showing a lot of your listeners may be familiar with the law but didn't show our case you're going to broadcast live truman's grandson clinton truman daniel will be in from chicago and he'll be on air in a live a very intimate live audience with matthew algeo who's just written a book and he's on a book tour about perry's excellent adventure series road trip after he left the presidency has been covering the wall street journal the new york times that that could be a really fun conversation with those two that will take place in a small theatre and folks who are interested in being quite that live audience can check out truman library dot org and find out how to do that either still tickets available for that at this moment i'm not certain folks can send an email that there will be a waiting list and of course as a last resort they can be part of the audience from their own home office on cell phone then nominate of course that's a big day and it's an annual event that takes place at the truman library museum is the presidential wreath laying and that will take place at nine am it is open to the public not a lot of people come out for that the amo are a very bright and in the

courtyard that they get lost in the legacy gallery and it's a very moving tribute to our three third president also on that day i are carried or harry truman every an actor neil johnson will be at the truman library and so they would say that's that's the big celebration at the time that people might want to bring kids and family members and spent several hours at the truman library gm is opening a new exhibition our countrymen one twenty five to life in the photographs it's the firsts our exhibition of his life around infancy until just before his death in nineteen seventy two and in fact some a photograph of him lying in state he wanted to do that at the truman library in his hometown independence missouri rather than in washington dc i said that photo exhibition will be open and also we are reopening out what we call truman's work in office and this is really a unique place in america had this is an office in which harry truman worked and said oh six days a week after he left the presidency and i think it was his oval

office and independent so that's reopening to the public with a new gallery beautiful of four young people on saturdays there's a children's puppet show at ten and two and how independent is very proud to have a puppetry arts institute in its city limits it's an organization that's been noted in the smithsonian they didn't really do terrific work and the artist in residence joe and mcmillan partnered with our historians and created a puppet show of little vignettes from here is childhood very charming clever funny they'll be a good humor and excellent puppetry my four year old loves going to bother to art institutes it away from actually see a puppet show at the truman library and you know i on saturday and friday admissions only about twenty five for a penny for every year i am sunseri was born so a dollar twenty five you get all the museum exhibits the puppet show the birthday cake another chance to

meet neil hughes were training every truman just a terrific day to be out there and they advance our continue even after next week and your second saturday's series and has got some fabulous speakers lined up for the year ahead they're talking to and syriza is a fine line and something we haven't done in the past but every second saturday as you said our archivists are offering talk and treatment programs to museum visitors and the topics range from family trees of perry and bess to harry's early years to his relationship with pendergast and the machine in kansas city and those take place at eleven am and there's a part of the museum experience for visitors that day i was especially interested being a radio person in some of the audio archives oh sure and they are these these what we call a screen gems an audio gems that have not been made available to the public before some were generated when the jack benny show took place of the term to elaborate there was a series on his presidential legacy

and now these are part of the andes bets are now coming to lighting it's an interesting and i have a long period large birthday cake on hand i'll fight for every years since his birth that's right one hundred and twenty five feet are decorated with the beach reading but keenan and wild about harry it's that's going to be a lot of fighting it sounds like a lot of fabulous events going on and the german center it is the eu has a perfect time for those who haven't been or i haven't been in a while to make that trip it's just especially affordable now and one of the things that i would like to remind people of is that it really is kid friendly and family friendly it's not a place just for history buffs there's great shopping in the museum store the theater's a fantastic there are lots of interactive things for kids to do and right now it just that caught on that weekend there will be four museum exhibits tonight's presidential years of his

life in times with lots of interactive for kids about harry truman growing up in his pre presidency here's schoolhouse the white house the national archives exhibit can i just want to interrupt for a second because my eighth grade daughter just saw that exhibit and see laughter oh that's great to hear that grittier that originated in dc from the national archives of which presidential libraries are part so that's exhibit number three and then wrapped around that incident will be the final exhibit and then of course as the courtyard in the theaters and ten blades it's going to be a full day and lots of things going on thank you susan so much for coming out today to talk about a yankee game we've been visiting with suzanne mettler that truman presidential library and museum in independence missouri for more information about the event celebrating harry truman's one hundred and twenty fifth birthday this week visit their website debuted debbie you don't you got truman library that oh archie and click on presidential birthday salute that's w w w that

