dwight d. eisenhower. this is an individual who knew better than anyone the pain and agony of sending men into battle. and i think one of the most moving stories in the book is how in 1963 ike went back to normandy to me walter cronkite and to recapture the day 20 years later. he was getting ready to go out of their to the american cemetery overlooking omaha beach. you know the scene. row after row of markers and crosses. and he told ccps producer fred friendly, you know, tomorrow i got to go out there and speak to these families who lost sons and husbands and fathers at normandy. icon who came out of the war, with enough going to carry me on to other things, and he was agitated, he was humbled. and somehow though in the morning when he did go back to those beaches, this is what he said. and i think he captured it well. he said id that we hope that we will never again have to see seen such as these. these young men gave us a chance and they bought time for us so that we could do better than we

." >> up next, william hartung and david eisenhower, the grandson of dwight eisenhower, discuss president eisenhower's farewell address delivered on january 17, 1961, in which he warned about the growth of a military industrial complex in the united states. mr. hartung's latest book, "prophets of war," contracts the rise of lockheed martin. david eisenhower's latest looks at president eisenhower's life after he left the white house. their conversation takes place at barnes and noble booksellers in new york city. it's just over 45 minutes. .. american makers could with china and as required make swords as oil. but now we can no longer risk the improvisation of national defence. we have been compelled to create a permanent industry of vast proportions. added to this, 3.5 million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. we annually spend our military security more than the net income of all united states corporations. this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the american experience. the total influence, economic, politi

i am going to do my best impersonation of dwight d. eisenhower which doesn't make sense given i'm the only one up here who is not a eisenhower but i thought it would be good to just give the section of the speech that's relevant to our discussion because sometimes we only hear a sentence of it. this is a few minutes of it. it comes about midway. until the latest of our world conflicts, united states had no armaments industry. american makers could with time and as required make swords as well but now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. added to this, 3.5 million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. we annually spend on military security more than the net income of all united states corporations. this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the american experience. the total influence, economic, political, even spiritual is felt in every city, every s

sarah palin has famously said, "drill, baby, drill," it was dwight eisenhower who wanted to save thedlife refuge. there is a real story about these wilderness detection pioneers environmentalists that i tell about in this book. it has unlikely heroes ranging from eisenhower to walt disney. tavis: juxtapose what you started to do a moment ago, the way we are treating the environment -- not just the environment but the way we pushed to the background environmental issues in the debate versus what you found and laid out for us in this trilogy. >> when you look at eisenhower 50 years ago he stopped the development and sign a treaty on antarctica. that is why we are not having oil refineries down there. it was an almost wholly praise. eisenhower's save the arctic refuge 50 years ago. it is important we keep these special places that defines the united states. imagine our country without its monuments and national parks. imagine if you did not have the great highway one up to the redwood country. this landscape of america is what defines us because economies come and go. politicians wanted

dwight howard scored 39 points with 18 rebounds, but durant's 36 and westbrook's 32 carried the nightthe thunder beat the magic 125-124. >>> in denver, carmelo anthony and the nuggets thumped the visiting heat with lebron james and his sprained ankle nowhere to be seen. denver's j.r. smith scored a game high 28 points as the nuggets made it look easy, 130-102. >>> in minneapolis, the timberwolves knocked it in to the wrong hoop. but in the end, they won 109-97. >>> finally, cam newton is headed to the pros. the heisman winning quarterback led auburn to the national championship on monday. now he has declared himself eligible for the nfl draft. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. and protecting politicians. one lawmaker's fight to allow guns in the capitol. lawmaker's fight to allow guns in will the capitol. online and we really need to do something with it... i'm just not sure what... what is it? oh just return it. returning gifts is easier than ever with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for

