bush's office of dwight d. eisenhower.eight-year presidency, as a texan. and that some of the recognized as his father did, and as southerners did and as republicans did that the eisenhower presidency and 52 begins a dialogue that we have had ever since, in which the positions will wax and wane. but we have a robust private sector. we also have an effective public sector, and the republicans basically are advocates for the private sector and that is the connection. the rest of the, julie, do you want to take it? .. >> above all, he's a leader on the farm because he took everything we did so seriously, and he was so well informed on everything we did. i think the lesson i take away is that you do not ask others to do that which you are unwilling to do yourself. he's somebody who understood his operation. he was also the first person to hire me, so i was grateful to him as a boss. [laughter] he was the first person to fire me. [laughter] so i was surprised by that. i relate the in "going home to glory," we played a game of h

dwight eisenhower was a republican and proud of being a republican and he believed in limited government that he was governing in a democratic era. he was governing and the fdr era so what the eisenhower frustration does he is it applies the brakes to overreaching and makes bipartisan many policies in the new deal but applies the brakes on others but it is not an aggressive administration presenting a republican blueprint in driving for a mandate on policy questions. but the eisenhower frustration did in the 50s however methodically was it recruited talent. it is hard to find a republican presidency that does -- to the eisenhower frustration, george w. bush being the latest actual encumbrance in the white house to acknowledge that. mitt romney who is running, the republican nominee this year's father was identified by eisenhower in the early 60's in michigan and promoted romney's fortune. the idea is that the power of the presidency and control of the executive branch the republican party in the 1950's have an opportunity to train a whole cadre, thousands of future leaders who would go o

let's name him dwight david gelden.mother preferred michael, obviously, but throughout my childhood, my grandfather reminded me many times, you were really supposed to be named dwight david golden. how delighted would my grandfather be if he knew who i was about to introduce today. we're fortunate to have david eisenhower and julie nixon eisenhower joining us, david is an author, public policy fellow and grandson of dwight david eisenhower, a scholar at the an anyoneburg school of communication in pennsylvania. in 1987 he was a finalist for a pulitzer prize for his book, eisenhower at war, 1942 to 1945. david's new book, co-authored with his wife julie eisenhower, is going home to glory iry, a memoir of the life of dwight d. eisenhower, 1961 to 1969. like her husband, julie eisenhower is also an author. she is in addition the daughter of the 37th president, richmond m. m. knickson from 1,973rd to 1975 she was assist stand managing editor for the saturday evening post, and weles welcome jean edward smith, white house boo

the new project by dwight yoakam.e enjoyed this and i've learned so much about you and your life. thank you for coming 9. >> -- thank you for coming on. you can come back anytime. until next time, keep the faith. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for actor tony danza. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs. >> be more. pbs.

. >> tonight, a conversation with dwight yoakam. he has just released a new collection of songs called "3 pears." he is also being honored this month at the annual academy. we're glad you have joined us. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: please welcome dwight yoakam back to this program. he is out with his first studio album in seven years. he is also being honored this month with a special award by the academy of country music. some of them -- some of the making of the new disc, "3 pears." ♪ ♪ ♪ tavis: good to have you back on the program. i did not realize that you have lived in los angeles for 30 years. >> when i got lost trying to g

. >> commissioner dwight? >> absent. >> he is on his way, i saw him coming up. >> commissioner on brian. >> here. >> commissioner carnega is absent. >> commissioner white. >> here. >> commissioner riley. >> here. >> commissioners we have quorum >> okay. next item, commissioners, item number two, introduction of new small office small business staff. >> commissioners, i would like to take this moment to do an introduction to our new staff member and city hall fellow and then afterwards. i would also like for each of you maybe to give a brief introduction of yourself to our staff members. first i would like to introduce you to christian murdock who is our new business counselor and will be doing policy and analytical work for the office as well. so i will have christian give you an introduction to himself. >> good evening commissioners and director. my name is christian murdock the second week here with the office of small business. it is good pleasure to be here with the team and help out with the work. >> prio

. >> dwight? >> o'brien >> yes. >> white? >> yes. >> rilely, aye,. >> the motion passed 6-0. >> great, thank you. >> next item. next president would you like to call the next two items together? >> yes, i would call to item 8 and 9 together. >> commissioners, item eight, discussion of possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors on board of supervisors file number 1 20796 planning cold establishing the divisadero street neighborhood commercial district. in your packet on the file number along with the digest. presentation by we have chris... on file 120814 planning code establishing the fillmore street neighborhood and commercial district and i well introduce supervisor lugy. >> welcome. and >> thank you. >> thank you for coming. >> thanks. >> yes, we had a meeting early on with a member of the public who was interested in opening a brew pub on divisadero. he came across this problem where the second-floor uses were not allowed that were commercial and he was interested in using the second floor of a fo

