d. eisenhower would be inextricably bound together. ington in the first weeks after the war began, eisenhower want to work in the war plans office of the war department. among the plans formulated during this time was the strategic determination to make the attack against the english channel the primary defensive. a mural, dramatizes the next spot, the inauguration and the man, whose ability to rise to great responsibilities brought him rapid promotions. because an all-out channel invasion would be up possible before 1944, and because the need for offensive action was immediate in 1942, the allies undertook, as a combined operation, under the command of general dwight d. eisenhower, the invasion of north africa. the minimum objective of this maneuver was to seize the main ports between casablanca and g alal alal al algeirs. the commanders hope was to push east along the mediterranean and take the important posts of berzert and tunis. on a number of unfavorable circumstances including treacherous weather conditions, prompted the commande

d. eisenhower memorial. gsa is honored to play a role in helping the eisenhower commission to create a memorial to president dwight d. eisenhower. his long career of noble service to our country is and should be a sense of inspiration to the american people. the commission was tasked with creating an appropriate permanent memorial to perpetrator wait his memory and his contributions to the united states. gsa has assisted the commission with issues related to the acquisition of office space, human resource support, financial and accounting services, legal and contracting support, and our role expanded as the commission's vision became clear. given our experience and expertise, the commission asked gsa to help select both a design firm and a construction contractor for the memorial. at the request of the commission, we used our proven design excellence process to select the design firm. this competitive and streamlined process seeks to select the most qualified designers to support federal design commissions. w

d. eisenhower. at the end of 1950 he answered his country's call once more and once more he was on european soil to assume supreme command of the land, the sea, and the air forces of a grand, defensive alliance. against the new threat rising from the soviets who had once been his nation's ally he had to create the will to defend itself so that freedom so dearly bought would not be lost. for more than a year he labored diligently at his task of coalition. when he turned over the reins of command to general matthew ridgeway the structure of military unity among free nations on which rested the hope for continued peace was established. once again with the accomplishment of substantial victory behind him, this might well have been the end of his public career and in a sense it was. the closing chapter in the story of eisenhower the soldier. history is recording today the story of eisenhower the statesman. the stories may be separate but soldier and statesman they are the same man, dwight d. eisenhower,

d. eisenhower and her father, vice president richard nixon. julie nixon married david eisenhower in 1968, just before her father took his own presidential oath of office. they recently collaborated on the book "going home to glory, a memoir of life with dwight d. eisenhower 1961 to 1969." in this conversation at the lyndon b. johnson presidential library, the eisenhowers recall ike's presidency and later retirement in gettysburg, pennsylvania, the relationship between ike and his vice president and the reasons that propelled richard nixon to make another run at the presidency after his close loss to john f. kennedy in 1960. this program is 1 hour and 15 minutes. >> well, good evening, and welcome to our program tonight. i'm don carlton, and i have to get my glasses out or i won't be able to see what i'm talking about. and i'm the director of the university's briscoe center for american history. the briscoe center is delighted to join with the lbj library to co-sponsor the program featuring david and julie eisenhower's fascinating book "going ho

d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom. that is our conviction for ourselves.. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> hi, thank you all for coming here today. i am the costume and textiles creator here at the fine arts museum. it is make great honor to introduce, to present this program today. just a few things come out of respect, photography is allowed, but no flash photography. we will be taking questions from the audience, and you can submit your questions either through twitter or e-mail, and we also handed out cards to you when you arrived. the questions will happen at the end of the program. if you are not planning to tweet or e-mail, please turn your cellphone off. again, it is my great honor to have this program and conversation between susie and jean paul gaultier. i feel very fortunate at the fine arts museum

d. eisenhower and jfk. and call in for your questions for steven ross, how movie stars shaped american politics. sunday at 2:00 eastern, watch for eric alterman and his take on liberals in the cause. and at 5:00, a panel on surveillance and secrets with lori andrews, and michael shurmur. the lineup is online at booktv.org. >>> senior officials from the general services administration testified wednesday before the senate environment committee on the investigation into an $820,000 las vegas conference hosted by the gsa. this hearing featuring gsa inspector general brian miller and new acting administrator dan tangherlini was one of four congressional hearings held on gsa mismanagement this week. this runs 1:45. >> the meeting will come to order. the meet willing come to order. thank you to the press. first before i start my statement, i want to enter into the record a letter i received from majority leader harry reid that makes clear well run and cost-effective conferences are effective and provide an import

