general dwight eisenhower arrives in the car of army secretary cannon. royal. behind him is the future general bismarck, bricklayer, battalion, a west point. the the brigade of midshipmen of the united states naval academy at annapolis passes in review. next come the cadets of the united states coast guard academy. and men of the marine corps are marched down the broad avenue, which today is the parade ground for every branch of the armed services. the 82 of the flying boxcar i lead one of the greatest air armadas ever to fly over the capitol. more than 700 planes in all. the eye on b, 36 bombers pass overhead. the parade includes not only the military, but is a panorama of american life. the residents home state of missouri has several displays, one of them a wagon drawn by missouri mule. other blows depict the product and scenery of the various dates. this is kentucky, the most president's home state. to date. in texas, floyd moved down the avenue. to the district of columbia. display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington monument at the mo

dwight eisenhower. the man from abilene who never in history had so many americans so much about the very essence of one man, 100 million americans. no, the way you know, a neighbor. we know him by heart. and why do we care for him? not because he is a general, but because instinctively we believe in you. we hail in the hometown boy with all the best of america. his roots are in the heartland main street, u.s.a. i come here first to thank you to say the proudest thing i can tell him is that i am from abilene. i want to speak first of the dreams of our barefoot boy frequently. they are to be a conductor. or he himself as the town policeman. above all he may reach the position of locomotive engineer, but always in his dreams is that day when finally he comes home. comes home to a welcome from his hometown, the wheat fields of kansas. ike is a native son, but the cotton and cattle state of texas staked first claim hard by the railroad tracks in denison, texas. that's where he was born. the red river, where

where he officially became known as dwight d. eisenhower. with the vacationing made me doubt at his first army post in sandinista texas. they sipped grace -- great juice -- grape juice together, and he was immediately smitten by her. she told her friend he was a bruiser. ever married on july 1, 1960. while on assignment in georgia in 1970, she gave birth to their first son, dwight dowd eisenhower, or achy. goodbye for now, he wrote in a letter to his wife following his child's birth. i love you, love you, love you all for much. the child died of scarlet fever three years later. eisenhower called his death the greatest disappointment and disaster of my life. and helped to fill the gap we felt so poignantly and deeply every day of our lives since the death of our first son. eisenhower moved upwards through the over -- through the army ranks over the next two decades. then world war ii catapulted eisenhower into a national war hero. as supreme allied commander he was a deft leader with a fiery temper. after one of his more memorable explosions,

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montgomery, american general dwight eisenhower and no less than great sovereign king george, the today's presentation is top secret. no cameras or press eisenhower. eisenhower will later joke that nazi german dictator adolf hitler could have killed every tough american and british with a single, well-placed. but the invasion of hitler's festering europa fortress is hardly a surprise. the whole world knows hundreds of thousands of allied troops been assembling in great britain for months, training each day for the singular of wrenching control of europe from hitler's grasp. sometime in the summer, coincidentally, on this very day, general montgomery graces cover of life magazine, a vivid portrait of monty's character runs inside cromwellian, in churchill's words, austere, accomplished, tireless while also playing off the journals esthetically, style, quote. he lives in complete simplicity. it's the plainest food has no recreation, except that of writing novels and detective stories. he is often impatient of human frailty, but an equally large feature runs under the headline american invad

[applause] [applause] think also of dwight eisenhower, who during world war ii led this country, theughest battle it had ever known without an eye to politics or partisanship. so revered in fact that both parties thought he should be their candidate for president in 1952. and think of one of the brave men general eisenhower led during that war. our own bob dole who went on to become a u.s. senator and teamed up with a democrat from iowa to expand civil rights by passing the americans with disabilities act. [applause] by seeking your continued partnership i'm not asking for the impossible or something that is never been done before kansans have long worked together to take on the challenges facing them. and do not forget, you and i have two. 286 times over these past four years every time i found a signed a bill into law it had bipartisan support. we have not always seen eye to eye but the truth is only when we band together have we made real progress. that is why i'm asking you tonight to again to me in the middle. on so many issues facing our state from tax relief, to water, to heal

was to rectify the mistake that dwight eisenhower made it. can the world war 2 when he didn't station american troops there? so that's the real reason. and the further goal of us was and is to expand to the limits of the roman empire at the time of its greatest expansion. those are the words quoted, a close conference, not just a german, and yet you won't, you won't, you won't hear that. you wouldn't hear that's kind of information in the western press. so this is so good to have you on the show right here on you. i'm so grateful for, for your clear comments. once again, the us state department had his fingers involved in this nato. is it called herself a defensive organization, but there it was. bombing serbia, a 78 days. alexander, let me ask you this, let me ask you this. but if i may, the cause of the situation has many similarities to what we see in a don bass scenario. if the west was so in favor of cause of our right to self determination, why has it opposed the will of the people in don bass and for that matter, crimea with a referend

