Harry Truman #3: Failed Businessman to Machine Politician (1919-1934); Topics covered include: Marries Bess Wallace, opens Haberdashery with Eddie Jacobson, store fails and closes amid recession, associated with the Pendergast political machine, elected county judge, birth of Mary Margaret Truman, loses re-election, in between jobs, meets Tom Pendergast, elected presiding judge, project to pave 250 miles of roads, new courthouse in Kansas City, refurbishes courthouse in Independence, 1934 senate campaign, and elected U.S. Senator

Key people include: Bess (Wallace) Truman, Madge Wallace, Eddie Jacobson, Jim Pendergast, Mike Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Mary Margaret Truman, Roscoe Patterson, John Cochran, and Jacob "Tuck" Milligan

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Harry Truman #2: Captain Harry (1914-1919); Topics covered include: World War I, U.S. enters war, enlists, elected a first lieutenant, training at Fort Doniphan, head of the regimental canteen, ships off to Europe, promoted to Captain, placed in charge of Battery D, combat, armistice, demobilization, returns home, and receives Loving Cup from the men of Battery D

Key people include: Karl Klemm, Eddie Jacobson, Martha Truman, Mary Jane Truman, Bess Wallace, Arthur Wilson, Glen Wooldridge, John Pershing, and the men of Company D

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Harry Truman #1: Farmer from Missouri (1884-1917); Topics covered include: Parents, youth, glasses, piano, school, attraction to Bess Wallace, initial jobs after high school, joins the Missouri National Guard, becomes a farmer, father dies, and courting Bess (including engagement)

Key people include: John Truman, Martha (Young) Truman, Harrison Young, Solomon Young, Anderson Truman, Vivian Truman, Mary Jane Truman, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Abraham Lincoln, Bess Wallace, Harriet Young, Ethel Noland, and Madge Wallace

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Franklin Roosevelt #16: Fourth Term, Yalta, and Legacy (1944-1945); Topics covered include: World War II, agrees to run for Fourth Term, insists on Harry Truman as VP, Roosevelt's health deteriorating, Missy LeHand dies, agrees with Winston Churchill to keep the Manhattan Project a secret from the Soviets, general election campaign and victory, fourth inaugural, meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Yalta, post-war plans, trouble with the Soviets after Yalta, trip to Warm Springs where Roosevelt dies, burial, and legacy/perspective

Key people include: Thomas Dewey, Henry Wallace, James Burns, William Douglas, Bob Hannegan, Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, Missy LeHand, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Neihls Bohr, Fala (Roosevelt's dog), Frances Perkins, Edith Wilson, Laura Delano, Daisy Suckley, Lucy (Mercer) Rutherfurd, Elizabeth Shoutmatoff, Howard Bruenn, and Eleanor Roosevelt

Correction: Reference should be for April 12 (not April 11) at 16:07.

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Franklin Roosevelt #15: The Big Three and D-Day (1943-1944); Topics covered include: World War II, meetings with Winston Churchill at Washington and Quebec, expansion of the Manhattan Project (atomic bomb), meeting with Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Teheran and negotiations, relationship with Stalin, agree to cross-channel invasion (Operation Overlord), names Dwight Eisenhower commander of Overlord, resumes relationship with Lucy (Mercer) Rutherfurd, health deteriorates, plight of European Jews and the American response, GI Bill of Rights, and D-Day

Key people include: Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Dwight Eisenhower, Chiang Kai-Shek, George Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Howe, Missy LeHand, Harry Hopkins, Lucy (Mercer) Rutherfurd, Howard Bruenn, Breckinridge Long, Randolph Paul, Henry Morgenthau, and John Pehlee

Correction: Reference should be for Winthrop (not William) at 8:50.

