Obama did "what he should have done" in Hiroshima: Truman's grandson

Clifton Truman Daniel, the grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman who authorized the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Los Angeles on May 27, 2016. Daniel welcomed President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima as well as his speech delivered the same day that called for a world free of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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