I was born in 1953 and grew up in Independence, MO - President Truman's hometown. He and Bess were familiar figures around town. He wasn't surrounded by secret service. He had one body guard and walked the streets of Independence from his home to the courthouse a few blocks away almost everyday. He stopped to talk to his neighbors and those he met along the way. I don't think anyone can imagine the situation, especially in today's political and social climate. My first job was that of paperboy and for a time I delivered his daily paper and chatted with him and Bess a few times. He made tough decisions, many that were unpopular and that impact us still. Yes, he's my favorite president and I really enjoy this show.
I JUST read this from you...2 YEARS LATER! Wonderful story, Richard! I envy you. To have actually TALKED with President Truman; I cannot imagine! Thank you for sharing that 😉👍
My uncle was leaving training in Camp Lejeune to Camp Pendleton and the train stopped in DC. They had a few hours so they walked to the White House, in uniform, and stared at it through the iron gate. They jumped to salute all of a sudden when Truman and his two serivce boys came walking by. Truman just yelled "at ease boys" as he saluted and walked by.
This is worth watching. This is my favorite President in American history. He really understood what the Founding Fathers had in mind... and he walked that talk. How different things would be now if we had a real President, like Harry.
The most wonderful man ever to run the country. He saved our economy, created the Marshall plan to rebuild Europe and then gave it to the general so he'd get the recognition he so well deserved, prevented WW3, and on and on-I URGE everyone to read a bio of him. And still balanced the budget! We don't need a Trump to Make America Great Again--WE NEED A TRUMAN!
'It looks as if the Republerats haven't changed a bit since 1936. President Roosevelt had his troubles with them - so did I… You know my program with these counterfeits was 'Give'em Hell' - and if they don't like it, give them more of the same…' - letter from Truman to JFK, June 28, 1962.
The bad blood between Ike and Truman was a bit more complicated. Harry was a man who valued loyalty very highly and held a lack thereof in contempt. Also Truman regarded being a good Democrat as something close to an article of religion. So after years of supporting Ike's post-war career, when he decided to run as a Republican in 1952, Truman took it as a personal betrayal and he attacked Ike during the campaign in the most severe language for that time. By the inauguration the two were barely on speaking terms and it remained that way for the next ten years. When President Kennedy was killed in 1963 Ike and Truman were thrown together at the services and forced to ride together in the same car. After the funeral when they were about to drop him off at his hotel, Ike said to Truman "we are the only people who know what it's like to sit behind that desk." Ike asked Truman up to his hotel room for drinks and a long talk where the two finally buried the hatchet.
Politically, I'm to the right of Attila the Hun, but Truman is one of my favorite presidents of all time. While there were a lot of things he did that I didn't like, he made his decisions out of conviction, not convenience.
A great performance by Whitmore. When Pres. Truman left office he first came to St Louis, Mo. He stayed in a suite at the Jefferson Hotel in downtown St. Louis. He would take his daily walks and would stop at Fahey Bar for a snort. He wouldnt sit at the bar but stood at one spot in front of the register, had his drink and went on his way. Years later the owner marked that spot with a copper compass rose. My friend bought the business and it was still there till he died and the bar was sold.
I would love to hear what President Truman would say to President Trump if they were in a room together. How could you tell if he made Trump blush with that spray on tan he has.
My favorite story about Truman: One one of his daily walks which was always with reporters; he called Richard Nixon a lying son-of-a b@#$h, of course it caused an uproar to which he replied--"OK I take back the son-of-a-bit#$%h But NO ONE can deny that he's a liar"!
