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Yeah.

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50 writers polled by Newsweek, not one
of them thinks the president will win.

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50 for Dewey, zero for Truman.

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Dewey will win by a landslide.

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Listen, Harry Truman is a wild accident
of history, entering the White House

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only by the death of the immortal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Morning, Mr. President. Have a nice
walk? Good morning, Clark.

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Morning, Charlie.

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Morning, sir.

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Well, not a busy day, Ed. Yes.

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What's it say, Clark?

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What does what say?

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That Newsweek magazine you just hid
under your jacket.

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Well, um... Get along. Give it here.

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Yes, sir.

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When the press quits abusing me, I know
I'm in the wrong queue.

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Sorry, sir.

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Oh, don't you be sorry.

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You leave that to these so -called
experts.

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I know all 50 of these fellas. Not one
of them got sense enough to pound sand

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down a rat hole.

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What about the speech for today, Mr.
President?

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Thank you.

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Thank you all for coming.

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I came to you because our country is in
dire trouble.

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I'm here on a serious mission, and
because it is so serious, I propose to

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to you as plainly as I can. Instead of a
recession after the war, we have more

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jobs than ever before.

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No riots, no bloodshed, no workers
crying for jobs, no farmers starving,

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no veterans starving in the streets.
Why?

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Because we took care of them. But the
polls and the newspapers say you want to

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change all that. Well, I tell you.

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I just wonder how many times you have to
be hit on the head before you figure

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out who's hitting you. It is your future
we're fighting for. I must have your

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vote.

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Dear Beth, the general trend seems to be
I'm a very small man in a very

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large place.

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All the smart boys seem anxious to get
rid of me, including my own party.

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Sometimes I ask myself, why would any
man in his right mind want to be

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of the United States?

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I know you never wanted to be the wife
of a politician, but here you are

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onto a wild ride through history, and
sometimes I wonder, will you ever

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me?

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Thought I'd take the best for a drive.

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Is she here?

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I'm back here in the kitchen.

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If you're coming in, wipe your feet.

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Yes, ma 'am.

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Where'd he get the money?

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Buy an automobile?

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Must have cost a fortune. Couple of
thousand.

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We're in the war, Harry.

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A lot of money out there for the smart
boys.

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Well, hello, Harry.

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What are you doing off the farm?

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Can't be Sunday.

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Don't hear any bells. Ridiculous.

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Driving a car when they're missing
payments at the bank.

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Look at you.

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You got some new scheme on your mind.

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What is it this time?

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Well, I just had the idea in my mind
that we could take a little drive out in

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the country.

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Don't try to lie, Harry.

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You don't have the face for it.

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me to talk here she can't hear us

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i'm

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signing up for what the army we're in
the war didn't you read the president's

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speech it is a fearful thing to leave
this great peaceful people into the

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most terrible and disastrous of all wars
you're 33 harry They don't even draft

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men that age.

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Besides, they're blind as a bat.

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That man has courage.

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They're going to need every man they can
get.

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There's never been a fight in your life.

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You don't even like guns.

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Well, no matter how old, blind, or
untried I might be, I can't stay home

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be a slacker.

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Well, what about your sister and your
mother? Have you asked them? Have you

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them? They'll get along without me. And
besides, the war can't last that much

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longer now that America is in the fight.

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You're serious.

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Yes, I am.

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You are more stubborn than a Missouri
mule, and you got just about as much

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sense.

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Reckon we ought to get married, don't
you?

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What? Look, don't try to talk.

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I know you're too amazed.

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Jesus Christ.

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All these years, I have waited to hear
those words.

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You think buying an engagement ring on
borrowed money might be bad luck?

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I don't need an engagement ring.

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We're gonna get married.

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Let's do it now.

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We can't, Bess.

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I won't let Mother stand in our way
anymore.

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No, Nova.

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I don't mean that.

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You mustn't tie yourself to a man who
might not come back.

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Don't say that.

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I don't know. I can't do that to you.

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You're going to be all right, Harry.

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And I'm going to be right here.

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Fire some good hands, Mary Jane.

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Make them give you a day's work and no
backstab.

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We'll be all right.

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You be a good boy, Harry.

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Bye, Mom.

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Dizzy. Call Dizzy D.

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Irish traffic from Kansas City. You're
the fourth commander we've had this

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The last one lasted 90 days.

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Earth Catholic, Captain?

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No.

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Lieutenant,

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call the man to attention.

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Damn cigarette O 'Hare, you know better
than that get back to work

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Dear Beth, Battery D had their first
taste of battle.

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Nobody was killed or hurt, so the men
say I'm lucky and nothing can touch me.

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I was scared green like everybody else,
but I'm not letting them in on that

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little secret.

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Another fine day with news the war will
be over soon.

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Not soon enough for you and me.

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Call in these coordinates.

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Tell them to stand by for a fire
mission.

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Grid.

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Five, eight, seven, two, four.

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Yeah, we're behind their line.

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These are the 28th Division sector.
We're at our sector.

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Jim,

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I think we ought to let those boys in
the 28th get blown all to hell because

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it's not in our sector.

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It's standing order, Captain.

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It's the Colonel's standing order.

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I can think of better ways to make a
living than looking up a mule's ass,

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Corporal.

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Tell the gunners to fire at will.

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I just had to wait for the Germans to
leave the horses away.

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Fire at will.

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Don't cheer, boys.

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Poor bastards are dying.

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Bess Wallace is the only woman I ever
wanted to marry, ever since I first saw

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her in Sunday school in the fourth
grade.

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Today, you all share my dream come true.

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Morning,

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Harry.

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Ready to face the bright new day?

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There's still some logs upstairs.

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Martin Fred.

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Grandmother Gates.

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Vienna.

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Mother Wallace. Get Mr. Truman his
breakfast, Vienna.

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He must not be late to his place of
trade.

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Hey!

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Lieutenant Pendergast.

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I'll get back to Jim and Harry, Eddie.
Yeah, I like that.

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Harry!

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Come in here asking for Captain Truman.
It's a loan they're after.

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This way is Harry.

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We sold a silk shirt.

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Looks like Battery D's private clubhouse
in here. The corporal!

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George! Hey, Chuck, this is your last
round here now. Get on home to your

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family.

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Don't let them sucker you in. You can go
home in a barrel. How are you, Jim? I'm

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good, Harry.

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You tell me, having slogged through hell
to make the world safe for democracy,

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are you happy being a haberdasher?

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Well, yes, I am. I'm very happy. Are you
happy?

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Being a hack for boss Tom Pendergast?

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He'd like to meet you, Harry.

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Well, I don't think so.

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What does he want with me?

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Most people don't ask that question.

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Yes, I know they don't. And if they're
not careful, Tom Pendergast becomes

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real good friend.

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Well, there's one view.

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Listen, Harry, he's got a good heart for
the people.

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I told him about you.

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Well, Jim.

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Neither I nor my daddy had any luck at
farming.

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And a farmer needs luck, like he needs
rain and a crazy banker.

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I believe luck has finally come our way.

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Thank you, Vanna. That was delicious.

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Hey, Sid.

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You hear about your husband's veterans
reunion?

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There was a brawl.

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They called the cops.

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Harry paid the bail and all the damages
to the home.

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I'm delighted his business allows him
such extravagance, Beth.

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If things are going so well, I suppose
he could invest the money in a house.

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Well, anyway... Hold your tongue for it.

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I think you've said enough.

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Hey, if you're doing so good, maybe you
need a good man down at the store.

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He's not thinking of moving elsewhere,
is he?

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No.

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Not right now, Mother.

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What does that mean, not right now?

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I wouldn't mind working with a Jew.

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I would appreciate a little warning if
you meant plans.

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Be out there. Clear the table.

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Boys was just having a good time.

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Oh, I know. Natalie, though, a little
out of hand, that's all.

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Mother has got to get used to me being
married.

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She depends on me.

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But we're not going to live here
forever.

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Thanks fail as post -war boom times go
bust and financial panic spread.

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With factories closing, the unemployed
go hungry.

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And ex -workers line up to trade their
votes for food.

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You have your voter registration in
hand.

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Hey!

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Hey!

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Hey, you guys, get back inside!

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No more handouts!

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$35 ,000.

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How do we get so much in debt?

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We've got to file some bankruptcy.

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People trusted us enough to give us
credit. I'm not going to make them pay

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my failure.

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It was not the jail. It was the whole
damn country.

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I can't take bankruptcy.

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Well, then how can I?

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So much hope.

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What are you going to do?

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I don't know, Eddie.

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Shut up.

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Can I ask you something?

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Five years, we spent more time together
than with our wives.

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And all that time, you never had Bruma
meet at dinner at your house.

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No, we didn't.

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Is there a reason for that?

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Bess doesn't like Bruma.

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Is it because we're Jewish?

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No.

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I don't think so.

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I like Bloomer.

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Well.

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I'm sorry.

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Nobody except family comes to the
Wallace home.

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And not many of them.

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He's out of time.

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You're well respected, Harry. A veteran,
an honest businessman.

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Never heard boss Tom had much use for
honesty.

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Tom's got a use for everything.

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You take this to benefit her, it'll fix
you up.

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Who writes in black means do what you
can.

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Stop that damn bottle. Who writes in red
means just do it.

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Uncle T .J.

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This is Captain Truman.

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How come everybody likes you so damn
much?

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3 ,465 simoleons per annum.

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How can you be a judge?

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Yes, no education in law.

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Not a law judge, mother.

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More a county commissioner.

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You'd be one of three, right, Harry?

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If I got elected?

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One of Boss Tom's boys.

257
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,480
Tom Pendergast is a common thief.

258
00:21:08,140 --> 00:21:14,960
Well, I don't intend to be a thief. I
made it clear that

259
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,940
if I ran... You know my opinion.

260
00:21:18,260 --> 00:21:19,580
Politics cheapens the map.

261
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,140
Mother, please don't.

262
00:21:22,740 --> 00:21:27,620
Mr. Wallace had no trouble in his life
till he ran for public office.

263
00:21:29,020 --> 00:21:35,520
Well, a man has to keep his head, not
breathe the hot air, and

264
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:36,560
avoid the graft.

265
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:45,040
You think you're special enough to
survive influences that have weakened

266
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:46,040
destroyed others?

267
00:21:46,410 --> 00:21:48,010
But far more qualities than you.

268
00:21:55,590 --> 00:21:56,590
What did I say?

269
00:21:57,730 --> 00:21:58,730
Give me.

270
00:22:11,310 --> 00:22:12,310
Miss.

271
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I'm sorry.

272
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mean to set her off.

273
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,460
I just got to make a decision.

274
00:22:22,060 --> 00:22:26,120
With the star going under and the baby
coming.

275
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,620
They found it in the bathtub.

276
00:22:32,180 --> 00:22:36,240
Yes. The bullet when my father killed
himself.

277
00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:39,400
It went through his head.

278
00:22:48,910 --> 00:22:49,910
Listen to me.

279
00:22:51,190 --> 00:22:53,050
I've got to pay off the store debts.

280
00:22:54,590 --> 00:22:57,910
I've got Mother and Mary Jane to take
care of as well as us here.

281
00:22:59,470 --> 00:23:00,730
I think I can do this.

282
00:23:01,410 --> 00:23:03,870
I think I'm strong enough to handle it.

283
00:23:07,150 --> 00:23:08,290
I know you are.

284
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,480
If you really don't want me to run, I
won't.

285
00:23:21,140 --> 00:23:24,920
I knew this young man before he was
born.

286
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:31,960
Farmer, businessman, veteran, and the
next eastern judge of Jackson County,

287
00:23:32,220 --> 00:23:34,540
Captain Harry M.

288
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,140
speaker, is he? He only needs one man
for it.

289
00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:21,220
Firstly, I am for good roads.

290
00:24:23,460 --> 00:24:28,020
And the best part of it is, no farmer
will be more than two miles from a good

291
00:24:28,020 --> 00:24:30,480
road. Here's Tom. Tell him the rest.

292
00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:35,640
Now, believe me, I know firsthand what
being near a good road means to a man

293
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who's trying to get his crop to market.

294
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,140
I did a little work on the map here to
give you an idea of what I'm talking

295
00:24:41,140 --> 00:24:42,140
about.

296
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,380
I'm in need of the support of both of
you. I think Judge Vrooman and I have

297
00:24:45,380 --> 00:24:46,380
same question.

298
00:24:48,460 --> 00:24:50,820
Well, the answer is it'll cost $6 .5
million.

299
00:24:51,540 --> 00:24:54,680
We'll take it to the people and raise it
with a bond issue. I don't think that's

300
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,620
a question that Judge Barr and I had in
mind.

301
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,360
$6 .5 million, they'll just say I want
to steal it.

302
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:02,940
Nobody's going to steal anything.

303
00:25:03,540 --> 00:25:07,400
Contracts go only to legitimate low
bidders who can do the job.

304
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,940
Now, all three of us have to approve it
to get the bond issue on the ballot.

305
00:25:14,060 --> 00:25:15,240
Can I count on your support?

306
00:25:20,420 --> 00:25:24,020
Judge Barr, Judge Vrooman, ride back to
town with me. Frank, you see if Judge

307
00:25:24,020 --> 00:25:25,020
Crum will give you that.

308
00:25:25,220 --> 00:25:26,220
All right.

309
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:33,720
What's the matter, Judge?

310
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:37,480
Didn't you get what you wanted?

311
00:25:49,450 --> 00:25:50,450
Tom's boys.

312
00:25:51,870 --> 00:25:53,330
Can you tell me what happened here?

313
00:25:53,670 --> 00:25:54,670
Nothing.

314
00:25:55,150 --> 00:25:56,150
Roads are good.

315
00:25:56,750 --> 00:25:57,790
They're made of concrete.

316
00:25:58,350 --> 00:25:59,350
Good choice.

317
00:26:00,190 --> 00:26:01,530
Tom's got a concrete company.

318
00:26:05,350 --> 00:26:06,770
If only I were John D.

319
00:26:06,990 --> 00:26:09,030
Rockefeller, I'd make this county the
world's paradise.

320
00:26:11,950 --> 00:26:13,670
Maybe I could buy her her own crib.

321
00:26:14,210 --> 00:26:15,210
Margaret's not complaining.

322
00:26:30,490 --> 00:26:31,490
Harry?

323
00:26:33,130 --> 00:26:36,870
If you think Barr and Brewer are an
investment in county funds, why don't

324
00:26:36,870 --> 00:26:37,429
see them?

325
00:26:37,430 --> 00:26:40,390
Well, I saw them. They said just what I
thought they'd say. They passed the

326
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:41,470
buck. They said, go see Tom.

