A Conflicted Legacy: Presidents and Congress from Truman to Obama

Presented By
Donald Ritchie

Historian of the United States Senate Donald Ritchie discusses presidential relations with Congress since Harry S. Truman.

Ritchie, author of Congress and Harry S. Truman: A Conflicted Legacy, says the constitutional principle of checks and balances coupled with partisanship is a recipe for heated conflict in Washington and on the campaign trail.

Co-sponsored by the Harry S. Truman Center for Governmental Affairs at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, the UMKC College of Arts & Sciences Continuing Education, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, and the Bernardin-Haskell Lectures Fund of the UMKC College of Arts and Sciences.

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This event is co-sponsored by: Harry S. Truman Center for Governmental Affairs at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, UMKC College of Arts & Sciences Continuing Education, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Bernardin-Haskell Lectures Fund of the UMKC College of Art

A Conflicted Legacy: Presidents and Congress from Truman to Obama

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In Person