I think I first saw this film on H.B.O. I also had a two record album of the play. James Whitmore was actually nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for this movie, even though this was just a filmed play with only one actor and one character, and not a regular movie with many characters and actors. In fact, "Give 'Em Hell, Harry" was one of two films in which the entire cast was nominated for the Academy Award (since Whitmore was the only person in the movie, then he WAS the entire cast), the other movie being "Sleuth" (1973), which had only two actors in it, Sir Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, who both got Oscar nods, Olivier for Best Actor, and Caine for Best Supporting Actor (I don't think either one of them actually won, though). As for James Whitmore, he lost the Oscar to Jack Nicolson for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." I noticed that in the closing credits, it said that one of the writers of the song, "Congratulations, Tom Dewey" (a tune that was supposed to be played if Dewey won the 1948 election, which he didn't because Truman won, and which James Whitmore, in the role of Truman, sang in this film) was Richard M. Sherman, who, along with his brother, Robert B. Sherman, wrote many songs for the movies. They are best remembered for their work in with the Walt Disney studio. Among other things, they wrote the music for "Mary Poppins" (1964), starring Julie Andrews, "The Jungle Book" (1967), and "Bedknobs And Broomsticks" (1971), with Angela Lansbury. They also wrote some of the tunes that can be heard being sung by the animatronic characters at the many Disney theme parks. In addition, the Sherman Brothers also did the songs for "Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" (1967), with Dick Van Dyke (Julie Andrews' co-star from "Mary Poppins"), "Snoopy, Come Home" (1971), based, of course, on the "Peanuts" comic strip, "Charlotte's Web" (1973), inspired by the children's book of the same title by E.B. White, and a Broadway musical called "Over Here" (1974), starring the Andrews Sisters, Patty and Maxine (the third sister, Laverne, died in 1967), a spoof of World War Two movies. Incidentally, one of the extras was John Travolta. The Shermans' father, Tom Sherman, was a songwriter too. One of his songs was a tribute to Charles Lindbergh's 1927 flight to Paris, entitled "Lindbergh, The Eagle Of The U.S.A.," which, by the way, can be heard in the 1976 Made-For-TV movie, "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case."
Thank you for this wonderful performance. Like Daniel-Day Lewis in Steven Speilberg's masterpiece "Lincoln", James Whitemore recreates HST in a way that teaches and entertains while giving life to why and how HST was the great man that he was. What a performance! What a gift to Americans and the world. This 1976 performance piece was recorded 3 years after HST died on Christmans Day in 1973-a Prophet in the Hebrew Biblical sense and gllobalized President for all time. Halleluyah
"He did not require to be loved. He did not expect to be followed blindly. Congressional opposition never struck him as subversive, nor did he regard his critics as traitors. He never whined." "....He met reporters frequently as a matter of course, and did not blame them for his failures. He did not use the office as a club or a shield, or a hiding place. He worked at it...He said he lived by the Bible and history. So armed, he proved that the ordinary American is capable of grandeur.And that a President can be a human being." - Mary Mcgrory Washington Star Dec 29, 1972 on the passing of President Harry S Truman from David McCullough's TRUMAN p. 989 Looking at the first paragraph, Obama is the complete opposite of HST. Same goes for his relations with reporters.
+john dates Then you should read David Halberstam's "The Powers That Be" and the evolution of the relationship between the press and the presidency. Do you think that Harry Truman would have survived today's media establishment?
***** I think HST would survive. He would take no BS from anybody. He knew criticism came with the territory; if it was fair criticism he had no problem with that.
john dates Remember, when he left office, his approval rating was at 35%; the lowest for any President in history before OR since, which included Richard Nixon and George W.Bush. History has been kinder to Harry Truman since. As an admirer of his, one would have to acknowledge his flaws as well; namely his establishment of the National Security State and his beginning of the Cold War along with the rise of such people like the Dulles Brothers and the suppression of dissident voices including those of Puerto Rican nationalists which led to his assassination attempt. Harry Truman's prickly personality would not go over well with today's highly televised and sensationalized media. Imagine what TMZ would have done with his relationship with Tom Prendegast. No less than Oliver Stone makes a convincing case for what policies this country would have made had Henry Wallace still been the Vice President instead of Truman when Roosevelt died in 1945. So I try to hold HST in his proper perspective when examining the history.
