Harry S. Truman interview on WW1

[@jamesanderton344]

Truman characteristically didn’t mention that he distinguished himself by standing fast under that counter battery fire when many of the crew ran. Truman was frequently underestimated. A tough man.

[@johnstirling6597]

Physically , not a large man but a giant in terms of character. Frequently underestimated by his peers, friends and foe alike with a vast experience of life. Took all of life's knocks with equanimity and came back stronger . Did not even own a home when he left the presidency and had to move in with his mother in law, (who did not like him). Recent office holders could learn a lot from him.

[@jwhoward182]

My grandfather served in the 129th and knew Harry. I have a letter from Harry to him written in 1943

[@brennonguilbeau569]

Have you shared it with his Library

[@jwhoward182]

@@brennonguilbeau569 They have it. My grandfather was the president of their VFW post, and Harry facilitated his rejoining the Army. He wanted back in the artillery and to be sent back to Europe. He really believed in the war to end all wars idea. They felt he was too old to serve in a combat role so he was posted stateside in the military police.

[@sethsimpson3539]

Holy crap dude that’s really cool! I’ve been studying WWI a lot and I thought Harry Truman was a cool dude so this is very interesting. It’s also great to speak to someone who knew a veteran of this war.

[@face....]

Harry S. Truman

[@kayzeaza]

Damn that’s pretty awesome

[@brennonguilbeau569]

Love this man. Genuine. Salt of the Earth.

[@victorcross5949]

An outstanding president.

[@snuffyballparks6501]

I'm over 70. Best President in my lifetime.

[@williambukowski7642]

Likewise; an outstanding, courageous President. By using the Bomb, he saved my Dad's life, as Dad would have had to be in the first wave of the scheduled invasion of the mainlands of Japan, a suicide mission. Go, Harry! Sure wish you could be back with us today, we sure do need you badly, as the country is in free fall, and only a guy like you could right the ship!

[@ritawilliams8686]

@@williambukowski7642 My dad too. Have you read the book. Plain Speaking. Should be required reading.. He did what few if any of our president had the guts to do.. Kennedy called back the air support that he had promised the Cubans that were trained in south Florida , while they were airborne and the land invasion had already started then took in all the people who could get to south Florida by boat. Castro released his prisoner and these people were picked up by boat and helicopters.

[@paulmiller6647]

He sure was, he was an outstanding President he's rated as our 7th best Chief Executive, had a natural talent for the office. He was meant for that office. Also, he was an outstanding individual.

[@Gablesman888]

Had the amazing privilege at age ten to meet Harry Truman, the president when I was born. Have always admired him. We could use another Harry Truman in the White House right now.

[@p0ppyfarr95]

We have. If it weren't for Harry Truman - the very first human being President (FDR was amazing...yet he was a racist asshole like Woodrow Wilson), we would never have the next Presidents who marvel after Truman and his views for world peace, unity and freedom: Dwight Eisenhower, JF Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and now currently Joe Biden. Soon we will have the White House run by a female Harry Truman: in the incarnation of Kamala Harris. #Harris2028 #KamalaHarris4President

[@oriraykai3610]

We had one, until the Demonrats stole the election.

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

He knows what currently, and what formerly resides on Pennsylvania Avenue. I share his sentiments. I'd also add Ronald Reagan as another whom America could benefit from right now to equal effect. It's an insult to President Truman to compare him to Biden or Trump. Neither one of whom would Truman consider fit to lead the United States of America.

[@oriraykai3610]

@@baronedipiemonte3990 - Trump is the greatest President the WORLD has ever seen, nevermind the USA. Proles.

[@olivierglowacz1925]

@@p0ppyfarr95 Eisenhower was a pretty chill president: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4DVpYKiip2Zb7s&ab_channel=BritishPath%C3%A9 Uh oh, I guess this means Eisenhower isn't a "human being" anymore in your disturbed mind.

[@multitieredinvestor183]

When he left the Presidency, corporations wanted to hire him. He refused saying they wanted his title, not him personally. He refused!