including general george marshall, secretary of war henry stimpson, and presidents harry truman and dwight eisenhower, america rose, though somewhat relucta reluctantly. the impulse for freedom haysened. for -- hastened. for america, helping liberty defeat tyranny has always been bipartisan. recall the images of president john kennedy in west germany declaring -- president ronald reagan stood behind the brandenburg gate nearly two decades later near the berlin wall demanding, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. those images defined the boundary between east and west, free people versus subjugated people. it was barely two years after president reagan's speech and after over four decades of free world vigilance that the world witnessed the profound victory of the valiant workers in the steel yards of poland. soon, captive nations subjugated by the soviet union for decades began to tumble. first in 1989, poland. then, in 1991, ukraine. then, the entirety of the captive nations held subjugated by the soviet union. it was a major turning point in the arc of world history. the allied post-war institutions

the payload includes hair from george washington, dwight eisenhower, john f.gan. the goal is to establish a traceable spread of d.n.a. or maybe it's brilliant publicity seeking. iav ofstio about human remainspe that whole business model anyway. but dan, before we get into the merits of this. my question is where do you go to get a strand of george washington's hair? is than an ebay thing? dan: maybe or mount vernon. maybe they have some extra th te in a drawer somewhere. it's a great publicity stunt. i question the d.n.a. value. but i'm not a scientist. but it's worth talking about. larry: spencer, are you ready to shoot your d.n.a. to the stars? spencer: my hair has gone anyway how. [laughter] larry: i can't spare any. >> exactly. don't have any to spare. it's probably a great publicity stunt. we're talking about it, right? kristen: we'll just take your fingernail clippings. the four-day work day is a pop topic on the four at 4:00. it's. it's working. a recent experiment on four-day work weeks wrap up. 90% say they'll continue with the test. 18% are making it

and thousand howard -- and dwight eisenhower, is farewell speech. >> the machinery of defense, with our peaceful message and goals. security and liberty may prosper together. >> watch our series comes speeches that define a presidency. saturday at 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.. on c-span two.

next week, it's harry truman's. 49 inaugural address, and we'll hear from dwight eisenhower on racial integration and the military industrial complex. a reminder that all of the speeches you're seeing on this series are available to watch online at c-span. org slashi'm starting today it'n ordinary bartolomÉ el vanzetti his parents father bartolomeo which was his grandfather's name was just kind of a big name for a little. so as he was growing up, they called him bato or in the gentler moments they called him tumlin, which had a nice soft sound and made no sense whatsoever. on the 9th of june, 1908, battle of mayo left his father's house two days before bartos 20th birthday, just say pretty much exactly the same age that you are now. he headed up to the nearest big city from his house. that's his house right there. that would be the door right there? that he would have walked out of. went to the train station, took the train up to the nearest big city near. and from there he took train across the border into france and all the way to the great french port of lahav. and on the 13th of j

. >> fdr used top cottage as his place to bring people in, dwight eisenhower at the farm in gettysburg where he did much the same thing. and then there is lyndon b. johnson and his branch of western texas, you visited it 74 times, and he was a practitioner barbecue diplomacy, you say. how did that work yet, >> -- july >> there is this great myth of the american cowboy, and he used that very shortly. he would get people out of washington or out of their embassy and out to his ranch in texas. in the texas panhandle. and the formula worked like this. he would show up to the ranch, and he would take you on that leisure -- leisurely horseback ride around the ranch and show you this and that. then he would give you a beer to quench your thirst, then you would have a dinner of barbecued ribs or perhaps seven chile, which was created by his black coat, zephyr right. wonderful -- black cook, zephyr right, a wonderful dish. maybe a little bourbon or whiskey. and then he would move in and say now, i would like to do -- like you to do me a favor. whether it was a congressman, or a foreign dignitar

he had the longest military career of any president of the 20th century outside of dwight eisenhower.tha: when you look at his life, going back and looking at the campaign and basically one of the catch phrases was jimmy who? he was this governor of georgia, peanut farmer from plains, georgia and that was one of the common things that people were asking when he was running. he really worked that to his benefit in the post watergate era. >> in 1975, there were 101 odds in las vegas that jimmy carter caught get the democratic nomination in 76. he wrote a called "why not the best." nobody in new york would publish it. he went to a christian publisher in nashville. he published the book and got to iowa. he had gum shoe attitude, i'm going to knock on every door. he went on cooking shows. he took the iowa caucus and outworked the competition. wins you win iowa, particularly in the 1970s, you're on the national stage. a lot of reporters, people like yourself may not have known carter but you get a copy of his back and before your interview him, you'd read it and particularly look at his wor

will feature speeches from two presidents this week, harry truman's 1949 inaugural address and dwight d eisenhower57 confrontation of segregation and his 1961 farewell speech. >> so security and liberty may prosper together. announcer: 410 part series -- watch our 10 part series saturdays on american history tv, on c-span2. ♪ announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of government. funded by these television companies and more, including sparklight. >> the greatest town on earth is the place you call home. at sparklight, it is our home, too, and right now, we are facing our greatest challenge. that's why sparklight is working around the clock to keep you connected. we are doing our part, so it is a little easier to do yours. announcer: sparklight supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving y a front row seat to democracy. ♪ announcer: the 118th congress has nearly 80 new house members. up next on c-span, we will hear from some of these lawmakers about their upbringing, careers, and political philosophy. >> democrat morgan mcgarvey is one of nearly 80 ne