327
00:26:41,670 --> 00:26:42,770
You know what the cardinal said?

328
00:26:43,290 --> 00:26:44,290
This loyalty.

329
00:26:44,950 --> 00:26:46,550
Politics is the business of friends.

330
00:26:47,070 --> 00:26:50,170
Well, does that mean I'm supposed to let
your friends steal $10 ,000?

331
00:26:50,570 --> 00:26:55,250
$10 ,000? Is that what this yelling is
about? I don't care if it's $10 ,000 or

332
00:26:55,250 --> 00:26:58,990
$10 million. Tom, I told you when I
agreed to run, I wasn't going to stand

333
00:26:58,990 --> 00:26:59,959
any monkey business.

334
00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:02,340
You will stand for what I tell you. No,
sir.

335
00:27:02,620 --> 00:27:05,380
I don't work for you. I work for the
people of this county. If you keep

336
00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:08,240
believing that, you'll be back selling
shirts going broke. Don't you threaten

337
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,520
me. I'll go to the damn powerhouse if I
have to.

338
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,160
You see what a stubborn son of a bitch
you brought into this organization?

339
00:27:14,620 --> 00:27:15,980
He don't even like money.

340
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:19,620
So, what are you going to do?

341
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,540
Well, it's the taxpayers' money.

342
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,080
They might like to read about who's
getting it.

343
00:27:25,580 --> 00:27:26,580
You do that?

344
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,760
The bond issue won't pass. Your roads
won't get built.

345
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,500
I'll take that chance.

346
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,120
No chance to it.

347
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:35,440
It'll happen.

348
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,720
Now, are you going to be righteous and
save the county $10 ,000?

349
00:27:40,140 --> 00:27:44,980
Are you going to give it $6 .5 million
worth of good roads, not one of more

350
00:27:44,980 --> 00:27:46,200
two miles away from a farm?

351
00:27:47,860 --> 00:27:49,200
That's the choice you've given me.

352
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:51,840
That's the choice you gave yourself.

353
00:28:00,620 --> 00:28:02,960
This horse is a six -year -old. Oh, it's
a beauty.

354
00:28:08,540 --> 00:28:09,540
Harry,

355
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,220
what's the matter?

356
00:28:17,580 --> 00:28:19,760
Sons of bitches, Vrooman and Barr are
thieves.

357
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,620
They're stealing money from the rogue
fund.

358
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,080
Barr is worse than that. He's an
adulterer.

359
00:28:26,670 --> 00:28:30,090
A man who can't be loyal to his wife and
family can't be trusted anywhere.

360
00:28:31,650 --> 00:28:32,910
Get Tom to fire him.

361
00:28:33,230 --> 00:28:35,570
Oh, I told him what they're doing. He
knows. He doesn't care.

362
00:28:36,550 --> 00:28:37,750
Listen to yourself, Harry.

363
00:28:38,490 --> 00:28:40,290
Getting yourself all tied up in knots.

364
00:28:41,050 --> 00:28:42,430
Hell, am I any better than them?

365
00:28:43,010 --> 00:28:46,470
Put my own drunken brother along a
public payroll just to keep peace in the

366
00:28:46,470 --> 00:28:47,470
family.

367
00:28:48,130 --> 00:28:49,550
I didn't ask you to do that.

368
00:28:50,050 --> 00:28:53,870
You made the choice to go into politics,
and I said I'd support you. But if this

369
00:28:53,870 --> 00:28:55,750
is what it's going to do to you, I won't
support you.

370
00:29:00,650 --> 00:29:02,070
I dove into a cesspool.

371
00:29:02,590 --> 00:29:03,590
Quit.

372
00:29:07,010 --> 00:29:10,750
Can't farm, failed at business, can't
dance, don't sing.

373
00:29:12,050 --> 00:29:16,670
I have to let Noah count sons of bitches
to you so that I can do something that

374
00:29:16,670 --> 00:29:17,670
needs doing.

375
00:29:19,350 --> 00:29:21,250
Does that make me just another crook?

376
00:29:23,130 --> 00:29:24,610
Or just another politician?

377
00:29:28,810 --> 00:29:33,010
An historic bondage who passes and an
ambitious new road program is born.

378
00:29:33,370 --> 00:29:37,850
Judge H .S. Truman, whose baby this is,
seems like a proud papa as construction

379
00:29:37,850 --> 00:29:38,850
begins.

380
00:29:39,670 --> 00:29:45,890
I'm told that even Pendergast Concrete
had to submit a bid.

381
00:29:46,170 --> 00:29:47,170
Ain't you heard yet?

382
00:29:47,530 --> 00:29:49,010
Ain't you heard either?

383
00:29:49,210 --> 00:29:53,110
The stubbornest contrary Missouri mule
this side of the Mississippi.

384
00:29:53,910 --> 00:29:55,790
Ain't you heard about my boy Truman?

385
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,620
If you use... Fire machine!

386
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,640
Mama said they're not going to let you
be judge anymore.

387
00:30:25,220 --> 00:30:29,120
Well, two terms is all they let you
have. I'm going to have to get another

388
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,720
Didn't you plant trees along here?

389
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,500
The farmers cut them down for firewood.
What kind of job?

390
00:30:36,020 --> 00:30:37,920
Well, I don't know, Miss Skinny.

391
00:30:39,020 --> 00:30:41,940
Tell them I've been thinking about
something and I want to talk to you

392
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,100
I gave this county sewers.

393
00:30:44,970 --> 00:30:48,450
A decent cart house and $6 .5 million in
new roads.

394
00:30:49,290 --> 00:30:51,770
Not all Pendergast concrete, but a hell
of a lot of it.

395
00:30:52,430 --> 00:30:54,030
When your people made a fair bid.

396
00:30:54,510 --> 00:30:57,170
Now, I am damn good at what I do.

397
00:30:57,430 --> 00:30:59,950
And you know it, or you would have got
rid of me years ago.

398
00:31:01,590 --> 00:31:04,850
Tom, there is so much more to be done.

399
00:31:06,190 --> 00:31:09,730
What I did for the county, I want a
chance to do for the state.

400
00:31:11,150 --> 00:31:12,150
As governor.

401
00:31:23,150 --> 00:31:24,250
What happened with Tom?

402
00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:27,790
Tom doesn't think I'm heavy enough for
the job.

403
00:31:28,910 --> 00:31:30,730
I don't belong in the major leagues.

404
00:31:34,770 --> 00:31:36,470
After all you've done for this county?

405
00:31:37,530 --> 00:31:39,170
After all his talk about loyalty?

406
00:31:40,070 --> 00:31:41,810
Tom's loyal to his pocketbook.

407
00:31:42,310 --> 00:31:44,150
Never a damn racehorse in Missouri.

408
00:31:45,690 --> 00:31:46,930
Can you run without him?

409
00:31:48,510 --> 00:31:50,310
50 years old, no money.

410
00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:53,970
I'll go out of office poorer than when I
went in.

411
00:31:55,390 --> 00:31:58,690
Don't even have my own house. There's no
way I can run without him.

412
00:32:00,070 --> 00:32:02,890
Well, I'm glad.

413
00:32:03,790 --> 00:32:04,850
You'll be your own man.

414
00:32:05,610 --> 00:32:09,170
You won't have to worry anymore about
what the boss thinks or wants or has in

415
00:32:09,170 --> 00:32:10,170
store for you.

416
00:32:13,030 --> 00:32:15,290
I don't care if you have to dig ditches.

417
00:32:38,030 --> 00:32:43,430
Listen, Harry, I think I might have come
up with something for you. Well, that's

418
00:32:43,430 --> 00:32:44,550
damn decent of you, Tom.

419
00:32:45,610 --> 00:32:46,850
What is it, dog catcher?

420
00:32:47,870 --> 00:32:49,450
How'd you like to run for the U .S.
Senate?

421
00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:55,090
I got these three other fellas I asked.
They couldn't do it for one reason or

422
00:32:55,090 --> 00:32:56,090
another.

423
00:32:56,870 --> 00:32:58,530
Got one more fella I can go to.

424
00:33:00,970 --> 00:33:02,950
I need an answer, Harry.

425
00:33:08,270 --> 00:33:10,270
Jesus Christ and General Jackson.

426
00:33:12,310 --> 00:33:13,710
The answer is yes.

427
00:33:15,030 --> 00:33:16,030
Let's go.

428
00:33:45,070 --> 00:33:45,929
Senators only.

429
00:33:45,930 --> 00:33:47,430
Well, I am a senator.

430
00:33:47,850 --> 00:33:48,829
From Missouri.

431
00:33:48,830 --> 00:33:49,829
Let him in, Jimmy.

432
00:33:49,830 --> 00:33:50,830
He's the real thing.

433
00:33:51,770 --> 00:33:52,770
Sam Rayburn.

434
00:33:54,590 --> 00:33:56,070
Vice President Garner here.

435
00:33:56,390 --> 00:33:57,390
Well, of course.

436
00:33:57,630 --> 00:33:58,489
Harry Truman.

437
00:33:58,490 --> 00:33:59,670
You look a little lost.

438
00:34:00,190 --> 00:34:01,330
Well, I guess I am.

439
00:34:01,910 --> 00:34:05,410
First six months, you wonder how you got
here. After that, you wonder how the

440
00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:06,830
hell the rest of these guys got here.

441
00:34:07,350 --> 00:34:09,250
You and your wife found a place to live?

442
00:34:10,370 --> 00:34:11,929
Best went home to take care of family.

443
00:34:13,449 --> 00:34:15,570
Truth is, she didn't like it much in
Washington.

444
00:34:15,909 --> 00:34:18,570
Well, she'll get used to it. They mostly
do.

445
00:34:19,989 --> 00:34:21,469
Well, uh... Well,

446
00:34:30,449 --> 00:34:33,510
Jimmy, there goes the Honorable Senator
from Pendergast.

447
00:34:36,409 --> 00:34:37,870
President Roosevelt, please.

448
00:34:38,909 --> 00:34:40,310
This is Senator Truman.

449
00:34:42,699 --> 00:34:44,060
Truman, senator from Missouri.

450
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:48,239
What is it regarding?

451
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:56,340
Tell the president that I'm not going to
be pushed around like an office boy. I

452
00:34:56,340 --> 00:35:00,460
expect the consideration and courtesy
the office of a senator is entitled to.

453
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,860
Tell him if he wants to discuss my vote
to call me not Tom Pendergast.

454
00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:11,040
Dear Bess, I've moved from the apartment
you hated.

455
00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,640
into a men's hotel that's a whole lot
cheaper.

456
00:35:14,140 --> 00:35:17,560
So tell Miss Skinny I can raise her
allowance back up to 50 cents.

457
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,120
The nation's business doesn't seem to
need much from the senator from

458
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,000
Pendergast, but there are a few good
friends of the working man at a regular

459
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,600
poker game in Speaker Rayburn's office.

460
00:35:28,260 --> 00:35:31,420
They help me get through the nights and
days when you are not here.

461
00:35:32,220 --> 00:35:34,840
The war in Europe is on all our minds.

462
00:35:35,260 --> 00:35:37,080
I'm afraid we're going to be in it.

463
00:35:37,460 --> 00:35:39,680
The only question is, how soon?

464
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:52,120
December 7th, 1941, a date which will

465
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:58,780
live in infamy. The United States of
America was suddenly and deliberately

466
00:35:58,780 --> 00:36:04,120
attacked by naval and air forces of the
Empire of Japan.

467
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:12,080
But time demands giants, and America has
them in abundance.

468
00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:16,960
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, chosen to
lead our boys in Europe.

469
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,680
General Douglas MacArthur, hero of the
Pacific.

470
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:26,460
And the General of Generals, George
Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff

471
00:36:26,460 --> 00:36:27,500
architect of victory.

472
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,740
With titans such as these, how can we
fail to win?

473
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:41,280
I've put over 30 ,000 miles on the
family Chrysler visiting factories.

474
00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:43,060
Army bases.

475
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,120
Anywhere we're supposed to be making
arms and ammunition for the war.

476
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:53,080
What I saw scared the dickens out of me.

477
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,580
I saw weight.

478
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,060
One of you boys check me to the
construction headquarters?

479
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:00,680
You're at it.

480
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:02,960
Well,

481
00:37:04,380 --> 00:37:05,580
when do you boys start working?

482
00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:10,620
Hell, we've been here for four months
now. I am asking the Senate.

483
00:37:11,310 --> 00:37:17,130
to investigate the National Defense
Program and the way the government does

484
00:37:17,130 --> 00:37:18,130
business.

485
00:37:18,470 --> 00:37:25,150
Will you agree, sir, that a cost overrun
of 1 ,000 % is excessive?

486
00:37:25,570 --> 00:37:27,170
Senator, there's a war on it.

487
00:37:27,510 --> 00:37:33,170
We thought speed and volume were more
important to the war effort than

488
00:37:33,170 --> 00:37:36,730
pennies. Well, that must be why you
quadrupled your own salary.

489
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:44,380
Now, your company knowingly sold
defective... Excuse me, Senator. I never

490
00:37:44,380 --> 00:37:47,480
knowingly. Well, we will find out who
knew what knowingly before this

491
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:48,439
is finished.

492
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:54,440
Now, Mr. Perry, do you inspect your
aircraft engines before you ship them

493
00:37:55,580 --> 00:37:59,220
Yes, sir. We try. And who reads those
inspection reports?

494
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,540
They are reviewed by our executive
committee.

495
00:38:03,580 --> 00:38:07,580
So either your inspectors lied to you,
or...

496
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,500
You are lying to us here today.

497
00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:12,580
Is that correct, sir?

498
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,560
Why would your inspectors lie to you?

499
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,940
Senator, this word lying... Do you know
a better one?

500
00:38:22,180 --> 00:38:25,480
Well, I'll use the word fib if you like.
It doesn't mean a damn to me.

501
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:27,920
What does matter is that your engines
failed.

502
00:38:29,260 --> 00:38:34,260
And the airplanes they powered crashed,
and the young men that flew them died.

503
00:38:36,110 --> 00:38:41,010
Senator, we are conducting an internal
audit to find out the problem and be

504
00:38:41,010 --> 00:38:42,310
certain it never happens again.

505
00:38:42,690 --> 00:38:48,770
You know, Jesse James had to get up
early in the morning and risk his life

506
00:38:48,770 --> 00:38:52,790
to rob the Rock Island Railroad of $3
,000.

507
00:38:54,490 --> 00:38:59,290
Now, you can see what a piker he was
next to some fine gentleman with their

508
00:38:59,290 --> 00:39:02,450
three secretaries and endless lawyers
stealing millions.