. >> dwight. >> yes. >> o'brien. >> yes. >> white. >> yes. >> rilely. aye. >> that passes 6-0. >> and then on item number eight? >> do you want to make this the same motion on item number eight? >> yes, sure. >> i would like to make a motion to continue item number 8. >> do we have a second? >> i will second. >> roll call? >> commissioners, you have a motion, on item eight, board of supervisors, number 1 20768, i wave a motion by commissioner white to continue to the call of the chair and seconded by commissioner rilely and motion, commissioner adams? >> aye. >> daolly. >> yes. >> dwight. ye.. >> o'brien. >> aye. >> white. >> aye. rilely. >> aye. >> passes 6-0. >> thank you. >> next item. >> commissioners, presentation and discuss on road repaving and street safety program known as the streets bond. by greg crump. the department of public works. >> >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, i'm greg crump with the department of public works. i here to give a update on the 2011 streets bond. i am going to go over the bond objectives the funding structure, the

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. >> jay: now, tell me about dwight howard. tell me how that's going to be. >> i think it's going to be great for the lakers. [ cheers and applause ] the lakers have been known for dominant big men all the way back. mikan, chamberlain, kareem, shaq and now here comes dwight howard. i think that he's going to be great for the laker organization, for laker nation, and great for kobe. and now, this will probably put two or three years on kobe's career. and steve nash, same thing. [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: okay. very good, very good. >> and i think that dwight, his smile and his personality will take l.a. by storm. and the young man can really play. this is going to be a fantastic season. but, jay, you know, we still got -- the miami heat is still the team to beat. [ cheers and applause ] you can't go against the world champions. they're still the team to beat. >> jay: and you're a a grandfather now, right? >> yes, i got two grandkids. and we just had them a week ago at the house. and it's real cool when you can have them for

wendell willkie in 1940, thomas dewey in 44 and 48 commander dwight d. eisenhower 52. many people forget that dwight eisenhower described himself and 52 as a moderate republican and also as a liberal republican and many people thought that conservatism was irrelevant. it had been vanquished, everybody was and buckley i suggest to you change it. transformed it buckley was at the political philosopher. his ideas were not his own. many of them are inherited from his father who was influential and borrowed from other thinkers. but buckley was a brilliant polemicist. he was also an extremely gifted leader, and as a gifted leader knows, building a movement is not about personal glory, it is about creating an army. you can think of buckley i think as the conductor and orchestra. he didn't like the music, he didn't play the instrument but he decided what was going to be plebeian who was going to play it. he decided who to invite into the orchestra and not. he decided to expel from the orchestra. he made all of these strategic decisions, and he was extremely good at. what did h

a four-team trade sent all-star center dwight howard to the los angeles lakers.ent? >> thank you, jimmy. big news indeed. while dwight howard is the big name in this trade, the lakers also acquired rookie point guard tom hanks in exchange for two boiled carrots and a side salad. hanks is an american actor best know for his signature long blond hair, falsetto voice and neck tattoos. that's your sports report. my name is stephanie williams and i'm a 17-year-old girl. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you, trent. now let's see what's happening in other countries around the world. it's time for "globe news." ♪ >> hello, i'm michael fitzpatrick. there have been a series of muggings perpetrated by a man who was identified as being 6'2" with long hair and a ponytail. i tried to grow my hair long, too, ever since i saw a singer in a cool band at a rock 'n' roll concert. he was singing -- ♪ oh baby drive me crazy and the guitar was like -- [ makes guitar noises ] he looked so awesome with his long hair and sleeveless shirt. anyway, the suspect is still on the loose. ♪ >> jimmy

nhk world, aboard the "uss dwight d. eisenhower." >>> there is a storm near the philippines right now. let's turn now to rachel ferguson for the updates. >> we have a tropical storm to the east of the philippines. it was looking like it was going to head straight towards luzane making landfall monday. we could have good news here. the storm will be intensifying. expecting typhoon status earlier. should become a typhoon by sunday. now it looks like it is tracking further towards the north. and west. so, actually away from luzane. we may not see a direct hit. what i can tell you, that is enhancing the rainfall across the philippines over the weekend. not just eastern locations, but also, the western seaboard is going to be seeing enhanced rainfall. flooding, could be an issue here. much of the southern half of eastern asia is dealing with heavy rain in places. indochina, certainly, parts of thailand have been seeing active monsoon, monsoonal rains. a low-pressure system, sitting here down towards the south. around that low

seeking the place on the gop ticket, as dwight eisenhower's running mate, richard nixon gave his famous0 years ago this weekend and laid his finances bare. >> everything i've earned, everything i've spent, everything i owe -- >> it's a speech with eerie relevance to the 2012 campaign. in which another candidate, mitt romney, faces demands to disclose his finances. >> as if you decide to do more and more, you just give, if you will, the opposition a chance to distort and twist and be dishonest. >> ironically, nixon's financial disclosure in 1952 set a new standard for future candidates for national office. >> not even nixon himself would not trying to set aen ethical standard, he was trying to save his skin it became a sort of standard for candidates from then on. >> jeff frank, author of a forthcoming book says nixon was gambling his political future and without knowing it, shaping political races for years to come. accused of personally benefitting from a slush fund set up by wealthy california backers, nixon opted to tell everything about his finances on national tv. even his wife's w