d. eisenhower presidential library, the ronald reagan presidential library and the gerald ford presidential library. so he has presidential library experience, and in 2003 he was appointed the founding director of the abraham lincoln presidential library in springfield, illinois. he is the author, a commentator on c-span, pbs, and he's now working on a biography of nelson rockefeller. on our panel today is bess abell. bess as president johnson said a kentucky girl who can walk with kings and prime ministers, maintained the common touch but could also lecture the president. she was five years white house social secretary. miss abell organized dinners for kings and prescriptions, planned two white house weddings, and advanced presidential trips from manhattan to manila. she designed and carried out to the last detail events as different as an lbj ranch barbecue, state dinners in bangkok, and a white house country fairs and arts festivals. also on our panel this morning is catherine s. fenton. she is the current director of the governor's residence in princeton, new jersey, and serves as speci

d. eisenhower and jfk. 7:30, call in with your questions for steven ross, author of "hollywood left and right, how movie stars shaped american politics." eric alterman and his take on liberals and the cause. and at 5:00, a panel on surveillance and secrets with lori ran dr andrews, an ejake s on. the entire schedule is online at book tv.org. >>> from the colonial era, prohibiti prohibition, to today, drinking, for better or worse, has always been a part of the american landscape. saturday night, live, on american history tv, a history of alcohol in america. watch our simulcast of back story with the american history guy. peter and brian regail with tales of beer and spirits in america. saturday night at 8:00 eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >>> when i was embedded in eastern afghanistan, the soldiers started telling me, the u.s. government was wasting tens of billions of dollars on totally mismanaged development and logistics contracts. >> in funding the enemy, he follows the money in afghanistan, and finds corruption from top to bottom, right into the hand

d. eisenhower to perpetuate his memory and contributions to the united states. unquote. such a monument should therefore memorialize and educate. in the execution of these tasks, the gary proposal not only fails, but fails utterly. i say this for many reasons. the unifying narrative, story if you will is absent in both conception and in design. without this, no monument, to an individual can succeed. the gary plan is a lot of incongruent things of wildly different shapes, proportions, materials and sizes. there are enormous pillars, misnamed columns, actually columns support something that have a capital at the top. these don't. they are trees and aluminum mesh tapestries. tapestries despite mr. gary's claim are not usually an integral part of the history of monument. these look more like chainling fences. and there are inscriptions and too large photo murals all strewn about in a very large space. the result is that the whole is less than the u.s. its parts. compounding the problem is the enormity of the planned space. few, if any of the most successful monuments in the

d. eisenhower and jfk. and at 7:30, how movie stars shaped american politics. sunday at 2:00 eastern, watch for eric alter man and his take on liberals in the cause. and at 5:00, a panel on surveillance and secrets with laurie andrews, annie jacobsen and laurie shermer. the entire schedule is online at booktv.org. >>> this month, wired magazine includes a cover story abouted construction a $2 billion computer spy center in utah for the national security agency. this heavily fortified center would be used to intercept store and analyze communication from around the world. we talk about the articles author on wednesday's washington journal. >>> as part our spot line on magazine theorys, we're talking today about the recent cover issue of wired magazine about the national security agency building a new and -- the countries biggest center. the author is joining us, he's the author of several books on the nsa. we've been following the nsa for many years now. what is the utah data center? >> well, it's an enormous warehouse, basically, where nsa's going to keep all o

3:30 p.m., biographers john farrell, jim newton, and richard reeves on clarence darrow, dwight d eisenhower and jfk. and at 7:30, call in with your questions for steven ross. sunday at 2:00 eastern, watch for eric alterman and his take on liberals and the cause. at 5:00, a panel on surveillance and secrets with laurie andrews. the entire lineup is online at booktv.org. >>> in the new book, rodney king recounts his life following the video recording of his beating by los angeles police in 1991. mr. king recalls the riots following the acquittal of four of the officers in the case and talks about his own legal problems and alcohol addiction. you can see rodney king at the schaumburg center for research in black culture in harlem, new york city, next tuesday at 6:30 p.m. eastern. >>> from the colonial era, prohibition, to today, drinking for better or worse has always been a part of the american landscape. saturday night, live on american history tv, a history of alcohol in america. watch our simulcast of back story with the american history guys. host ed ayers and brian bellow regular gail wi