509
00:39:02,650 --> 00:39:05,130
Now, I don't know anything about your
line of work, sir.

510
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,600
But I do know when there's a bunch of
crookedness that's going on here.

511
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,280
That is plain enough for me to see, sir.

512
00:39:18,380 --> 00:39:20,840
We'll take a short recess at this time.

513
00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:37,620
Salus Populi Suprema Est.

514
00:39:38,260 --> 00:39:39,260
Translate in sight.

515
00:39:39,820 --> 00:39:42,240
The people's good is the highest law.

516
00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:48,460
Cicero's Oration, Miss Ardelia Hardin's
High School Latin. Will you excuse me,

517
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:50,320
gentlemen? My old friend, Charlie Roth.

518
00:39:51,620 --> 00:39:55,440
Well, I heard you were here from the
post -dispatch. We'll have our school

519
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:56,620
reunion in due time, Senator.

520
00:39:56,940 --> 00:39:58,840
Right now, I thought you ought to see
this.

521
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,300
Do you know anything about a project
called Manhattan?

522
00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:05,569
No, I don't.

523
00:40:06,290 --> 00:40:09,130
All I know is every time I've asked a
question about it, I got a blank wall.

524
00:40:09,750 --> 00:40:12,330
What's more, people seem scared.

525
00:40:13,470 --> 00:40:14,470
I've been threatened.

526
00:40:14,910 --> 00:40:15,910
It's all in here.

527
00:40:16,310 --> 00:40:18,010
I want an exclusive story of it, real.

528
00:40:21,330 --> 00:40:22,670
Okay, Charlie, I'll take a look.

529
00:40:23,490 --> 00:40:24,490
Now you're off duty.

530
00:40:25,750 --> 00:40:29,350
Beth is up from Independence. She'll
have a fit when she finds out you're

531
00:40:29,350 --> 00:40:30,308
and you haven't called.

532
00:40:30,310 --> 00:40:32,110
Maybe she'll still have you for dinner.

533
00:40:32,590 --> 00:40:33,590
I'd like that, Senator.

534
00:40:35,860 --> 00:40:38,020
Okay, Charlie, I gotta get back to work.

535
00:40:42,220 --> 00:40:44,780
Sir, Secretary Stimson will see you now.

536
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:53,880
Afternoon, Mr.

537
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:55,080
Secretary.

538
00:40:56,860 --> 00:40:59,000
I've asked General Marshall to join us,
Senator.

539
00:40:59,620 --> 00:41:03,180
Senator, General, I've never forgiven
you for turning me down.

540
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,460
Senator wanted to relist after Pearl
Harbor. General, uh, pointed out that I

541
00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:12,740
a little long in the tooth for... I
asked you to join us, General Marshall,

542
00:41:12,820 --> 00:41:15,520
because the senator has some report
about Manhattan.

543
00:41:17,380 --> 00:41:18,800
How did you get this information?

544
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:20,780
Well, that's privileged.

545
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,040
That is not.

546
00:41:25,340 --> 00:41:30,280
Sir, that envelope will be staying here
with me in the office of the Secretary

547
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,280
of War.

548
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,700
The word Manhattan...

549
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,960
is not to be spoken anywhere.

550
00:41:37,940 --> 00:41:39,320
This is a war secret.

551
00:41:40,140 --> 00:41:44,700
So important, we can't even investigate
you to find out how you learned of it.

552
00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:50,680
Now, if you believe what you say in your
Senate speeches and your service in the

553
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,940
war, you'll forget you ever heard the
word Manhattan.

554
00:41:57,420 --> 00:42:02,860
Investigator Truman, it is remarkable,
says here, The transformation of Harry

555
00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:09,260
Truman from pendergast errand boy, watch
that stuff, to able, energetic

556
00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:10,360
committee chairman.

557
00:42:10,620 --> 00:42:12,100
Truman is scrupulously honest.

558
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,180
His only vice is being poker and the
occasional glass of bourbon. What do

559
00:42:16,180 --> 00:42:17,180
mean, occasional?

560
00:42:17,580 --> 00:42:19,160
Now, you all just hush.

561
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,280
I'm seriously worried about that man's
hat size.

562
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:26,460
How do you like Washington, Mr. Truman?

563
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,360
You mean except for the climate and the
people?

564
00:42:31,060 --> 00:42:33,480
Mr. Hannigan, I think like Harry.

565
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,040
If you want a friend in Washington, get
a dog.

566
00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:47,380
Harry, what about Manhattan?

567
00:42:47,860 --> 00:42:48,960
Is there a story in it?

568
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,980
It's just an island in New York,
Charlie. No story at all.

569
00:42:54,820 --> 00:42:55,820
Ready?

570
00:43:02,350 --> 00:43:03,590
You sang real pretty tonight.

571
00:43:03,930 --> 00:43:04,930
Thank you.

572
00:43:05,150 --> 00:43:06,230
That, Miss Skinny.

573
00:43:06,490 --> 00:43:07,490
That, Dad.

574
00:43:11,030 --> 00:43:12,710
Why was Bob Hannigan here?

575
00:43:14,070 --> 00:43:15,670
He's a Democratic Party chairman.

576
00:43:16,010 --> 00:43:17,010
I know that.

577
00:43:17,070 --> 00:43:18,090
What does he want?

578
00:43:19,590 --> 00:43:23,570
They're looking for someone to run for
vice president with Roosevelt.

579
00:43:23,850 --> 00:43:25,570
They want a vote -getter on the ticket.

580
00:43:25,950 --> 00:43:29,890
Why? They can't possibly think Roosevelt
could lose an election.

581
00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:35,600
He's already been president 12 years.
There's a lot to believe that's too

582
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,380
Vice President Wallace scares the hell
out of people that think he's a

583
00:43:39,380 --> 00:43:40,380
communist.

584
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:42,260
Have they asked you?

585
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:50,140
A lot of possibilities are too liberal,
too conservative, too Catholic, too

586
00:43:50,140 --> 00:43:53,460
old, too racist. That's not what I asked
you.

587
00:43:54,740 --> 00:43:57,780
I told him I'm happy where we are.

588
00:43:59,210 --> 00:44:04,010
Have no desire to be vice president. I
mean it and that's all there is to it

589
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,860
to be vice president, I'm perfectly
happy in the Senate. Mrs. Truman,

590
00:44:32,860 --> 00:44:34,880
you like to see the senator help out the
ticket?

591
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,320
He said no, and I believe him. He said
two. Look out, boys. He's the boss.

592
00:44:38,540 --> 00:44:40,700
What about the draft, sir? Would you
support the draft?

593
00:44:40,980 --> 00:44:44,080
Harry. There's a draft. Senator. Harry,
I've been waiting for you. Bob's got to

594
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:48,460
talk to you. I have already told Bob
Hannigan all I've got to say, which is

595
00:44:48,540 --> 00:44:50,920
and to stop that. Please, Harry. He's on
my back.

596
00:44:52,220 --> 00:44:53,840
He's waiting for you at the hotel.

597
00:45:08,270 --> 00:45:09,690
Help yourself to a drink, Harry.

598
00:45:10,370 --> 00:45:11,650
I don't want a drink, Bob.

599
00:45:11,950 --> 00:45:12,950
What's this all about?

600
00:45:13,950 --> 00:45:14,950
Tell him he's here.

601
00:45:15,970 --> 00:45:18,290
Bob? How is Chicago, Bob?

602
00:45:19,670 --> 00:45:21,310
Well, it's very hot here, Mr. President.

603
00:45:21,750 --> 00:45:23,110
Are all the fellows there?

604
00:45:24,030 --> 00:45:25,110
Yes, Mr. President.

605
00:45:25,450 --> 00:45:27,070
We're all here and we're all unanimous.

606
00:45:27,970 --> 00:45:31,350
Marvelous. And that fellow Truman has
agreed to be on the ticket.

607
00:45:32,690 --> 00:45:35,330
No, sir. He's being stubborn as a
Missouri mule.

608
00:45:35,830 --> 00:45:37,050
Would you like to talk to him, sir?

609
00:46:43,980 --> 00:46:44,980
had no choice.

610
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:46,800
I mean, I didn't.

611
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,040
Again.

612
00:46:53,460 --> 00:46:57,900
Broadway goes wild. A roaring sea of
frenzied humanity greets the news.

613
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,660
Commentator H .P. Kelton Bourne makes
the dramatic announcement.

614
00:47:00,980 --> 00:47:03,980
The results are now conclusive.
Roosevelt wins.

615
00:47:04,980 --> 00:47:09,380
The Roosevelt smiles of victory are
clouded as fierce German counterattacks

616
00:47:09,380 --> 00:47:12,860
stall American troops, and the war
grinds on in Europe.

617
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,440
And the scientist, sir? Yes, General
Groves.

618
00:47:20,140 --> 00:47:21,640
Absolutely. Oh, yes.

619
00:47:23,180 --> 00:47:27,020
Just a moment, Senator.

620
00:47:27,300 --> 00:47:28,300
Mr. Vice President.

621
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:29,580
Mr. Vice President.

622
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:34,640
Sorry. These fellows are filling me in
on a couple of things, but I've warned

623
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,180
them they're not to interfere with our
luncheon together.

624
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:38,740
Mr. Vice President.

625
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:40,640
General.

626
00:47:41,260 --> 00:47:44,040
A committee of yours is worth two
divisions to me.

627
00:47:46,220 --> 00:47:47,220
Well, thank you, General.

628
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,560
Harry, take off your jacket. It's
stifling today.

629
00:47:57,860 --> 00:47:58,860
Yes, it is.

630
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:05,640
Thank you.

631
00:48:06,420 --> 00:48:13,340
Well, there are many things that I want
to discuss. Your wife, is she enjoying

632
00:48:13,340 --> 00:48:14,340
Washington?

633
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:19,160
Talked about nothing.

634
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,120
His hands didn't stop shaking.

635
00:48:23,620 --> 00:48:25,060
Couldn't even bar his coffee.

636
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,560
Anyone can see he's dying.

637
00:48:28,420 --> 00:48:29,480
Don't say that.

638
00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:31,960
No. No one will say it.

639
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,680
Dad, Mother, Charlie's here.

640
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,540
Tom Pendergast has passed away.

641
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:46,980
If you like, I'll...

642
00:48:47,310 --> 00:48:49,050
Quietly slip your respects to the
family.

643
00:48:51,010 --> 00:48:52,510
When and where is the funeral?

644
00:48:52,790 --> 00:48:56,410
Harry, the Vice President of the United
States does not pay respects to a

645
00:48:56,410 --> 00:48:57,410
convicted criminal.

646
00:48:57,970 --> 00:48:59,770
You don't know him, do you?

647
00:49:00,050 --> 00:49:01,450
The press will crucify you.

648
00:49:02,070 --> 00:49:04,390
Damn it, you're not some county judge
anymore. You're Vice President.

649
00:49:04,990 --> 00:49:07,950
Well, I wouldn't be Vice President if it
wasn't for Tom.

650
00:49:10,030 --> 00:49:12,150
In gratitude, Charlie, the Cardinal
Finn.

651
00:49:15,820 --> 00:49:21,040
An era passes as Tom Pendergast, ruler
of Missouri politics until federal

652
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:25,980
charges of corruption sent him to jail,
is laid to rest in private graveside

653
00:49:25,980 --> 00:49:30,160
ceremonies attended only by family and
Vice President Harry Truman.

654
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:33,840
Don't know.

655
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,500
Mr. Rayburn, the Board of Education and
Petting.

656
00:49:38,340 --> 00:49:39,820
Take a view, Brother Truman.

657
00:49:40,140 --> 00:49:41,940
Send any funerals lately, Harry?

658
00:49:43,380 --> 00:49:47,980
Well, the VP's only got two duties
senator getting you no accounts prayed

659
00:49:47,980 --> 00:49:53,720
every morning the Senate and God knows
you need it I'm going to funeral just

660
00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:59,220
same. It was a damn fool thing to do
When Tom got out of prison he was broke

661
00:49:59,220 --> 00:50:04,600
Even his wife wouldn't speak to him He
never asked me for anything.

662
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,540
He could have but he didn't so I paid
him. I respected my friend I'll drink to

663
00:50:09,540 --> 00:50:10,540
him. You don't have to

664
00:50:15,690 --> 00:50:18,210
Mr. Vice President, we're all looking
for you, sir.

665
00:50:20,230 --> 00:50:21,250
Call 4545.

666
00:50:24,430 --> 00:50:25,430
It's the White House.

667
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:15,280
The president is dead.

668
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:23,300
Mrs. Roosevelt, is there anything I can
do for you?

669
00:51:24,380 --> 00:51:27,300
Is there anything we can do for you?

670
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,600
You are the one in trouble now.

671
00:51:37,540 --> 00:51:39,920
Do we have a Bible? There's one here
someplace.

672
00:51:40,220 --> 00:51:41,300
Well, find it, dammit.

673
00:51:42,380 --> 00:51:44,640
This country is without a president.
Yes, sir.

674
00:52:29,390 --> 00:52:31,970
Raise your right hand and repeat after
me, please.

675
00:52:32,850 --> 00:52:35,690
I, Harry Shipp Truman.

676
00:52:38,710 --> 00:52:41,210
I, Harry S. Truman.

677
00:52:42,070 --> 00:52:43,570
Do solemnly swear.

678
00:52:44,470 --> 00:52:45,810
Do solemnly swear.

679
00:52:46,510 --> 00:52:51,310
That I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United

680
00:52:52,890 --> 00:52:57,010
That I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United

681
00:52:58,590 --> 00:53:03,090
And will, to the best of my ability. And
will, to the best of my ability.

682
00:53:03,970 --> 00:53:08,530
Preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States.

683
00:53:09,530 --> 00:53:14,930
Preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States.

684
00:53:15,410 --> 00:53:16,590
So help you God.

685
00:53:17,270 --> 00:53:18,430
So help me God.

686
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:45,120
I don't know if any of you ever had a
load of hay fall on you, but...

687
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:52,080
Right now, I feel like the

688
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,900
moon, the stars, and all the planets
have fallen on me.

689
00:54:03,860 --> 00:54:05,400
Don't expect too much of me.

690
00:54:44,460 --> 00:54:50,920
With great humility, I call upon all
Americans to help me keep our nation

691
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:56,600
in defense of those ideals so eloquently
proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt.

692
00:54:57,340 --> 00:55:04,180
I want in turn to assure my fellow
Americans and all those who love

693
00:55:04,180 --> 00:55:09,780
peace and liberty throughout the world
that I will support and defend those

694
00:55:09,780 --> 00:55:12,680
ideals with all my strength.