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Franklin Roosevelt #14: Commander-in-Chief (1941-1943); Topics covered include: World War II, Roosevelt's military leadership, Churchill visits Washington, Germany-first strategy, Japan's assault on the South Pacific, James Doolittle bombs Tokyo, Executive Order 9066 (removal of people of Japanese descent and internment in camps) including following court cases, Battle of Midway, invasion of North Africa, meeting with Churchill at Casablanca, and puts James Byrnes in charge of Office of War Mobilization

Key people include: George Marshall, Ernest King, Harold (Hap) Arnold), William Leahy, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Douglas MacArthur, Jonathan Wainwright, James Doolittle, Henry Stimson, John McCloy, Fred Korematsu, Hugo Black, Frank Murphy, Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, George Marshall, Irwin Rommel, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery, Joseph Stalin, and James Byrnes

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Franklin Roosevelt #13: Infamy (1941); Topics covered include: Inaugurated for the third time, World War II, Germany attacks Russia, Roosevelt extends Lend-Lease to the Soviets, meets Churchill for the first time, Atlantic Charter, Missy LeHand suffers a stroke, Sara Roosevelt dies, failed diplomacy with Japan, Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt's reaction, and American entry into World War II

Key people include: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Herbert Hoover, Winston Churchill, Missy LeHand, Grace Tully, Sara Roosevelt, Kichiasaburo Nomura, George Marshall, Fumimaro Konoye, Joseph Grew, Emperor Hirohito, Hidecki Tojo, Isoroku Yamamoto, and Frank Knox

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Franklin Roosevelt #12: Global War and Third Term Dilemma (1936-1941); Topics covered include: Trouble in Europe and Asia (Germany, Italy, and Japan), sinking of USS Panay, plight of German Jews (including Kristallnacht) and Roosevelt's limited response, Hitler annexes Austria and pursue the Sudetenland, appeasement and the Four Power Agreement (Munich), Hitler invades Czechoslovakia, non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, invasions of Poland, start of World War II, American neutrality, Roosevelt hosts King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain, warnings to Roosevelt about nuclear fission and the atomic bomb, agrees to run for third term, insists on Henry Wallace as VP, another landslide victory, Battle of Britain, Destroyers-for-Bases agreement, and Lend-Lease

Key people include: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, Herschel Grynszpan, Joseph Stalin, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Alexander Sachs, Lyman Briggs, Vannevar Bush, James Farley, John Garner, Henry Wallace, Wendell Willkie, Robert Jackson, and Frank Knox

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Franklin Roosevelt #11: Second Term Setbacks (1937-1940); Topics covered include: New Deal legislation declared unconstitutional, proposes to "pack" the Supreme Court (including opposition and failure), Court begins to concur with New Deal legislation, refuses to advocate for anti-lynching legislation, cuts back in Federal spending leading to economic setbacks including large increase in unemployment, re-institutes large scale federal spending, seeks purge of incumbent Democrats in 1938 midterms, and perspective on the New Deal (successes and failures)

Key people include: Homer Cummings, Stanley Reed, William Allen White, Mark Sullivan, Burton Wheeler, Charles Hughes, Owen Robert, Willis Van Devanter, Alben Barkley, Pat Harrison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Walter White, John O'Connor, Ray Moley, and Herbert Hoover

Corrections: Reference should be for six weeks (not six months) at 0:18. Reference should be for Congress (not the Supreme Court) at 7:04. Reference should be for private (not public) at 10:40. Reference should be for misuse (not use) at 12:41.

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Franklin Roosevelt #10: The Second New Deal (1933-1937); Topics covered include: Great Depression, Civil Works Administration, managed currency/price of gold, criticism from conservatives and from the far left, midterm elections of 1934, Social Security Act, National Labor Relations Act, unemployment persists, Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, Work Progress Administration, Louis Howe dies, others leave the administration, 1936 election, and landslide victory

Key people include: Henry Morgenthau, Al Smith, Herbert Hoover, Francis Townsend, Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, Robert Wagner, Harold Ickes, Harry Hopkins, Ray Moley, Lewis Douglas, Hugh Johnson, Rex Tugwell, Louis Howe, Missy LeHand, James Roosevelt, and Alf Landon

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