d. eisenhower and jfk. at 7:30, call in with questions for steven ross, author of "hollywood left and right: how movie stars shaped american politics." sunday at 2:00 eastern, watch for eric alderman and his take on liberals and the cause. and laumpy andrews, annie jacobsen and michael shermer. the entire schedule is online at booktv.org. >>> from the colonial era, prohibition to today, drinking for better or worse has always been a part of the american landscape. saturday night, live on american history tv, a history of alcohol in america. watch our simulcast of back story with the american history guys. they regale with tales of beer and spirits in america. saturday night at 8:00 eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> the house ways and means committee on tuesday heard from a panel of experts on the pros and cons of current retirement savings plans. the hearing was also to discuss possible changes to certain options as part of comprehensive tax reform. all those who testified ag

d. eisenhower voiced their opposition this week to the proposed design of a memorial honoring the 44th president. they appeared before a subcommittee hearing held to consider the views of both supporters and opponents of the design created by architect frank gehry and his collaborator theodore wilson. this hearing is 90 minutes. >> the subcommittee of national parks, forests and public lands is meeting on the proposed eisenhower memorial. under the rules, the opening remarks are limited to the chairman and ranking committee. i ask you now to consider any other members opening comments and is submitted by the clerk by close of business today. hear nothing objections, so ordered. i want to thank everyone who has grid to testify today. although today's witnesses will express differing opinions on the proposed design, i know that everyone, critics and advocates alike want a memorial, a monument that truly honors president eisenhower and help future americans understand and appreciate his role in american history. to my staff, who actually started some of drafting notes for me, i want them to know th

d. eisenhower and jvg. at 7:30, call in with your questions for steven ross, author of "hollywood left and right: hoe movie stars shaped american politics." sunday, 2:00 eastern, watch for eric alterman and his take on liberaling and the cause. and surveillance with laurie andrews, michael jacobsen and michael shermer. all online at booktv.org. >>> from the colonial era prohibition to today, blinking for better or worse has always been a part of the american landscape. saturday night live, a history of alcohol in america. watch our simulcast of that story with the american history guys. they have tales of beer and spirits in america. saturday night at 8:00 eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> treasury secretary tim geithner discussed a number of challenges facing the u.s. economy yesterday at the brookings institution. currently he says the recovery is grandly moving along but looking ahead the secretary says america faces a big governing task before the new year with respect to

d. eisenhower, and jfk. and at 7:30, call in with your questions for steven ross, author of "hollywood left and right," how movie stars shaped american politics. sunday at 2:00 eastern walk for eric alterman and his take on liberals in "the cause." and at 5:00, a panel on surveillance and secrets-w laurie arntds, annie jacobsen, and michael shurmur. the entire schedule for the weekend is online at booktv.org. >>> the group citizens against government waste has released its analyst report on federal spending on earmarks. we'll hear from the group's president, thomas schatz, along with senators john mccain, jim demint, plus representatives jeff flake of arizona and tom price of georgia. >> good morning. i'm tom schatz, the president of citizens against government waste. since cagw published the first pig book in 1991, our objective has been to eventually eliminate earmarks. the 2012 congressional pig book shows that tremendous progress has been made toward that goal. there are only 152 earmarks, a record low.

d. eisenhower voiced their opposition this week to the proposed design of a memorial honoring the president. they appeared before a congressional subcommittee hearing helped to consider the views of both supporters and opponents of the design created by architect frank gerry and his collaborator thee for artist wilson. this hearing is 90 minutes. >> we know the vietnam war was a very controversial, very divisive conflict, occurring at a time where there were many difficulties in the united states on the home front. and we also know that, unfortunately, many vietnam veterans were not welcomed home the way that our society has welcomed home returning veterans from previous wars in the 20th century and as we see now in the 21st century. regardless of all of that, regardless of the controversy, and regardless of the individuals' view of the war, and the views of the war differ widely depending on the individual and their perspective, but one theme that is constant among our service personnel is their pride in the service to country. >> 40 years after the first full-scale engagement between u.s.

