in a nutshell, one of the great transitional leaders in american history was dwight david eisenhower. last president born in the 19th century, among other things the first president to look at reconnaissance photographs taken from satellites in space that he put there. a transitional leader with many other levels, and tonight we have the privilege of hearing from another great transitional leader in architecture, frank gehry arguably has brought the architectural profession to a whole new level of understanding of itself. this great architect along with his collaborator, robert wilson, to have the opportunity to share with us the creative process which will enable and result in this great memorial is a special privilege for all of us. so, i'd like to turn the microphone back to the archivist of the united states, and thank you, david, for making this possible. [ applause ] >> so, i'd now like to introduce the two men who have collaborated on the original concept and design of the eisenhower national memory. architect frank gehry has received the highest of honors of his profession inc

david eisenhower is the grandson of president dwight eisenhower, and his father john eisenhower is a prominent military historian. david is the author of the "new york times" best-seller "i "eisenhower at war" which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in history in 1986. he currently serves as the director of the institute for public service at the annenberg public policy center at the university of pennsylvania and he's the senior research fellow at the annenberg school for communication. david eisenhower has served on numerous not-for-profit boards and committees, including the advisory committee on presidential libraries. a graduate of amherst college, david eisenhower earned his law degree from the george washington university law school in 1976. our other special guest is david eisenhower's co-author, julie nixon eisenhower, who just happens to be david eisenhower's wife. she's also the second daughter of president richard nixon. julie is also a best selling author, editor and a recognized public speaker on such subjects as the presidency, women in politics and life in the whit

>> this monday watch american history tv in prime time with a look at the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m., architect frank gehry. following that at 9:00 p.m., eisenhower's granddaughter expressing her opposition to the memorial. at 10:30 p.m., a film produced by the u.s. army about eisenhower. >>> to mark george washington's birthday, the american enterprise institute hosted a gathering of political thinkers to consider the presidency and legacy of our nation's first chief executive. among the topics discussed are washington's farewell address and the many presidents he set for his successors, including what historians it to be his most lasting legacy. his decision to relinquish power after only two terms in office this. program is 90 minutes. >> i'm amy kass, senior fellow at hudson institute. on behalf of what so proudly we hail aei's program on american citizenship, would i like to welcome you and our viewers around the country courtesy of c-span to event in honor washington's birthday. this is one of a series of events and discussions where response oregon on the america

monday watch american history tv in prime time on c-span 3 with a look at the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m., frank gary on his design for the memorial. following that is the president's granddaughter, susan eisenhower, expressing her opposition to the gehry designed memorial. and then an a film produced by the u.s. army. >>> between 1861 and 1868, clara barton, known as the angel of the battlefield and founder of the american red cross lived in this washington, d.c. building. she employed 12 clerks on the third floor in her missing soldiers office where they received over 60,000 letters from families searching for lost sons and husbands. a carpenter for the general services administration was helping to prepare the building for demolition when he discovered this office signed in the attic. american history tv visited the building to learn about the missing soldier's office and to hear the story of richard lyons, who worked alone for months to save the building from demolition. >> this is the original staircase that was never renovated or changed much as all. just a few repairs

monday, watch american history tv in prime time on c-span 3 with a look at the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. then at 8:00, architect frank gehry. then at 9:00, the president's granddaughter, susan eisenhower. then at 10:30 p.m., a film about president eisenhower produced by the u.s. army. >>> each week, you can watch classes at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. this week, ohio state university history professor joan cashin looks at the women's rights movements. this class is from the course of jeffersonian. >> it has as it's goal the abolition of slavery. the full and complete emancipation of all slaves. this is different. this is different from earlier occasional criticisms of slavery by other americans. there had always been a few people here and there since the revolution who would occasionally speak out against slavery. a quaker, for example, in new jersey, in the 1820s, wrote some essayss wrote that gradual emancipation would be good state by state. this is different. these are team calling for the absolute and full and complete end to slavery. every slave in the united states immediatel

