i mean when i was a student or when my children were in school if it had been dwight eisenhower or john kennedy or bill clinton or ronald reagan or george bush the idea of hearing a president of the united states saying we should study hard and that's how we advance. we all need to get in on this i think it is an appropriate message. >> mayor giuliani you ran for president. one of the things i covered about president bush is the lack of respect for his presidency. does that trouble you? >> yes, it does. tom is right, but the difference is we looked at president eisenhower president reagan even up to about that point, president bush differently. there's a lack of respect for the president, there's a lack of respect for politicians. david axelrod said well this isn't politics. everything the president does nowadays is politics for a better word. people are distrusting the president's motives or the administration's motives. it is not just about the speech it is about the lesson plan. i think it is unfortunate. i think -- it almost seems a shame to say what's the harm in a presidency? i th

in 1944 and 1948 he fought desperately against dwight eisenhower in 1952 the national review was founded in part one of its three pens rebels was to avenge the stole the nomination of 1952. that didn't meathe republicans or conservatism are back in power. it is not simply a matter of voight seats are one and what ar lost. another point i would make is there is much talk of principles. i have actually takd to side and maybe it is not welcome here another englishmenalr badgett who in the gre

so go four years earlier to dwight eisenhower who also takes office following a period this time of democratic agenda. quite remarkable to think that republicans did not win a single presidential election in the entire 1930s or 1940s. five elections in a row from 1932-194was some of the most massive landslides we'll ever see. one of the problems with our politics now i think disinfected president obama, a muc of the media that adore him is that his election was kind of average, average/close. it was not a landslide. we call anything a landslide these days. but back in the days when landslides were landslides, fdr would win 56, 57 percent of the vote. a massive, massive victory, 46 48 states as nixon did in '72. at any rate, eisenhower came in following these 20 years very powerful democratic new deal leadership. and he decid it could not be undone. it could be minimized, it could be trimmed, it could be checked, it could not be rolled back. why? you've got to get used to it. that doesn't mean that the public has to get used to it, but it has. and that's where the argument comes in, you have to

and leaders of that kind, ronald reagan was one, dwight eisenhower was another, also surprises people, i think bill clinton was actually a conservative adjust their political views and policies to the broad temper of the times. they put ideology below the needs of the nation. there's another kind of conservativism that i think is a form of radicalism and that actually wants to change the society in ways most people don't really want it to be changed. >> reporter: you talk in the book about why the right needs to find its footing for the good of the country. when you talk about -- look back at their history when they did this, what was the most effective time in history when the conservatives did for the good of their movement and for the good of the country at the same time? >> i will give you a couple of examples. one happened in the late ' 60s. it seems a long time ago but some of us will remember when that was a period of tremendous disruption, almost like anarchy in the united states. powerful antiwar movement, militants in some ways, tremendous racial dischord in our cities. we w

reagan were powerful and strong and it was not his place to resist the so fourears early to dwight eisenhower who also takes office following the period this time of the democratic agenda and it is remarkable to think republicans did not win a single presidential election in the entire 1930's or 1940's. five elections in a row from 1932 to 1948 or some of the massive landslides we will ever see. one of the problems of politics now that has affected president obama and much o the media is that his election wasind of average, averaged/close. it was not a landslide. we call anything a landslide these days that back in the days when landslides were landslides schaechter would win 56, 57% of the votes. at a rate eisenhor came in following these 20 years very powerful democratic new deal leadership and decided it could not be undone. it could be trimmed, it cou be minimized, it could be slowed, it could be checked, it could not be rolled back. why? because the public had gotten used to it. that doesn't mean the public is right to have gotten used to it but it had and thats where the argument comes

