James Holland

Traditionally, I should also say the Republican view and traditionally up until the arrival, the advent of FDR in 1933, it has been low federal input, high individual input.

So that is the end of the FDR dream.

And this is significant because this is where Truman's from.

He's not from Fulton, but he's from Missouri.

This has all been cleared beforehand.

The speech has been written out.

You know, they've had eyes on the speech beforehand.

Yeah.

And he comes over and this is what he says.

He can say, from stepping to the Baltic to trust in the Asiatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.

If we adhere fully to the charter of the United Nations and walk forward in sedate and sober strength, seeking no one's land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control upon the thoughts of men, the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us, but for all, not only for our time, but for a century to come.

But this is... What he's saying is he's saying exactly the same things as that inauguration address that Roosevelt makes on the 6th of January 1941, saying this is what our...

Our role should be in the West.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, we should do this.

We should be the bigger people and all the rest of it.

The difference is that now the counterpoint to that is the threat not from Nazi Germany, it's from the Soviet Union.

Everyone's exhausted and everyone's turning inward again.

No, no, no, no, not at all.

No, it isn't.