+john dates Wonderful quote about Truman. He sounds very inspiring. But why compare that to Obama? Obama has a lot of good qualities too. I doubt Truman would approve of all this hatred. Why not just be inspired by the remarkable Harry Truman and leave the rest out? Obama has worked pretty darn hard, and also he does not expect everyone to agree with him. He also has a good sense of humour.
Considering some of the trash that has been coming out of Hollywood lately, it amazes me that this this movie - with Whitmore's stellar, Academy Award nominated performance - has never been released on dvd. Shameful.
This show is as great as James Whitmore in Battleground as Sgt Kinney. Harry Truman was a passionate patriot. The last we have seen. Ike's Sec of Defense said what is good for General Motors is good for America. Ike also sent troops to South Vietnam. JFK/RFK were passionate about civil rights, but I should hate JFK cause he bedded Marilyn Monroe. 12 men in the world have seen her in movies and were not gay and didn't want to bed her. It is interesting that Dugout Doug Macarthur told JFK to never enter a mainland Asian war, LBJ did that.
Charles Wilson, former head of General Motors Corporation, and President Eisenhower's Secretary Of Defense, never said "What's good for General Motors is good for America." That's a myth. In fact, he said just the opposite. What happened was that he was testifying before a Senate committee that was full of Democrats who opposed the fact that Eisenhower's Republican administration was being run by businessmen, some of whom were old friends of the President. Anyway, Wilson, at one point in his testimony, stated that "I've always believed that what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa." What Wilson was trying to say was that GMC's success depended on a healthy economy. Unfortunately, the Democrats focused mainly on the "vice versa" form of Wilson's words, making it sound like an arrogant statement about General Motors' primacy in the United States. Throughout his four years (1953-57) as Defense Secretary, Wilson had a habit of making off the cuff remarks that often embarrassed President Eisenhower (and the public in general) to no end. For example, when he was asked what he thought about space travel, he replied "I've got enough troubles down here on Earth." When asked about foreign aid to the Iron Curtain (Communist) countries, Wilson answered "I come from a long line of ancestors who believed that you shouldn't sell firearms to the Indians." Another time, when someone complained about a new Pentagon expenditure, Wilson roared "I didn't come down here to run a candy store!" For all his faults, Charles Wilson still did a great job at running the Department Of Defense.
Truman brought Hoover back into a respectable way. He help him get Hoover his presidential library. It just that when I saw video of Hoover speaking at the 1960 Republican National Convention. Where he pretty much condemned those that didn't seem right to him. I thought was he put up to it or he spoke his own mind. I wonder how much research went into the making of this play?
Lovely show, although in this performance Whitmore seems to have a bad case of post-nasal drip. He keeps sniffing, but that doesn’t interfere with his performance, whatever brought it on. Give ‘em hell, Jim.
One of only two films, so far, where the entire speaking cast was nominated for an Oscar. "Sleuth" (1972 with Michael Caine & Laurence Olivier) is the other. Many mention "Whose Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe" (1966) but it actually had a couple of other very minor performers.
Stargazer... Harry S Truman was neither a war criminal or guilty of treason. That might very well be the most ignorant comment in the history of this website. Go find a 5th grade text book and educate yourself...
You got to be kidding! There's no way you can put Donald Trump in the same category with Harry Truman. Truman, after all, didn't act like an arrogant blowhard and an immature man-child, like Trump does. Yes, Truman used profane language once in a while (Trump is even worse when it comes to swearing), but he rarely ever did it in public. Remember the part in this play where James Whitmore as Truman is being followed by reporters, and he says that he's "very fond of the press"? That is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP! He hates the press with a passion, accusing them of putting out "fake news" (translation: stories critical of him), calling them "evil" and "the enemy of the people," and has even spoke of trying to silence them through the use of the libel laws. Truman would have never done that, because, unlike Trump, Truman had great respect, not just for the press, but for the United States Constitution, which protects the right of Free Speech and a Free Press, none of which Trump seems to care about! Truman tolerated criticism of his administration and his policies, while Trump can't take even the slightest critique of him or his presidency. As the old saying goes, he can dish it out, but he can't take it. If you asked me, Truman would turn over in his grave if he heard you comparing him with Trump.
