>> about five days. >> and, literally, eisenhower eisenhower is taking kennedy to the wood shed. he had reorganized the white house around his own way of making decisions, he thought that eisenhower's military hierarchy was not going to work, he wanted a much more personal kind of presidency, and then they had bay bay of pigs and he thought, well, maybe that's not working so well. eisenhower and kennedy meet, this was a, you know, i tried to warn you you can't organize the white house this kind of way, kennedy said, yeah, i'm beginning to figure that out now. and kennedy would learn. he would change the way he did his decision making, and he would become much more like the one ike -- interestingly enough, after they appeared before the cameras, and kennedy really needed this picture as much as he needed the talking to because it conveyed a sense of authority and command to have the old general there. eisenhower didn't criticize kennedy in public. >> in fact, the following week a whole congressional delegation of republican leaders in congress made a pilgrimage to gettysburg to se

eisenhower and kennedy me. this is a bark off the mysterious they tried to warn you can't organize the white house this way kind of talk. kennedy said yeah, i'm beginning to figure this out now. and he would change the way he did his decision-making and would become much more like the one like ike is interestingly enough before they appear before the cameras and kennedy really needed this picture as much as the talking to, he needed this picture because it conveyed a sense of authority and command to have the old general they are. eisenhower didn't criticize canadian public. >> in fact, the following week a whole congressional delegation of republican leaders in congress at a pilgrimage to see eisenhower, loaded to bury they thought the bloom is off to visit the kennedy kennedy administration and eisenhower brushed the back. he said there should be no witchhunt. it is important that we support our president, especially in foreign policy, especially in dangerous times this not become a partisan issue. >> which i

eisenhower.dr was taking ike's measure, and he like what he saw. the two were very much alike. they bonded really on a motor trip to see the battlefield at carthage, and roosevelt was also submitten with kay and insisted she sit next to him on the picnic lnch they had on the way. [laughter] immediately after the teheran conference, roosevelt picked eisenhower to command the d-day invasion. the job was general marshall's if he wanted it, but with characteristic self-discipline, marshall declinedded to express an opinion who roosevelt asked him. at that point, fdr said simply, "it will be eisenhower." eisenhower was roosevelt's first choice really to command the invasion. by that point, he had three major amphibious operations under his belt. he was experienced leading coalition forces. the old story that roosevelt could not sleep with marshall out of washington was a spin put on it in order to save marshall's face by not getting the command position. ike and roosevelt met again in january 1944. th

eisenhower. to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow republicans and americans across this great nation, from this moment, united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to undeniable greatness of the whole land. together, together we will win. i accept your nomination for your deep sense of humility. i accept the responsibility that goes with it and i think your continued guidance helps. my fellow republicans, our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it. our task would be too great for any man, to have with them their heart and the hand of this great republican party and i prom mispromise you tonight that every fiber of my being is consecrated to our cause that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to us by enthusiasm, by devotion and playing hard work. in this world, no person, no party can guarantee anything. but what we can do and what we shall do is to deserve victory and victory will be ours. the good lord raised this mighty repu

looking live at eisenhower avenue. the plan over the weekend was for the megaprojects to be completed on the outer loop and inner loop through alexandria heading over to the wilson bridge. you should have two through lanes. looks great at eisenhower avenue. mike, back to you. >> thanks, beverly. see you in a bit. >>> time for the first your money segment. jessica is off but we do have the headlines. a better than expected july jobs report sent socks soaring to the highest level since may. >>> the i.r.s. has been handing out billions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds to identity thieves. there's a new report out that says the agency failed to prevent 1.5 million potentially fraudulent tax returns from being processed last year. the refunds totaled more than $5 billion. >>> nasa has picked boeing and to other aerospace companies to build some small rocket ships. they'll be used to transport astronauts to the international space station. the contracts are worth more than a billion dollars and until the ships are built,