695
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:14,920
and with all my heart.

696
00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:29,180
At this moment, I have in my heart a
prayer.

697
00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:37,060
As I have assumed my duties, I humbly
pray Almighty God in the words of King

698
00:55:37,060 --> 00:55:38,060
Solomon.

699
00:55:39,050 --> 00:55:45,330
Give, therefore, thy servant an
understanding heart to judge thy people,

700
00:55:45,330 --> 00:55:47,730
may discern between good and bad.

701
00:55:48,570 --> 00:55:55,130
I ask only to be a good and faithful
servant of my Lord

702
00:55:55,130 --> 00:55:57,730
and of my people.

703
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,280
Mrs. Roosevelt says it's haunted.

704
00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:26,500
Hello.

705
00:56:27,940 --> 00:56:29,360
It's all right.

706
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:55,920
Kick it.

707
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:01,200
Listen.

708
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,420
What? There's Andy Jackson and Teddy
Roosevelt.

709
00:57:13,220 --> 00:57:15,580
Arguing over Teddy's cousin Franklin.

710
00:57:19,690 --> 00:57:22,990
Jefferson and Lincoln.

711
00:57:25,730 --> 00:57:27,510
Talking about the new occupant.

712
00:57:33,510 --> 00:57:35,410
I can't hear myself, Bess.

713
00:57:37,250 --> 00:57:39,350
You will.

714
00:57:40,710 --> 00:57:44,910
But it's going to take a lot of Bon Amé
to make this place livable.

715
00:57:45,330 --> 00:57:46,330
Well, let...

716
00:57:47,530 --> 00:57:51,090
That creaking in the floor, that's just
the floorboards. Need to be nailed down

717
00:57:51,090 --> 00:57:52,470
tight to the joists, that's all.

718
00:57:55,230 --> 00:57:57,990
What this place needs is a good
carpenter.

719
00:58:00,650 --> 00:58:04,130
After all this time, our first, Harry.

720
00:58:05,530 --> 00:58:06,550
Our own house.

721
00:58:07,629 --> 00:58:09,850
Charlie, Beth thinks you'd make a hell
of a press secretary.

722
00:58:10,190 --> 00:58:11,330
Oh, Jesus, no, Harry.

723
00:58:11,570 --> 00:58:13,950
You can't say no to Beth. I'm appointing
Frank here as secretary.

724
00:58:14,330 --> 00:58:15,330
Secretary of what?

725
00:58:15,370 --> 00:58:16,370
Just secretary.

726
00:58:16,490 --> 00:58:18,770
Franklin's staff all look at me like a
skunk at a wedding.

727
00:58:19,410 --> 00:58:21,270
I need some Missouri around me real
quick.

728
00:59:22,350 --> 00:59:27,330
Mr. President, I hope you understand why
it was necessary for me to... You did

729
00:59:27,330 --> 00:59:30,930
your duty as you understood it to be.
You had no reason to trust me.

730
00:59:32,390 --> 00:59:37,050
Now, we don't have to like each other to
work together. I'd prefer it if we did,

731
00:59:37,170 --> 00:59:40,930
but what will be necessary is that we
trust each other.

732
00:59:42,550 --> 00:59:47,970
Now, I saw how you guarded the nation's
interest, and I trust that.

733
00:59:49,490 --> 00:59:51,010
Yes, I agree with that.

734
00:59:51,980 --> 00:59:54,360
So we might stop all the bullshit and
get down to business.

735
00:59:56,580 --> 00:59:57,580
Dismissed.

736
01:00:00,540 --> 01:00:06,780
Within four months, the Manhattan
Project will have completed the most

737
01:00:06,780 --> 01:00:08,960
weapon in human history.

738
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:20,680
Well, uh, how does it work?

739
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:22,098
What's it made of?

740
01:00:22,100 --> 01:00:23,560
It's an atomic bomb.

741
01:00:24,100 --> 01:00:25,460
It's made from uranium.

742
01:00:26,460 --> 01:00:30,980
By bringing together a few pounds of
refined uranium in the right conditions,

743
01:00:30,980 --> 01:00:34,940
spontaneously transforms itself into
pure energy.

744
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,140
It's the same process that powers the
sun.

745
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:42,580
It could vaporize an entire city.

746
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:45,200
Instantly.

747
01:00:45,620 --> 01:00:47,320
Do the Germans know about this?

748
01:00:47,540 --> 01:00:49,940
We believe they tried to make one and
failed.

749
01:00:50,990 --> 01:00:53,090
The Russians have no idea of this
success.

750
01:00:53,910 --> 01:00:56,610
Well, for God's sake, let's keep them in
the dark.

751
01:00:58,270 --> 01:01:03,450
Mrs. Truman, what qualities do you think
would be the greatest asset to the wife

752
01:01:03,450 --> 01:01:04,089
of the president?

753
01:01:04,090 --> 01:01:06,890
Good health and sense of humor.

754
01:01:08,550 --> 01:01:11,970
Do you think there'll ever be a woman
president of the United States?

755
01:01:12,970 --> 01:01:13,970
No.

756
01:01:14,190 --> 01:01:16,050
Would you want to be president?

757
01:01:16,850 --> 01:01:19,310
No. Would you ever want Margaret to be
first lady?

758
01:01:19,790 --> 01:01:20,790
No.

759
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,540
If you had a son, would you try to raise
him to be president?

760
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:27,240
No. Mrs. Roosevelt liked to meet with us
once a week.

761
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,500
How often will you be holding your press
conferences, Mrs. Truman?

762
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,040
This will be my last one.

763
01:01:33,140 --> 01:01:34,940
Well, how will we ever get to know you?

764
01:01:35,460 --> 01:01:36,680
You don't need to know me.

765
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,060
Anybody know what day this is?

766
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:48,300
Well, I knew there was some plot going
on.

767
01:01:49,420 --> 01:01:52,960
I better start blowing before this old
firetrap bursts into flames.

768
01:01:53,300 --> 01:01:54,300
That's right.

769
01:01:55,980 --> 01:01:58,060
Oh, my God, it's a Republican.

770
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:01,280
I'll take care of that rascal.

771
01:02:01,700 --> 01:02:02,920
I'll call in the Marines.

772
01:02:03,900 --> 01:02:05,760
Go on. Go on.

773
01:02:06,100 --> 01:02:07,760
There he goes. He's gone.

774
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:10,940
Your Marines ought to be elsewhere.

775
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:14,660
Maybe with Dad.

776
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:33,040
Many, many more.

777
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:41,520
Were you surprised?

778
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:43,440
Well, yes, I was.

779
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:45,640
You got me.

780
01:02:49,340 --> 01:02:51,720
Sweetheart, I think Margaret and I are
going to go home for the summer.

781
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,460
That's not really good for her to be
here in this goldfish bowl.

782
01:02:56,820 --> 01:02:58,540
And I'm a no -birth lead to you.

783
01:03:04,620 --> 01:03:05,620
It's just not true.

784
01:03:06,340 --> 01:03:09,080
Well, yeah, we'll be out of your way and
you can get more work done.

785
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,600
Nina, mother, she's already started her
spring cleaning and those storm windows,

786
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:16,100
they gotta come down. I gotta talk to
that Walter Johnson man about painting

787
01:03:16,100 --> 01:03:17,740
house and spring planting.

788
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:21,320
Well, I need you here.

789
01:03:25,060 --> 01:03:30,260
Harry, you're in that office or in
meetings seven days a week.

790
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,720
Kiss in and wheel in and kicking people
to get them to do what they ought to do

791
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:36,360
Anyway, you don't need me for that.

792
01:03:36,940 --> 01:03:41,920
I wouldn't be good at any of it Even if
anybody here ever listened to what a

793
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:44,780
woman had to say anyway I'm gonna get I

794
01:03:44,780 --> 01:03:51,280
Need

795
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:54,340
to see the dog would bloom

796
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,840
It's all happened so fast. She needs
time she'll come around

797
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:15,000
Yes

798
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:22,060
Thank

799
01:04:22,060 --> 01:04:30,040
God

800
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,620
that's wonderful news. Thank you

801
01:05:10,730 --> 01:05:17,370
I just wanted to say thanks for the
delicious cake.

802
01:05:19,090 --> 01:05:21,450
I got plenty left here if anybody wants
a piece.

803
01:05:25,740 --> 01:05:29,940
Oh, well, I didn't mean to interrupt
your work here. I'll just leave it here

804
01:05:29,940 --> 01:05:30,940
you.

805
01:05:33,140 --> 01:05:35,780
I've cooked for every president since
Mr. Coolidge.

806
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,520
You're the first one since him ever came
down here.

807
01:05:39,300 --> 01:05:42,000
He just came to make sure we weren't
giving any food away.

808
01:05:48,820 --> 01:05:54,800
I got a message a few minutes ago
that...

809
01:05:56,350 --> 01:06:01,730
Well, it was the best birthday present
that I could ever have gotten.

810
01:06:02,190 --> 01:06:06,170
I think it might be on this radio here
right now. Do you mind?

811
01:06:26,410 --> 01:06:28,310
My grandson is still in the Pacific.

812
01:06:31,670 --> 01:06:34,470
Well, we're going to get him home, too.

813
01:06:36,470 --> 01:06:38,210
Just as fast as I'm able.

814
01:06:39,430 --> 01:06:40,430
Thank you, sir.

815
01:06:41,470 --> 01:06:42,470
Good night.

816
01:06:42,830 --> 01:06:43,830
Good night.

817
01:06:44,590 --> 01:06:45,770
Peace in Europe.

818
01:06:48,550 --> 01:06:53,290
With victory in Europe accomplished,
President Truman arrives in Berlin to

819
01:06:53,290 --> 01:06:54,290
the post -war peace.

820
01:06:54,860 --> 01:06:57,280
with Premier Stalin and Prime Minister
Churchill.

821
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:03,560
There is not one piece of territory or
one thing of a monetary nature that we

822
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:04,560
want out of this war.

823
01:07:06,660 --> 01:07:09,360
The German nation is right to war.

824
01:07:09,700 --> 01:07:12,220
The British must share it with the
Soviet Union.

825
01:07:12,500 --> 01:07:15,260
That issue will be discussed by our
foreign ministers.

826
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:20,760
If all questions are left to our
ministers, what will we discuss?

827
01:07:21,100 --> 01:07:22,840
Romania, Bulgaria.

828
01:07:23,610 --> 01:07:27,230
You agree that these nations would have
democratic governments?

829
01:07:27,470 --> 01:07:31,330
If the government is not fascist, then
it is democratic.

830
01:07:33,970 --> 01:07:40,970
Dear Beth, we are three old men walking
in a graveyard, planning a brave new

831
01:07:40,970 --> 01:07:44,690
world, and we're haggling like a bunch
of old women.

832
01:07:45,950 --> 01:07:49,710
This head of mine should have been
bigger and better proportioned.

833
01:07:50,410 --> 01:07:54,250
There ought to have been more brain and
a larger bump of ego or something to

834
01:07:54,250 --> 01:07:57,010
give me an idea that can be a number one
man in the world.

835
01:07:59,870 --> 01:08:00,870
Mr. President.

836
01:08:07,150 --> 01:08:08,150
Manhattan.

837
01:08:08,530 --> 01:08:09,950
The baby is born.

838
01:08:10,770 --> 01:08:14,370
We're in the Russian zone. The Russians
prepared this house. I suggest we speak

839
01:08:14,370 --> 01:08:15,370
outside.

840
01:08:22,670 --> 01:08:24,710
will be ready by the end of the first
week in August.

841
01:08:25,090 --> 01:08:27,850
The Japs know they're licked. Why won't
they quit?

842
01:08:28,310 --> 01:08:32,410
Well, their strategy is to prolong the
war, no matter what the cost, until we

843
01:08:32,410 --> 01:08:34,090
agree to let the Emperor stay on the
throne.

844
01:08:34,790 --> 01:08:36,630
They'll prolong it by any means
necessary.

845
01:08:37,630 --> 01:08:42,310
They just will not surrender. Some of
the scientists who developed the bomb

846
01:08:42,310 --> 01:08:43,770
believe that it should never be used.

847
01:08:44,529 --> 01:08:45,529
Is that so?

848
01:08:46,470 --> 01:08:48,529
Well, what the hell do they think we
built it for?

849
01:08:49,210 --> 01:08:50,550
We can't un -invent it, Henry.

850
01:08:52,330 --> 01:08:55,569
What about the idea of setting one off
for the deaf to see? What happened to

851
01:08:55,569 --> 01:08:56,569
that idea?

852
01:08:56,649 --> 01:08:59,410
Mr. President, I can only speak to the
military question.

853
01:09:00,850 --> 01:09:03,890
We must use overwhelming force to crush
the Japanese army.

854
01:09:05,090 --> 01:09:06,550
Destroy their will to make war.

855
01:09:14,149 --> 01:09:15,310
Press Secretary Ross?

856
01:09:16,270 --> 01:09:18,250
Yeah. The President would like to see
you, sir.

857
01:09:19,310 --> 01:09:21,270
It's pronounced Irashima.

858
01:09:22,470 --> 01:09:25,029
If you're going to remove it from the
face of the earth, you ought to know how

859
01:09:25,029 --> 01:09:26,029
to say it.

860
01:09:26,170 --> 01:09:30,250
I didn't call on you for cheap sarcasm,
Charlie. I was hoping for common sense.

861
01:09:30,609 --> 01:09:31,750
They're telling you how many dead?

862
01:09:33,270 --> 01:09:37,830
Oppenheimer, the chief scientist for the
bomb, says it might kill as many as 30

863
01:09:37,830 --> 01:09:38,830
,000 people.

864
01:09:39,930 --> 01:09:43,609
With regular weapons, the firebombing of
Dresden killed 30 ,000 in one night.

865
01:09:44,029 --> 01:09:45,529
Tokyo is utterly gone.

866
01:09:45,810 --> 01:09:47,029
There's almost everyone in it.

867
01:09:47,609 --> 01:09:49,229
They figure 100 ,000 dead there.

868
01:09:49,609 --> 01:09:53,830
Seems to me if there is a... Moral point
of no return, you've long since passed

869
01:09:53,830 --> 01:09:54,830
it.

870
01:09:57,510 --> 01:10:01,810
If I don't drop the bomb, so many more
of our young men will die in the

871
01:10:01,810 --> 01:10:02,810
of Japan.

872
01:10:04,210 --> 01:10:06,290
Their men, too, and women and children.