Trump is the polar opposite of Truman. Besides the fact that he ran as a Republican, Trump turned the GOP into a personality cult / right-wing outrage generator interested solely in power for its own sake. Truman, on the other hand, fought back against the extremists in his party led by Strom Thurmond and came out in full support of government-protected civil rights. That's how the phrase "Give 'em Hell Harry!" came about in the first place. The idea that a second-rate self-aggrandizing Long Island legacy wealth loudmouth clown shares anything in common with a man like Harry Truman is ludicrous.
I was born in 1953 and grew up in Independence, MO - President Truman's hometown. He and Bess were familiar figures around town. He wasn't surrounded by secret service. He had one body guard and walked the streets of Independence from his home to the courthouse a few blocks away almost everyday. He stopped to talk to his neighbors and those he met along the way. I don't think anyone can imagine the situation, especially in today's political and social climate. My first job was that of paperboy and for a time I delivered his daily paper and chatted with him and Bess a few times. He made tough decisions, many that were unpopular and that impact us still. Yes, he's my favorite president and I really enjoy this show.
I JUST read this from you...2 YEARS LATER!
Wonderful story, Richard! I envy you. To have actually TALKED with President Truman; I cannot imagine!
Thank you for sharing that 😉👍
My uncle was leaving training in Camp Lejeune to Camp Pendleton and the train stopped in DC.
They had a few hours so they walked to the White House, in uniform, and stared at it through the iron gate.
They jumped to salute all of a sudden when Truman and his two serivce boys came walking by.
Truman just yelled "at ease boys" as he saluted and walked by.
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This is worth watching. This is my favorite President in American history. He really understood what the Founding Fathers had in mind... and he walked that talk. How different things would be now if we had a real President, like Harry.
The most wonderful man ever to run the country. He saved our economy, created the Marshall plan to rebuild Europe and then gave it to the general so he'd get the recognition he so well deserved, prevented WW3, and on and on-I URGE everyone to read a bio of him. And still balanced the budget! We don't need a Trump to Make America Great Again--WE NEED A TRUMAN!
'It looks as if the Republerats haven't changed a bit since 1936. President Roosevelt had his troubles with them - so did I… You know my program with these counterfeits was 'Give'em Hell' - and if they don't like it, give them more of the same…' - letter from Truman to JFK, June 28, 1962.
James Whitmore earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for a recorded stage performance back in 1975!!!
The bad blood between Ike and Truman was a bit more complicated. Harry was a man who valued loyalty very highly and held a lack thereof in contempt. Also Truman regarded being a good Democrat as something close to an article of religion. So after years of supporting Ike's post-war career, when he decided to run as a Republican in 1952, Truman took it as a personal betrayal and he attacked Ike during the campaign in the most severe language for that time. By the inauguration the two were barely on speaking terms and it remained that way for the next ten years. When President Kennedy was killed in 1963 Ike and Truman were thrown together at the services and forced to ride together in the same car. After the funeral when they were about to drop him off at his hotel, Ike said to Truman "we are the only people who know what it's like to sit behind that desk." Ike asked Truman up to his hotel room for drinks and a long talk where the two finally buried the hatchet.
That is how two real men work things out!
Politically, I'm to the right of Attila the Hun, but Truman is one of my favorite presidents of all time. While there were a lot of things he did that I didn't like, he made his decisions out of conviction, not convenience.
James Whitmore did a fabulous job at this! great actor!
A great performance by Whitmore. When Pres. Truman left office he first came to St Louis, Mo. He stayed in a suite at the Jefferson Hotel in downtown St. Louis. He would take his daily walks and would stop at Fahey Bar for a snort. He wouldnt sit at the bar but stood at one spot in front of the register, had his drink and went on his way. Years later the owner marked that spot with a copper compass rose. My friend bought the business and it was still there till he died and the bar was sold.
I would love to hear what President Truman would say to President Trump if they were in a room together. How could you tell if he made Trump blush with that spray on tan he has.
He would have flamed his ass so hard Trump wouldn't have known what hit him!