truman library that oh archie one of the special guest coming to the truman library next week will be clifton truman daniel he's the grandson of harry and bess truman clifton truman daniel was in kansas city recently for a wild about harry dinner to kick off the celebration of truman's one hundred and twenty fifth birthday in just a bit we'll hear from a keynote speaker at wild about harry npr news analyst cokie roberts but first clifton truman daniel is the author of growing up with my grandfather memories of harry s truman he's also the honorary chairman of the truman library institute he spoke april twenty third two thousand nine avenue yet no one hotel in kansas city missouri and now here is clifton truman daniel you know we americans like to make the lists i do it every morning at my desk it never gets punished we read everything from super bowl commercials a political bloopers

vacation getaways to presidents so maybe you heard earlier this year cspan conducted a poll on presidential leadership and grant wahl landed in the top five again right behind washington lincoln and both roosevelts and as i said i think it was two years ago i said when president clinton spoke in a kansas city and independence i think i said then we hoping somebody would find something nasty about the roosevelts of the lincolns of washington red ryder would not approve of my thinking now they're saying it out or i am i know he would've said about that news it was at first so that he was just doing his job and they don't argue with you about the ranking system that got me think you know about about harry truman the president refreshing he thought that there were probably a million people better qualified to be president than he

was despite bringing every member of his artillery battery through world war one alive despite nearly a quarter of a century of successful public service after that he lamented that the job president was just too big for him two big in fact for anyone he much preferred the camaraderie in the give and take of the senate where he had spent as he had often said the happiest ten years of his life he was deeply grieved when president roosevelt died and he recalls feeling and you've all heard this before that the sun and the moon and all the stars had fallen on him across the time the prime minister churchill was having similar thoughts why he thought the stars and the man and everything else or perhaps even the russians might fall on the world in an unknown untested midwestern senator was now running the united states his doubts quickly evaporated at a post war problems in potsdam germany churchill's former rams personal physician the president is not

going to be content to feed out of anyone's hand he intends to get to the bottom of things and when stalin gets tough truman at once makes it plain that he too can hand out the rough stuff in the face of this and other successes and his obvious that this for the job right once or twice after world war two to hand off the presidency to general eisenhower feeling that eisenhower as a lawyer would be more likely than heating up the democrats hold on to the white house in nineteen forty eight and years later after the marshall plan the berlin airlift the truman doctrine at the end of what is now generally judged to be one of the most successful presidencies of the twentieth century that also actually stevenson adelaide if a knuckle head like me can be present not do too badly just think we're really educated smart guy like you could do in the job the presidency was thrust upon my grandfather he didn't want the job but he did it is all in history has treated him well for that perhaps some of his success was due to the deep

humility he felt when confronted by the duties of the office and what his fears about possible more than us to hold such a powerful position it was not in my grandfather a modest man to think that the opera should be heroes and he could never have devoted his life to seeking it instead he devoted his life to his balance and i can't imagine leaving a more powerful inspiring legacy than that and closing in on behalf of the entire truman family i wanna thank you thank you for making this celebration possible thank you for supporting the truman library supporting institutes efforts to advance the mission of grandfathers of my grandfather's presidential library that with with implementing a grandson of harry and that's from an honorary chairman of the truman library institute and other of growing up with my grandfather memories of harry s truman he spoke april twenty third too thousand nine at

the annual wild about harry benefit for the old truman library institute the keynote speaker for this year's wild about harry of them was npr senior news analyst cokie roberts cokie roberts is a forty year veteran of broadcast journalism and is a member of the broadcasting and cable hall of fame she was named one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting buy the organization the american women in radio and television roberts has written several bestselling books about the role of women in american history including founding mothers lady liberty now accepted came down to sort of say ok i'm president in nineteen forty eight i want i have all my thought about the ghosts that are flying around in here with the nearest celestial

cigars you know they're caught in their teeth and they're wondering why they are women in the room i have no idea what we're doing here and then why is there no smoke is a lot of relief actually i'm on high like vile things that but they probably are horrified that they would be quote i think i did now that favors vaughan sure that that the truman goes down her throat to know that we are celebrating them but that i think the audience would be delighted to know that jim that their children and i hear about them and i come together to honor their ancestors so having no the representatives of the families here is especially important i have to say i think of how to harry truman as my president and i mean i do have this reason you know how when you have a little bit of a nightstick to my grandchildren and so you know who's the