d. eisenhower, and jfk at 7:30, call in with your questions for steven ross, author of hollywood left and right. that is sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern and the take on liberals and the cause and a panel on surveillance and secrets with lori andrews, any jacobsen and s michaelhermer. the entire schedule is online @ book-tv.org. >> this year's studentcam competition asked students across the country was part of the constitution was important to them and why. the second prize winners selected article 5. >> i am here in front of the national archives, home of the original copy of the constitution, the framework of our government, the holy grail of our american history. article 5 of this document is a little-known provision that makes america the growing and changing society it is today bennett to better understand what most people values were in regard to the and constitution, i began by asking random people what provisions of the constitution they felt they benefited most from. >> freedom of speech. >> freedom of speech that the freedom of religion. >> freedom of speech. >> the right to bear ar

d. eisenhower laid the cornerstone for the new headquarters of the national council of churches here in new york city. before a crowd of 30,000, eisenhower quoted george washington who described religion as the firm foundation of the country's moral life. that was the decade america put god on our paper money and in the pledge of allegiance and though the churchly dna often falls to racism, anti-semitism, dig bigotry, many felt religion in its various incarnations was the engine driving the american future. but then, says my next guest, american christianity went off the rails, and now threatens to take american society with it. furthermore, the snake in the garden is not atheism, nor secular humanism. our fall is the work of heresy, you see in the title of his latest book "bad relation: how we became a nation of heretics." ross douthat has tasted widely and baptized apacific pailian attended pentecost's churches in his youth and converted to catholicism at age 17. now he's widely considered to be one of the country's most influential conservative voices. he's the youngest of op-ed colu

d. eisenhower. and call in with your questions to steven ross.5:00, a panel on surveillance and secrets with these book authors. the entire schedule for the weekend is online. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us right now, bill horn of the u.s. sportsmen's alliance. hello. tell us a little bit about what the alliance does. guest: it is founded in the mid 1970's to come that the anti- hunting, anti-fishing movement and protect the rights of sportsmen and women to engage in these activities. host: when it comes to the activities, what is intersecting with federal policy? guest: the federal government has different areas of land. in the u.s. forest service, the wildlife refuge system, and even within the parks system, there are elements that are expressly open to hunting as well. all of these provide opportunities for fishing and hunting that most of us are committed to protecting their rights to continue to fish and hunt on those lands. basically, you have a group of organizations out there, radical animal rights groups, anti- hunti

d. eisenhower in 1952. ♪ you like ike ♪ i like ike ♪ everybody likes ike ♪ hang out the banner ♪ we'll taket's get in step with the guy that's hep ♪ ♪ get in step with ike >> i like ike became rather iconic. but short of having a name that rhymes with "like" what makes a successful slogan? >> in that particular situation, it was hard not to like ike. he led the invasion of normandy and it worked. so what a slogan has to do is reflect a brand promise. something that people believe that that individual can accomplish and matters to them. a slogan isn't just a catchy phrase to sort of cover up things. a slogan is intended to really reflect in fact what that person can accomplish and those two have to mesh. and if they don't it becomes very apparent. the politics is littered with slogans that didn't work. >> remember, also, that it's not just about a brand promise. it also slogans are about a point of contrast when former president bill clinton talked about putting people first, that was as much a slogan about what he would do, as it was a critique on what was not happening in the country. whic

d. eisenhower, and jfk. at 7:30, call in with your questions are steven ross.at 2:00 at eastern, watched our the take on liberals in "the cause of." the entire schedule for the weekend is online at booktv.org. >> a senate environment and public works hearing on the general services administration. members heard from brian miller and dan tangherlini. this is a little less than two hours. a mind reader, a clown, and a $75,000 bicycle building and training exercise. >> the meeting will come to order. meeting will come to order. thank you to the press. first before i start my statement, before i start, i want to the enter in the record a letter that i received from majority leader harry reid that makes clear that well run and cost effective conferences are productive and provide an important economic boost to our communities. i ask unanimous consent to enter his let near the record. do you have a similar letter from senator heller? >> yes, i do, i want his statement to be put in the record. >> absolutely. >> i'm going to ask that we each have seven minutes for our

d. eisenhower and j.f.k. and at 7:30, call in for steven j. ross, who wrote "hollywood left and right. at 5:00, surveillance an secrets with lori andrews, jacobsen and shermer. the entire schedule is online. >> jury selection began in the retrial of former major league pitcher roger clemens, narged with knowingly lying to congress on performance enhancing drug use in baseball. >> let me read to you what his wife said in her affidavit. i i do depose and state in 1999 or 2000, andy told me he had had a conversation with roger clemens in which roger admitted to him using human growth hormones. once again, i remind you, you are under oath. you have said your conversation with mr. pettitte never happened. if that was true, why would laura pettitte remember andy telling her about the conversation? >> once again, mr. congressman, i think he misremembers the conversation we had. our relationship was close enough to know that if i would have known if he had done h.g.h., that he was knowingly knowing i had taken h fwmplet h., we would have talked about the subject. we he would have come to me an