essential to preserving nixon's political career, which was on shaky ground two after being tapped dwighthower's conservative running mate because eisenhower had a conservative problem at the time. the threat came in the form of a new york post article alleging that nixon was using a slush fund for personal expenses set up by wealthy supporters with the suggestion that those supporters might have got special favors in return. both republicans and democrats were urging ike to dump nixon immediately. in what turned out to be a stroke of political genius, nixon turned to a new medium called television and made his case directly to a national audience insisting the money was legit. the senator from california also transformed the way politicians used television and the way the public connected with its leaders. you took a closer look at this famous speech and the impact to this day. >> everybody remembers the speech as one that saved nixon's career the way he used television. what's less understood is how he in that speech invented new rules for financial disclosure, rules that are playing th

still there for you and me ♪ ♪ for you and me for you and me ♪ ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jay: dwightback. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> jay: i want to thank my guests, sylvester stallone, missy franklin and, of course, dwight yoakam. "jimmy fallon" happening right now! jimmy, take it! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >>> jimmy: oh, man, oh, man. that feels good. thank you so much. i feel the love. welcome! welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. here is what people are talking about. yesterday, paul ryan said that he and mitt romney won't reveal their tax plan to the public until after the election. [ laughter ] other politicians couldn't believe it. they were like, "at least do the honorable thing and lie." [ laughter ] i mean, come on. more n

dwight yoakam thanks. car of the future.ank you very much. >> the car of the future has no driver. how does that work? google says no problem, all you need is space and technology. that story is coming up next on cbs "this morning". ♪ >>> people in california today, governor jerry brown signed a bill allowing driverless cars in california. yeah. after hearing this amanda bynes said i thought i had a driverless car. >> california has bean pioneer in car culture. this morning that state is first in the nation to accept a new kind of car that doesn't need a driver. >> reporter: california governor jerry brown ditched his state car yesterday and hitched a ride to his latest bill signing in a vehicle that once only existed in people's imagination. >> today we're looking at science fiction becoming tomorrow tease reality, the self-driving car. >> reporter: it's called an autonomous vehicle. google has been testing a dozen prius models equipped with sensors allowing them to drive themselves. >> think the self-driving car can improv

nhk world reports from the "uss dwight d. eisenhower." >> reporter: this aircraft carrier "eisenhower" has more than 60 airplanes that fly around the persian gulf. the commanders of the ships say that if any country wants to or tries to close the strait of histo hormuz, their role is to stay here and make sure it is open. the 12-day maneuvers are the largest ever of such kind held in the persian gulf. nations taking part in this united states-led exercises include japan and britain. iran's government has repeatedly warned that it would close food or shipping routes that run through the strait of hormuz. the threats are in response it tighter international sanctions targeting iran's nuclear program. the fighter aircraft on this vessel can reach most of iran's nuclear facilities. the u.s. navy is not disclosing the ship's precise location. it appears we are close to the iranian coast. my cell phone is able to pick up a signal from iran. one of the key components of the drill is mine-sweeping operations. iran trails the west in

we'll speak with barnes and noble's ceo and dwight yocum stops by.d more later on cbs "this morning." for now that will do it for this wednesday. as always we appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown, have a great day. ,,,, >>>

join me next time for a conversation with dwight yoakam on his new studio element out in six years. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminating hunger and we have work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. >> be more. pbs. >> be more. pbs.

i think the dwight eisenhower and john kennedy and ronald reagan certainly were. they were not just content to say that this is just rhetoric, you know, privately come i think the cold war will go on for a century or two. in fact, they felt that there were things they could do that would hasten the day that the cold war ended. >> host: when kennedy took office in 1961, was he prepared for the soviet threat and foreign policy? >> guest: not really. he had served in congress for 14 years. he had served in the navy, certainly not as inexperienced as richard nixon made him out to be. but when kennedy was looking for issues to use in 1961 against eisenhower and nixon, there were not many because the country was very prosperous. more or less. and generally at peace. he came upon the missile gap. the idea was because eisenhower was so obsessed with balanced budgets, they were letting the soviets produce all sorts of nuclear missiles, getting way ahead of the united states in defense and wait it was so dangerous that we might lose the cold war. kennedy said that over and

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dwight eisenhower had something called rollback. they said elect him because he will wipe the russians out of eastern europe. to some extent, he was serious to that effect. but the way that eisenhower handled this, he had it aide called andrew goodpaster. he was sort of a pullback supporter. they had this operation called operation solarium. the way he did it was he appointed three teams fred one was rollback, push eastern europe back even if it means war, and the other was isolationists, do nothing and let them take over the world, and of the center would be something akin to what we would call containment. although they didn't call it that. he put andrew goodpaster in charge of the containment team. because he knew that he'd make undreamt would make sure that one. and indeed it did. >> host: rhetoric aside, was still make the goal of these administrations when it came to the soviet union? >> guest: i think short-term stomach, long-term and hope that the cold war would end. some residents were more serious about it than others. i t