of a morers predictable memorial to dwight eisenhower are planning some changes.hey are planning an electronic with theto go monument. immobile appde will superimposed historic images and recordings on to the the memorial. will include stories of eisenhower as a general in world war ii, and of course, as president. virginia will become the first eight in the nation with those folks month for its rest areas. sponsorship will help offset the cost of running them. they were shut down for a time because of budget issues. >> a gorgeous day to be outside. >> we will be hot, but not hot and humidn weather on saturday. the annapolisa at naval academy. . few fair weather clouds pretty much the story across the region. most clear skies that will be clear and cold through the region. -- through the evening. 69 was the morning low. that will probably repeat again tomorrow morning. weed and mold spores in the .oderate range today 89 at reagan national and 84 at annapolis naval academy. 82 right now in gaithersburg. very comfortable afternoon. with 89 degrees when it is drive.

. >> let me turn to president eisenhower. in fact, part of the name of your book comes from that famous address the president eisenhower gave. president dwight d. eisenhower was famous farewell speech to the nation. it was generous 17, 1961. -- january 17, 1961. >> my fellow americans, this evening i come to you with a message of farewell and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen. we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. 3.5 million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. the total influence, economic, political, even spiritual, it is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government. we recognize the imperative need for this development. yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex, the potential for the disastrous rise for missed these power exi

eisenhower was a brilliant general. but in terms of support for civil rights, for women's rights, for human rights. he waited 8 years until the end of his presidency before he warned us about the military industrial complex. he had to go into little rock arkansas kicking and screaming. i don't consider eisenhower to be in the position of theodore roosevelt and franklin roosevelt. >> he you wrote the book and you are entitled to your opinion. now, explain to me this, this is fascinating. you seem like an honest guy. i mean, i think you made a big mistake about the buffoonery thing because you can't back it up and that makes you look intellectually deficient but so far you are pretty honest. so you right this book and you teach at occidental college and it's all left-wing stuff. all left-wing. you admire them. this is how are. this is where you live. when i come on the air and i said you know what? academia in america sharply to the left, i'm telling the truth, am i not? >> well, not really, bill, because what today is co

where it used to be their pay down the debt he created eisenhower nine hundred fifty three the department of health education and welfare welfare and made it a cabinet position to reduce the number of hungry and poorly educated americans and stimulate the economy to pay down our debt he pushed for and built the st lawrence seaway linking the great lakes with the atlantic ocean to build trade with europe thus creating manufacturing jobs for export those stimulating the economy and paying down our debt he reached out to alaska and hawaii and brought them into the us he openly supported a top income tax rate of ninety one percent of the very very rich which helped pay down our debt he openly supported corporations paying over thirty percent of all facts collections of the federal level which help pay down our debt today it's closer to fifteen percent he pushed for federal aid for r. and d. so in one thousand fifty six i.b.m. built the first hard drive and in one thousand sixty the laser was imbedded with largely federal funds he openly supported unionized workers having the right to organize

that allowed eisenhower to overtake taft.e felt they had been betrayed and there was a double cross. what is interesting is dwight eisenhower's floor manager, when he came back to massachusetts to run as senator, he was defeated because a number of republicans and conservatives supported the democratic candidate. that democratic canada it was john f. kennedy. i like to tell people conservative republicans are responsible for the kennedy dynasty. that was the race that put the kennedys in the national spotlight. host: on the other side of the coin, adlai stevenson was not even the candidate in 1952. guest: right, as a desperation move on the democrats' side. that is kind of the last of the old school conventions in the sense it was decided in the back room. adlai stevenson was the choice of then-president harry truman. he later lived to regret his backing of at least in some. he considered him ineffective as a leader. host: thomas whalen is a professor at boston university. he is our guest on "washington journal." the first ca

so that's my view on eisenhower. [laughter] >> i wrote this book really because obama was a man that blazed across the national scene in 2004. i heard of him before 2004 because my son was a student at the university of chicago and he called me once after a speech in 2002 when obama was still a state senator. he said there is this guy that sounds just like a psychoanalyst and starts putting himself and other people's shoes and seeing things from their point of view. he says don't remember his name but he was pretty cool. in 2004 he gave a speech which everybody knows, which is when he talked about he doesn't see red states and blue states he sees the country and it really struck a chord with a lot of people who had them feeling one way or another about george bush feeling very bad about the elections and there's a lot of division in this country. so people really rallied to him as everybody knows. but it turned out in retrospect that there were two obama is not to americans and after he became president he was very d