dwight eisenhower, and lyndon johnson got a lot of things dpn in foreign policy that these republicans wouldn't do. same with ronald reagan. >> jim: and norm, if you have divided government, you have to have compromise and nothing gets done, and the public won't stand for that? >> it may work like that, jim, but it will be harder. and to follow up on michael point, one much the ironclad pledges of boehner and the republicans in their pledge for america is that they were going to cut $100 billion out of discretionary spending when they got there. already they're saying it may be closer to 50 or maybe less, and of course, right after the election, boehner told incoming members, we're going to have to be grown-ups here with the debt ceiling reached. and most of them say no way are we going to do that. so we've got interesting dynamics ahead. >> the other pointeds that the incoming republicans have said is that they want to undo a lot of what the democratic congress and the democratic president have enacted. what does the record show them doing? >> it doesn't happen often. dwight eisenhowe

we had achieved about an $80 million reserve in fiscal dwight. but between fiscal 2009 and fiscal 2010, we drew down on that reserve from $80 million to $12 million to help fund the operating side of the house. so we are in violation of the reserve policy that the board has established by about $68 million. >> i suspect people up here now that. you could view this as a $21.2 million deficit or view it in terms of the policy we are violating, and we are close to $90 million in the hole. i have said before there is no guarantee that another recession like this or some other calamity isn't going to happen. i just think we need to be pushing toward larger reserves. sorry to take away from the sunshiney perspective, but that is important. secondly, and somewhat contradictally, is it still our plan for this year to abide by our indexing policy and to have any increases done through indexing and not through one-time or larger increases? >> the board approved the indexing to all fares starting july of 2011. so the fast pass is going to go up from $60 to

a dwight eisenhower, too, is something of a strange bed fellow. he came to power as the international alternative to senator robert taft and while he may have been a states man, he wasn't really a dove. he simply believed that the cold war would be long and best won by endurance running rather than exhausting sprint. in his farewell address remembered by so many in the sense of even general eisenhower warned us about the military spril c industrial complex was an argument about thousand maintain military power over the long haul. and this was in the context of his assumption forgot ten in later years that as nato allies regained their footing, u.s. forces could be withdrawn from europe. eisenhower's cautionary pair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.fpair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.apair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.repair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.air well address se

dwight mcdonald, who i admire greatly, wrote that the war was the rock on which these movements broke. and they broke because world war i saw the birth of the system of mass propaganda, which ever since have saturated our culture with allies. it saw the rise of the committee of public information, led by george creel, former journalist who appropriate ended his career working for joe mccarthy and richard nixon in the 1950s. and anti-communist. and house affairs un-american activities american activities. because the war had no popular support, wilson in fact ran for reelection on the slogan that he kept us out of the war. but the bankers, wall street, had lent tremendous sums of money to the british and french. and if the germans won the war, that money was not going to be repaid. so there was pressure from the financial elite to push us into a conflict that had no popular support at all. very little popular support. wilson and walter lippman, arthur, all of them understood this. and so they created this remarkable system to saturate the country with propaganda, crossing the lines of

i believe dwight eisenhower was a transformational leader. this guy had guts. you see reference to it in his farewell address. the original film is "all business all the time." it's spoken in a very somber, very serious way. he did have political courage. we could go into that if the seminar today were on dwight eisenhower, which it is not, but i would point to any number of decisions including the handling of the suez crisis just before the election of his second term. this was something that was so potentially controversial that he figured that he might even not be elected for taking a decision like that but was prepared. we need to only mention, of course, the imposition of federal troops in little rock in 1957. these were tough decisions by somebody who i believe in his own frame of reference would say that he was putting america first. one of the critical parts of the farewell address is his references to bipartisanship. it is rather amazing with the democratic congress that this republican president manage to get 80% of his legislative agenda through cong

i believe dwight eisenhower was a transformational leader. this guy had guts. you see reference to it in his farewell address. the original film is "all business all the time." it's spoken in a very somber, very serious way. he did have political courage. we could go into that if the seminar today were on dwight eisenhower, which it is not, but i would point to any number of decisions including the handling of the suez crisis just before the election of his second term. this was something that was so potentially controversial that he figured that he might even not be elected for taking a decision like that but was prepared. we need to only mention, of course, the imposition of federal troops in little rock in 1957. these were tough decisions by somebody who i believe in his own frame of reference would say that he was putting america first. one of the critical parts of the farewell address is his references to bipartisanship. it is rather amazing with the democratic congress that this republican president manage to get 80% of his legislative agenda through cong

