arthur schlesinger was gone, and dwight was there. what that story shows us is the importance of courage and speaking up for what you believe in. our nation faces very serious challenges today. the difficulty we have been having actually tackling these challenges. there is only one way out of this predicament. it is to choose wisely which policies to pursue an execute them effectively. i hope we are a little better able to navigate the process of making government better so we can all have a better future. thank you very much. [applause] >> our thanks to william eggers, co-author of the book. thanks for your comments this evening. my name is joe epstein. i am a past chair on the board of governors, and i will be moderating tonight's audience question period. we have a lot of questions here for you, and we are about to begin. many of the questions addressed your new book's central theme, that being the process of ideas through implementation. let me begin with this question. how would you rate the obama campaign for its design and impl

soon after dwight retired.ow, the one story i love about dwight is he was in a meeting when kennedy was first elected, and they didn't have the national security council completely done. so dwight was sitting in a meeting on limiting the nuclear test band treaty, and dwight, in that meeting, arthur schlesinger was there, you know, who was the president's historian, very, very close to the kennedy family. and dwight was arguing for the limited nuclear test band treaty and schlessinger was arguing against it, and necessary got into really heated, heated arguments. they got all head-faced and everything. and dwight after the meeting went back and tendered his resignation because he figured, look, the kennedys aren't going to want him around anymore, h holdover arguing with someone so close to the family. and the funniest thing was during this meeting, who was looking over? he realized that it was bobby kennedys. and bobby kennedy was watching this. so dwight just said, you know what, i'm in so much trouble right n

arthur schlesinger was gone, and dwight was there. shows us is the importance of courage and speaking up for what you believe in. our nation faces very serious challenges today. the difficulty we have been having actually tackling these challenges. there is only one way out of this predicament. it is to choose wisely which policies to pursue an execute them effectively. i hope we are a little better able to navigate the process of making government better so we can all have a better future. thank you very much. [applause] >> our thanks to william eggers, co-author of the book. thanks for your comments this evening. my name is joe epstein. i am a past chair on the board of governors, and i will be moderating tonight's audience question period. we have a lot of questions here for you, and we are about to begin. many of the questions addressed your new book's central theme, that being the process of ideas through implementation. let me begin with this question. how would you rate the obama campaign for its design and implementation strat

. >> larry: dwight eisenhower, we quoted him. is stupid, every gun built, every bomb built takes away the clothes for children and health for seniors. >> this is a very rich country. the amount of money on the troops is tiny with respect to the hemt of the country. i would go farther than st stephanie. give him a lot of rope if it's vital to keep the taliban from running a sovereign country. let's fight it like we fought world war ii. like it's got to be won. >> larry: the op-ed in the post. sarah palin. agree or disagree? >> the president should boycott copenhagen entirely? >> larry: that's what sarah palin said. with the publication of damaging e-mails with a research center in britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. the revelation oi climate change experts allows the american public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulates about this issue. >> um, yeah, it's hard to take things seriously who thinking dinosaurs who think that dinosaur gas caused global warming or wha

dwight lowry picks him off. painter, 4-, 44 yards. one pick and one fumble. back to jim and phil. jim: j.b., thank you. playing hurt today, j.b. gaffney goes out of bounds at the 45. that's about two yards short of a first. phil: we talked so muchturing game about the eagle offense, how they can get hot. denver's offense is rolling. they have this eagle defense sitting back and reacting instead of attacking and setting the pace. phil: two full yards to go for the first. orton. scrambles away. plants the feet, fires it incomplete. boy, he threw that one against some more heat, going for brandon lloyd. phil: the question is, do you go for it here on fourth down or do you punt it? i think you punt it. your defense has really got philly's offense doing nothing. jim: the pass was behind lloyd. phil: yeah, good thing, though. macho harris was in front. had to be came. jim: haven't seen jackson, the league's leading punt returner do anything. hasn't had a chance on the return game. berger will no doubt try to angle it away from him. kicking it high and -- bring on the fair catch. 26 yard

. >> in 1971, this room was dedicated to president dwight david eisenhower.president's prayer that once hung in the oval office. and these are two oil paintings done by president eisenhower. it was an incident in this room that happened in the 1980's that led to the renovation. a telephone call came to the chief of protocol from president reagan's deputy chief of staff. >> he called me one day and said, mrs. reagan, i feel that you must shut blair house down. mike was disturbed, as was mrs. reagan, when she heard that a chandelier had fallen on the principal bed and while the tunisian president was in residence, the boiler had blown up. and so that was enough. and also, it was not looking very good. it was really looking a bit raggedy. before the restoration plan, the money had to be approved by the government every year and was summoned to congress, because they didn't want to fund it at all. and senator abner, who was the head of the committee that was being so negative about it said to me, well, mrs. rosa, i don't understand why you have to spend all that

bob herbert writing in "the new york times" today called this a tragic mistake and then he quotes dwight david eisenhower, former president of the united states, former supreme commander of all troops in world war ii. eisenhower said, i hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can and as one who has seen its brutali brutality, its futility and its stupidity. he said, this will impress you, i think, eisenhower, every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. that's from a four star general and a president. >> yes. and a republican. that's the way republicans used to talk. some of them. well, that's exactly the case here. you know, we're not -- the allies are not going to come to our aid in this. that's a joke. britain is talking about 500 more troops. they'll send token troops over. they still want our help and our money and all that. we're not going to get that. instead, we're going to dump more billions and trillions of dollars of our money into a lost c