it ia democratic socialist, maybe dwight eisenhower was to. and elevate the discussion, i am not expecting the liberals to do it, but conservatives have a history of doing it and i think this is thedeal time to re-examine, rethink, look back at this glorious history and see how to build on that. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, sam. i guess maybe i should begin by declaring a small conflict of interest, i suppose. over the weekend, the times book review created by new but very nicely and seriously. thank you. it takes me an e-mail. so i have been mumbling all weekend, damn, now i have to be nice to cannon house. although i enjoyed the history did escape with one small caveat. i think that outreach and between buckley and moynihan was limited between those two guys that i would miracle from edward around 1969 or 1970s which i think captured the spirit of little better. he said something along the lines of liberals would sooner, this is exactly right, liberals would sooner die than accept construction from conservatives. so i don't know. i th

president obama the first sitting president to visit troy, new york, since dwight eisenhow eisenhowerroy? >> the hudson valley community college is there and he wants to talk about his innovation agenda and after he speaks there, he is going down to new york city and before he makes speeches and has important meetings with many of the world's leaders, he is going near times square to the ed sullivan theater and tape the david letterman show and appear on that tonight and part of that flooding the zone the media strategy that started when he gave that speech to a joint session of congress and other rallies and, of course, yesterday where he flooded the zone on five sunday morning public affair shows we've been talking about so much this morning. there is a full plate here. the president is trying to push his health care agenda while other issues are happening on the periphery. >> and speaking of other issues, something of interest to a lot of new yorkers, although it actually is more than just local politics, it has some national ramifications. the president getting involved in state p

but, listen, i think that imagine if jfk had done this speech or dwight eisenhower. we never would have seen this. it's a product of our current age. even ronald reagan gave the speech. george h.w. bush gave the speech, although he got -- his officials got hauled in before a congressional committee for spending $26,000. i'm sure republicans will find out how much obama spent on this. it's really a product of our time and it's very sad. >> do you feel like this is just an example of reflective attack mode that you can sort of just attribute to the individual people who made these attacks? or do you think that there's something going on in terms of the standards for what counts as an appropriate political attack? what counts as a smart political allegation right now that there's something wrong either on the right or on both sides of this particular time? >> well, i think it's reflective and i think it's part of the proliferation of media and cable content, and i think people like pawlenty saw it as an opportunity to get out there quickly before he had been really thou

society, during the peak ofhe cold war ruggle was convinced, and you're well aware of thi that dwight eisenhower waa communist agt, who reported to hibrother milton, and 80% of the government was dinated by communists. communists werin charge of american education, americ heth care. they were fluoridati the water to weaken our brains. all of ts happened. and atirst, buckley and his fell intellectuals at national reew indulged this. they said, "you kn what? their arguments are absurd, t they bieve in the right things. they'ranti-communists. and they're helping ou movement." because many othem helped barry goldwateget nominated in 1964. and en in 1965, buckley said, "enough." buckley himself had matured politicay. he'd run for may of new york. he'd seen hopolitics really worked. and he said, "we c't allow ourselves to be discrediteby our own fringe." so, he turned ov his own magazine to a denunction of the hn birch society. more iortant, the columns he wrote denocing what he called its "drivel" were circated in advance to three of the grt conservave republicans of the day, ronald reaganbarry goldw

during the peak of the cold war struggle was convinced, and you're well aware of this, that dwight eisenhower was a communist agent, who reported to his brother milton, and 80% of the government was dominated by communists. communists were in charge of american education, american health care. they were fluoridating the water to weaken our brains. all of this happened. and at first, buckley and his fellow intellectuals at national review indulged this. they said, "you know what? their arguments are absurd, but they believe in the right things. they're anti-communists. and they're helping our movement." because many of them helped barry goldwater get nominated in 1964. and then in 1965, buckley said, "enough." buckley himself had matured politically. he'd run for mayor of new york. he'd seen how politics really worked. and he said, "we can't allow ourselves to be discredited by our own fringe." so, he turned over his own magazine to a denunciation of the john birch society. more important, the columns he wrote denouncing what he called its "drivel" were circulated in advance to three of the gr