president united states for for me that was harry truman when i was that little the person and i actually have a picture of myself you can't see me it's the back of me on somebody's shoulders had tremendous inauguration in nineteen forty nine and i don't know whose shoulders i'm on some of these different my father was stuck with me privately and they go to jail for that damn there are rising hours this little kid i just i just turned five and and this is literally teach roman way over there you know in the end the picture but it was very much my my early childhood and ann leary writes when i grew up was a president president chairman and m and of course whizzes truman and margaret truman very much part of our lives so when i grew up and my husband was stationed in greece for the new york times and i was reporting

that as well and i cooked and daniel and margaret truman daniel came to greece they were kind enough to call us because then you the maritimes and felt an obligation to call on the troops and so young clifton and that his mother and father and i'm steve was working had dinner together in greece and then that was it very important occasion for me because there was this person that had them so much part of my childhood but you know it's also why so it is especially nice of course to have eclipsed german and thomas and their families here especially nice to have the children here i am but also their migration over the great granddaughter of herbert hoover herbert hoover was alive until i was a senior in college and then very much

part of all of all of our lives and arm and had become a very important person a judge again back in washington at the time that i was again in this period growing up because a president truman had brought a magazine you how how well he did organize committees in and figure out what needed to be done in terms of government reform and down and that when he was again very much a personage and in my little girlhood so i'm so pleased to have just send them a president who over here and susan ford bales season he's younger than i am now there are younger than i am a god knows of that racism is like contemporary more than day because our fathers were very close friends and and this really is telling a month or migrants that your fiance is interested in the center in american politics

because the last time i talked to susan's father gerry ford and by the way i did that i was really not as chairman today and she was for a jerry ford to clifton mainly because abetting but steve she now i'm an anybody knew jerry ford loved him and he said man my list interviewing them i said you know cooking because he was he was minority leader of the congress my father was majority leader and they were very good friends and he said you know your dad and i used to get no at camp together the capital and we would go downtown to the press club or some place and them and we'd say each other ok what we argue about and a phony debate there is nothing phony about it we really didn't genuinely disagree but that means to dance but don't let them get back in the cab and go back to the

capitol and be best friends and he was a time of comedy and a respect are there really is gone and that is something that would be wonderful to come back to when my father disappeared over alaska in nineteen seventy two benny and jerry ford were at the house all the time and such wonderful devoted friend susan you know that and them and of course my mother and and eighty four and remained friends there now they're now in their nineties and other boats with this i'm thrilled to tell all of you some of your fans and they both are doing great they're great ladies and they are doing you know i am a voice said when she became first lady

she said i believe in being first lady should prevent made from expressing my ideas he was not granted and thank goodness but damn she didn't bristled at the idea that she had never had ideas before she was first lady and that is something that has soul interested name and over the years and writing history because there's that we have the silliest notions of first ladies in this country and as soon as mrs ford understood and she said i liked it and people just suddenly started listening to me it's not that i did not in singapore says that they they started paying attention to me and then and that has been true for all of our first lady's we have you know this kind of idea that dam that they were is note that all the first ladies sitting around pouring the tea

until eleanor roosevelt and then they went back to you know tending to the attacker you know whenever i'm until hillary clinton i mean is the most i'm the idea of hand them this and telling my resume earlier that i was reading up on her great grandmother's lou hoover and i'm thrilled you know margaret knows a great deal a better bet she had this wonderful speech that she gave to the republican women and philadelphia in nineteen twenty three nineteen twenty three this is three years after suffrage and she says women women should get into politics whether we're wanted or not we're in politics we are here we are here to stay and this is a woman who had been involved in the boxer rebellion in belgium or leave and come back to this country from europe to to lobby and m and speak for belgian relief and and do all kinds of work and

then working with her husband throughout his career in mark and in many many ways and yet we don't really know about or we don't know the great work that she did because we'd just draw this veil over the women in our history and some of it is because we don't hear what i mean i care i am a lot more people do care but some of it has been because we have not and some of it is because we just have notions and so you know i've gone back and done the work to find out as much as i can about the women of the founding period or because i knew growing up in the washington that the era that i did when harry truman was president an unknown my father in and jerry foreign and how war and hubert humphrey and lyndon johnson came to congress i mean the old al gore item

