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- Title
From Precinct to President.
- Authors
Murray, Lawrence L.
- Abstract
The article reviews video recording of interview of U.S. ex-president Harry S. Truman. The conversation with Truman--"From Precinct to President, Some Reflections by Harry S. Truman," a pioneer effort by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, was developed with a sense of history in mind. The co-producers believed that they were transcribing a primary source suitable for viewing in 1990 or later when historians might find it useful to examine the Truman presidency in the language and voice of the thirty-third president. The interrogation is not vintage but Truman compensated for the deficiency by embellishing in most of his answers and by speaking with the bluntness and candor usually associated with him. Truman's sometime caustic personality comes through quite well as he discusses the major decisions of his presidency such as dropping the atomic bomb, sending troops into Korea (his "most difficult" decision). His lecturing on the need for a strong president ("lobbyist for 150 million people") and how to establish peace in the Middle East (Israel as the industrial core with the Arab states as the granary) has a certain irony in view of the events of the last decade.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; PRESIDENTS of the United States; TELEVISION program reviews; AUDIOVISUAL materials; VIDEOS
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1975, Vol 5, Issue 2, p21
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Entertainment Review