873
01:10:08,250 --> 01:10:12,430
How could I face the people when it's
finally over and say that I had the

874
01:10:12,430 --> 01:10:14,710
to possibly end the war long ago?

875
01:10:16,370 --> 01:10:20,010
Spare the lives of their loved ones, and
I chose not to use it.

876
01:10:24,430 --> 01:10:26,710
How could I look them in the face and
tell them that?

877
01:10:28,110 --> 01:10:31,170
Harry, you didn't come to me for common
sense. You came to me for forgiveness.

878
01:10:32,510 --> 01:10:33,930
Do what you have to do.

879
01:10:35,270 --> 01:10:36,350
I'll still be your friend.

880
01:10:37,190 --> 01:10:39,030
But this is changing the course of
history.

881
01:10:41,070 --> 01:10:43,070
You clinched the victory in the Pacific.

882
01:10:44,350 --> 01:10:45,610
But you sold the whirlwind.

883
01:10:50,219 --> 01:10:55,400
Sixteen hours ago, an American airplane
dropped an atomic bomb, letting loose

884
01:10:55,400 --> 01:11:00,520
the basic power of the universe on
Hiroshima, an important Japanese army

885
01:11:00,820 --> 01:11:03,060
And it was totally destroyed.

886
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,740
There has been no word from Japan.

887
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:08,680
No sign of surrender.

888
01:11:10,660 --> 01:11:14,420
We have more of these bombs, and we will
keep on dropping them.

889
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:19,840
We will obliterate completely every
productive enterprise the Japanese have

890
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:20,840
above ground.

891
01:11:21,060 --> 01:11:25,820
We will destroy their docks, their
factories, and their communications.

892
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,320
We will completely destroy them.

893
01:11:29,660 --> 01:11:35,240
If they do not now accept our terms for
surrender, they will get a rain of ruin

894
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:39,360
from the air the like of which has never
before been seen on this earth.

895
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:57,460
a solemn agreement whereby peace may be
restored.

896
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:04,860
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the
hope of all mankind, that from this

897
01:12:04,860 --> 01:12:08,880
occasion a better world shall emerge out
of the flood.

898
01:12:30,220 --> 01:12:31,220
What a wonderful day.

899
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:33,160
Well, that's a great hat.

900
01:12:34,300 --> 01:12:35,780
Miss Kinney. Hi, Dad.

901
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:38,160
Everybody, everybody.

902
01:12:39,060 --> 01:12:41,840
The boss is up for me in the bandits to
make it official.

903
01:12:43,260 --> 01:12:46,540
Here's your old -fashioned, ma 'am. I
had Alonzo fix it for you just the way

904
01:12:46,540 --> 01:12:47,680
like it. Well, thank you, Frank.

905
01:12:47,900 --> 01:12:49,760
The president and I don't like fruit
punch.

906
01:12:50,580 --> 01:12:51,580
That's right.

907
01:12:51,900 --> 01:12:53,340
Oh, that's good.

908
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:55,780
It's got a kick to it like a Missouri
mule.

909
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:02,360
And a little more bourbon. Ladies and
gentlemen, a toast.

910
01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:10,660
Maybe once every thousand years the
human race gets a chance to start

911
01:13:10,660 --> 01:13:11,660
over.

912
01:13:12,140 --> 01:13:16,000
I believe we have been given that
chance.

913
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:24,020
I'm going to take the atomic power out
of the hands of the military and talk to

914
01:13:24,020 --> 01:13:26,440
the scientists about how to use it for
peaceful.

915
01:13:27,639 --> 01:13:29,280
Now, just think of it.

916
01:13:31,380 --> 01:13:37,740
If we don't make a mistake, what a
paradise we could make of this world.

917
01:13:40,540 --> 01:13:45,140
With the world at peace and our armies
back home, weapons and ammunition no

918
01:13:45,140 --> 01:13:47,860
longer needed for war are dumped at sea
or burned.

919
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:52,780
Detroit turns out the first new
automobile in five years on assembly

920
01:13:52,780 --> 01:13:53,780
once produced tanks.

921
01:13:54,330 --> 01:13:58,110
With victory behind him, President
Truman wastes no time bringing his

922
01:13:58,110 --> 01:13:59,110
to Congress.

923
01:14:03,710 --> 01:14:05,770
Hello. Good to see you, Mr. President.

924
01:14:06,650 --> 01:14:08,430
John, good to see you.

925
01:14:10,150 --> 01:14:12,510
Welcome, gentlemen and madam.

926
01:14:13,370 --> 01:14:18,010
The president has an announcement of
special importance because of recent

927
01:14:18,010 --> 01:14:19,290
in the South and elsewhere.

928
01:14:23,850 --> 01:14:24,749
Thank you.

929
01:14:24,750 --> 01:14:25,750
Morning.

930
01:14:29,090 --> 01:14:35,610
We believe that all men are created
equal and have the right to equal

931
01:14:35,610 --> 01:14:36,610
under the law.

932
01:14:37,470 --> 01:14:43,570
Therefore, I have written an executive
order to correct a great injustice

933
01:14:43,570 --> 01:14:50,470
and lay the foundation for civil rights
laws that secure those rights to men of

934
01:14:50,470 --> 01:14:52,230
all colors and creeds.

935
01:14:52,830 --> 01:14:56,030
In all places and at all times.

936
01:14:57,190 --> 01:15:01,030
Damn it, why in God's name do they have
to put niggers in with white boys in the

937
01:15:01,030 --> 01:15:02,030
army?

938
01:15:02,150 --> 01:15:04,070
And into federal employment.

939
01:15:04,890 --> 01:15:08,790
Gentlemen, the president has come down
here to explain his views.

940
01:15:09,710 --> 01:15:12,330
My family had southern leanings and
southern feelings.

941
01:15:12,670 --> 01:15:14,910
I damn near joined the Ku Klux Klan.

942
01:15:15,210 --> 01:15:18,750
Tom Pendergast talked me out of it
because the Klan was anti -Catholic, but

943
01:15:18,750 --> 01:15:22,880
I... Here, the Negro soldiers we're
sending out to fight and die for their

944
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:26,360
country get dumped out of armored trucks
and beaten in Mississippi.

945
01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:31,920
Mob gangs in Georgia shoot Negroes, and
the law knows about it and does nothing.

946
01:15:31,940 --> 01:15:32,940
My stomach turns over.

947
01:15:35,420 --> 01:15:39,880
Whatever my inclinations as a native of
Missouri might have been, as president,

948
01:15:39,900 --> 01:15:42,840
I know this is bad. It is an evil of the
worst kind.

949
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:48,200
I'm going to try to stop it, and that's
all there is to it.

950
01:15:49,350 --> 01:15:54,190
What beats me is how a man as smart as
Franklin Roosevelt can make a damn

951
01:15:54,190 --> 01:15:55,750
haberdasher his vice president.

952
01:15:58,470 --> 01:16:05,150
If we must grind up human flesh and
bones in the industrial machine

953
01:16:05,150 --> 01:16:11,790
that we call modern America, we owe
protection to those men first, and we

954
01:16:11,790 --> 01:16:14,550
the security for their families if they
die.

955
01:16:14,850 --> 01:16:18,150
I say it. I voice it. I proclaim it.

956
01:16:18,490 --> 01:16:24,250
And I care not who in heaven or hell
opposed it. I am the representative of

957
01:16:24,250 --> 01:16:25,250
million people.

958
01:16:26,030 --> 01:16:31,770
I cannot stand idly by for they are
caused to suffer by reason of the coal

959
01:16:31,770 --> 01:16:36,970
miners and the railroad men going on
strike. I request Congress to authorize

960
01:16:36,970 --> 01:16:42,510
president to draft into the army all
workers who are on strike against their

961
01:16:42,510 --> 01:16:43,510
government.

962
01:16:43,650 --> 01:16:44,650
In Europe.

963
01:16:45,050 --> 01:16:47,630
One -time allies fall to communist
aggression.

964
01:16:49,930 --> 01:16:56,830
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in
the Adriatic, an iron

965
01:16:56,830 --> 01:16:59,110
curtain has descended across the
continent.

966
01:17:12,590 --> 01:17:15,770
They're closer to war in Europe than at
any time since 1939.

967
01:17:16,950 --> 01:17:19,470
If we recognize the Jewish state, the
Arabs will attack.

968
01:17:19,810 --> 01:17:22,650
Jews don't have an army. We'll have to
protect them. With what?

969
01:17:23,210 --> 01:17:26,550
We don't have the men, we don't have the
weapons, and we can't take what we do

970
01:17:26,550 --> 01:17:30,670
have out of Europe. And Stalin would
view the creation of a Jewish state as a

971
01:17:30,670 --> 01:17:34,510
perfect opportunity to try and drive a
wedge between Iran and the West.

972
01:17:36,630 --> 01:17:37,630
Clark.

973
01:17:37,970 --> 01:17:39,070
This is a, uh...

974
01:17:40,390 --> 01:17:44,470
This is a foreign policy briefing, Mr.
President. What is Clifford doing here?

975
01:17:45,350 --> 01:17:48,730
He's the White House counsel. I asked
him to be here, General. Well, if you'll

976
01:17:48,730 --> 01:17:52,870
excuse me, sir, I believe Mr. Clifford's
interest is in the Jewish vote.

977
01:17:53,210 --> 01:17:56,430
Well, now, wait a minute. Let's just see
what he has to say here.

978
01:17:56,730 --> 01:17:57,730
Clark?

979
01:17:58,470 --> 01:18:03,450
No matter what the State Department or
anybody else thinks, we are faced with

980
01:18:03,450 --> 01:18:05,690
the actual fact that there is to be a
Jewish state.

981
01:18:07,250 --> 01:18:10,510
Recognition. of that state would embody
everything that this country represents.

982
01:18:11,870 --> 01:18:15,450
Not only the establishment of a friendly
democracy in an unstable part of the

983
01:18:15,450 --> 01:18:21,130
world with no democratic tradition, but
the creation of a safe haven for people

984
01:18:21,130 --> 01:18:24,690
whose suffering is so vast as to stupefy
the human mind.

985
01:18:27,490 --> 01:18:29,350
Well, George, he's right.

986
01:18:31,070 --> 01:18:32,070
And you're right.

987
01:18:34,210 --> 01:18:35,210
And Dean's right.

988
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:47,440
Well, sir, I must tell you that if you
allow politics

989
01:18:47,440 --> 01:18:53,640
to determine foreign policy, then were I
to vote, I would vote against you in

990
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:54,640
November.

991
01:18:57,960 --> 01:18:59,900
And I have nothing more to add to this.

992
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:04,400
Oh, excuse me.

993
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,400
Well, that was rough as a cob. Let him
resign.

994
01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:19,040
It's hard enough dealing with your
friends. Why put up with open rebellion?

995
01:19:21,740 --> 01:19:22,740
Dear Beth.

996
01:19:34,460 --> 01:19:35,460
Harry?

997
01:19:38,900 --> 01:19:39,920
Your sister called.

998
01:19:42,920 --> 01:19:46,680
Grandma was alive when there were still
slaves in the United States.

999
01:19:48,720 --> 01:19:52,260
Santa's son off to the war that was
supposed to end all wars.

1000
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:54,820
She saw the birth of the atomic age.

1001
01:20:05,380 --> 01:20:07,700
Beth, I'm not going to run for another
term.

1002
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:11,340
I'm going to do what I think needs doing
and...

1003
01:20:11,630 --> 01:20:15,750
Finish it out and then we'll come home
for good like you always wanted.

1004
01:20:18,230 --> 01:20:20,850
When are you going to stop making
promises you can't keep?

1005
01:20:22,390 --> 01:20:23,390
You'll run it.

1006
01:20:24,030 --> 01:20:25,030
You'll have to.

1007
01:20:27,230 --> 01:20:28,230
According to who?

1008
01:20:29,150 --> 01:20:30,570
Not the Democratic Party.

1009
01:20:33,090 --> 01:20:34,570
I thought this would please you.

1010
01:20:36,370 --> 01:20:39,010
Well, you can please me by stopping
thinking you can read my mind.

1011
01:20:41,070 --> 01:20:42,070
You'll run.

1012
01:20:42,370 --> 01:20:46,270
Because you have to be president in your
own right. You know that.

1013
01:20:46,690 --> 01:20:52,770
If you quit now, just like it's been all
an accident.

1014
01:20:54,430 --> 01:20:56,150
Roosevelt dying before his time.

1015
01:20:58,850 --> 01:21:04,850
And I'm not going to live out my days
watching some old man sit around

1016
01:21:04,850 --> 01:21:07,790
he was nothing but an accident.

1017
01:21:12,300 --> 01:21:13,760
What are you doing here on Saturday?

1018
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,000
For your desk.

1019
01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:17,420
Got it from a fella in Texas.

1020
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:21,120
The buck stops here.

1021
01:21:21,460 --> 01:21:22,740
How about that? That's right.

1022
01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:25,320
And I got another surprise for you.

1023
01:21:25,660 --> 01:21:26,940
Eddie Jacobson.

1024
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:33,060
How are you, Harry?

1025
01:21:33,380 --> 01:21:35,460
Good. How's your looking well?

1026
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:37,600
You too. Sit down, sit down.

1027
01:21:43,630 --> 01:21:44,630
How's the family?

1028
01:21:44,850 --> 01:21:48,410
Well, paid off the last claim from my
share of the store last year.

1029
01:21:49,290 --> 01:21:50,350
We're fine, Harry.

1030
01:21:50,610 --> 01:21:51,489
Good, good.

1031
01:21:51,490 --> 01:21:52,490
Mr. President.

1032
01:21:54,450 --> 01:21:56,170
Some people have asked me to talk to
you.

1033
01:21:56,890 --> 01:21:57,890
Great people.

1034
01:21:58,270 --> 01:21:59,270
Great Jews.

1035
01:21:59,810 --> 01:22:02,870
Who are building a homeland in
Palestine.

1036
01:22:03,570 --> 01:22:08,670
Yes, well, uh... I've already spoken out
on that.

1037
01:22:11,370 --> 01:22:14,110
We know you're under great pressure from
some powerful interests.

1038
01:22:15,070 --> 01:22:18,910
Well, the Zionists have been in here
making their case, and the more I say

1039
01:22:18,910 --> 01:22:20,570
for them, the more pressure I get.

1040
01:22:20,870 --> 01:22:23,530
They can't take yes for an answer.

1041
01:22:24,030 --> 01:22:25,590
It's not a thing to joke about.

1042
01:22:26,490 --> 01:22:29,470
Well, of course it's no joke. You don't
have to tell me that.