[@swingrfd]

Truman had been in combat in the Great War and knew what death and destruction would be wrought by an attack on the Japanese home islands.

[@MM-qi5mk]

Made the toughest call in human history. It was the right one.

[@abrahamlincoln5185]

I used to hate him for dropping the bombs but that was until I learned his other option was the massive land assault which would have been a bloodbath. The only good war is the one that ends quickest

[@ClaudioBenassi]

@@abrahamlincoln5185 I am aware of that, and I have respect for the American soldier. However it’s my personal ( dumb?) opinion that the bomb was dropped to prevent the soviets to take Japan. We would have had a divided Japan, just like Korea. Not a capitalist one. I know my opinion might infuriate you but that’s what I think.

[@abrahamlincoln5185]

@@ClaudioBenassi that's a good theory. Although if that were the case wouldn't we have nuked china, Korea and Vietnam if that were the case? I'm seriously wondering because I haven't looked into that theory much

[@ClaudioBenassi]

@@abrahamlincoln5185 user Lincoln. Americans aren't crazy cowboys. You talk about a nuclear holocaust. It wouldn't happen. Nobody would want it, nobody would let it happen. At home and abroad. People still believed in Jesus and in places where you couldnt, still believed in God. Thats why we wont have nuclear wars. Im confident. Though I find the idea of an atomic bomb extremely vulgar, and asinine, somebody invented it. I think God as a sum of all cosciences wouldnt let something like you describe happen. Its just the two cents of an average citizen mind you.

[@Adam-bq2vw]

Maybe the last “common man” President.

[@jiveassturkey8849]

Eisenhower, although he was the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe during WWII, also seemed like a “common man” to me.

[@garryharriman7349]

@based german person The common man that dropped the most abhorrent weapons known to man on a narrative that does not match the one in the public domane to which we are all accustomed!

[@alyssashady]

@@garryharriman7349 Fuck that's so based.

[@garryharriman7349]

@@alyssashady Based? Do you biased? If so, bias against who or what?

[@alyssashady]

@@garryharriman7349 No based as in good lol.

[@curtcoltharp3719]

I was born in 1961 well after he left office but my grandparents held Mr. Truman in high regard. He made some tough decisions that have been dissected by historians including using the bomb to end WWII and firing McArthur. His biographies make fascinating reading. He was a tough man and owned every decision that he made and against all odds “whipped Dewey in 48”. His 1948 convention speech is a good watch.

[@powerfulstrong5673]

How do you think of FDR the predecessor of Harry S. Truman?

[@curtcoltharp3719]

@@powerfulstrong5673 He was held in high esteem by my grandparents that struggled through the Depression. He guided us through WWII. He was charismatic and was a leader at a time in our history where we needed a strong leader. Hoover’s approach that the free market solves everything wasn’t cutting it. I’m highly favorable of FDR and he was soundly elected 4 times and so I guess lots of others felt same way. Leadership Presidents are rare. Washington was a leader, Lincoln was a leader, TR was a leader, FDR was a leader, Eisenhower was a leader, Reagan was a leader. Leaders are able to change public sentiment and bring Congress along instead of Congress dictating to the President. By my definition, I have defined trump as a leader but not all leaders are good for the country. With leadership comes great responsibility.

[@powerfulstrong5673]

@@curtcoltharp3719 Ronald Reagan could be considered a charismatic leadership President. But Ronald Reagan and JFK were the most overrated Presidents in American history.

[@curtcoltharp3719]

@@powerfulstrong5673 I didn’t list JFK but do not disagree with your statement. He dealt with Cuban Missile Crisis and was a good public speaker but made larger than life to a degree by the tragedy of his death. I don’t think Reagan was overrated. He had policies that I mostly disagreed with but he caused the shift in the South that lead some Democrat Congressmen to switch to Republican and then the usual Democrat South to go Republican where it’s been ever since. I don’t think he is overrated.

[@powerfulstrong5673]

@@curtcoltharp3719 Ronald Reagan and the modern American movement conservativism are just a joke.