d. eisenhower. host: why? caller: he was just a marvelous person.esides being the leader during world war two and helping us win that war, he ran on settling the debt and the deficit of the country and he did that. prior to becoming president, he was the president of columbia university. he brought that university out of debt. it was also a time in the 1950's in this country when the country was primarily made up of small towns and we felt very secure in our towns. crime was low and people took care of each other. it was just a great time in this country and it is too bad we cannot get back there. host: from our twitter pager -- e -- which former president to you admire the most and why? a new book is out and the subject of "time magazine," the former president's club. there is a town house across from the white house that is used, it is the most exclusive town house because you have to be a former president to use the facility. walter joining us from port huron, michigan, good morning. caller: good morning, my favorite president even though i wasn'

d. eisenhower, and jfk. call in with your questions for steven ross, sunday at 2 eastern, watch for eric alterman. the entire schedule for the weekend is online at booktv.org. we ask is to submit a video telling us what are the constitution is most important and why. today we will go to birmingham, alabama, to visit with talia moore, an eighth grader at john herbert phillips academy. what did you choose to focus on the first amendment as the topic of your documentary? >> as a birmingham native, i thought it would be great to what better place in birmingham for the civil rights movement. my first place was west park. all the african-american school boys in school girls left from their classrooms to go and march for their freedom. >> how do the different sides utilize success first amendment? >> the foot soldier's really, really used freedom of speech when they chanted at the march. i think dr. martin luther king really want to see the world and a better place. >> what about the other side? >> the birmingham h

d. eisenhower. well, we better not be trying to prevent them from joining the union of their choice. now, i have also heard this charge that somehow these rules tilt, tilt this more in favor of the unions than management. well, no, it doesn't. now, again, we have mostly been talking here about the certification process. when union organizers get the signatures, they file with nlrb and we have an nlrb process. basically, that's what we're talking about here. but i would point out to my friend on the other side of the aisle that these procedures that we're talking about also applies to decertification elections as well. so since the same rules will apply to decertification elections, the proposed rule will ensure that employees who have union representation will be able to have a timely up-or-down vote to also get rid of the union. so to me, it's both. it's both on the certification, also on the decertification side. it just makes for things much more expeditious, much more clear, much more understandable. that's why i think many management firms and businesses see this as a reasonable

d. eisenhower, and jfk. at 7:30, call in with your questions for steven ross. sunday at 2:00 eastern, watch for liberals in "the cause." at 5:00, lori andrews, any jacobson, and michael d shermer. >> un secretary general ban ki- moon delivers a keynote address at the center for global development form on removal and state -- renewable and sustainable energy. because of a that obama ought to attend the un conference this summer. world leaders and officials from around the world are meeting in june to discuss how developing a grain economy can eliminate poverty. this is about 40 minutes. >> i now have the great privilege -- really it is a privilege -- of introducing secretary general ban ki-moon. i am not going to give his bio, i would just say a couple of things. i have had the pleasure and privilege of meeting him several times with a group of economists. one of the things that has impressed me very much as head of the center for global development is how he is a champion of the developing world and of the world's pour. the second thing relevant for today is he

you go back to eisenhower who made the decision to finally go on d-day and waits a full five minutes,e says go. and the president, and biden says, look, we had to give him a recommendation and he had to make a decision. it's a very important decision, but i don't think it comports with what defines his leadership. you know, the truth is we don't know whether romney would have made that call. that's the advantage of being president. he was the one in the room who had to make that call, and it worked out very very well. >> but one of the best things about the story, it's not just that moment. it's the thing he put in place, closing the loops, conferring with just a limited number of advisers, you know how you keep a secret? washington? don't tell anybody, including the vice president. that is an incredible and very compelling character sketch. >> i think it's endemic of his leadership. he's willing to take the tough calls with no regard for his own political future, and only regard for what's in the best interests of the country. getting rid of osama bin laden was clearly in the best in