in that one third of the earth guy but then they use as a little kid when i was growing up muscle aside the area needs he owned when she when he went to the senate barbara brings young owl bar and says rings after strom thurmond's as i do you know senators were you know sarah thurmond and you're now says the first time i had met senator thurmond he stepped on my truck the women of that era and i knew how incredibly powerful they were and i knew that the women of the family miriam had to be at least as powerful and us so i've gone back and study the history and what i've learned is that those first ladies i would have been active from the

beginning the notion that this is some new role in american history as it is absurd so starting with martha washington who had a great pr sounds because she understood that and that even though she loved her silks and sounds and she did and she had the money was her money not is and it was her first husband money and now she says she could spend it and then when she arrived as first lady in the temporary capital new york she knew where homespun and not her songs and sound so she was making a great pr statement that she had then we always know about her winter of valley forge but she had been every single solitary winter of the eighty one years of the revolution at war at camp with the soldiers and so she'd lobbying she lobbied congress

very public political act for the benefits the pensions for revolutionary war veterans because she knew and that every first lady sincere has done something like that and often many things and abigail adams of course was wildly political ugandan overload that in recent times because of tv up that are you know certainly her her advice actually instruction john to remember the ladies he did not but and then of course dolly madison become a man who's one of the great people people persons of all time at one point to me henry clay said jerry you know everybody loves mrs madison and she said but that's because mrs madison loves everybody now i have read her male and that's not true that that she was wildly politically politically powerful and

interesting leak of them and gave her credit for that which amazed me so for instance madison's first opponent charles court's repeatedly said i was defeated by mr and mrs madison i would have had a better chance if i had been run against mr madison alone and by madison second election she was credited with the whole thing because by then people really didn't like him and then there was the war and all that and then monroe comes in hand and analysed the monroe had a really tough act to follow and didn't do it very well i have a rabbit bess truman somewhat identified with elizabeth monroe and she shouldn't be what she did do though that was very much in the muller in the end the important pattern of what was with monroe did was she saved the white house i have to work at and twelve in the white house and being completely destroyed except for the outside elizabeth monroe did come in and

refurbished the house and make it a gram place for an american head of state which was very difficult to do because there's no money in the congress certainly was uninterested our land be germans got into the white house and his tremendous character the place was literally falling apart oddly the impulse when you think about this now it's just shocking was a chevy small building now i'm just sending mat staver is tear down and start all over again and shane and singlehandedly really convince them to the congress to keep them those original structure outside as they get in the inside and made it safe and appropriate building so she understands why the history of them but she was nothing like elizabeth monroe in any other way because washington hated elizabeth monroe other women of washington wrote all kinds of letters about snooty she was and how she she didn't have you

know didn't happen to it and washington lobbyist for him and because she had been there for a very long time and people have gotten to know our and owner and music she was somebody who was very valuable to the city now i will say on behalf of elizabeth rowe we don't know her side of the story because we don't have any of her letters her husband burned all of her letters at least we assume that happen because there aren't any and that is common in the euro protect themselves from the personal stories that they told in their letters to their wives which of course are quite wonderfully very different from their letters to each other you know richard pompous and now all that unless there was rex the humor and i am so monroe burn them so we don't know what that price once was there is a wonderful story that you probably know bess truman trying to

do the same thing way she started you know feeding the fire and some of them many letters that that tim sheehan harry truman exchange than harry truman mark herrmann somebody doing and she said bernie your letters and he said think of history and she said i am but fortunately saying that today and them and thankfully margaret truman has really given us a great volume of her grandparents' letters which are just delightful and wonderful to read but as i say i'm mrs german aside from the correspondence was a known figure and m and she was somebody who did with so many congressional families do and you know people don't think about this but the family lived in washington during the congressional session and then came back here when congress was out of session not think this means no you you never really any place

i'm from our demand change in schools that you're now we did that to when i was little it was actually great because by the time they caught onto you were gone and no and we liked a lot by parents of some point decided that wasn't the best thing for education's and so we started going to school and washington lawyer but something that is really of archer for congressional families and m and i have learned a simple reason catherine adams and john quincy adams' wife when he was in congress over four when he was in the senate before he was president saying you know there's no right place to be and had i guess a joy just you know don't be ridiculous sucking up i'll take your children you know you never ever see them again and no reason like that but then that was kind of what happened and m it's so i think it's important to keep in mind when we celebrate our public servants at their wives and children their