. >> eliot: i hate to be mockish, but you referred to eisenhower rates.when fdr was president up in the 90s. >> eliot: yes. >> eliot: people forget, the rates being down in the 30s for the rich americans is a modern-- >> derivative. it's herbert hoover numbers, and eisenhower had such a rosy glow in the 50s because of the high tax rate on the wealthy and those gi bills and the interstate highway plan. >> eliot: general eisenhower spent money on building things. >> infrastructure, what a concept. >> eliot: oh my goodness, shocking. >> this is why i think that the president's burden is to wake up our republican friends to the fact that the romney agenda does not help them. tea party is an acronym for total economic amnesia prevents republican trick trickle down y'all. >> eliot: that's something we never learned. i don't think most folks ever appreciated how much government involvement there was. wasn't it said once, you didn't build that. >> yes, elizabeth warren said that and the president tried to. >> eliot: chick-fil-a, you a big fan of chicken sandwiche

when the republican party, the party of abraham lincoln and theodore roosevelt, general eisenhower, ronaldn, the list goes on and on and they decide to be a little more inclusive and broaden the footprint a little bit. >> stephen: including guys like you? >> i think you have pointed that out earlier in the program. so a little more inclusive, and with a larger optimistic hopeful message about the future of this country that is based on real solutions, and, you know, beyond that, i hate super pacs. >> stephen: i had a super pac, you realize that? >> i knew you were going to take offense to that, stephen. >> stephen: a better tomorrow. join. >> super pacs are destroying this democracy and everybody knows it. >> stephen: you had a super pac that supported you. >> we did a clinical trial. i can tell you -- >> stephen: a clinical trial? how did the, -- how can you understand -- look i come from both sides of this debate. i ran for governor and people thought, well, gee, nobody is going to raise money are the grass roots if we raise enough we will win. if we don't raise enough we will kind of mo

>> i would go back to the eisenhower rate. you know what eisenhower was taxing people out? 70% to 90%. you want to go back to a rate where there is a supertax on the very rich and millionaires. you want to get rid of the loopholes. look at the capital gains tax of 15%. we are taxing work the barely taxing wealth region but barely tax and wealth. that is the wrong priority. -- we're taxing work but barely taxing wealth. the robin hood taxes an idea whose time has come. radicals light nicholke nicolasy and angela merkel have a tax on currency transactions that would bring in $350 billion a year. some of my heroes are the nurses of this country. national nurses united heal america. tax-loss >>> there are a slew -- tax on wall street. there are a slew of good things that 1%ers are for. >> he is not really offering of a lot. >> he is talking about being taxed less than his assistant. there is a group of patriotic millionaires. it is the belief that you owe backe to a country that has helped to make you what you are. steve jobs -- we had a tough column in the last issue. it was t

in 1952 when eisenhower came in. history and the voters both how to write even though they are looking at this president from two totally different perspectives. let me give a couple of examples from history, perhaps where it is too generous. this is subject to mark twain's quote about difference of opinion. john adams, grover cleveland. in the first academic poll, cleveland was ranked eighth. john adams was ranked ninth. grover cleveland, we don't know much about him. i do not before i started this, and to be honest i don't really. [laughter] but i know enough to be able to talk about it a little bit. what we know about him is that he is the only president who served two nonconsecutive terms. after each of his terms, his body was tossed out of the white house. the first time was after he was on the ticket in the second time was basically after they said we don't want you on the ticket, but the voters tossed out the democrats under william jennings bryan and william mckinley. he really is the only two-time one term p