My favorite story about Truman: One one of his daily walks which was always with reporters; he called Richard Nixon a lying son-of-a b@#$h, of course it caused an uproar to which he replied--"OK I take back the son-of-a-bit#$%h But NO ONE can deny that he's a liar"!
I remember watching this on PBS(IIRC) in the late 70s. Fascinating and FUNNY. Thank you for uploading :)
I think I first saw this film on H.B.O. I also had a two record album of the play.
James Whitmore was actually nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for this movie, even though this was just a filmed play with only one actor and one character, and not a regular movie with many characters and actors. In fact, "Give 'Em Hell, Harry" was one of two films in which the entire cast was nominated for the Academy Award (since Whitmore was the only person in the movie, then he WAS the entire cast), the other movie being "Sleuth" (1973), which had only two actors in it, Sir Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, who both got Oscar nods, Olivier for Best Actor, and Caine for Best Supporting Actor (I don't think either one of them actually won, though).
As for James Whitmore, he lost the Oscar to Jack Nicolson for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."
I noticed that in the closing credits, it said that one of the writers of the song, "Congratulations, Tom Dewey" (a tune that was supposed to be played if Dewey won the 1948 election, which he didn't because Truman won, and which James Whitmore, in the role of Truman, sang in this film) was Richard M. Sherman, who, along with his brother, Robert B. Sherman, wrote many songs for the movies. They are best remembered for their work in with the Walt Disney studio. Among other things, they wrote the music for "Mary Poppins" (1964), starring Julie Andrews, "The Jungle Book" (1967), and "Bedknobs And Broomsticks" (1971), with Angela Lansbury. They also wrote some of the tunes that can be heard being sung by the animatronic characters at the many Disney theme parks.
In addition, the Sherman Brothers also did the songs for "Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" (1967), with Dick Van Dyke (Julie Andrews' co-star from "Mary Poppins"), "Snoopy, Come Home" (1971), based, of course, on the "Peanuts" comic strip, "Charlotte's Web" (1973), inspired by the children's book of the same title by E.B. White, and a Broadway musical called "Over Here" (1974), starring the Andrews Sisters, Patty and Maxine (the third sister, Laverne, died in 1967), a spoof of World War Two movies. Incidentally, one of the extras was John Travolta.
The Shermans' father, Tom Sherman, was a songwriter too. One of his songs was a tribute to Charles Lindbergh's 1927 flight to Paris, entitled "Lindbergh, The Eagle Of The U.S.A.," which, by the way, can be heard in the 1976 Made-For-TV movie, "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case."
Thank you for this wonderful performance. Like Daniel-Day Lewis in Steven Speilberg's masterpiece "Lincoln", James Whitemore recreates HST in a way that teaches and entertains while giving life to why and how HST was the great man that he was. What a performance! What a gift to Americans and the world. This 1976 performance piece was recorded 3 years after HST died on Christmans Day in 1973-a Prophet in the Hebrew Biblical sense and gllobalized President for all time. Halleluyah
Harry Truman, our greatest, most honest President.
There's also Carter. 💜
And Obama. 💚
"He did not require to be loved. He did not expect to be followed blindly. Congressional opposition never struck him as subversive, nor did he regard his critics as traitors. He never whined."
"....He met reporters frequently as a matter of course, and did not blame them for his failures. He did not use the office as a club or a shield, or a hiding place. He worked at it...He said he lived by the Bible and history. So armed, he proved that the ordinary American is capable of grandeur.And that a President can be a human being." - Mary Mcgrory Washington Star Dec 29, 1972 on the passing of President Harry S Truman
from David McCullough's TRUMAN p. 989
Looking at the first paragraph, Obama is the complete opposite of HST. Same goes for his relations with reporters.
+john dates Then you should read David Halberstam's "The Powers That Be" and the evolution of the relationship between the press and the presidency. Do you think that Harry Truman would have survived today's media establishment?