3, a special presentation of american history tv focusing on our nation's 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. we look at the eisenhower memorial designed by frank gary. after that, president eisenhower's granddaughter susan eisenhower talks about her opposition to the memorial design. that's followed later by an archival film produced by the u.s. army. >> c-span's 2012 local content vehicle cities tour takes our book tv and american history tv programming on the road the first weekend of each month. this past weekend featured little rock, arkansas, with book tv at the collection at the university of arkansas. >> the high school collected photographs and he was particularly, again, interested in the 19th century, the civil war in particular, these are two friends, union and confederate who knew each other prior to the civil war, who fought against each other at the battle of p. ridge. survived the war, came out alive and remained friends after the war and here they are at age 100 sitting on the porch talking about the old days. >> american history tv looked at the life in a world war ii japan

monday watch american history tv in prime time on c-span3 with a look at the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m. arc i tekt frank gehry, following that is the president's granddaughter susan eisenhower expressing opposition to the eisenhower memorial. at 10:30 p.m. an archival film about president eisenhower produced by the u.s. army. lectures in history airs each saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. and sundays at 1:00 p.m. we feature classroom lectures from across the country on different topics and eras of american history. to keep up with american history tv during the week or send us questions and comments follow us on twitter. we're at twitter.com/cspanhistory. >> in may of 2011, historian richard norton smith led a 10-day bus tour from asheville, north carolina to austin, texas, the group stopped at several presidential and historic sites along the route. one of the stops was the andrew johnson homestead in greenville, tennessee. a site owned and operated by the national park service. johnson served as vice president under president lincoln. and succeeded him when lin

monday watch american history tv in prime time on c-span 3 with a look at the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m. architect frank gehry on his design for the memorial and following that is susan

tonight, the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. the architect, followed by sisen hower's granddaughter on the opposition to the design and a film about president eisenhower produced by the u.s. army all tonight on american history tv prime time. >> when we're warned in the next 12-18 months america will suffer a catastrophic cyber attack they don't choose those words indiscriminately and we're four or five months into that it tells me that we have to move rapidly but not in a way that violates privacy or the basic tenets of privacy and encourages quick reaction, not sort of regulatory environment. >> tonight t chairman of the house subcommit on communications and technology, congressman greg walden on cyber security and privacy, at 8:00 eastern on the communicators, on c-span2. >> congressman bobby scott recently hosted a discussion on preventing youth crime and legislation called the youth promise act. it would provide grants for local anti-gang and anti-violence programs. this panel met to discuss the proposed law. it's under two

>> this monday, watch american history tv in primetime on c-span3 with a l 34th president dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m., architect frank gary on his design for the eisenhower memorial. following that at 9:00 a.m., the president's granddaughter susan eisenhower, her opposition to the gary designed eisenhower memorial. at 10:30 p.m., an archival film about president eisenhower produced by the u.s. army. >>> good evening, and welcome to the 2012 c-span tour, central arkansas, kickoff event. how are you doing this evening, central arkansas? >> with the help of our comcast cable partners we bring you little rock weekend on american history tv. spending a week in both the capital city and its sister city of north little rock just across the arkansas river, our team of local content vehicles producers visited historic sites, museums and other archives to talk with ex-per pe ex-pert experts on the history of the area. the nation watched the story of the historic integration of little rock's central high school unfold, on the other side of the river at north little rock high the fight was as fierc

tonight, the 34th esent, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 eastern, the architect who designed the proposedizeden hour monument followed by his granddaughter on her opposition to the design and in a film bomb president eisenhower produced by the army tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on american history tv primetime. >> when we're warned in the next 12 to 18 months america will suffer a catastrophic cyberattack, they don't choose those words indiscriminately. it tells me we have to move rapidly but not in a way that either violates privacy or the basic tenets of privacy and that encourages quick reaction not sort of regulatory environment. >> tonight the chairman of the house sub xwhet on communications and technology, congressman greg walden on cybersecurity and privacy at 8:00 eastern on the communicators on c-span2. of economist lawyer lawyer d'andrea tyson says the u.s. should focus on three things that can positively affect a number of industries, the education gap, greater investments in research and development and infrastructur

tonight, the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 eastern, the architect who designed the proposed eisenhower monument followed by eisenhower's granddaughter on her opposition to the design and an archival film produced by the u.s. army. tonight on american history tv primetime. >>> house budget committee chairman paul ryan apologized for comments he made last week on defense spending. he said he does not believe the pentagon is on board with the cuts proposed in the president's budget. on the sunday morning news shows, he then said he misspoke and called the head of the joint chiefs to apologize. here's the entire national journal interview with chairman ryan, where he made the comments. this is about half an hour. >>> happy budget day, everybody. good morning. i want to be very brief so we can just get to the questions and the interview. i'll simply start off by going through basically the lay of the land with respect to the process. we have a budget act. the budget law says the president must propose a budget, then congres