and i thought that was kind of remarkable that historians would put eisenhower there. almost immediately he began to rise out, and he's now consistently in the near-great category. and reagan also initially was down there, he also was next the to chet arthur, and he's moving up, but he hasn't reached the level except in the most recent poll in 2005 by "the wall street journal." so what about the presidents' history that the voters didn't care for? one that i really have to talk about, maybe stir up some energy in the room s wilson. the voters really couldn't wait to get rid of that guy by the end of his second term. cleveland is an interesting case in point, john adams and harry trueman. now, harry truman is a fascinating case in point, and he, to me, sort of personifies a significant element of this whole theme in terms of how the voters judge the presidents and how the historians judge the presidents. totally different. historians look at a president's full tenure in office, whatever that might be, two terms, one term, partial terms, whatever, and then look at what h

eisenhower. the designer said the new plans will be high-tech. a congressional commission developing memorial launched a preview of an e-memorial. the virtual memorial includes historical images and documents, which will accompany the monument. eisenhower's family has been designed in the process and has objected to previous designs. >>> the redskins other rookie quarterback performs well in and in its first start to the preseason and lindsay murphy is live to talk about that and more. next. anncr: it'll start out as concrete andnd steel... but it'll become so much more. a new world-class resort casino in prince george's county. two thousand construction jobs to build it. four thousand permanent, good-paying jobs when it's done. hundreds of millions for maryland schools... real oversight to make sure the money goes... where it's supposed to. but none of it will happen unless we vote for... question seven this november. vote for question seven. and help build a better future for maryland. . >>> from nationals park, i am lindsay murphy. the team is

eisenhower. [applause] to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow republicans assembled across this great nation. from this moment, united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. together we will win. [applause] i accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. [applause] i accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it, and i seek your continued help and your continued guidance. my fellow republicans, our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it. our task would be too great for any man, did he not have with him the heart and the hands of this great republican party. and i promise you tonight that every fiber of my being is consecrated to our cause, that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by devotion, and plain hard work. in this world no person, no party can guarantee anything, but what we can do and what we shall do is to deserve victory, and vic

>> eliot: eisenhower. >> nixon.r was the last one with a surplus. >> eliot: john fugelsang, thanks so much as always. friday gives us what the week is all about. >> t

>> everybody but eisenhower's come out on this guy, only because ike's not with us.think it is a local thing and it is a local problem. it is great news for harry reid. maybe akin will get out. but he says he won't. we'll see. i don't think it plays nationally. >> the big gender gap issue? >> i'm very concerned about the gender gap. akin, the way romney and others handled it in the party, putting as much distance -- time to change the channels. >> mike murphy, if you would produce these conventions for us, it might be more interesting. >> there would be ratings, i don't know if the party would do well. can i do a charlie crist prediction on the way out? i think he's going to run as a democrat and lose the primary. >> he says if invited he would speak next week. >> doesn't matter. he can't deliver a pizza, let alone a vote. >> oh, you're delivering pizza! it's an old one. forget votes, they can't deliver pizza. >>> our super sized political panel is next. but first a look at what i know you all care did bsh white house soup of the day -- we love it down here in florid

did when eisenhower referred to their ilk as small in number and stupid and not stupid anymore if we really value american traditions we really must push back on this kind of power and influence in american politics for more information go to move to amend or. after the break amended ten is see is dead after he was mysteriously shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car. is the way to sensitive excessive violence by police in america and how of our nation's police forces become so militarized. i'm a former soviet soldier war prisoner. brain her. husband . a father. an alien in the beginning stage. a son. a brother. an alien in ukraine. i'm craving for my homeland. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are on the day.

spending is that when eisenhower spent money it stayed in local communities and it got recycled in local manufacturing obama spent the money and you know god was there i mean it got us out of the disaster but two or three iterations down the road you know the local restaurant and then the local bank and then when somebody goes to wal-mart and boom the money is off to china. this could take a much faster and what's what's the difference between a treaty and an agreement in the context of all the stuff in the constitution that explicitly says that the treaties become the wall of the land so if we signed a treaty that said you know anytime somebody says the word can everybody has to jump up that would become the wall of the land. that's pretty serious stuff so are these treaties or the agreements are they and treaties have to be explicitly authorized by. congress and by the size superman i started by two thirds. the answer as i learned the hard way during the debate is there is a legal answer and their state department has a series of tests which the w t o agreement that has a treaty but th

