you are on the air with douglas brinkley. caller: i would like to ask mr. brinkley if he remembers vietnam in 1954. president eisenhower signed the agreement to the vendor -- to defend the vietnam people from communist aggression. i think that is what started the vietnam war. guest: eisenhower also did not come to the aid of the french in 1954. he did not want to get brought in to another land war. he got us out of korea. he was not happy with the results. i do not think we can blame the onus of the vietnam war on eisenhower. there is some evidence kennedy was sending advisors and ratcheting up american involvement. there is also evidence that before he died, he was not going to be brought into a land war with our troops in vietnam. we will never know. we do know lyndon johnson did got -- to get us into vietnam. i view vietnam as johnson's war. nixon continued and extended it. we did not get much results. we lost 58,000 men and an untold number of americans wounded psychologically or physically. host: mass., clay, independent caller. caller: as i understand

also historian douglas brinkley. and later, "new york times" film critic tony scott will be here with his oscar picks. that will be cool. and up next, inside this morning's "politico playbook" including how some republican governors are providing a lift for president obama's health care law. >> rick scott out of florida. >> yeah, that's big news. >> who would have ever seen that coming? >> well, makes kind of sense, actually. >> hospitals. >> hospitals, connection with the hospitals. >> we'll talk about later, al. these republican governors that are opting out of it are leaving a lot of really poor americans outside the hospital doors. >> that's true. >> give me that. first here's bill karins tracking the major winter storm. bill. >> this friday is a very busy morning. roads are a mess from areas of wisconsin all the way back down to north carolina. and this is just storm one. storm two will hit new england saturday night and sunday. as far as the worst of it goes, i think minnesota, northern wisconsin around green b

>> it's -- it came to me through a mutual friend of hunter thompson's and myself, douglas brinkley, astory and professor -- historian amazing. so he called me and said "i've just been shown the manuscript to woody guthrie's last novel. i think you're the guy. you should publish it." and so we went into it and just wanted to make the book as -- you know, as beautiful as possible since they're a dying breed. >> dave: and do you plan to publish other volumes? >> we have a couple things in line there's a thing we're doing with bob dylan. >> last night we had a group on doing sea shanties. from the -- the americans from a collection of sea shanty which is you produced and not only this is the second collection. >> yeah, rogue's gallery. >> dave: this is the son of rogue's gallery. >> yeah. >> dave: and this is the music you came to doing "pirates of the caribbean?" >> yeah, on pirates 1 i was listening to a lot of sea shanties" just to stay in the field and gore and i, the director and i thought wouldn't it be great to have contemporary artists do this >> dave: bill, i'm sorry i forgot abo

rice university historian professor douglas brinkley joins me from austin, texas.ere. a lot of people are at the auction today. even after so many years, such high demand for all those items, what is it about these items that people want a part of? >> it's a great treasure trove of material. dave powers was the adviser to john f. kennedy with him everywhere, almost like a brother answered ended up saving all sorts of items, so i was utterly fascinated by this and i deal with a lot of auction houses on presidential memorabilia, being a presidential historian. i have never seen anything quite like the number of different significant mementos coming out of this collection. >> which one really jumped out to you, because there are some magnificent pitchers there. there are also notes and letters, which one, if could you own one of them, which would it be? >> i like the letter these wrote in 1945 from arizona, when he went out to benson, arizona, lived on a ranch for a while letters and stationary from a hot springs castle hot springs hotel and also saddleback. nobody th

and we will also be talking about presidents and their second term douglas brinkley. wendy ginsberg, >> today, on c-span, newsmakers with the representative. >> this week on news makers, we are joined by hal rogers, chairman of the appropriations committee. thank you for doing this. to reporters to help us with this conversation, and the tailor the associated press, congressional reporter, and roxanne from bloomberg news, congressional reporter. >> mr. chairman, as everybody in washington is very concerned about this phenomenon called a sequester, these automatic bid into automatic indiscriminate cuts across the board, 8% to the pentagon, you have been looking at the kind of impact this will have. what you expect? how much damage you think it would do four different operations? >> needless to say, being an appropriate, but think it is an idiotic way to do business. these are indiscriminate cuts. they are not thought through. they're just automatic across- the-board, without any consideration of good, bad or evil or whatever. so i think the cuts are devastating. i am s