key play set up this chip shot field goal, the time expires, auburn wins their first title since dwight ice inhour was in the oh value office. >>> in five seasons, his recovered is 61-5 but his assistants couldn't -- see i screwed up the punch line. >>> the most versatile player in college football. he averaged 110 plays per game as a full back and linebacker for stanford this past season. you see that a lot in high school football but rarely in college football. >> and rarely -- >> he was super on both sides. >> the boise coach for what stanford is paying, he could have taken the money and then -- >> that's not how it works. >> they were going to offer 5 million for harbaugh, that was not going to be the rate for another incoming coach. >> thank you for clarifying that. fee court is now in session. ♪ [ judge ] let me get this straight -- you changed flights in order to get home to your buddies for new year's. and i paid the difference in airfare... plus, i paid a 150-dollar change fee. oh, man! southwest would never do that. 150 dollars to change my ticket? your honor, will we be here

after 15 years of the midwest plain-spoken harry truman and then dwight eisenhower, kennedy was not just impossibly young, a 31-year-old first lady, but strikingly attractive. john kennedy took the oath of office bathed in brilliant winter light. but what is most remembered are the words. >> that we shall pay any price, bear any burden. >> people remember this as a cold war speech because of the "pay any price bear any burden." but most of the rest of the speech was about peace and negotiations and the threat of nuclear war. >> let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. >> reporter: long time kennedy speech writer and advisor ted sorensen was often given credit for the inaugural address. thurston clark disagrees. >> the torch has been passed to a new generation, bear any burden, those were kennedy. he had a sorensen draft in front of him on january 10. he flew to palm beach, he looked at the draft and he dictated his changes and additions to the draft. >> reporter: at the kennedy library in boston, director tom putnam showed us the display that includes pages

dwight dasher, picked off by nunnal nunnally. and he wants more. like six points.and nunnally finally gets into the red zone. redhawks take a 21-14 lead. fourth quarter, score tied at 21-21. boucher, to chris givens. takes miami to o the 28-21 lead. final seconds in the game. lachey, nick armwell. miami of ohio goes on to win. >>> hoops. mavericks hosting the suns. dirk nowitzki without with a sprained knee. shawn marion, the matrix. 21 of his 25 game in the first half. later in the quarter, thunder up nine. durant with the steal. and then, the finish. he had 28 points. thunder end up winning it, 99-95. >>> to the ice. tuukka rask and the bruins hosting the wild. second period, game tied at 1-1. rask, makes a beautiful save, denying martin havlat. game still tied at 1-1. early third, clutterbuck intercepts it. and he will score. savard clears it away right in the stick of clutterbuck. 12th for him. wild end up winning 3-1. >>> that will do it for this espn news update. now, back to new york. >>> a washington state man is still in a state of shock, as he enjoys one

. >> reporter: outrage is what poured out of dwight munson.ratinees is a kindergartener at marcum. >> when somebody allows that to happen who is responsible for this? not the child. the child is underage. the child doesn't probably even know any better. >> it is shocking to think that this could happen at that age but we have to confirm the reality of our society and not put our heads in the sand, we have to address it and try to put in measures to make sure these things don't happen. >> reporter: as far as a teacher who is involved in this investigation the school district says he has not been allowed back on campus. if it's found that this is true the district says there is no question that this this is a able offense but as far as the background they say there is no evidence that anything like this has happened before. ken? >> it's crazy. so every parent in the bay area watching this right now is asking the same thing. what was that teacher doing? >> reporter: you know what, the school district doesn't know that either but they were very qu

