Press conference at the Medicare Bill signing
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Former President Harry S. Truman, and President Lyndon B. Johnson talk at a press conference before the signing of the Medicare Bill at the Harry S. Truman Library.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Former President Harry S. Truman, and President Lyndon B. Johnson talk at a press conference before the signing of the Medicare Bill at the Harry S. Truman Library.
From left to right Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Former President Harry S. Truman, and President Lyndon B. Johnson, shaking hands at the press conference preceding the Medicare Bill signing at the Harry S. Truman Library.
Eric Sevareid interviews Dean Acheson, who talks about current and past issues. Subjects include the Marshall Mission to China; arms negotiations with the Soviet Union; Acheson's advice to Lyndon Johnson on the Vietnam War; the reasons for Truman's support for Israel; Acheson's relations with Truman; Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Kennedy; Dean Rusk, Joseph McCarthy, Alger Hiss; and Acheson's rating of recent world figures.
Ceremony at the Truman Library sponsored by the American Friends of Hebrew University establishing the Harry S. Truman Center for Advancement of Peace, to be situated on the campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It launched a multi-million dollar project dedicated to applying scientific methods to the isolation and destruction of the causes of war. The ceremony is attended by President Lyndon B. Johnson, former President Harry S. Truman, former First Lady Bess Truman, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and many dignitaries from the United States and Israel.