families are a performing public service as well and that is certainly true for bess truman throughout the years that she was married to a public servant and she did and all kinds of ways she certainly aren't worked in harry truman's senate office where he wanted her to be in the theater and my mother did the same thing in my father's office is where she got beat forty year old bass clare booth luce dr clare booth luce who didn't have to get a paycheck ever in her life you know and hand we we have no we will forget how hard it is for the women who did not choose to be in the end this position to i have to take the criticism i think that often comes with it and again it's gone back to the beginning i mean hey well this was better than dolly madison having been accused of being overly sexton and sex in her husband

and that one newspaper writing that thomas jefferson had planned for her and her sisters in exchange for votes in congress was pretty nasty stuff but some wives and families have always been considered fair game up by the press and by the opposition that bess truman was not only working of course in i'm harry truman's office where he particularly major ones the truman committee was established and she would read through the reports and helping edit them and help them with everything that was going on there but she also had to submit an all the activities in washington that a lot of political wives do and it always looks so tame on a piece of paper i'm working with the senate wyden wives and the red cross' activities but that was a huge thing but it was not only a wonderfully important thing in terms of service with a really helping out the though the troops but it was an enormously

important political activity because this is where political intelligence was gathered and disseminate that our hand and that's what those women were up to and that's that the way they were helping their husbands immeasurably by finding out in ways that the man could not possibly find out about what was being said about them and what the other members rethinking because they were hearing it from the wives and i am the wives knew exactly what they were doing and they would play things and all that but it was a it was a sisterhood where the women would come together but they also were coming together for the man and it was it was a very and it continues to be today a place where a lot of politics goes on so when you read that she was involved in these kinds of activities do not think that these are activities that were

a political or separated from what was going on in terms of what the men were doing of course as the war heated up she became more involved in all of the the benevolent activities in the nation's capital and again that is something has been true to our history of the political women doing along with the i'm with the women of the city and for a low for a very long time particularly in the period when when there's tremendous there and in the early days of the seasons of my mother's the washington had no home rule and so it was really up to the women the african american women who are living in washington and the political women who were working with them to run on all the social service agencies to provide a social safety net for the citizens of washington and they did and bess truman was very

much part of that same chairman carter is chief advisor i know this that margaret truman daniel is an argument that as i've read through it i think that which you see as many others have been married for a very long time now as a jew you have different times in your marriage and that you sometimes play different roles it looks to me like maybe i'm the first here his presidency she felt a little left out but that after that she was once again very much involved and down and that was after having old clifton talked about his grandfather say never wanted the presidency well when a set of the vice presidency that said to him are great you know what happens if he dies then you'd be president and it's such a great quotation that lets but then when he was there and my main in nineteen forty eight she was right in the thick of an absolutely part of that inner circle that met every night to plot the

campaign and i was very excited when he won and when the inaugural parade happen the one that i was at in nineteen forty nine and her friends a little bank and you know was forced an actor builds strong chairman bess cheer their imam abu sara me was to win that election when you've got you've got was on one side there and then on the other split in your own party and then you know the hallowed time doing and still be one and only and she was she was absolutely in the military obviously she was ready to go home by the time i came home and she called the white house the great white jail which is again something that's been true throughout our history martha washington said people call me the first lady of the land that i think of myself as the chief of state prisoner so this is

a very tough job ah and people are watching your every year every minute you're every breath we are everything and m and she did it with such grace and i'm an eight and really has sent south dignity that the city really came to appreciate greatly and she was much missed when she left washington it was it was something that it again i can remember people talking about how were they missed their stream and the tv the korean war soldiers whom she had brought an constantly to him to bring into first play our house because that's where they were of course living until the white house was fixed and down and making sure that they were entertained and honored because of the service that they were performing she also made a tremendous difference

to the er cancer researchers say they're my age one of the first people to really lobby for that and think what a tremendous difference that is made and no in the study of cancer and the cure of cancer it's made a huge difference in my personal life i have been treated for cancer event i h and m i have s truman to thank for bringing for making that happen in the first place and she was the person as we celebrate and we absolutely have to celebrate and that's wonderful to celebrate the hundred and twenty fifth birthday of harry truman the next year we need to celebrate a hundred and twenty fifth birthday of bess truman because i think i think that it's very very important for the people who preserve and honor our presidents to understand the great