. >> larry: no less a military hero than dwight eisenhower, and we quote him, war is stupid, every gunuilt, every ship built, every bomb built takes away from clothes for children and help for seniors. >> this is a very rich country. the amount of money on the troops is tine ne the context of the wealth and income of this country. i would go farther than stephanie. although i suspect i don't agree with her on much else. i would say give him a lot of rope to go forward and hope he doesn't hang himself with it. if it is vital to keep the taliban from running a sovereign country. let's not have an exit date. if this war has got to be won, let's fought it like we fought world war ii, like it's got to be won. rz t >> larry: the op-ed in the today's "washington post." sarah palin. the president should boycott copenhagen. agree or disagree? >> the president should boycott copenhagen entirely? >> larry: that's what sarah palin said. here's what she said, with the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipp

the guy they replaced him with, vince carter to dwight howard. magic up 11. third quarter.. little pick and roll action. howard jams. he had 18. go to the fourth. this was kind of ugly. magic up 17. i mentioned dwight howard. here he is defensively, swatting marcus banks. howard had eight blocks. magic swatted 14. they win it 118-99. >> i guarantee you he's got butterflies in his stomach. >> here comes mcgrady. i don't think anybody expected to see him tonight. >> i was a little nervous. just a great feeling just to be back on the basketball court. >> believe it or not, the fans in houston often booed when tracy mcgrady's face showed up on the scoreboard at the toyota center. they booed because mcgrady wasn't playing, but they were paying him $22 million a year, and he hasn't seen the court since last february. fans weren't happy, understandably. that changed on tuesday. they cheered him. he came back, warm reception. had three. one of two from the field in his brief debut. here he is again. talking to luis scola. first quarter. mcgrady drives, but looses the handle. nugget

arthur schlesinger was gone and dwight was there.y teaches us to and courage standing up and speaking with you believe in. there's only one way out of our predicament, to choose wisely. our hope is that this book leaves a lot of public officials and all of you a little better equipped to navigate the process of making our government better so that we can all have a better future. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for your comments this evening my name i. my name is joe epstein. we have a lot of questions. many address your book's central theme, the process of idea through implementation. let me begin with this question. how would you rate the obama campaign for its design and implementation strategies during the election process in 2008. >> that is a great question. i actually wrote a whole thing that did not make it into the book about how the campaign actually performed from the standpoint of execution. i think almost all political professionals say it was one of the most flawlessly executed campaigns. they ha

dennis is survived by his loving family, including his wife jennifer, their children, and his parents dwight and bonnie. it was clear that he had a positive impact on the lives of everyone around him. he was a lead eark family man, an accomplished wrestler in his youth and a champion in every sense of the word. he bravely stood up, volunteered to serve and gave his life in defense of his family, community, state and nation. for this, we owe him and his family a great debt of gratitude. the strength of his character and the courage he demonstrated lew through his service will live on. thank you, mr. speaker. .he gentleman from tennessee rise snr >> address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cohen: today ends the first year of the 110th congress, a congress tried to prove its place among the nations of the world, work toward against the global warming problems we have and protect our planet. so much we have has been a group effort. congressman robert wexler of florida, i was privileged to sit next to him in the judiciary committee. he was 13 years in this

elbow, dwight howard. matching 11. a big night for howard. here, the little pick and roll. with vince carter. he would add 18. it was a big night for howard defensively. one of his eight blocks. eight blocked shots right there. every time i see it i laugh. 14 blocks for the magic. 118-99. whether you call them companion deals or simply call it as you see it, which is a 14-9 player trade, either way it was kind of complicated but it became official on wednesday. cliff lee is a mariner now and roy halladay is a philly. three years and $60 million. >> it was an easy decision for me. i think once the opportunity came up to be a part of this, it was something i couldn't pass up. you know? i'm overwhelmed with this opportunity, looking forward to what could be. so you know, for me, it is kind of a two-part thing. i'm excited to be able to continue that, the chance to try to play in the postseason. and ultimately, win a world series. >> coming up on the "final score," the presbyterian blue hose travel to columbus with six freshmen and those seniors. how do you think that goes? the

host: dwight, we'll leave it there.r headline for you this morning in the money section of "usa today." new law expands cobra coverage. thousands ever unemployed workers won't have to worry about starting the new year without health insurance. president obama has signed legislation that will allow laid off workers to receive subsidized cobra premiums for up to 15 months. previously the subsidy expired after nine months. the extension included in the defense spending bill approved by congress over the weekend and signed by the president on monday also extended the cutoff for eligibility for the cobra subsidy to february 28, 2010 from december 31. with unemployment at 25-year high, it -- >> we'll leave this recorded portion of today's washington journal to take you live to the capitol for news conference with senate democrats on the health care bill. earlier the senate agreeing to move forward with the bill on a party-line vote of 60-39. oklahoma republican jim inhofe, the only senator not to vote this morning. now senate