there is a few doubts, newton won the heisman, led the tigers to their first national title since dwightisenhauer was in the oath val office. if there's any time to end a losing streak it's in the worst team in the conference. they were down 3-0 in the third period. heatley to joe, that's the one we love. the sharks lose 5-2 to the lowly oilers. 6 straight losses to for the first time in 10 years. >> name that gale. >> umm -- >> mickey mcconnell. he is the best player in that conference. as long as he doesn't play any gyms with low ceilings, look how high he shoots it. a 6-point lead over the first half. second half he can do more than that. mcconnell led all scorers with 19. they beat the gaels, they are 15-2 over in the pac-10. stanford knocked off washington. cal beat washington 88-81 in ot. freshman alan crab had a career high 13 points. >>> they are mourning the loss of michael lucky smith. he is a long-time boys and girls aau coach in marin county. he was the first player drafted out to have the university of hawaii and played for the milwaukee bucks. he leaves behind 6 children. h

asked former president dwight eisenhower how far he should go? to the chance they'll fire these things off if we invade cuba. >> oh, i don't believe they will. >> you don't think they will? >> no. >> reporter: it's the kind of material historians used to spend months track down, all now available way click. >> you'll have a lot more people looking and thinking and probing into our presidential past. >> reporter: you won't find everything about kennedy's past. ♪ happy birthday... >> reporter: the marilyn birthday video isn't there, but struggling students might be inspired by president's report card. it seems the man who hand wrote that soaring rhetoric as president had improved over the "c" he got in english as a sophomore at harvard. wyatt andrews, cbs news, washington. >> couric: and that's the cbs evening news. i'm katie couric. thanks for watching. good night. captioni descending into governmental chaos. >>> an empty mayor's chair, deleted computer files. the bay area city descending into governmental chaos. >>> a bay area politician faced wi

i believe dwight eisenhower was a transformational leader. this guy had guts. you see reference to it in his farewell address. the original film is "all business all the time." it's spoken in a very somber, very serious way. he did have political courage. we could go into that if the seminar today were on dwight eisenhower, which it is not, but i would point to any number of decisions including the handling of the suez crisis just before the election of his second term. this was something that was so potentially controversial that he figured that he might even not be elected for taking a decision like that but was prepared. we need to only mention, of course, the imposition of federal troops in little rock in 1957. these were tough decisions by somebody who i believe in his own frame of reference would say that he was putting america first. one of the critical parts of the farewell address is his references to bipartisanship. it is rather amazing with the democratic congress that this republican president manage to get 80% of his legislative agenda through cong

grandfatherly farewell speech from their two-term president and world war ii hero, five-star general, dwight david eisenhower. what they got instead was a warning about the future. when the outgoing president uttered his most famous quote about the dangers of the military industrial complex. eisenhower warned that money for weapons takes away from things like hospitals and schools. and on this martin luther king day, president obama and family honored dr. king's legacy with a service project, painting the cafeteria wall at washington stewart hobson middle school. the art works include pictures of fruits and vegetables, a passion of the first lady's. her effort to improve school nutrition. by the way, a nice present for her birthday, which is today. in atlanta, the king family gathered at ebenezer baptist where dr. king was pastor. many of the speakers talked about his legacy of non-violence in the wake of the tucson shootings especially. we also want to call your attention to the list of the 25 most influential black leaders of all time, compiled for this occasion. it's on the grio.com. >>>

contractors artie's lauren lyster explains who profits from our your wars abroad fifty hears after dwight eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex. when it comes to the afghan war well over half of americans oppose it and after a year of record casualties and having ploughed in over three hundred sixty six billion dollars why is the us committed to staying the course they're all trying to build if for that warry energy motives and profit motives and strategic motives and if you're wondering why some in the us just might not want to see the war and ever hear of three reasons thirty six billion twenty five billion twenty three point five billion those are roughly the dollar amounts the top three american defense companies were handed in government contracts in two thousand and eight the president wants warned about this industry we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether someone runs on by the military industrial complex it was fifty years ago than us president eisenhower said those now famous words let's look at though were u.s. defense spending has

