Video: 'American Experience Truman 2' (Sep. 6, 1945, at 5:04)

(Thursday, September 6, 1945) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman delivered a special message to Congress today, proposing a 21-point program for a peace time economy, including an increase in the minimum wage, aid for housing and a bill for the first pre-paid medical insurance in the nation’s history. But a coalition of Republicans and conservative southern Democrats would refuse him everything.