on the next "washington journal," douglas brinkley talks about the second terms of u.s. presidents. wendy ginsburg from the congressional research service discusses the benefits of former presidents of the united states, including pensions, offices, and libraries. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> british prime minister david cameron talk with members of the house of commons on wednesday. to go slaughterhouses have been rated since the inquiry began last month he also discusses the european economy and the budget code. this is just over 30 minutes >> mr. speaker? the horse meat scandal has undermined confidence in the safety of the food we eat, but threatens a very successful wheat industry. can the prime minister assured me that this government will follow every lead until each individual person or business responsible for any criminal or fraudulent act has been caught, exposed, prosecuted, and then expelled from ever again having any part in the u.k. food industry >> i fully support what the honorable gentleman said. let me join me in praising this const

. >> reporter: presidential historical douglas brinkley says the relationship served him well. >> nixonad been shunned largely by reagan and bush and was welcoming in overture with the new democratic president and clinton took it. >> reporter: over the next two year s nixon offered clinton hi skper stees on foreign affairs. when nixon died a few months later it was clinton who eulogized him. >> today is a day for his family and his friends and his nation to remember president nixon's life in totality. to them let us say may the day of judging president nixon on anything less than his entire life and career come to a close. >> reporter: the irony of those words would not be appreciated until a few years later when president clinton faced his own challenges. >> new mexicoen got chased out of the white house with his impeachment fears and the same thing happened to bill clinton. and this new group of letters from the nixon library just connects those two famous two-term elected presidents, nixon and clinton in history with this very interesting correspondence. >> this was not the first. ha

the festival will feature its third annual poetry contest, my one-act plays, and douglas brinkley, william smith, and patricia brady. please let us know about the book fair and post them to our wall at booktv or e-mail us at booktv@c-span.org. author jared diamond talks about his book and the way people live in human existence. what we can learn from traditional societies. >> i would like to invite doctor diamond to the stage. please give him a warm welcome to the seminar. [cheers] [applause] >> let me first check if you can see be okay. can you hear me in the back? it is a great pleasure to be back in philadelphia today and back and this wonderful library to talk about a subject other than gall bladders. [laughter] >> to give me an idea how many may find what i'm about to tell you a practical value. please reason into one of the other of two questions are lasker the first is, could you raise your hand if you are over age 65 years old or hope to live past age 65? or have a parent or grandparent over 65 years old red many of you, all right. the second group, please raise your hand if you ar

author and presidential historian douglas brinkley joining us. good to see you.sely what the president says. inauguration day, his speech, he focused a lot on social issues. he talked about immigration, gun control, gay rights, as priorities for the second term. i know he's going to talk about the state of the economy tonight. how much control does he really have on the recovery? >> well, look, i mean this is your exactly right, the book end to the inaugural speech and as you mentioned, the inaugural's all about social justice. and it framed barack obama in terms of being behind the women's rights movement, gay rights, civil rights. this is going to be the jobs state of the union. we are now in march, by march 1, heading into a huge sequester situation. and the president's going to have to address that and he's going to have to explain where are the new jobs going to come from. it's a lot of we've made a lot of progress but we're not quite there yet in that regard. the winding down of afghanistan, as mentioned, will be connecting to the fact we'll have to do defe