service that and so far it's just lives i'm sorry to say is like sunday of the husbands that their wives and families the great service that their wives and families also provide for this nation and so i am thrilled to be here to honor that service of this particular family the truman family but also the other families the united for unproven families but all of the families of the presidents of throughout our history because they have been great public servants along with the man who had been in the oval office so thank you very much rachel if you've been listening to npr senior news analyst cokie roberts sees the april twenty third two thousand nine fl wild about harry benefit for the truman library institute before that cliff dan truman daniel

the grandson of harry and bess truman thanks to a swank audio visual for making this audio available we begin this hour with suzanne mettler of the truman library and museum in independence missouri where they'll be celebrating harry truman's one hundred and twenty fifth birthday this thursday through saturday may seventh to ninth for more information about those events visit their website debbie you debbie you debbie you that truman library that oh archie that's debbie you debbie you debbie you that truman library that oh archie special thanks to suzanne mettler of the truman library and museum for her assistance with today's program we close this week's k pr presents with the words of harry s truman himself in the nineteen fifties the former president wrote and recorded an essay for edward armor us this i believe radio series dream and as it comes to us from pr x the public radio exchange

and now this i believe the living philosophies of thoughtful men and women presented in the hope that may strengthen your beliefs so that your life may be richer we're happier here is edward r morrow this i believe the former president harry s truman has been railroad land bank clerk fire artillery officer storekeeper judd senator and vice president on april twelve nineteen forty five and he was thrust into the immense responsibility of guiding his country sort of the korean war order for almost a year he was president of the united states' leading the world in efforts to secure peace it is my privilege to bring you the former president of the united states i believe in a moral code based on the ten commandments found in the twentieth chapter of accidents and on the fifty six and seven septa is the gospel according to

st matthew which is the sermon on the mount i believe that a man ought to live by those precepts and i followed him to do right i don't know whether i have followed the precepts or not but i'm trying i believe that the fundamental basis for a better life with family and friends is to treat others as you would like to be treated speak truthfully act honorably and keep commitments to the letter in public life i have always believed that right will prevail it has been my policy is to obtain the facts fall of facts possible then to make the decision in the public interest and to carry it out if the facts justify the decision at that time it is made it won't always be right a public man should not worry constantly about the verdict of history or what future generations will say about it he must live in the present like his decisions for the right on the facts as he sees them and

history will take care of itself and the republican ends must know the history and the background of the stage and his nation to enable him to come to a more narrow it to a proper decision in the public interest in my opinion a man in public life must think always of the public welfare he must be careful not to mix his private and personal interests with his public actions ethics of a public man must be an impeachable he must learn to reject unwise very important requests from friends and associates without losing their friendship our loyalty i believe that on the rights must be implemented in fact that it is the duty of every government state local or federal to preserve the rights of the individual i believe that a civil rights program as we must practice of the day involves not so much the protection of the people against the government but the protection of the people by the government and for this reason we must like the federal government a friendly vigilant defender of the right's inequalities of all

americans and that every man should be free to live his life as he wishes it should be limited only by his responsibility to his fellow i believe that we should remove the last barrier which would stand between millions of our people and their birthright there can be no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion or race or color i believe that to inspire the people of the world whose freedom is in jeopardy and restore hope to those who have already lost their civil liberties we must correct the remaining imperfections in our own democracy we no way we only need it will those were the personal beliefs of harry s truman and here's news a brand new this i believe board with one hundred new believes knowledge a bookstore ali's one hundred new beliefs at all from living men and women from all walks of life twenty other beliefs of immortals the twenty men and women selected from all history whose beliefs were most interest and help you the world's leading biographer of each immortal has written his belief from his own writings in st forward by what our

moral for yourself and for gift get bought into the new book this i believe that was president harry truman in an essay for the original this i believe radio series it comes to us from pr x the public radio exchange i'm kate mcintyre k pierre presents is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas many things is

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back the peaks boy thanks bob nico rosberg he's our he's things may go wrong when he's drawn that all the way i am seeing

lance's this is and it was to sanders mines that's right is it man

just listen that's right this is bill it is amy

head cheese sadly yes it is the

pope