soprano support for home loans the the the eisenhower transportation bills eisenhower building schools and hospitals and he basically said we were one hundred twenty seven percent of g.d.p. and debt after world war two he basically stimulated us out of it and paid off that debt. isn't that an example of government policy creating a battle for us it's certainly dicky's the government has a strong role to play in creating an educated society and created infrastructure but america's growth any successful nations growth is about innovation in the private sector not about government ok and where where do you see if if mitt romney is elected president what what would be the pot what would be your first policy recommendations but what governor romney has said is that day one in the he would introduce energy regulation that would create jobs in the energy sector to move from obamacare to much more market oriented health care system tax reform and spending restraint all together which could create another twelve million jobs in this country in his first term and other words. exactly what george

did when eisenhower referred to their ilk as small in number and stupid and not stupid anymore and if we really value american traditions we really must push back on this kind of power and influence in american politics for more information go to move to amend dot org. after the break a man in tennessee is dead after he was mysteriously shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car is the way to sensitive excessive violence by police in america and how our nation's police forces become so militarize. the rock. bottom of the capital account of my lawyer mr. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i didn't tell the truth. to confess and i am a total get of friends that i love driving hip hop music. and. it was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the role that al-jazeera has played. the. lead.

we wouldn't have had eisenhower as president. >> i don't think this is political at all. they would have done the same thing if a republican president was doing it which they wouldn't be doing that. he has a point. if you look at what seals and what military men and women are designed to do, they are trained to protect the country. the point is leaking this information to try and make president obama look better and stronger on national security, it puts our security and intelligence at risk. and it puts americans at risk. that's their job. they are still doing their job the seals to the day they die. i applaud them. it takes courage to do that. >> jimmy, how would you react if this was your country and they were your soldiers? >> if this was my country? let's cut the crap and get everyone out of everywhere. how many people do we have in italy? 15,000 troops, 70,000 in germany and north korea. let's cut the crap. middle east, out. israel, look, we will help you if there is a major thing, but you are on your own. everyone is pulling out. sorry, guys, coming home. there is

it could be eisenhower, it did not matter. this guy was great.i take from all of this is that as an 8 year-old, that followed my grandfather everywhere, and the person that i looked up to the most in my life, he loved to this country. he loved every tiny crime about it. we have the american dream to fight for in this country. this president has a problem with the american dream. this president has a problem with success. we are the party, we are the party that is going to portray that we believe that the american dream is alive and well. we are the party that is going to embrace success. like i said last night, when i grew up, just like all of your parents, your parents -- and you do not driver around the neighborhood. my parents did not driver around the neighborhood. my dad did not point to the beautiful house on the corner and say look at these lousy people over here. check this out. my parents did what your parents did. they pointed to the house and said listen, if you work hard and you go to school, you are going to be in that house. you kno

. >> his name is dwight eisenhower. >> if you guys actually do the math and maybe do some research andin your life, you will see that spending has been the least it has been since eisenhower. that's actually true, actually. you may want to look into that. >> is he saying anything that makes sense? >> let me tell you something. i do not like president obama not because he is black. the fact that he plays basketball and listens to jay z makes me uncomfortable. that's not something i enjoy. >> you are being an idiot. >> and you are betraying miles. >> i swear to god i am going to pull out his beard and knock sense into his ass. write me up now. >> miles, i think you need to let go. >> i go by will now. >> everybody okay? >> you might as well hit a woman, sir. >> are you being an idiot. >> read a book on how to not read women. >> by the way -- >> don't do it. this is the second who has put water everywhere. >> mcginnis -- mckinnis, is that foreign? >> e-mail us. and if you have a video of your cat or other household pets, we want it for our own amusement. we will feature your video on with