1043
01:22:31,170 --> 01:22:35,090
I'm about to lose the support of the one
man in government the world needs most

1044
01:22:35,090 --> 01:22:39,230
over this single issue. The issue is
Arab oil and Jewish blood.

1045
01:22:39,490 --> 01:22:40,490
Oil?

1046
01:22:41,390 --> 01:22:42,750
You think that's what I care about?

1047
01:22:43,250 --> 01:22:44,250
Big business.

1048
01:22:44,670 --> 01:22:48,790
Low gas prices. Jewish blood. Now,
where's the right and wrong in that?

1049
01:22:49,470 --> 01:22:50,750
Eddie, you know me.

1050
01:22:52,830 --> 01:22:55,030
I will make a decision when I'm ready.

1051
01:22:55,870 --> 01:22:57,470
And it'll be my best bet.

1052
01:22:59,190 --> 01:23:00,990
But not everybody's going to like it.

1053
01:23:02,690 --> 01:23:04,330
And what happens if you're wrong?

1054
01:23:06,090 --> 01:23:07,570
Then I'll make another decision.

1055
01:23:10,010 --> 01:23:11,010
Doesn't it have a name?

1056
01:23:11,370 --> 01:23:12,370
It's supposed to be penciled in.

1057
01:23:13,070 --> 01:23:14,430
Yes, well, it's not here.

1058
01:23:15,670 --> 01:23:20,090
Do I have to... Can I just write it in
here, or does it have to be typewritten?

1059
01:23:20,310 --> 01:23:23,370
Just write it in. With my pen, Mr.
President.

1060
01:23:32,710 --> 01:23:37,930
State of Israel.

1061
01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:46,220
in your mother's womb, but this one.

1062
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:51,880
General Marshall.

1063
01:23:55,580 --> 01:23:58,160
I'm sorry we disagreed, General.

1064
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:05,760
I would hope that we still have a future
together where we won't disagree again.

1065
01:24:07,500 --> 01:24:11,340
Sir, one does not resign because a
president whose job is to make decisions

1066
01:24:11,340 --> 01:24:12,340
makes one.

1067
01:24:44,380 --> 01:24:46,140
You did the advance work, Vassar.

1068
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:48,300
Where's the crowd? What crowd? It's a
reunion.

1069
01:24:48,540 --> 01:24:52,500
Family only. Look at Harry. He's like a
kid. This is the President of the United

1070
01:24:52,500 --> 01:24:55,640
States. He's making an important speech.
It's an election year. You don't like

1071
01:24:55,640 --> 01:24:56,619
the way I do things?

1072
01:24:56,620 --> 01:24:57,640
Take it up with the boss.

1073
01:25:00,180 --> 01:25:01,500
All right, all right.

1074
01:25:02,420 --> 01:25:03,440
They have ordered the boss.

1075
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:25,540
Take your seats.

1076
01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:33,840
The children of Europe will die in
greater numbers than in the war

1077
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:39,860
unless we immediately undertake her
economic recovery.

1078
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:47,220
With the Marshall Plan, we will be the
first great nation in all the history of

1079
01:25:47,220 --> 01:25:53,800
the world to feed and support our former
enemies as well as our friends.

1080
01:25:54,120 --> 01:26:00,540
On next January 20, there will begin in
Washington the biggest unraveling,

1081
01:26:00,540 --> 01:26:05,420
unsnarling, untangling operation in our
nation's history. Election year gathers

1082
01:26:05,420 --> 01:26:08,680
momentum with Republicans solidly behind
Governor Dewey.

1083
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:13,900
President Truman's popularity plummets,
and party leaders look to heroes of the

1084
01:26:13,900 --> 01:26:14,980
war to replace him.

1085
01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:18,020
My politics can be summed up in one
phrase.

1086
01:26:19,140 --> 01:26:23,980
God bless America. I am a soldier. I
belong to the Army.

1087
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:26,360
And the Army is truly national.

1088
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:31,840
It lives to serve the nation, and nobody
else, no party... The convention begins

1089
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:34,300
in chaos and infighting.

1090
01:26:45,770 --> 01:26:47,770
not be crucified on the cross of civil
rights.

1091
01:26:47,990 --> 01:26:51,090
This is a naked effort to reduce the
white man to a mongrel race.

1092
01:26:51,370 --> 01:26:56,870
We'll nominate our own candidates and
bid Harry S. Truman and the Democrat

1093
01:26:56,870 --> 01:26:57,870
farewell.

1094
01:26:59,810 --> 01:27:04,310
Ballot after ballot, the search for a
new leader of the demoralized Democrats

1095
01:27:04,310 --> 01:27:06,350
goes far into the night.

1096
01:27:06,590 --> 01:27:07,590
Tell of it.

1097
01:27:08,390 --> 01:27:09,390
Coast to coast.

1098
01:27:10,290 --> 01:27:11,290
First time ever.

1099
01:27:12,630 --> 01:27:14,910
Not anyone's going to see you at 2 o
'clock in the morning.

1100
01:27:17,450 --> 01:27:20,470
Damn parties on some kind of suicidal
jag.

1101
01:27:21,850 --> 01:27:22,850
It's crazy.

1102
01:27:25,970 --> 01:27:32,090
Maybe I can wake him up.

1103
01:28:19,440 --> 01:28:24,120
I just want to say that for the next
four years, we're going to be a Democrat

1104
01:28:24,120 --> 01:28:25,380
the White House. You're looking at him.

1105
01:28:27,860 --> 01:28:32,240
We will win because we are right and
they are wrong.

1106
01:28:32,940 --> 01:28:38,240
The do -nothing Republican Congress, the
worst in history, say they are for

1107
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:45,180
education, civil rights, health
insurance for everybody who's sick,

1108
01:28:45,180 --> 01:28:47,740
for the working man, low taxes.

1109
01:28:48,730 --> 01:28:51,770
the things that I sent up to them and
which they refused to pass.

1110
01:28:52,430 --> 01:28:55,830
Well, if they are for these things, I'm
going to give them a chance to prove it.

1111
01:28:56,030 --> 01:29:01,630
I am therefore calling this Congress
back into session on the 26th of July,

1112
01:29:01,630 --> 01:29:05,530
if the Republicans really mean what they
say, they can prove it by passing the

1113
01:29:05,530 --> 01:29:06,770
legislation we gave them.

1114
01:29:14,910 --> 01:29:17,150
This is H .P. Caldenborn speaking.

1115
01:29:17,770 --> 01:29:20,870
from the New York studios of the
National Broadcasting Company.

1116
01:29:21,230 --> 01:29:25,950
While Governor Dewey barely bothers to
campaign, President Truman is on a

1117
01:29:25,950 --> 01:29:30,730
whistle -stop crusade, begging for votes
wherever he can find them. This is your

1118
01:29:30,730 --> 01:29:34,150
fight. I'm just waking you up to the
fact that it is your fight.

1119
01:29:34,450 --> 01:29:37,610
You better get out there and help me win
this fight, or you're going to be the

1120
01:29:37,610 --> 01:29:38,650
loser, not I.

1121
01:29:39,550 --> 01:29:44,350
This Republican Congress has already
stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back.

1122
01:29:44,530 --> 01:29:45,770
It's a sad tale.

1123
01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:49,260
of the sellout of the people to these
gluttons of privilege.

1124
01:29:49,620 --> 01:29:55,220
These cold men who skim the cream from
our natural resources to satisfy their

1125
01:29:55,220 --> 01:29:55,978
own greed.

1126
01:29:55,980 --> 01:29:59,240
You cannot afford to waste your vote
this year.

1127
01:29:59,480 --> 01:30:05,880
I must have your help. The country
cannot afford another Republican

1128
01:30:17,470 --> 01:30:18,950
Yes, why are we stopping?

1129
01:30:25,310 --> 01:30:26,310
Hey!

1130
01:30:27,050 --> 01:30:30,290
Train's not moving, so we get paid up in
cash.

1131
01:30:31,110 --> 01:30:32,110
You'll get paid?

1132
01:30:32,470 --> 01:30:34,410
We got people waiting for the president
up ahead.

1133
01:30:34,690 --> 01:30:37,350
What's the matter with you anyway? You
ought to be honored to be driving this

1134
01:30:37,350 --> 01:30:38,350
man's train.

1135
01:30:38,610 --> 01:30:42,830
Bullshit. This is the same guy who was
going to draft railroad men into the

1136
01:30:42,830 --> 01:30:43,830
to break the strike.

1137
01:30:43,990 --> 01:30:46,490
Now he wants us to work for nothing all
over again?

1138
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:49,960
I already sent my absentee ballot.

1139
01:30:57,020 --> 01:30:59,660
Could I have your attention, please?

1140
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:01,200
Thank you.

1141
01:31:02,260 --> 01:31:06,080
The leaders of the Democratic Party have
read the polls.

1142
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:11,320
And they have told me that they do not
want to throw good money away on a

1143
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:12,320
hopeless quest.

1144
01:31:12,460 --> 01:31:14,980
So they have stopped paying for the
train.

1145
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:20,400
the issue here.

1146
01:31:20,700 --> 01:31:25,040
What is important is that the president
can take his case to the people and let

1147
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:26,380
the people make a choice.

1148
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:32,200
So with your help, I'm going to pass the
hat and let's see if we can keep this

1149
01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:34,780
train running. All right? All right.

1150
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:41,200
I told my fellow party members that if
Moses had waited on the polls, he'd

1151
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:42,260
be waiting in Egypt.

1152
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:04,160
Roosevelt was a great man.

1153
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:15,200
I'm here on a serious mission.

1154
01:32:15,540 --> 01:32:21,140
And because it is so serious, I propose
to speak to you as plainly as I can.

1155
01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:23,760
You don't get any double talk from me.

1156
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:27,080
I'm either for something or against it.

1157
01:32:27,540 --> 01:32:29,920
And you know it. You know what I stand
for.

1158
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:33,920
I stand for a government of the people
and not the special interests.

1159
01:32:34,820 --> 01:32:36,920
I'm calling this trip a crusade.

1160
01:32:37,620 --> 01:32:42,300
It's a crusade of the people against the
special interests. And if you vote the

1161
01:32:42,300 --> 01:32:45,840
Democratic ticket and back me up, we are
going to win in November.

1162
01:32:48,140 --> 01:32:49,140
Turn around.

1163
01:32:49,340 --> 01:32:52,020
Get a load of this crowd. They love it.
Are you kidding?

1164
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:54,380
These groups will come out to see a two
-headed cat.

1165
01:32:54,900 --> 01:32:56,280
Doesn't mean they'll vote for us.

1166
01:33:07,850 --> 01:33:10,390
You want to meet the boss and the boss's
boss?

1167
01:33:13,170 --> 01:33:16,330
Become a boss one more time and I'm
getting off this train no matter how

1168
01:33:49,500 --> 01:33:50,500
Clark. Mrs.

1169
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:52,560
Truman.

1170
01:33:52,880 --> 01:33:54,960
Am I disturbing you? No, not at all.

1171
01:33:55,340 --> 01:33:56,400
Is anything the matter?

1172
01:33:58,420 --> 01:33:58,860
Well...

1173
01:33:58,860 --> 01:34:09,240
Do

1174
01:34:09,240 --> 01:34:11,260
you really think Harry believes he's
going to win?

1175
01:34:12,200 --> 01:34:14,640
Well, he certainly gives every
appearance under every condition.

1176
01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:15,920
I think he's beaten.

1177
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:21,060
How does he keep going?

1178
01:34:23,200 --> 01:34:24,660
Where does that come from?

1179
01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:26,880
What'll I do if he loses?

1180
01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:30,260
What'll you both do?

1181
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:33,160
Why, Clark, we'll go home.

1182
01:34:35,440 --> 01:34:40,860
The electorate goes to the polls in the
widespread conviction that a Republican

1183
01:34:40,860 --> 01:34:42,140
sweep is a certainty.

1184
01:35:00,330 --> 01:35:01,490
Don't you want to hear the returns?

1185
01:35:02,970 --> 01:35:05,130
I'm going to have a ham sandwich and go
to bed.

1186
01:35:05,970 --> 01:35:08,270
You wake me up if anything important
happens.

1187
01:35:08,930 --> 01:35:10,390
Dewey is the winner.

1188
01:35:11,050 --> 01:35:13,810
The counting of the vote has been very
slow.

1189
01:35:16,690 --> 01:35:20,190
Quiet jubilation is the mood at Dewey
headquarters.

1190
01:35:21,070 --> 01:35:23,990
This is definitely a Republican year.

1191
01:35:40,100 --> 01:35:46,300
Late returns show Democrats alienated by
Truman's policies returning to the fold

1192
01:35:46,300 --> 01:35:50,840
in surprising numbers. The president is
a million votes ahead in the popular

1193
01:35:50,840 --> 01:35:53,900
vote. Could it be the tide is turning?

1194
01:35:54,490 --> 01:36:01,250
Unbelievable, if true, for the first
time since 1916, the United

1195
01:36:01,250 --> 01:36:07,830
States faces a country so evenly divided
in a national election that no one

1196
01:36:07,830 --> 01:36:14,710
knows, hours and hours after the polls
have closed, who is to be the

1197
01:36:14,710 --> 01:36:16,370
next president of the United States.

1198
01:36:17,150 --> 01:36:22,790
Harry Truman has accomplished one of the
political miracles of our times.

1199
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:30,560
national polls that were universal in
predicting his defeat, he has come

1200
01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:36,120
triumphantly in his bid for the
presidency of the United States in his

1201
01:36:36,120 --> 01:36:37,120
right. Not the car, Frank.

1202
01:36:42,460 --> 01:36:43,480
We got a meet.

1203
01:36:43,800 --> 01:36:44,800
Ha!

1204
01:36:49,440 --> 01:36:51,160
Reading the morning paper, Mr.
President.

1205
01:36:51,440 --> 01:36:52,440
Congratulations.

1206
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:14,800
that I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United

1207
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:16,600
So help me God.

1208
01:37:43,139 --> 01:37:46,620
It appears the American people have
spoken.

1209
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:08,860
On election night, I had my sandwich and
a glass of

1210
01:38:08,860 --> 01:38:10,480
buttermilk and went to bed about 6 .30.

1211
01:38:11,920 --> 01:38:18,740
And along about 12 o 'clock, I woke up
for some reason, and

1212
01:38:18,740 --> 01:38:24,540
the radio was turned on the National
Broadcasting Company, and Mr.

1213
01:38:24,820 --> 01:38:27,660
Keltenborn, Mr.