next week, it's harry truman's. 49 inaugural address, and we'll hear from dwight eisenhower on racial integration and the military industrial complex. a reminder that all of the speeches you're seeing on this series are available to watch online at c-span. org slash

for example, there have been presidents like ulysses s grant or dwight eisenhower who, when they retired, and their reputations were not so great. and then as more records became available and historians and political scientists and journalists began to study the incredible impact they actually had, we got a much better appreciation for what they did while they were in office. if we want to hold our public officials accountable, if we want to have a full understanding of what's presidents have done and our history as a nation, these records are indispensable to be able to tell that story. that is sort of the big picture of accountability questions. there are two other factors which we don't necessarily appreciate. one is we have regular transitions of power. so presidents come and go. if they don't leave a comprehensive record to the people that come after them, that person is very much handicapped when they come into office. this is an essential part of the transition process. we want our next leader to be successful, to be effective, to do the best they can for the nation. they have to

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there too there were to be trained archivist who would spend decades working with the papers of dwight eisenhowerso a researcher like me or member of the public could show up and say i am interested in eisenhower and his farewell address. i would like to learn more about the military-industrial complex. those archivist would tell you here are the records you should be looking at. here are the finding aids, the boxes where you can begin pouring through these one secret papers. that world is passing away, because barack obama, it is not entirely clear, but what you can infer from the public information made available to the national arc i was was that barack obama was not interested in raising hundreds of millions of dollars that it would cost to create the barack obama presidential library. she was willing to raise money for a presidential center that had a different mission, and educational mission, but this information, the one about research and the regulation of knowledge was left of the national arc i sit itself with its own resources, and what the national archives decided was they did not w

week features speeches from two presidents, harry truman's 1949 inaugural address, and do dwight d. eisenhower with his 1957 speech, and his 1961 farewell speech. >> the huge industrial and military machine of defense with peaceful methods. it may prosper together. >> watch our 10 part series, speeches that defined the presidency, saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. >> up next, our guest is a toxicologist. is a toxicologist, a founding member of the chemical safety board, and is here with us to talk about the effects of the train wreck and chemical spill, and concerns about exposure, and what the government should be doing about it. welcome to washington journal. guest: thanks so much. happy to be here. host: i read somewhere that 20 of the 150 cars on that train were chemical cars. we have seen all of those photos and video. what types of chemicals re in that train? guest: happily, we have released at least a portion of the manifest for the train, the 38 railcars that were most impliced in the crackup and the release. they included cars with chemica

next week, it's harry truman's. 49 inaugural address, and we'll hear from dwight eisenhower on racial integration and the military industrial complex. a reminder that all of the speeches you're seeing on this series are available to watch online at c-span. org slash this is often my favorite part of the symposium. we get a chance to talk with all of our speakers at the same time and we got some great questions this time. i know that you've been easy on the speakers. all all of the symposium, but these are good questions. so thank you very much. i was told by c-span that i better keep my coat on because i've talked about i took it off. i would be too brilliant. i and so. i completely understand that. so. also got a note from an anonymous note for gary. how do you manage to handle your supreme awesomeness day after day. i crossed out gary. okay. typically, the first question that we ask our panel and we'll we'll start over here on my right flank, we want to know what you're working on now. we'll start over here. all right. well, thank you, mr. brilliant. yeah. all right, then. what i'm

he was a nebraska newspaper and a republican politician when dwight eisenhower appointed him to be secretary of the interior in the late 1950s. in that position, he protected vast tracts of alaska public lands more than 11 million acres by putting them national wildlife refuges, most notably the arctic national refuge up on the northeast coast. alaska, which has been called america's serengeti. so hats off to. now, third fiction is that the most that most public lands have been safeguarded through a kind of a land grab by the national government carried out over state and local as opposition claim is often heard in utah and other parts of the intermountain west. in fact, however, grassroots advocate jesse and support were instrumental in in establishing nearly all of the protected public lands that we see today, including those in utah. this was the case with the first big surge of decisions reserving public lands in what, the national forest system. this began in the 1890s. it began in 1891, congress responding to request west from the west from their growing cities in particular to protect

anybody can research can research the 1960's speech eisenhower made where dwight eisenhower questionatriotism. he was a republican general, served in the military. he warned the american people of the undue influence of the military industrial complex. war had become a business. the military contractors were making a lot of profits. they had a personal interest in saying we need all this military hardware when we did not need it. if you look at the money spent in the vietnam war, the iraq war, the war on terror and now the ukrainian war, we do not need all this money for defense. there is all kinds of waste. if you did an audit, i'm sure you would have no trouble finding waste that things are being spent the do not need to be spent. they have this unaccounted for money. i consider myself a mainstream patriot but not a wall street patriot. this is all wall street driven. the use of people that want to cut defense, they use it as a political weapon. oh, you are weak. i am 69-years-old. when i was in high school i was doing research i found the colonial history of the world. they would