monday watch american history tv in primetime on c-span 3 with a look at the 34th president dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m. architect frank gehry on the eisenhower memorial. then the president's granddaughter susan expressing opposition to the memorial. at 10:30 p.m. a film about the president produced by the u.s. army. >>> on march 31, 1981 a would be assassin fired six shots at president ronald reagan outside the washington hilton hotel two miles from the white house. "washington post" reporter del wilbur author of "rawhide down the near assassination of ronald reagan" met us on the sidewalk where the shooting took place to tell his story of that day. >> ronald reagan was leaving this hotel after delivering a speech to the afl-cio. reagan, a longtime union man himself, was kind of excited to give this speech. he actually rewrote it by hand. [ applause ] ♪ about 2:25, 2:26, 2:27 he emerges from this entrance behind this area. this is new. they built it after the shooting. it's a bunker, and if you'll look over here, you'll see the entrance, a door, a steel door. where the president emerged a

tonight, the 44th president, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 eastern, the architect who designed the proposed eisenhower monument, followed by a eisenhower's granddaughter and her opposition to the design. then an archival film on eisenhower produced by the u.s. army. taxis in's 2012 local content vehicle cities tour takes over book tv and american history tv programming on the road. the first weekend of each month, this past weekend featured little rock, arkansas. at the university of arkansas. >> he was particularly interested in the 19th century, the civil war in particular. these are two friends, union and confederate, who fought against each other in 1862. they survive the war, and remained friends after the war. here they are at age 100, sitting on the porch, talking about the old days. >> american history tv look at life in a war ii japanese internment camp. >> it is surviving the and survivable. the talks about how the arts and crafts were sort of how they kept their sanity. it gave them something to do, and about how depression

iconic photographs from camp david in 1961 following the bay of pigs invasion and a fiasco that erupted within the kennedy administration as former president dwight eisenhowerave advice to john f. kennedy at camp david, the camp that was named after the white guys in our's grandson, david eisenhower. dave from new york city, welcome to the program. you are on the air. caller: i would say harry truman. how surprised he has not been mentioned very he was the one president. kohl had a low approval rating after it left office. by standards today, he is one of the most highly regarded president. he did what he believed in. he did not necessarily follow the popular approach but in that regard, i would have to say harry truman. host: the cover story -- the world's most exclusive club, co- written by nancy gibbs and michael duffy and we will cover this subject on upcoming "q &a" program. thank you for your calls and comments and tweets and e-mails. some other news from overnight, you probably heard the warnings late yesterday of the tornadoes that swept her oklahoma and kansas from the associated press and this video courtesy of "usa today." bett left at least five

david fromm. while congress is on break this week and next, c-span 3 features american history tv prime time at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight the life of president dwight eisenhower. you'll hear from the architect of the memorial honoring the nation's 34th president, and from eisenhower's granddaughter, who opposes the memorial. then an archival film about general eisenhower, made by the u.s. army. >>> we return now to the national journal forum on the federal budget. next a panel discussion on the budget and deficit rejection. former budget committee staff director steve del endorsed an approach that would provide immediate economic stimulus along with future deficit cuts. this is about 20 minutes. >> next we have our discussion with our panel of experts. joining this morning, we have steve bell, senior director of economic policy, the bipartisan policy center, laura peterson, senior policy analyst, taxpayers for common sense, and ethan pollack, senior policy analyst, the economic policy institute. our moderator for this morning's panel is jim tankersley, the economics correspondent for national journal. jim joined us from the tribune washington bureau where he

up a special presentation of american history tv focusing on our nation's 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. we take a look at the proposed memorial designed by architect frank gehry. after that president eisenhower's granddaughter, susan eisenhower, talks about her opposition to the frank gehry memorial design. that's followed later by an archival film about his military career produced by the u.s. army. >> this past october frank gehry, the architect behind the proposed eisenhower national memorial, spoke at the national archives about the ideas behind his design. he was joined by wilson. this is about an hour. >>> thank you for the introduction. i know how much you're looking forward to this great program we have this evening. my remarks will be brief. but as a representative of the eisenhower memorial commission, i'm happy and pleased that tonight we have with us three commissioners, chairman rocco sicilianio from beverly hills, california, commissioner alfred godelburg from new york city and commissioner susan baines harris from washington, d.c. i see around the room other distinguishe