. >> i want to bring in our political analyst, roland martin and douglas brinkley. >> roland, it lookse believe that is true and what is potentially the dangerous of that? >> suzanne, i've been talking to a number of civil rights advocates and they have been warningi warning this for the past six to mine months. and so for them to now be looking at it again four years later, they believe they are going to do that. it's amazing at the rosa parks statue unveiling. here you have republicans and democrats talking about rosa marks and fighting for the right to vote and just across the street you have the supreme security court hearing this case. many are fearful they are going to absolutely do that and we saw the voter suppression last year. the vra stopped voter i.d. taxes in texas. this is a huge issue that cannot be ignored. >> we saw the head of the naacp weighing in there outside of the courthouse. how is he responding to the case that some folks are making that it's a hold-over from the civil rights era and it's not necessary? >> here's the deal. look at last year. look at what happen

this annual charlottesville virginia event features several authors, including douglas brinkley, the lab hours of, and congressman john lewis. the but. >> the book concludes with lincoln trying to get a job in zachary taylor's administration. we are talking a lot about me you're sitting the earth. well, at this time their is a talk of a me your, uh, destroying the earth. and one of lincoln's france's actually certain it will happen. but he's trying very hard to get this job, commissioner of the general land office and the fails. it's a good thing he fails. washington d.c. as a bureaucrat. he is not in illinois found in the republican party. is that moving to the forefront of the party. the problem never becomes president. as we all know history of something better in store. he ends up losing washington. one-term congressman, future very much in doubt headed back toward the state of illinois, almost as and nothing happened. >> congressman abraham lincoln arrived in washington in 1947, the reasons for his quick departure. today at 7:00 p.m. eastern part of book tv this weekend on c-spa

. >> on the next "washington journal, historian and author douglas brinkley talks about the second terms of u.s. presidents and windy ginsburg from the u.s. research office discusses the perks and benefits of the former presidents of the united states including pensions, offices and libraries. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. next, a rally for climate change from earlier today on the national mall. speakers included rhode island senator sheldon witehouse, van jones and ago tris rosario dawson. the rally was organized by self groups including the sierra club, 350.org and the hip-hop caucus. this is about an hour and a half. ♪ snoor somebody make some noise! [cheers and applause] >> come on. come on. you can do better than that. this is like calcutta. we have to get warm. give it up right now. y'all are ready. y'all are ready. if you say no, make some noise! [cheers and applause] >> let's do it, wherever you are, give us some music! come on! >> oh, yeah, let's go! come on. if i say no, you say no. no. no. pipeline. here we go. here we go. p let's go! no! >> no. >>

this annual charlottesville, virginia, event includes douglas brinkley and congressman john lewis. also that weekend it's the 26th annual tennessee well yams new orleans literary festival in louisiana. it'll feature its third annual poetry contest, highlight presentations by authors william j. myth and patricia brady. florida will host the venice book fair and writers' festival during the first weekend in april featuring author presentations and readings in the historic venice theater. please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll be happy to add them to our list. post them to our wall at facebook.com/booktv or e-mail us as booktv@c-span.org. >> i want to move to the role of publishers in this new world. it used to be that publishers would take care of all distribution, they would take care of production, and they would provide the answer. and that, that series of services led them to take a very hefty cut, a 95% cut. now, now you don't need production because you can put it out on the web, you don't need an advance because it doesn't cost that much to w

douglas brinkley, thank you very much for your time this morning. >> thank you. arthel: yeah.e young ads woman who admits -- arizona woman who admits stabbing and shooting her boyfriend to death is back on the stand today. the question is, why did she do it? the latest from the jodi arias murder trial just ahead. >>> plus, more than $16 trillion in debt and counting, does the government have a spending addiction? one top gop senator says, yes, and failing to break it could cost us. >> needless to say, we can't go on like this forever. eventually, we are simply going to run out of money. and no tax increase, no matter how high, will be enough to save us. arthel: senator john thune will be our next guest. stick around. arthel: and new next hour, he is a rising g work p star, and tonight senator marco rubio will give the republican response to the president's state of the union address. what we can expect to hear. >>> a prisoner being transferred makes break for it. his daring escape and the efforts to catch him. >>> new help on the way for more than 4,000 people on a cruise ship