*****
I think HST would survive. He would take no BS from anybody. He knew criticism came with the territory; if it was fair criticism he had no problem with that.
john dates
Remember, when he left office, his approval rating was at 35%; the lowest for any President in history before OR since, which included Richard Nixon and George W.Bush.
History has been kinder to Harry Truman since. As an admirer of his, one would have to acknowledge his flaws as well; namely his establishment of the National Security State and his beginning of the Cold War along with the rise of such people like the Dulles Brothers and the suppression of dissident voices including those of Puerto Rican nationalists which led to his assassination attempt.
Harry Truman's prickly personality would not go over well with today's highly televised and sensationalized media. Imagine what TMZ would have done with his relationship with Tom Prendegast. No less than Oliver Stone makes a convincing case for what policies this country would have made had Henry Wallace still been the Vice President instead of Truman when Roosevelt died in 1945. So I try to hold HST in his proper perspective when examining the history.
+john dates Wonderful quote about Truman. He sounds very inspiring. But why compare that to Obama? Obama has a lot of good qualities too. I doubt Truman would approve of all this hatred. Why not just be inspired by the remarkable Harry Truman and leave the rest out? Obama has worked pretty darn hard, and also he does not expect everyone to agree with him. He also has a good sense of humour.
You know who else is the exact opposite of Harry Truman?
DONALD TRUMP!
it takes a master thespian to act all parts by himself. this should be watched in all schools in the country.
Thank you for this. So great to watch.
I wish somebody could put up the production of Plain Speaking, which featured Ed Flanders' one-man performance as Truman.
I haven't found the quote Truman said about locking up the smokehouse.
dig this man up, get some volts thru him and run him for president again. Truman was the last president to come from a "dirt poor" beginning.
True to form, this has Truman using his own postage stamps. He was the only president to refuse to use the Presidential postal franking privilege.
Wondrful performance!
*Wonderful
IF YOU SEE VIDEO OF THE REAL TRUMAN HE IS VERY MUCH MORE THOUGHTFUL...AND REALLY BRILLIANT IN HIS THOUGHTS AND WORDS...
Man, what a truly great actor, James Whitmore. Try this Kevin Spacey, if you dare.
Considering some of the trash that has been coming out of Hollywood lately, it amazes me that this this movie - with Whitmore's stellar, Academy Award nominated performance - has never been released on dvd. Shameful.
Tom Hensen Wow. You’re right.
...find a saloon now and strike a blow for Liberty!
Okay, play it!
This show is as great as James Whitmore in Battleground as Sgt Kinney. Harry Truman was a passionate patriot. The last we have seen.
Ike's Sec of Defense said what is good for General Motors is good for America. Ike also sent troops to South Vietnam. JFK/RFK were passionate about civil rights, but I should hate JFK cause he bedded Marilyn Monroe. 12 men in the world have seen her in movies and were not gay and didn't want to bed her. It is interesting that Dugout Doug Macarthur told JFK to never enter a mainland Asian war, LBJ did that.
Charles Wilson, former head of General Motors Corporation, and President Eisenhower's Secretary Of Defense, never said "What's good for General Motors is good for America." That's a myth. In fact, he said just the opposite. What happened was that he was testifying before a Senate committee that was full of Democrats who opposed the fact that Eisenhower's Republican administration was being run by businessmen, some of whom were old friends of the President. Anyway, Wilson, at one point in his testimony, stated that "I've always believed that what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa." What Wilson was trying to say was that GMC's success depended on a healthy economy. Unfortunately, the Democrats focused mainly on the "vice versa" form of Wilson's words, making it sound like an arrogant statement about General Motors' primacy in the United States.
Throughout his four years (1953-57) as Defense Secretary, Wilson had a habit of making off the cuff remarks that often embarrassed President Eisenhower (and the public in general) to no end. For example, when he was asked what he thought about space travel, he replied "I've got enough troubles down here on Earth." When asked about foreign aid to the Iron Curtain (Communist) countries, Wilson answered "I come from a long line of ancestors who believed that you shouldn't sell firearms to the Indians." Another time, when someone complained about a new Pentagon expenditure, Wilson roared "I didn't come down here to run a candy store!"