[@syahmiAimann]

Harry served in field artillery in world war 1, in france

[@ononoma]

Some of our best presents are the ones that didn't want to be president.

[@paulk3681]

A president who achieved office on merit. A very rare thing.

[@uptoolate2793]

Harry Truman walked into his grandmother's house in a blue uniform. There's more to that story than grandmother's displeasure at the sight of a union uniform (in Missouri)

[@donnied6151]

So do you know more about the story, I assume his maternal family was on the confederate side than?

[@terrenceholt5215]

Amazing interview

[@TheFacefinder]

that shows you how near the civil war is to today. Harry Truman dropped the bomb in 1945. I was born in 1952. that close. we can't forget our heroes. we never will as long as I'm alive (ASA 71-77)

[@alanstrong3295]

If he had been accepted into West Point, he would have become a fine general, just like Patton.

[@flyforce16]

So interesting!

[@konradklapp3987]

Grandma said "dont bring that color back in here.... and I didnt... " 😂🤣😂

[@konradklapp3987]

@@DavidSmith-ss1cg blah blah blah...

[@P-e_A-c_E]

@@DavidSmith-ss1cg and????

[@ritawilliams8686]

WHAT?????..

[@CH-1984]

The Union wore blue, the Confederates wore gray in the Civil War. The Confederates wanted to keep "their way of life"/slavery. Truman's grandmother was for the Confederates? Democrats I suppose!

[@robertrockwell7581]

Great President.

[@rhett1029]

Very interesting story and insightful as a relative of mine served in the Field Artillery in the US Army in the First World War

[@your_royal_highness]

I understand he didn’t lose a single soldier in battle

[@finalbossoftheinternet6002]

First president to meet with real extraterrestrials in the flesh. Majestic 33rd Truman.

[@Onedollarbeer]

What

[@powerfulstrong5673]

I think you're full of bullshits.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

I was once vice-president of the Greek extraterrestrials, only I didn’t know it at the time - I find out about it from a newspaper reporter who wanted to know what life was like on the ‘Andromeda Constellation’...

[@mrfester42]

"... and if you don't think I carried those two towns you're ... you're off your beam sure enough!" Harry may have physically been a small man and a small town, common man but he was tough as nails, sure enough.

[@jamesthorn9614]

Truman was a good President!

[@davebar2017]

In Independence MO. near his mother in-laws home where he lived nieghbors had to have a opening thru yards halfway between the house and street so he could walk there

[@Muhammad-ds2dm]

I like your speech

[@changopardomuzik4953]

That over hanging Mic is in the frame

[@evanshiong3557]

79 years old, same age the current President Biden is supposed to turn this year. And I understand the 33rd President more than the 46th president by a mile!!!!!

[@gregb6469]

I was not aware that big-screen TVs existed in the 1960s.

[@themannnim3262]

I’m watching this video for a research paper. What was the organization at the beginning

[@Snaproll47518]

Give ‘em Hell, Harry!

[@ritawilliams8686]

"I don't giveum hell. I just tell um the truth and they think it's hell. " President Harry S Truman

[@bt10ant]

We don't get presidents like Truman anymore. We elected the "popular" rather than the "competent." The choices made in those smoke-filled closed door political rooms gave us better presidents.

[@aaronthoming8192]

Not disagreeing about competence in good leadership over just "popular" but I think you might be romanticizing the past a bit much. Many of the same critiques were leveled at politics then. Hoping for your "betters" to decide your "leaders" "behind doors in smoke filled rooms" though is another level.

[@Andrew19991000]

What year was this

[@missouriovertherestaff9643]

1963

[@judahsmall3023]

The majority of these veterans were born in the 19th Century, or 1902. I wonder who was the last surviving veteran of World War 1? Most likely, the last surviving veteran of the first World War might have been born in 1902. Still Impressive, though.

[@missouriovertherestaff9643]

Frank Buckles was the last surviving American service member from World War I. He was 110 years old when he passed away on February 27, 2011. Buckles was born in Bethany, Missouri on February 1, 1901. He lied about his age to join the army on August 14, 1917. Buckles was an ambulance driver on the Western Front and helped escort prisoners of war back to Germany after the armistice.