former president dwight eisenhower, gerald ford, and ron at reagan all reached the highest office in our land, but before they were president, they were each standout athletes in college. wow. now this. what a year it's been for this next athlete. his name is bofgio. the chicago fire welcomed the rookie mid-fielder to her roster, and being all to play in front of his own hometown has been. a a dream come true, especially when you consider that his journey began in another country where his memories of death and destruction still remain a big part of him. josh mora has gee or geo's story. >> i spent a lot of time playing with my family, so that's really basically it, that i remember, is just playing around with my cousins, running in the wood, and that sort of thing. >> reporter: peaceful life. >> yeah, very nice, very peaceful. >> reporter: until he was 7 years old, he lived an idealic life in bosnia with his parents and older brother. his family owned land and had money, but wars a all around them. >> it's war, you see people dead. i lost my brother to, you know, yes, i lost my brot

evers' as per the ones who were not wereut the ones i like the most would have been harry truman, dwightthemselves through that but there is something we've to say that there is a fire in your belly and if you haven't you run and you don't you don't. most of them do have. lyndon johnson as a poor example. back i want it so that he could taste it. -- that god wanted it so that he could taste it. obama did not have a lot of experience when it can into this job. from a practical and political standpoint. i agree and disagree on the intellectual point about him. he suddenly got that whether the speech before the gridiron club line him up and everybody thought he was pretty good. he was a political accident when you think about what happened in chicago was that the guy self destruct did, the republican leader in that race and a broaay brought in obama. guest: i was there at that speech and it was the first time i met him. i came back and i told my wife that i had never seen a man work through the way he did. she said," better than bill clinton?" host: if cameras were able to be inside the gri

caller: -- host: dwight on the democratic line.aller: i am sick and tired of people say this is terrible and said they don't want to pay for abortions but tax dollars. i doubt there are people making a quarter billion dollars a year policies. but the vast majority, including myself, we don't pay an appreciable amount of federal income-tax. so this business about my tax dollars is ridiculous. and we have a clinic in a farming to hear it, they built new, and you go in there for a visible and their 83 people there. -- there are not three people there. their primary care facilities to don't have enough patients. the truth is, if you increase the population of patients coming to them and get them to stop spending half their time on the phone arguing with insurance companies, even with lower reimbursement rates, doctors will come out better. doctors want to buy a large to provide patient care. and i think if they were given the opportunity to do that, they would do so. insurance companies, on the other hand, have been allowed to descend

that are connecting all of america, that's the interstate highway system, suggested by president dwight d. eisenhower. what a remarkable thing. and i also think of the story i read a while back about those two little creatures that are crawling around the surface of mars right now. one is called spirit and one is called opportunity. and five years ago, our country sent both of them to land on the surface of mars. they landed one week apart. they are dune buggy-sized little mechanical creatures on the surface of mars. we sent them up by a rocket, and they landed encased in a shroud and they bounced and then the shroud opened up and these dune buggy-sized vehicles began driving on the surface of mars, and they were expected to last 90 days. five years later, spirit and opportunity have been driving on the surface of mars collecting samples. one of them -- i believe it was spirit -- had an arm that kind of looked like it was arthritic, and so it was hanging at an angle almost like a salute, and then the wheel broke, and so they were dragging a wheel and creating a trench, and the arm reach

former president dwight eisenhower, gerald ford, and ron at reagan all reached the highest office in our land, but before they were president, they were each standout athletes in college. wow. now this. what a year it's been for this next athlete. his name is bofgio. the chicago fire welcomed the rookie mid-fielder to her roster, and being all to play in front of his own hometown has been. a a dream come true, especially when you consider that his journey began in another country where his memories of death and destruction still remain a big part of him. josh mora has gee or geo's story. >> i spent a lot of time playing with my family, so that's really basically it, that i remember, is just playing around with my cousins, running in the wood, and that sort of thing. >> reporter: peaceful life. >> yeah, very nice, very peaceful. >> reporter: until he was 7 years old, he lived an idealic life in bosnia with his parents and older brother. his family owned land and had money, but wars a all around them. >> it's war, you see people dead. i lost my brother to, you know, yes, i lost my brot

. >> in 1971, this room was dedicated to president dwight david eisenhower.ayer that once hung in the oval office. and these are two oil paintings done by president eisenhower. it was an incident in this room that happened in the 1980's that led to the renovation. a telephone call came to the chief of protocol from president reagan's deputy chief of staff. >> he called me one day and said, mrs. reagan, i feel that you must shut blair house down. mike was disturbed, as was mrs. reagan, when she heard that a chandelier had fallen on the principal bed and while the tunisian president was in residence, the boiler had blown up. and so that was enough. and also, it was not looking very good. it was really looking a bit raggedy. before the restoration plan, the money had to be approved by the government every year and was summoned to congress, because they didn't want to fund it at all. and senator abner, who was the head of the committee that was being so negative about it said to me, well, mrs. rosa, i don't understand why you have to spend all that money just to