Video: 'American Experience - Truman (1997) - Part 4' (Sep. 6, 1945, at 3:29)

(Thursday, September 6, 1945, 8:00 a.m. EDT) — 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.