[@judahsmall3023]

Thank you! I thought the last vet died in 1902. @@missouriovertherestaff9643

[@francisalanwormald6328]

AT 85 I KNOW SOME SHIT!! ONE PREZ I CONTINUE ADMIRE....OF FEW!!!

[@jonathanclarke281]

What's the date on this interview please? That should be obvious!

[@bigfloppa5731]

The interview is after his presidency

[@snapdragon6601]

I was wondering the same thing. He sounds much older then other post-Presidency interviews I've seen with him...

[@missouriovertherestaff9643]

1963

[@bobbywimsy6741]

@@missouriovertherestaff9643 Age: 79

[@MM-qi5mk]

Last of the real American presidents

[@buckboardfreight5537]

Ike wasn’t a “real American president “?

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

RONALD REAGAN

[@MFPhoto1]

Truman cheated on his eye exam. A friend got in line before Truman, and when he came out told Truman what was on the eye chart. Otherwise Truman would never have been accepted into the military.

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

And your point ? Because it seems to me he did pretty darn well in the Artillery

[@MFPhoto1]

@@baronedipiemonte3990 No particular point other than Truman's desire to serve in the military.

[@TSL73]

@@MFPhoto1 he was a determined man and brave one at that

[@MFPhoto1]

@@TSL73 Unfortunately, we are unlikely to see his type again.

[@TSL73]

@@MFPhoto1 true dudes like that are a very rare breed this day and age especially with how criminals have taken over Missouri politics. It sucks because I live here…

[@Smudgeroon74]

Apparently 1 time on a social occasion, Truman threatened to smash a mans teeth in.. what for? Well the story goes that the main failed to praise Truman's daughter's dancing skills.... Imagine having somebody like that running the country?

[@cohencohen54]

His middle name was S, it was not an initial so it should not be written as S. (No period is necessary).

[@MFPhoto1]

Before his death, Truman left instructions for his burial. It included a marker with the letter S with a period. Funny, he didn't put a period after the S when he signed anything.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

I always thought it stood for possibly his mother's maiden name, Shippe. This custom of using the maiden name of one's mother was common, as in Richard Milhouse Nixon, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, etc. I'm not sure if the present President's mother's maiden name was Robinette. Middle names are interesting.

[@scottgoodman8993]

@@bobbywimsy6741 I was born in 1953. My parents, born in 1926 and 1929, call Truman "Hairy Ass".

[@michealflaithbheartaigh4139]

It's interesting how all the major figures of ww2 bar Stalin , cut their teeth in the 1st world war ..... It's also interesting how he notes the blue uniform given its connections to the US civil war.

[@channeldmitry8460]

Stalin fought in Russian Civil War which count as part of WW1 atleast until Germany surrenders on 11 November

[@ritawilliams8686]

If that was said by his Grandmother ,do the math, she was probably around and would have some serious memories that were pretty awful.

[@dietrichvarez1720]

👍🇺🇸

[@neilfeinberg7825]

Even as a failed haberdasher Harry Truman was a better business man than Trump ever was!

[@robertsettle2590]

Old time Democrat!!!

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Listen to his 1948 Democratic Convention speech (Google). The courage in calling Congress back into session, and the way he uses rhetoric to take on the lies(which are very similar to 2021's lies)of the gop are astounding. He knew truth and asseted it boldly.

[@changopardomuzik4953]

And what the hell is under Truman's coat...its a bulge

[@roboroberts1246]

Maybe a microphone?

[@georgelord7651]

A distended abdomen

[@changopardomuzik4953]

@@georgelord7651 🤣🤣🤣

[@Skymaster.47]

Miniature Atomic Bomb

[@specialforces101]

How very different from Bill 'mai personal safety" Clinton.

[@222jojo]

When Democrats were true Americans...

[@lindamarsella4743]

A real Democrat...i left when they became communists...

[@davidcase2847]

What? Truman was far more left economically than modern day democrats

[@TorontoRoyalty416]

Truman was a woman? Transgender ?