For all his faults, Charles Wilson still did a great job at running the Department Of Defense.
1976, shown on whistle-stop campaign for Democrats in 1976 by Bill Sargent.
Brennan would be on the top of McCarthy's list today. and he'd be right.
Who's Brennan and why would he be at "the top of McCarthy's list"?
Truman brought Hoover back into a respectable way. He help him get Hoover his presidential library. It just that when I saw video of Hoover speaking at the 1960 Republican National Convention. Where he pretty much condemned those that didn't seem right to him. I thought was he put up to it or he spoke his own mind. I wonder how much research went into the making of this play?
Lovely show, although in this performance Whitmore seems to have a bad case of post-nasal drip. He keeps sniffing, but that doesn’t interfere with his performance, whatever brought it on. Give ‘em hell, Jim.
Would love to see JW as TR and Will Rodgers
I think the best movie portrayal of TR was by Brian Keith in The Wind and the Lion.
You're incorrect gymini. I saw this in the movie theater, and Mr. Whitmore was indeed nominated for an Oscar for this performance.
this was for television, not film, so Whitmore could have won the Emmy and Nicholson the Oscar
Nicholson DID win the Oscar.
This film was actually shown in movie theaters, which qualified Whitmore for the Oscar, which he lost to Nicholson.
One of only two films, so far, where the entire speaking cast was nominated for an Oscar.
"Sleuth" (1972 with Michael Caine & Laurence Olivier) is the other.
Many mention "Whose Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe" (1966) but it actually had a couple of other very minor performers.
How?
Stargazer... Harry S Truman was neither a war criminal or guilty of treason. That might very well be the most ignorant comment in the history of this website. Go find a 5th grade text book and educate yourself...
They used Truman as the fall guy, as always, decisions for a setup behind closed door.....
Is this the version he was nominated for?
President "Give 'em Hell" Donald (Trump) is the Reincarnation of 'Given 'em Hell" Harry.
You got to be kidding! There's no way you can put Donald Trump in the same category with Harry Truman. Truman, after all, didn't act like an arrogant blowhard and an immature man-child, like Trump does. Yes, Truman used profane language once in a while (Trump is even worse when it comes to swearing), but he rarely ever did it in public.
Remember the part in this play where James Whitmore as Truman is being followed by reporters, and he says that he's "very fond of the press"? That is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP! He hates the press with a passion, accusing them of putting out "fake news" (translation: stories critical of him), calling them "evil" and "the enemy of the people," and has even spoke of trying to silence them through the use of the libel laws. Truman would have never done that, because, unlike Trump, Truman had great respect, not just for the press, but for the United States Constitution, which protects the right of Free Speech and a Free Press, none of which Trump seems to care about! Truman tolerated criticism of his administration and his policies, while Trump can't take even the slightest critique of him or his presidency. As the old saying goes, he can dish it out, but he can't take it.
If you asked me, Truman would turn over in his grave if he heard you comparing him with Trump.
Not by a country mile! Truman would have despised Trump!
Trump is the polar opposite of Truman. Besides the fact that he ran as a Republican, Trump turned the GOP into a personality cult / right-wing outrage generator interested solely in power for its own sake. Truman, on the other hand, fought back against the extremists in his party led by Strom Thurmond and came out in full support of government-protected civil rights. That's how the phrase "Give 'em Hell Harry!" came about in the first place. The idea that a second-rate self-aggrandizing Long Island legacy wealth loudmouth clown shares anything in common with a man like Harry Truman is ludicrous.
Truman was a war criminal and a betrayer of the Constitution. But the show was funny.
Didn't you already write this two times before?
Truman was a war criminal and a betrayer of the Constitution. But the show was funny.
Stargazer where's the prove?
Truman was a war criminal and a betrayer of the Constitution. But the show was funny.
So you must think trump is a war hero.
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No way could Mr. "Bone Spurs" be a "war hero."
And if anyone is a "betrayer of the Constitution," it's TRUMP!