he served on the white house staff of presidents dwight eisenhower and richard nixon, and he was an adviser to presidents jimmy carter and gerald ford. of his experience in nixon's white house as deputy assistant to the president for urban affairs, he once said, basically, i was the chief of staff to daniel patrick moynihan. [laughter] peter galbraith is senior diplomatic fellow at the center for arms control. from 1979 to 1993, peter was a seep staff member of the senate foreign relations committee where he worked directly with senator moynihan. in 1993 peter was appointed the very first u.s. ambassador to croatia by president bill clinton. for 2003 to 2005, he advised the kurds on t iraqi constitution, and his father, john kenneth galbraith, also served as ambassador to india and was a colleague of senator moynihan at harvard. richard vavitch is the 75th lieutenant governor of new york state, and he got to know -- [applause] and he got to know daniel path rib moynihan in the -- patrick moynihan in the 170s when he played a very key role in senator moynihan's future. in those days he was c

it will bring discretionary spending to lower share of our economy since dwight eisenhower was president. >> in response paul ryan said the president spent too much in the stimulus package. the government added three trillion dollars to the debt. he says republicans can tackle the debt and cut spending better. >> president barack obama will be a repeat the economic message he laid out last night. he will tour of three factories that would benefit. notice is noticeably absent congresswoman burrell difference. she is president barack obama in his opening address, he acknowledged the congress for woman who could not be there. you reference the seempty chair a lot into gabrielle gifford you can see mark kelly watching the state of the union address as his wife is in bed beside him. good news continuing for her condition. she will be moved today, to another rehabilitation hospital after the houston hospital she was then, upgraded it from serious to good. she was shot dead outside an arizona supermarket january 8th, that shooting wounded 14 people killing six. >> let's get caught up on weather

it is consistent with the model set 50 years ago by dwight eisenhower.e for about 20 minutes of questions from the audience. let me outline a few ground rules. first of all, would you raise your hand if you have a question. wait for me to call on you. also wait for the microphone so that we can hear your question, and then there is the jeopardy rule. please make sure that it is in the form of a question, not a speech. and we try to gep this as brief as possible. and also please indicate if your question is directed to just one panel member, or if it is a general question for the entire panel. so with those ruined lu-- fine words, we're ready to begin. >> there we go. this is only a sentence, so i hope i don't get sent out to the hall for one sentence. what a fabulous set of presentations today, period. now, here's my question. chris, you raised a very interesting notion that the concept of military industrial complex, and actually maybe even the speech itself, became hijacked, if that's a fair word, by forces other than -- by unexpected forces, the liber

a dwight eisenhower, too, is something of a strange bed fellow. he came to power as the international alternative to senator robert taft and while he may have been a states man, he wasn't really a dove. he simply believed that the cold war would be long and best won by endurance running rather than exhausting sprint. in his farewell address remembered by so many in the sense of even general eisenhower warned us about the military spril c industrial complex was an argument about thousand maintain military power over the long haul. and this was in the context of his assumption forgot ten in later years that as nato allies regained their footing, u.s. forces could be withdrawn from europe. eisenhower's cautionary pair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.fpair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.apair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.repair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.air well address se

over the next decade, and will bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since dwight eisenhower was president. this freeze will require painful cuts. already, we have frozen the salaries of hardworking federal employees for the next two years. i have proposed cuts to things i care deeply about, like community action programs. the secretary of defense has also agreed to cut tens of billions of dollars in spending that he and his generals believe our military can do without. [applause] i recognize that some in this chamber have already proposed deeper cuts, and i am willing to eliminate whatever we can honestly afford to do without. but let's make sure that we're not doing it on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens. [applause] and let's make sure what we're cutting is really excess weight. cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. it may feel like you're flying high at first, but it will not take long before you will feel the impact. now, most of the cuts and savings