joining me to talk about that is douglas brinkley, professor of history at rice university.ng with us. i want your take as a presidential historian on what john kerry means to president obama's legacy, specifically as we discuss foreign policy and the next four years. >> well, it's going to mean a great deal. after all, two of the accomplishments barack obama is trying to claim is going to be getting us out of war in iraq and out of afghanistan, by 2014 we have to withdraw 66,000 troops from afghanistan. now, the military will deal with that. but john kerry will have to do a lot of diplomacy with pakistan, who are not really sure whether we can trust right now. i think that the key for kerry will be when we move equipment and personnel out of afghanistan through the routes to pakistan, kerry can get done deals out of that country that they live up to. >> of course, americans know him as a multiterm congressman, 30 years in congress in the senate. but what do the rest of the people around the world think of, when they think of john kerry? and what message are they getting, as

yesterday, i spoke with rice university historian professor douglas brinkley.lection and what fascinates people with the kennedy family, even after all these years. >> dave powers was the adviser of john f. kennedy, with them everywhere. almost like a brother. and he ended up saving all sorts of items so i was utterly fascinated by this. i deal with a lot of auction houses, presidential memorabilia, being a presidential historian. i've never seen anything quite like the number of different significant mementos coming out of the collection. >> which one really jumped out to you? there are magnificent pictures there. there are also notes and letters. which one, if you could own one of them, which one would it be? >> well, i like the letters he wrote in 1945 from arizona when he went out to benson, arizona, lived on a ranch for a while. letters on stationary from a hot springs castle, hot springed hotel and also at saddleback. nobody thinks of john f. kennedy in arizona but the letters from just fascinating. anybody writing a future book on the young jfk will end

james patterson, douglas brinkley, thank you so much. state of the union address begins tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. with the speech beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> coming up, they survive in the streets by collecting cans one trash bin at a time. [ male announcer ] no matter what city you're playing tomorrow. [ coughs ] ♪ you can't let a cold keep you up tonight. [ snores ] vicks nyquil. powerful nighttime 6-symptom cold & flu relief. ♪ [ sniffles, coughs ] excuse me. i need something for my cold symptoms. [ sniffles ] we've got dayquil for day and nyquil for night. [ thuds ] you didn't see that. [ male announcer ] right now at walgreens dayquil and nyquil are just $10.99 with card. >>> a new documentary titled "redemption" looks into canning, redeeming bottles and cans for their recycle value. it happens in one of the biggest cities in the world, here in new york. >> you do it what you have to do to survive. if you have no income, this is what you do. >> there are more people here than ever before. they're all over the place. everybo

tomorrow on "washington journal," we will look at the history of presidential second terms with douglas brinkley and benefits of former presidents of the united states. our guests for that discussion is wendy ginsburg. again, "washington journal," is live here at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> i think -- [video clip] >> these women were attracted to men who were going to become politically active or were already politically active. >> each of them i find contract -- i find intriguing, half of them precisely because they are so obscure, historically. half of them would be totally unrecognizable to most men and women on the street. >> this president's day be premier our new series, "first lady's." interviews with historians, chiefs of staff, social curators, exploring the lives of the women who have been first lady. in a first of its kind project for television, season one begins on monday night. watch the program earlier in the day, live on c-span. >> members of president obama's cabinet were before the senate approriations committee today outlining their sentiments of what would happen if

. >> douglas brinkley, here is congressional quarterlies weekly and they have a graphic here. second terms tend to be more difficult. why is that? give us the history. >> well, i don't know if i totally believe that. and i know it's so popular right now that i hate to be the contrarian where we're saying second terms are a curse and that they're so much more difficult. i think any president would rather be in their second term than having to be in a first term with a huge election looming. so i think you get a lot of relief when you're president in the second term that you don't have to run again. also, there's a notion there are scandals that occur in the second term on nixon and watergate and iran-contra and lewinsky problems, all ones people raise. what they miss, is what would bill clinton have been without a second term. it wasn't the lewinsky issue that matters in the end but when he left office we had a surplus and that the triangulation worked and was able to have a balanced budget and couldn't have done it without a second term. we don't dwell on ronald reagan's iran-