1214
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:34,960
Keltenborn was saying, while the
president is a million votes

1215
01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:41,660
ahead in the popular vote, we are very
sure That when the country

1216
01:38:41,660 --> 01:38:46,420
vote comes in, Mr. Truman will be
defeated by an overwhelming majority.

1217
01:38:47,720 --> 01:38:50,160
Well, I'm sorry it didn't go that way.

1218
01:38:51,460 --> 01:38:54,700
You're going to have to put up with me
for another four years.

1219
01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:56,680
A

1220
01:38:56,680 --> 01:39:04,220
woman

1221
01:39:04,220 --> 01:39:08,680
to do cooking and housework in exchange
for lessons in ventriloquism.

1222
01:39:13,740 --> 01:39:16,080
You won't even see me because you don't
have a TV set.

1223
01:39:16,380 --> 01:39:21,480
Well, Mother Wallace believes what Fred
Allen says about the television.

1224
01:39:21,940 --> 01:39:24,280
Don't hold with furniture that looks
back at you.

1225
01:39:26,020 --> 01:39:30,480
Television's the future. Better get used
to it. Mr. President, Secretary of

1226
01:39:30,480 --> 01:39:31,740
State Atchison is on the line.

1227
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:34,200
Hang up. It's too late for the
telephone.

1228
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:39,100
I want you to go a day ahead to your
concerts so you can check into your

1229
01:39:39,540 --> 01:39:42,960
And you get a good night's sleep before
you have to think, too. Yes, Dean.

1230
01:39:48,840 --> 01:39:52,340
Are you trying to insinuate that my
cooking isn't fit for a dog?

1231
01:39:52,820 --> 01:39:55,220
Well, that's Einstein's theory.

1232
01:39:58,020 --> 01:39:59,680
How the hell did we let this happen?

1233
01:40:00,120 --> 01:40:04,580
There was absolutely no advance warning.
The North Korean communists just

1234
01:40:04,580 --> 01:40:07,460
swarmed over the border and the South
Korean army ran away.

1235
01:40:07,940 --> 01:40:12,420
We cannot let the communists take Korea
the same way they took Czechoslovakia.

1236
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:15,940
Well, by God, I'm going to draw the line
there. They're not going to get Korea

1237
01:40:15,940 --> 01:40:18,040
by default because they think we're
afraid to fight.

1238
01:40:19,020 --> 01:40:20,300
When's MacArthur landing Korea?

1239
01:40:20,740 --> 01:40:21,840
It's on the move, sir.

1240
01:40:23,340 --> 01:40:24,340
Pay one.

1241
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:26,640
General.

1242
01:40:27,580 --> 01:40:32,580
All right, my fellow Americans, I want
to talk to you tonight about what our

1243
01:40:32,580 --> 01:40:33,880
country is up against. Mr.

1244
01:40:34,120 --> 01:40:36,160
President, might it be better to say
with than to?

1245
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:39,940
If you say talk to, it sounds like
you're laying down the law a little bit.

1246
01:40:40,630 --> 01:40:43,730
Well, Dean, somebody's got to lay down
the law around here some of the time.

1247
01:40:44,330 --> 01:40:47,550
Some people confuse liberty and license.
They think the country owes them

1248
01:40:47,550 --> 01:40:48,550
nothing but privileges.

1249
01:40:48,870 --> 01:40:51,490
And nobody's supposed to lay down the
law about their responsibilities.

1250
01:40:53,370 --> 01:40:55,230
I want to talk to MacArthur face to
face.

1251
01:40:56,030 --> 01:41:01,970
After the communists' initial sneak
attack that pushed our forces almost

1252
01:41:01,970 --> 01:41:05,450
the sea, our landing at Inchon.

1253
01:41:06,220 --> 01:41:10,480
A military feat that will go down in
history with Alexanders and Napoleons.

1254
01:41:11,140 --> 01:41:15,980
Cut off the communists, forcing him into
a disorganized retreat that ends with

1255
01:41:15,980 --> 01:41:21,780
the body of his army outside the borders
of his own country in China.

1256
01:41:22,220 --> 01:41:25,800
Mr. President, is there any possibility
the Chinese will come into the war?

1257
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:30,240
None. Our boys will be home by
Christmas.

1258
01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:34,560
General, our country is very fortunate.

1259
01:41:35,370 --> 01:41:40,190
That we had the right man at the right
place and at the right time.

1260
01:41:41,070 --> 01:41:42,710
Boss don't like the son of a bitch.

1261
01:41:47,290 --> 01:41:48,890
You believe what you said back there?

1262
01:41:49,390 --> 01:41:50,850
The Chinese will not attack.

1263
01:41:51,110 --> 01:41:52,770
We have beaten them before now.

1264
01:41:53,030 --> 01:41:57,510
Well, I want to be sure that Korea does
not develop into World War III. We are

1265
01:41:57,510 --> 01:42:02,730
already in a worldwide war against the
communists, sir. I am surprised you

1266
01:42:02,730 --> 01:42:03,730
see it that way.

1267
01:42:04,059 --> 01:42:05,700
Korea is the opening round.

1268
01:42:06,360 --> 01:42:12,600
I want Korea to be the closing round. In
the last war, I stood alone in the

1269
01:42:12,600 --> 01:42:13,600
Pacific.

1270
01:42:13,740 --> 01:42:18,640
The same men who saw that all our
resources went to Europe then and left

1271
01:42:18,640 --> 01:42:22,920
fight in the Pacific virtually
unsupported surround you now.

1272
01:42:23,300 --> 01:42:28,480
These same men now occupy the State
Department and fill the highest posts in

1273
01:42:28,480 --> 01:42:29,480
Pentagon.

1274
01:42:29,500 --> 01:42:32,080
I will not fail my duty here, sir.

1275
01:42:32,640 --> 01:42:37,940
But I must know that I will not again be
left to fight alone.

1276
01:42:38,660 --> 01:42:41,180
General, you have all the spark you need
now.

1277
01:42:42,240 --> 01:42:43,540
You have my word for it.

1278
01:42:45,880 --> 01:42:46,880
Well, fine.

1279
01:42:48,040 --> 01:42:49,340
May I smoke, sir?

1280
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:51,040
Go right ahead.

1281
01:42:52,220 --> 01:42:56,100
I expect I've had more smoke blown my
way than any man alive.

1282
01:43:00,760 --> 01:43:01,760
Dear Bess,

1283
01:43:02,730 --> 01:43:04,590
Had dinner by myself tonight.

1284
01:43:05,670 --> 01:43:07,370
Barnett pulls out my chair.

1285
01:43:08,870 --> 01:43:10,570
John brings me a tenderloin.

1286
01:43:12,030 --> 01:43:14,310
Barnett brings me asparagus and beets.

1287
01:43:18,130 --> 01:43:19,130
I ring.

1288
01:43:21,410 --> 01:43:22,810
Barnett texts the plates.

1289
01:43:24,250 --> 01:43:26,550
John comes in with a silver crumb tray.

1290
01:43:27,690 --> 01:43:30,730
There are no crumbs, but he has to brush
them anyway.

1291
01:43:31,920 --> 01:43:34,040
I take a hand bath in the finger bowl.

1292
01:43:37,300 --> 01:43:38,380
What a life.

1293
01:43:43,620 --> 01:43:46,660
Mr. President, the Chinese have invaded
Korea.

1294
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:50,540
They've crossed the border.

1295
01:43:51,100 --> 01:43:52,760
The 10th Corps is destroyed.

1296
01:43:53,460 --> 01:43:54,960
The 8th Army is in retreat.

1297
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:58,480
It's the worst military disaster in our
history.

1298
01:43:59,180 --> 01:44:02,830
General MacArthur... He's giving press
conferences saying that we've tied his

1299
01:44:02,830 --> 01:44:05,850
hands, that he could win if we would
only let him.

1300
01:44:06,130 --> 01:44:07,130
He is out of line.

1301
01:44:09,270 --> 01:44:10,910
We should think about replacing him.

1302
01:44:11,930 --> 01:44:17,510
I don't think men running for their
lives will be encouraged by firing their

1303
01:44:17,510 --> 01:44:19,270
commander now in the middle of the
battle.

1304
01:44:22,930 --> 01:44:24,310
Give him all the help you can.

1305
01:44:25,190 --> 01:44:28,930
Judge Adams, the general leader of those
who gave out the story must be telling

1306
01:44:28,930 --> 01:44:32,950
the truth and say... Disturbing thing, I
think we should remember that those

1307
01:44:32,950 --> 01:44:37,950
guilty of the atrocities are Atchison's
agrarian reformer. This information must

1308
01:44:37,950 --> 01:44:40,010
contain... One less nail in your coffin,
Charlie.

1309
01:44:40,690 --> 01:44:42,570
Thanks. How are you seeing the Mozart?

1310
01:44:43,770 --> 01:44:45,190
Good, good. What else?

1311
01:44:45,510 --> 01:44:47,870
And Margaret says you better be at that
concert tonight.

1312
01:44:48,190 --> 01:44:50,890
I'll be a little late. Got NBC coming to
the press room.

1313
01:44:51,910 --> 01:44:52,910
You hear what he said?

1314
01:44:54,070 --> 01:44:56,010
Miss Harry's gonna do something about
that so -and -so.

1315
01:44:56,460 --> 01:44:57,460
That's scary.

1316
01:44:57,880 --> 01:44:59,980
No, don't you be scared.

1317
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:05,600
No, no, you just hang up the phone and
rest your voice, Mr. Kennedy.

1318
01:45:06,420 --> 01:45:07,420
Yeah.

1319
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:10,640
All right.

1320
01:45:11,120 --> 01:45:12,120
Bye -bye.

1321
01:45:14,860 --> 01:45:19,540
Turn that damn thing off, Charlie.

1322
01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:27,080
You know, stop McCarthy now.

1323
01:45:27,840 --> 01:45:29,480
Be like it was with Tom Pendergast.

1324
01:45:31,580 --> 01:45:33,460
What's that drunken liar got to do with
Tom?

1325
01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:36,580
Nobody could make a move without asking,
what'll Tom think?

1326
01:45:37,060 --> 01:45:40,080
The day's coming when you won't be able
to spit without somebody saying, what

1327
01:45:40,080 --> 01:45:41,080
about Joe McCarthy?

1328
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:42,520
What'll Senator McCarthy think?

1329
01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:46,100
Well, nobody with a lick of common sense
would believe a word he says.

1330
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:48,200
Common sense got blown to hell when you
dropped that bomb.

1331
01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:17,880
I'm late.

1332
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:20,600
Save me a seat at the concert.

1333
01:46:27,520 --> 01:46:30,320
Hurry it up, will you? I'm going to miss
the whole concert. I think we're ready

1334
01:46:30,320 --> 01:46:31,320
now, Mr. Roth.

1335
01:46:39,700 --> 01:46:41,160
Nice and slow, okay?

1336
01:46:41,620 --> 01:46:42,620
Don't mumble.

1337
01:46:43,660 --> 01:46:45,740
I always speak very distinctly.

1338
01:47:27,150 --> 01:47:28,150
Charlie Ross.

1339
01:47:31,650 --> 01:47:33,490
Friend of my youth.

1340
01:47:35,870 --> 01:47:41,990
Who became a tower of strength when the
responsibilities of high office so

1341
01:47:41,990 --> 01:47:43,610
unexpectedly fell to me.

1342
01:47:46,990 --> 01:47:47,990
Is gone.

1343
01:47:52,390 --> 01:47:54,830
Honesty and nobility of intent.

1344
01:47:56,010 --> 01:47:59,230
ordered his life from boyhood on.

1345
01:48:01,190 --> 01:48:02,910
He saw that...

1346
01:48:02,910 --> 01:48:09,570
He...

1347
01:48:09,570 --> 01:48:15,770
Hell, I...

1348
01:48:15,770 --> 01:48:17,790
I can't read this.

1349
01:48:20,910 --> 01:48:23,850
You fellas know how I feel anyway.

1350
01:48:53,400 --> 01:48:57,260
Margaret Truman, soprano, sang in
Constitution Hall last night.

1351
01:48:57,760 --> 01:49:02,640
She is extremely attractive on stage,
yet Miss Truman cannot sing very well.

1352
01:49:02,640 --> 01:49:06,720
is flat a good deal of the time, more
last night than at any time we have

1353
01:49:06,720 --> 01:49:07,720
her in past years.

1354
01:49:08,140 --> 01:49:12,460
There are a few moments in the recital
when one can relax and feel confident

1355
01:49:12,460 --> 01:49:15,060
that she'll make her goal, which is the
end of the song.

1356
01:49:22,190 --> 01:49:26,030
I just read your lousy review of
Margaret's concert.

1357
01:49:27,850 --> 01:49:30,110
You sound like a frustrated old man.

1358
01:49:30,370 --> 01:49:34,550
An eight -ulser man on a four -ulser job
and all four ulcers working.

1359
01:49:35,930 --> 01:49:37,370
I'm taking away at stamps.

1360
01:49:39,690 --> 01:49:43,970
Charlie would have never have let this
happen. If I ever meet you, you'll need

1361
01:49:43,970 --> 01:49:48,250
new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black
eyes, and perhaps a supporter below.

1362
01:49:49,130 --> 01:49:52,930
A prominent medical authority told me
that Truman is afflicted by malignant

1363
01:49:52,930 --> 01:49:55,010
hypertension, bewilderment, and
confusion.

1364
01:49:55,830 --> 01:49:58,490
I could see that at Wake Island when I
looked him in the eye.

1365
01:49:58,890 --> 01:50:03,050
It's Christmas and our boys are still in
Korea fighting bitter sub -zero cold,

1366
01:50:03,150 --> 01:50:04,150
as well as the Chinese.

1367
01:50:05,090 --> 01:50:11,810
War in Korea, but the Korean War is
merely a small phase of the great

1368
01:50:11,810 --> 01:50:13,790
world war with atheistic communism.

1369
01:50:14,230 --> 01:50:17,450
Why has this administration deliberately
built up Russia?

1370
01:50:17,960 --> 01:50:19,980
It was because of a combination.

1371
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:24,540
A combination of abysmal stupidity and
treason.

1372
01:50:24,780 --> 01:50:28,980
From his headquarters in Korea, General
MacArthur issues his own personal

1373
01:50:28,980 --> 01:50:31,060
ultimatum to the Chinese communists.

1374
01:50:31,580 --> 01:50:35,880
He wants to drop 50 atomic bombs in
Chinese cities, lay down a belt of

1375
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:39,400
radioactive waste along the North Korean
border. The man has gone mad.

1376
01:50:39,820 --> 01:50:40,820
He should be relieved.

1377
01:50:41,040 --> 01:50:42,040
I agree.

