PBS American Experience - Truman: Parts 1-2of2 (1997.PDTV.SoS)

Originally aired: 1997.10.05

Born: May 8, 1884; Lamar, Missouri...On October 5, 1947, Truman delivered the first presidential address to be televised from the White House... \"Being a president is like riding a tiger. You have to keep on riding or be swallowed.\" Harry Truman\'s assessment of the office accurately described the conditions under which he found himself thrust into it. To the little-known man from Missouri would fall the burden of ending a World War and asserting the U.S.\'s leadership in a newly-aligned and hostile international environment...Died: December 26, 1972.

Part 1:
He was a farmer, a businessman gone bankrupt, an unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president. Of all the men who had held the highest office, Harry Truman was the least prepared. But he would prove to be a surprise. The first night of \"Truman\" recounts his early struggles and failures as a young adult, and his undying determination to have an accomplishment to call his own. Truman\'s success as an army captain during World War I gave him the confidence to marry his lifelong sweetheart, Bess, and begin his path into the world of politics. When he landed the vice presidency with FDR in 1944, he had no idea that his world was about to change forever.

Part 2:
After Harry Truman\'s unlikely rise to the presidency, he would face some of the biggest crises of the century. Truman would end the war with Germany; use the atomic bomb against Japan; confront an expanding Soviet Union; and wage war in Korea – all while the woman he adored, his wife Bess, refused to stay in the White House and play the role of First Lady. On the homefront, Truman was the first president to tackle civil rights issues for blacks – a move that would prove controversial when campaigning for his second term. His unpredictable win over Thomas Dewey in the presidential elections of 1948 proved to Truman that he had finally separated himself from FDR\'s shadow. However, his second term brought another war and battles with Congress to pass health care and civil rights legislation. Exhausted after his second term, Truman relinquished the presidency and retired to Independence, Missouri, where he lived as a popular and well-loved citizen. In later years, he would receive recognition for all his accomplishments and come to be admired as a gritty American original.

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==Parts 1-2==
Runtime: 2:18:24 || 1:51:09
Source: PDTV OTA
Encoding: xvid.640x480.1509||1530kbps.mp3.160.vbr
File Size: 1.6GB || 1.3GB

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