went to research his book. >> we talked about the eagle's nest in our discussion with doug brinkley about his book on conservation. it's right over your shoulder there. when did that start? >> well, about five years ago we had a pair of bald eagles that came in, started trying to build a nest. the first season they didn't do a very good job. but the second season they came back, tried again. and they succeeded in building that nest. they had two eaglets that year, one died and the other one fledged out. >> what does this have to do with the business you're in? >> well, until very recently, the american bald eagle was an endangered species. and it's because of work by the fish and wildlife service and by many other conservation groups that it was actually taken off the endangered species list about a year ago. so, it's a good -- i think it's a good model for us to aspire to, where critters that were almost gone off the face of the earth had come back. >> mark masters, why do you do this job here as a historian? >> well, i'm an environmental historian, so the dream for me was to actua

. >> let me turn to doug brinkley. presidential historian, professor of history. what is the historical significance of the president's visit to afghanistan tonight and the speech he's made outlining the future there? >> i think it's very important. it's his third visit to afghanistan. and it's his first since bin laden's been killed. remember, this was our national objective. get bin laden. we got him. but we have to -- everybody was talking about the politics of all this. remember, nato is meeting in chicago in late may. you have to have some kind of framework, a strategic partnership between afghanistan and the united states. so if it wasn't this day, it would have had to have been in the next few days. i think president obama gave a very strong speech. imagine if you've been serving in afghanistan for years, i don't think it was triumphless, we've decimated a lot of al qaeda. but there's still rocky times ahead. the strategic partnership signed to only time will tell. but it was a good move to make as we head into the summer where we're going to be bringing ho

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so, the historic things that doug brinkley has written about and so on, they were in garages and basements and attics and they were suffering from all sorts of environmental deterioration and so on. once we opened up the archive, we basically filled up the archive in ten years for the historic objections so we can use them and teach about them. >> rachel carson is our most famous employee. when rachel carson retired from the fish and wildlife service, much of her papers and material went into the incinerator. and we will never let that happen again. >> oh, god. >> who put them in the incinerator? >> they just saw no value in it back then. >> put rachel carson in historic perspective. >> sure. it's very easy. you just talk to douglas brinkley, easily theodore roosevelt is our starting point for the american conservation movement. rachel carson plays the same role with what we call the american environmental movement which has different concerns than roosevelt had. a little more holistic concerns. beginning of concerns about toxins and pollutants. beginning of concerns for endangered species

. >> schieffer: you know, doug brinkley, in your book about cronkite, and i have no problem with talkingut walter cronkite while we are talking about presidents, walter cronkite had considerable influence, did he not, on events? he had influence on presidents, and i thought it was always interesting that, you know, while ed murrow, we thought of him as a great journalist because he expressed opinions. walter's great power was that he so seldom expressed opinions. absolutely. he was steady eddie and presidents could count on doing an interview with him and getting a fair shake. lyndon johnson, talk about changing culture lbj would call cronkite directly to complain about something but it was really that world war ii generation of reporters who were, that we are all in this together, we fought together and we are trying to make america good, vietnam war corroded that when you started seeing vietnam and finally, you know, famously, february 27th, 1968 when the tet offensive occurred and he came back, walter cronkite and called vietnam a stalemate, many people connected johnson's clams with

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we've got our next must-read from doug brinkley. the cronkite book was fabulous. and mr.e and his -- >> great picture. >> -- smile with dylan in shades. >> what a great picture. >> douglas brinkley, what did you learn today? >> i learned that i'm personally deeply worried about what china is doing to the environment and planet and nothing i heard about the new book on china changes my view that they've got to clean up their factories. >> i think you know what you learned? >> joe scarborough gave the best argument for the re-election of barack obama that i ever heard and the obama campaign will probably and should use it as an ad. >> i thought you learned not to disagree with him. >> i knew that before. >> all right. >> the concrete momeronkite mom waiting for it -- >> way too early. >> historians will refer to it as when willie spoke. >> that's uncle willie. >> if it's way too early? >> it's "morning joe." we'll see you back here tomorrow. stick around now for chuck. >>> thank you, william. romney's rivals were right. they always said it would come down to texas, but inst

. >> "cronkite" written by news consultant doug glast brinkley who joins us with a very big book. >>tape and so much part of my dna i lived in turkey as a kid but the only news cast we watched when we came back to the states was walter cronkite and to read in your book it was almost a fluke he got into television. >> that's right. the big deal was radio and he was a print reporter trying to get into radio and edward r. murrow wanted to recruit him during world car ii to be the cbs voice from stalin grad he did a handshake agreement with murrow that he would go on radio but he ended up blowing murrow off and stayed with united press and then by 1950 the korean war came and cronkite thought he could be a foreign correspondent and instead he was shoved in a broom closet to do beginning television for wpoc in d.c. nobody knew if television news was going to work. it did. it took the country by storm in the eisenhower area and cronkite rose with the tide. >> when you look at this extraordinary career two things that stand out, one that, but the sense of all the election coverage as well b

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brinkley about his book on the influence of our 26th president, on the history of the conservation movement. the book is tighted "the wildnerness warrior" theodore roosevelt and the crusade for america. >>> doug bringley, why did you want to start our conversation about your book at this center? >> this is the national conservation training center, this is where biologists get trained, make sure that our rivers and our marshlands are taken care of, that manage endangered species, the headquarters of u.s. fish and wildlife but cleaders come here for seminars and learn proper methods and techniques. walking past are pictures of caribou in alaska, roosevelt was very interested in all big game including caribou. what interests me is writing a book like wil"the wildnerness warrior," roosevelt is the father of u.s. fish and wildlife. the creator of the sierra club it's roosevelt that realized the federal government has an obligation to save species of birds an animals, to save plants and trees, and to be the president has an obligation to makes sure that we put aside for generations unborn, natural wonders like roosevelt did like the grand canyon or mount olympus or petrified forest, and they turne

brinkley, thank you very much. the definitive book. it is very thick and i in the -- i thought, my god i have to get ready i love doug, but good book. the strip thing is a freebie. . what's with you? trouble with a car insurance claim. [ voice of dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so goo now it's guaranteed. [ normal voice ] so i can trust 'em unlike randy. are you in good hands? >>neil: i am out of the loop, well, i was not reporting but i was watching because i am a news guy, and i could not get over the hypocrisy in all coverage of news these days. here is what i learned as a casual observer. i learned that the media, absolutely is obsessed about who is bundling money for governor romney. but not who is bundling more money for president obama. i have learned that the catholic clutch is still using the pulpit to take on a president over contraception but not a word how the president could be using his far more powerful pup pit to take on the catholic church over contraception. thei have also discovered when t combs to gay marriage you are enlightened if you are for it. some backward dolt not of this century if you