1378
01:50:42,100 --> 01:50:45,140
Well, maybe, but he doesn't have an
atomic bomb, does he?

1379
01:50:45,500 --> 01:50:47,560
I believe I still have those in my
control.

1380
01:50:47,950 --> 01:50:51,350
Just order him to keep his mouth shut.
Someone must take a stand.

1381
01:50:51,950 --> 01:50:57,210
I personally am ready to meet with the
Red Chinese at any time. The choice is

1382
01:50:57,210 --> 01:50:59,930
theirs. Surrender or face extinction.

1383
01:51:01,370 --> 01:51:03,050
Does he think he's the president?

1384
01:51:04,850 --> 01:51:06,250
He has crossed the line.

1385
01:51:06,550 --> 01:51:07,550
I warned him.

1386
01:51:08,030 --> 01:51:11,570
If he wants to show contempt for Harry
Truman, he'll have plenty of company,

1387
01:51:11,570 --> 01:51:15,410
he will not show contempt for the
president of the United States. Let me

1388
01:51:15,430 --> 01:51:16,430
sir.

1389
01:51:16,940 --> 01:51:18,000
I'll force him to resign.

1390
01:51:18,280 --> 01:51:20,340
No, he's not going to be allowed to
quit.

1391
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:25,060
This is more than just a general falling
in love with his press releases. This

1392
01:51:25,060 --> 01:51:26,500
is a matter of who's the boss.

1393
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:29,460
The military or the people.

1394
01:51:33,040 --> 01:51:34,800
Good evening, Mr. President. Good
evening.

1395
01:51:44,170 --> 01:51:47,710
What rat has your husband to fire the
greatest general this country's ever

1396
01:51:49,010 --> 01:51:51,630
He is president of the United States,
Mother.

1397
01:51:52,290 --> 01:51:55,950
And if he wants to fire a general, he
will.

1398
01:51:58,830 --> 01:52:01,230
General Prima Donna Brathead.

1399
01:52:03,150 --> 01:52:07,890
General MacArthur returns to a hero's
welcome, while Truman, Atchison, and

1400
01:52:07,890 --> 01:52:12,070
Marshall suffer a firestorm of criticism
in the Senate led by Senator McCarthy.

1401
01:52:12,840 --> 01:52:16,660
Mr. Truman says there's nothing wrong.
He says, oh, everything is just fine.

1402
01:52:16,980 --> 01:52:20,600
Truman actually said, he said, if anyone
hears of anything wrong, he said, get

1403
01:52:20,600 --> 01:52:21,600
on the telephone.

1404
01:52:21,860 --> 01:52:23,280
He said, call me, collect.

1405
01:52:23,540 --> 01:52:25,140
We do not know where we're going in
Korea.

1406
01:52:25,560 --> 01:52:27,620
We do not know where we're going in
China.

1407
01:52:28,180 --> 01:52:30,600
MacArthur knows, and he's been fired.

1408
01:52:30,820 --> 01:52:31,820
Tragic mistake.

1409
01:52:32,060 --> 01:52:34,740
The American people cannot fire
President Truman. Let Mr.

1410
01:52:34,960 --> 01:52:39,300
Atchison and Mr. Truman go and retain
the services of our fine General

1411
01:52:39,300 --> 01:52:41,960
MacArthur. Answer your telephone, Mr.
Truman.

1412
01:52:42,570 --> 01:52:43,570
through your telephone.

1413
01:52:45,050 --> 01:52:48,850
McCarthy's bullying, his lies, his
slandering of innocent men is making it

1414
01:52:48,850 --> 01:52:50,030
impossible to govern.

1415
01:52:52,390 --> 01:52:57,810
Now, I've asked everyone to... So the
attorney general has talked to Hoover.

1416
01:53:00,230 --> 01:53:01,490
His FBI file.

1417
01:53:02,550 --> 01:53:07,870
Names, dates, phone records, hotel
rooms, drinking habits, every piece of

1418
01:53:08,860 --> 01:53:12,440
There's a letter in here from a young
soldier the senator picked up in a men's

1419
01:53:12,440 --> 01:53:16,880
room the president Doesn't want to hear
this you don't have to know anything

1420
01:53:16,880 --> 01:53:22,080
about it. We'll just hand it off to some
reporter You should have complete

1421
01:53:22,080 --> 01:53:25,800
deniability What the hell kind of word
is deniability?

1422
01:53:27,520 --> 01:53:33,040
I'm just a man holding this office If I
dirty it the dirt doesn't leave with me

1423
01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:36,920
when I go it stays here to rub off on
whoever comes after me from now on

1424
01:53:40,970 --> 01:53:41,970
I don't know, sir.

1425
01:53:43,590 --> 01:53:45,270
It's a new world with new rules.

1426
01:53:46,370 --> 01:53:48,030
I don't know if the old ways work.

1427
01:53:49,450 --> 01:53:51,390
We believed in the truth.

1428
01:53:52,190 --> 01:53:55,730
Well, Dean, sooner or later, the truth
will take care of McCarthy.

1429
01:53:56,490 --> 01:53:58,190
It's real high -minded, Mr. President.

1430
01:53:58,530 --> 01:54:01,090
The fact is, he's tearing the Senate all
to hell.

1431
01:54:02,610 --> 01:54:03,990
You protect your office.

1432
01:54:04,970 --> 01:54:05,970
That's all fine.

1433
01:54:07,230 --> 01:54:09,850
But who's going to protect the Congress?
Who's going to protect the country?

1434
01:54:10,430 --> 01:54:16,130
This is not going to stop by itself.
This man will go on and on and on until

1435
01:54:16,130 --> 01:54:17,130
make the hard choice.

1436
01:54:17,230 --> 01:54:18,230
I made it, Clark.

1437
01:54:18,990 --> 01:54:19,990
Can you live with it?

1438
01:54:22,710 --> 01:54:24,250
We'll all have to, Mr. President.

1439
01:54:26,790 --> 01:54:27,790
Including you.

1440
01:54:30,310 --> 01:54:31,310
Especially you.

1441
01:54:35,350 --> 01:54:36,790
This meeting is over, gentlemen.

1442
01:54:49,930 --> 01:54:53,450
time ago you built some good roads for
some people by letting tom pendergast

1443
01:54:53,450 --> 01:54:59,390
boys steal harry why don't you let me
take these files right you forget who

1444
01:54:59,390 --> 01:55:04,810
you're talking to i'm sorry mr

1445
01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:34,860
Sir, I am McCarthy's main target.

1446
01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:40,140
Because I would not turn my back on my
friend Alger Hiss, I think I ought to

1447
01:55:40,140 --> 01:55:44,280
resign for your sake and for the good of
the administration. Because you were

1448
01:55:44,280 --> 01:55:45,280
loyal to a friend?

1449
01:55:47,820 --> 01:55:48,820
No, sir.

1450
01:55:49,520 --> 01:55:53,140
You stay by me, and I will stay by you.

1451
01:56:15,310 --> 01:56:20,810
Dear Bess, I will not be a candidate for
re -election in 1952.

1452
01:56:21,690 --> 01:56:22,688
I could.

1453
01:56:22,690 --> 01:56:25,010
I've only had one term in my own right.

1454
01:56:26,250 --> 01:56:30,210
But I've been in this whited sepulcher
of man's hopes for eight years.

1455
01:56:31,050 --> 01:56:35,950
More than any man deserves or should
endure, including the great Franklin

1456
01:56:35,950 --> 01:56:36,950
Roosevelt.

1457
01:56:37,530 --> 01:56:41,470
When this term is over, I am coming home
for good.

1458
01:56:42,770 --> 01:56:44,930
This time, You can believe me.

1459
01:56:46,710 --> 01:56:51,510
We have all had enough, I believe, of
those whose thinking is still haunted by

1460
01:56:51,510 --> 01:56:52,429
past illusions.

1461
01:56:52,430 --> 01:56:56,230
Those who are prisoners of their own
fuzzy thinking and their own... Now that

1462
01:56:56,230 --> 01:56:58,030
have to explain, I'm not a traitor.

1463
01:56:58,810 --> 01:57:00,830
Hardly seems worth the effort.

1464
01:57:01,610 --> 01:57:06,950
It meant contamination in some degree of
virtually every department, every

1465
01:57:06,950 --> 01:57:10,250
agency, every bureau, every section of
our government.

1466
01:57:11,120 --> 01:57:16,940
It's met a government by a man whose
very brain were confused by the opiate

1467
01:57:16,940 --> 01:57:23,760
this disease It's January 19th 1953 832
Eastern Standard

1468
01:57:23,760 --> 01:57:30,720
Time the president's farewell address
Next Tuesday general Eisenhower

1469
01:57:30,720 --> 01:57:35,880
will be inaugurated as president of the
United States I Will be on a train going

1470
01:57:35,880 --> 01:57:38,800
home to Independence, Missouri to become
a plain citizen

1471
01:57:39,900 --> 01:57:43,900
Inauguration Day will be a great
demonstration of the democratic process.

1472
01:57:44,500 --> 01:57:49,320
I'm glad to be part of the peaceful
transfer of the vast power of the

1473
01:57:49,320 --> 01:57:50,960
from my hands to his.

1474
01:57:51,480 --> 01:57:56,500
There is no job like it on the face of
the earth, and I want you all to realize

1475
01:57:56,500 --> 01:58:00,440
how hard it is and to give Ike all the
help he will need.

1476
01:58:00,960 --> 01:58:06,400
The Cold War and the hot war in Korea
will be great tests of his strength.

1477
01:58:07,630 --> 01:58:09,150
How will the Cold War end?

1478
01:58:09,990 --> 01:58:11,190
It will end.

1479
01:58:11,790 --> 01:58:12,790
Someday.

1480
01:58:13,110 --> 01:58:18,350
Because of the great weakness of the
communist system. I have not a doubt in

1481
01:58:18,350 --> 01:58:20,490
world that a great change will occur.

1482
01:58:21,170 --> 01:58:26,470
I have a deep and abiding faith in the
destiny of free men.

1483
01:58:27,210 --> 01:58:34,170
With patience and courage, we shall
someday move on into a new era.

1484
01:58:35,790 --> 01:58:40,650
When Franklin Roosevelt died, I thought
there must be a million men better

1485
01:58:40,650 --> 01:58:43,210
qualified than I to take up the
presidential task.

1486
01:58:44,110 --> 01:58:48,050
But the work was mine to do, and I had
to do it.

1487
01:58:48,750 --> 01:58:53,150
I did everything within my power, and
always I knew I was not alone.

1488
01:58:53,890 --> 01:58:56,190
You were working with me.

1489
01:58:56,890 --> 01:59:03,850
And now the time has come for me to say
good night, and God bless you all.

1490
01:59:25,390 --> 01:59:28,930
President -elect and Mrs. Eisenhower are
in the car, if you'll follow me,

1491
01:59:28,990 --> 01:59:32,810
please. But they've been invited in for
coffee before the ceremony.

1492
01:59:36,270 --> 01:59:41,610
Ma 'am, the president -elect does not
want to enter the White House until he

1493
01:59:41,610 --> 01:59:43,310
president. You'll follow me, please?

1494
01:59:43,590 --> 01:59:44,590
Now, wait a minute there.

1495
01:59:45,790 --> 01:59:48,270
Don't they know that this is the
tradition?

1496
01:59:49,290 --> 01:59:51,270
Don't get on your high horse, Harry.
Take it easy.

1497
01:59:52,510 --> 01:59:53,950
Please, if you'll come with me.

1498
01:59:54,460 --> 01:59:58,520
Mrs. Truman has laid out a special
spread here. Oh, it doesn't matter,

1499
01:59:58,780 --> 01:59:59,780
Well, it does to me.

1500
02:00:01,220 --> 02:00:04,660
I don't give a damn if he doesn't want
to sit down with me, but to insult the

1501
02:00:04,660 --> 02:00:06,540
First Lady this way? Let it go, Harry.

1502
02:00:10,560 --> 02:00:17,020
Eisenhower didn't defend Marshall
against McCarthy, and he knows he did

1503
02:00:17,020 --> 02:00:19,000
one of the truly great men of this
century.

1504
02:00:21,770 --> 02:00:23,950
I don't want to ride in a car with him.
You tell him that.

1505
02:00:24,550 --> 02:00:25,550
Could you give us a minute?

1506
02:00:29,270 --> 02:00:31,410
I can't see your lip.

1507
02:00:32,830 --> 02:00:36,410
Now, you are not going to do anything
that keeps us here one more minute

1508
02:00:36,410 --> 02:00:37,410
than we have to be.

1509
02:00:40,630 --> 02:00:41,630
Now, come on.

1510
02:00:53,580 --> 02:00:54,580
What's funny?

1511
02:00:56,360 --> 02:01:02,780
For 40 years, every time I reach for
this hand, it's always been there.

1512
02:01:35,820 --> 02:01:41,160
You, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly
swear. I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do

1513
02:01:41,160 --> 02:01:47,680
solemnly swear that you will faithfully
execute the office of President of the

1514
02:01:47,680 --> 02:01:52,520
United States, that I will faithfully
execute the office of the President of

1515
02:01:52,520 --> 02:01:53,520
United States.

1516
02:02:00,460 --> 02:02:02,260
Well, I got the roar of the crowd.

1517
02:02:02,680 --> 02:02:04,520
Harry and Beth went down to Union
Station.

1518
02:02:05,780 --> 02:02:08,760
Later, the president was going to have a
big problem running red lights.

1519
02:02:09,200 --> 02:02:12,900
He didn't have to stop for one for eight
years, and he got out of the habit.

1520
02:02:13,960 --> 02:02:19,320
They were going back to Independence to
live once again in Grandmother Wallace's

1521
02:02:19,320 --> 02:02:20,320
house.

1522
02:02:21,900 --> 02:02:24,340
No Secret Service protection was
provided.

1523
02:02:25,200 --> 02:02:26,560
No reporters came.

1524
02:02:28,660 --> 02:02:30,840
His only income was his Army pension.

1525
02:02:31,869 --> 02:02:33,970
$112 .56 a month.

1526
02:02:37,050 --> 02:02:41,530
When Harry Truman left the White House,
the polls showed an approval rating of

1527
02:02:41,530 --> 02:02:42,610
only 32%.

1528
02:03:04,840 --> 02:03:11,640
Everything came late to him. A soldier
at 33, my father at 40, a

1529
02:03:11,640 --> 02:03:15,080
senator at 50, president at 60.

1530
02:04:25,320 --> 02:04:26,580
We don't make a mistake.

1531
02:04:28,580 --> 02:04:31,360
What a paradise we could make of this
world.