a dwight eisenhower, too, is something of a strange bed fellow.e came to power as the international alternative to senator robert taft and while he may have been a states man, he wasn't really a dove. he simply believed that the cold war would be long and best won by endurance running rather than exhausting sprint. in his farewell address remembered by so many in the sense of even general eisenhower warned us about the military spril c industrial complex was an argument about thousand maintain military power over the long haul. and this was in the context of his assumption forgot ten in later years that as nato allies regained their footing, u.s. forces could be withdrawn from europe. eisenhower's cautionary pair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.fpair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.apair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.repair well address seems a beacon to the forces of frugality and restraint today.air well address seem

so there was a new paradigm that was created, which dwight mcdonald writes about as one where we entered essentially a state of permanent war. we enter a state of constant fear. the dreaded pun was replaced and mcdonald i think makes a very important point that none of the social and political theorists of the late 19th century including karl marx understood that in a system of permanent war and skillful mass propaganda you could get the masses to call for their own enslavement marx writes about war is touring the prussian war and he expresses the hope that prussia will win because the will make the german workers state closer to coming to fruition. and we have a essentially been emasculated ever since. so radical movements are a consciously destroyed and liberal movements engage in a kind of internal cannibalization where they pushout figures who have a moral conscience, who have some kind of economy, branding them as sympathetic economies. of course many of these people who were pushed out or not communists, although having lived in europe including italy there is nothing under our con

arenas looking to get it back to dwight howard. 22 points and 17 right-hands and here is jay rich.obbing away with the three. the magic with 15 of those on the evening and they win it going away. >>> the hottest team in all of hockey in san jose tonight, the canucks from vancouver. six straight wins and more points than any other team in the nhl right now. top of the line entertainment if you are not results oriented for sharks fan. up three goals for the sharks. mayers has san jose up 3-2. but the canucks tie it. 47 shots on goal and this decides it. burros getting away with the high-sticking no call. breaks the 3-3 tie. 4-3 is the final. the sharks on the short end. >>> is it a trade they will bemoan for years how they let go of gonzalez is a mystery. and colorado making sure he is a superstar on the rise. $80million deal with colorado. and he is quite a ballplayer, won the golden glove and hit over .300 and the one that got away for the a's. they cry about that all the tile and you can't blame them. >>> great stuff for stanford. >>> be sure to join ktvu morning news starting at

arenas looking to get it back to dwight howard. 22 points and 17 right-hands and here is jay rich.obbing away with the three. the magic with 15 of those on the evening and they win it going away. >>> the hottest team in all of hockey in san jose tonight, the canucks from vancouver. six straight wins and more points than any other team in the nhl right now. top of the line entertainment if you are not results oriented for sharks fan. up three goals for the sharks. mayers has san jose up 3-2. but the canucks tie it. 47 shots on goal and this decides it. burros getting away with the high-sticking no call. breaks the 3-3 tie. 4-3 is the final. the sharks on the short end. >>> is it a trade they will bemoan for years how they let go of gonzalez is a mystery. and colorado making sure he is a superstar on the rise. $80million deal with colorado. and he is quite a ballplayer, won the golden glove and hit over .300 and the one that got away for the a's. they cry about that all the tile and you can't blame them. >>> great stuff for stanford. >>> be sure to join ktvu morning news starting at

over the next decade, and will bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since dwight eisenhower was president. this freeze will require painful cuts. already, we have frozen the salaries of hardworking federal employees for the next two years. i have proposed cuts to things i care deeply about, like community action programs. the secretary of defense has also agreed to cut tens of billions of dollars in spending that he and his generals believe our military can do without. [applause] i recognize that some in this chamber have already proposed deeper cuts, and i am willing to eliminate whatever we can honestly afford to do without. but let's make sure that we're not doing it on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens. [applause] and let's make sure what we're cutting is really excess weight. cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. it may feel like you're flying high at first, but it will not take long before you will feel the impact. now, most of the cuts and savings