petraeus is no dwight eisenhower.e in the line of wesley clark or al haig. >> hey, i like wesley clark. >> jennifer: i like wesley clark, too. but this is drudge's second effort to chin up excitement, the first pick was condoleezza rice. >> when the girls are not going to take you to the prom. you start to go to others to take to the prom. >> that's so true. when he picks rob portman, it's going to look really boring. >> jennifer: that's what i was saying to donnie during the break, craig. i wonder if drudge was getting this information sideways from the democratic side. after they do pick the republicans it's going to be a big letdown. craig, tell us failure prediction. >> rob portman. a day or two after the olympics. mitt romney is not a risktaker. this is not a man who is going to take a risk. i just can't believe it. and you look at history the risky running mate choices very seldom work in the end. it's usually the safe choices. >> jennifer: wait a minute craig, you say portman a day or two after next monday, tue

. >> no, eisenhower. >> stephen: i remember him. >> you don't remember him well.id "we've got to send some guys over to lebanon." >> stephen: i had no idea the japanese were in lebanon. >> the japanese were not in lebanon. >> stephen: where were say in >> i don't know, they were home making toys. >> stephen: what do we have here? >> right here we have the f-14. it's the tomcat. >> stephen: i've got some bad news, marino. tomcat has broken up. so we've got one of the blue angels right here. >> yes, stephen. >> stephen: i love the blue angels. >> well, they're nice. >> stephen: can't touch the planes, marino, can't touch the planes. they can go to war but they can't taken a old man touching them. >> all right. you know this guy, lieutenant? >> stephen: lou and i played squash together. who's lou chapman? >> he's a lieutenant. >> stephen: do you know him? >> he's long gone. >> stephen: did you know about him when i asked me if i knew him? >> no, i just wanted to see if you did know him. >> stephen: were you testing he? >> how did i do. >> stephen: you did fine. >> st

quite eisenhower was nominated by acclamation. here is his acceptance speech. >> chairman martin, delegates and alternates to this great convention, distinguished guests and my fellow americans wherever they may be in this broad land -- i should first tell you that i have no words in which to express the gratitude that mrs. eisenhower and i feel for the warmth of your welcome. the cordiality you have extended to us and to the members of our family, our son and daughter, my brothers and their wives, touches our hearts deeply. thank you very much indeed. i thank you additionally and personally for the high honor you have accorded me in entrusting me once more with your nomination for the presidency. and i should like to say that it is a great satisfaction to me that the team of individuals you selected in 1952 you have selected to keep intact for this campaign. [applause] i am not here going to attempt a eulogy of mr. nixon. you have heard his qualifications described in the past several days. i merely want to say this -- that whate

earlier broken down vehicle on the outer loop at eisenhower avenue moved to the shoulder with only brief delays. clearing up a crash on northbound telegraph road. maryland drivers with delays on the outer loop heading west of college park, off and on through the work zone, after new hampshire near university boulevard. the pace improves by the time you get to georgia avenue. an earlier crash sup on 270, south of 109. moved off to the shoulder. your next check of traffic at 6:58. back to you. >> thanks, bev. see you in a bit. >>> so many people ask us how we get up in the middle of the night, how difficult it is. you know, here's how we do it. >> coffee. >> man, am i thirsty. >> let's have another cup of coffee. can you believe this mug? enough for this and we can put the other eight cups that mike usually drinks inside of this. >> i'm only at six. >> we thank this unnamed company for sending this in. if you just want to dunk a donut into that, you can do that. or a piece of toast or something. >> quite a mystery there. >>> weather wise we've got a lot of humidity this morning. patchy den

the only time these president, lincoln and eisenhower and other wartime presidents ever used the word was i thank you, the troops. just highlighted the difference between the current administration and how they view giving credit as opposed to other wartime presidents. >> i'm glad you brought that up because there's something that got left on the cutting room floor. you and your organization say the the president is trying to take -- listen to what he said in his address to the nation the night bin laden had been killed. >> over the last ten years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we've made great strides in that effort. we've disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defense. in afghanistan, we removed the homeland government and around the globe, we've worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of al-qaeda terrorists including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot. >> and sir, it's not just that he said it that night, i've heard it say it time and time again. wors like thanks to the wo