it will bring discretionary spending to lower share of our economy since dwight eisenhower was president. this freeze will require painful cuts. already we frozen the salaries of hard- working federal employees for the next two years. i propose cuts to things i care deeply about my community action programs. secretary defense is cutting tens of billions of dollars in spending of he and his generals believe our military can do without. (cheering) i recognize that some in this chamber have already proposed deeper cuts, i'm willing to eliminate whatever we can honestly afford to do without. let's make sure that were not doing it on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens. (cheering) let's make sure that what were cutting is really excess weight. cutting the deficit by cutting our investment in innovation in education is like letting it overloaded airplanes by removing its engine. it may make you feel like you're flying high at first but will take long before you feel the impact. most of the cuts and savings i propose only addressed annual domestic spending. it represents a little bit more

and will bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since dwight eisenhower waspresident. this freeze will require painful cuts. already we've frozen the salaries of hard working federal employees for the next two years. i've proposed cuts to things i care deeply about like community action programs. the secretary of defense has also agreed to cut tens of billions of dollars in spending that he and his generals believe our military can do without. ( applause ) now i recognize that some in this chamber have already proposed deeper cuts, and i'm willing to eliminate whatever we can honestly afford to do without. but let's make sure that we're not doing it on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens. ( applause ) len and let's make sure what we're cutting is really excess weight. cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening and overloaded airplane by removing its engine. it may make you feel like you're flying high at first but it won't take long before you feel the impact. now most of the cuts and savings i've propo

i think dwight mcdon't is incredible, and i urge you all to read him. a beautiful thinker and writer, unrepentant anarchist. he was thrown out, but didn't follow the orthodoxy of the party and he sent a message to the party in new york and said everyone has a right to their own stupidity, but comrade mcdonald abuses the privilege. [laughter] he was invited up to columbia in 1968, and everybody was wearing little buttons and said, where are the black flags? where are the anarchists? i rely on the writers of the 1950s, riceman, c wright mills, jacobs because i think they resinate with me with tremendous power. there's a book called "exiles return" which is an intellectual history of the movement after world war i. it's brilliant and sering analysis how the bohemians and ultimately the new left embraced the corporate values of hedonism and values. it's a stunning book that's beautifully written. again, there's a lot of books that, you know, are when you begin and when you write a book you read around a book that are very, very humbling, and they are out th

montgomery, you certainly met up with dwight eisenhower. you brought all of that into this enterprise. >> guest: right. i felt i had a sort of handle. as you say, the real advantage that i felt i had in relation to my colleagues in the united states who teach history was that i had actually grown up in a decaying british empire. you know, i was born in 1944. you know? churchill was still dreaming of holding on to india. the african colonies, one the most fascinating things about fdr in my chapter is the way that fdr basically tells churchill that it's no go. >> guest: it's interesting. you portray -- you have hinted at this. but you portray churchill with all of his heroic qualities, larger than life qualities as essentially a man working over his shoulder. and fdr is someone with a clearer grasp of the future that has yet to unfold. >> guest: i think fdr was a real visionry. he's definitely the hero of this book. >> host: that brings something up. 12 figures. it's interesting that the first four, roosevelt, truman, eisenhower, kennedy, the

. >> over 50 years ago, general dwight davis eisenhower, in his famous farewell speech, warned about the military-industrial complex. >> he did. >> i say that to all of my friends. do you cover that in your book, and the second half of my question is i worked hard to elect barack obama. i thought he was a wreck of -- would reconcile, and this probably happened since you bought the book, but he bought her clients and sinker, locks thought and they're all the industrial complex that he inherited from bush. any comments on that? >> no. [laughter] not really. all of the military-industrial complex i don't talk about that in my book. perhaps i should have. there is a -- there are a couple of good books that came out a little before my and that you which of the is one reason the i don't go into it in more detail. the book the death of the victory culture, which is a very interesting book, talks about it, and there is another one that talks quite a lot about it but i forget the name of the book right now. i will find it leader and mentioned it to you. it's a very important statement in the