i mean, when i was a student or when my children were in school, if it had been dwight eisenhower or kennedy or bill clinton or ronald reagan or george bush, the idea of hearing a president of the united states saying, we should study hard and that's how we advance. we all need to get in on this, i think it is an appropriate message. >> mayor giuliani, you ran for president. one of the things i covered about president bush is the lack of respect for his presidency. does that trouble you? >> yes, it does. tom is right, but the difference is, we looked at president eisenhower, president reagan, even up to about that point, president bush, differently. there's a lack of respect for the president, there's a lack of respect for politicians. david axelrod said, well, this isn't politics. everything the president does nowadays is politics, for a better word. people are distrusting the president's motives or the administration's motives. it is not just about the speech, it is about the lesson plan. i think it is unfortunate. i think -- it almost seems a shame to say what's the harm in a pres

. >> the first time a sitting vice president has visited troy since dwight eisenhower. while obama was there he spoke to students about the economy. >> so as we emerge from this current economic crisis, our great challenge will be to ensure that we don't just drift into the future, accepting less for our children, accepting less for america. we have to choose, instead what, past generations have done, shape a brighter future through hard work and innovation. >> fresh off his visit to five of the sunday morning talk shows, the president is moving onto late night tonight appear as the sole guest on "the late show with david letterman." let's go to mike viqueira. we didn't see much in the sunday talk shows. what about tonight? expecting a big news break? >> reporter: probably not. one of the tenets is repetition and consistency, joint speech to congress weeks ago, contessa, rally since then and all the appearances yesterday there were some contentious months, when he was cornered on the idea of the so-called tack and the affordability issue within health care, the statisti

fortunately, president dwight eisenhower overruled him and called out an airborne division who went toittle rock, escorted these young people into school, and the rest, as they say, is history. [applause] the 63rd recipient of the war in 1979 is a gentleman by the name of andrew jackson young. [applause] mr. young has worn many hats in his career. he is known in many respects, most originally as his ministerial capacity. he has also served as mayor of atlanta, a member of the u.s. congress, ambassador to the united nations, and he is the 63rd recipient of our award. [applause] the 71st recipient is dr. benjamin hooks, who received the award in 1986. [applause] dr. hooks has special claim to the naacp, as one of its own, in addition to being a judge and baptist minister, he served as executive director from 1977 to 1992. among his many distinguished honors, he was appointed to serve as commissioner of the federal communications commission by president richard nixon. he was the first african- american to ever hold that post. [applause] the 74th recipient in 1989 is the rev. jesse jackson

it was then dwight david eisenhower. >> you would toast? >> with a glass of milk. milk. >> when we did it we came in from recess at noon, you gave the pledge of allegiance, then you had all the prayers. before school in the morning you went to mass and walked into your classes. that was done at noon like you guys did it up there. it wasn't ike. it was fdr. my father was unhappy if we were saying anything nice about him. >> i got to tell you guys, i had a very different upbringing. in my school we used to sit in the back of the station wagon chant lbj, lbj, how many kids did you kill today? different times. >> little schoolhouse you went you, huh, david? >> pat, david following pat, let me tell you what i find interesting about this. i agree with david. you know, that this shouldn't have been done. i sort of understand the context of it. the teacher retired at the end of the year. you know, was probably personal to the teacher. she gets little second and third grade kids to go along with it. this video that is now rocketing around the internet combined with the reac

. >> well, i went on this uso tour, and that is on the bridge of the uss dwight d. eisenhowerhe troops. i was in the process of thank all of them. i made a beautiful speech to all of the guys but i had forgotten to press -- it wasn't going to work. but yeah -- >> did you remake the same speech or was it too embarrassing? >> it was good. another take. basically. so yeah. >> did another take. that worked out. now, i'm guessing this is not the persian gulf. >> it's not the persian gulf, no. that's cabo. i caught this 150 pound marlin. >> wow. >> yeah. yeah. >> that's a beauty. [ applause ] >> what's this? >> that's the derado. >> looks like you're taking out the recycling. >> right. >> it's nice because my son was there as well. >> was he eaten by one of the fish? >> that's not my son. >> not your son. >> he's 10. >> 10 years old. >> how many kids have you got? >> i've got two. >> well, you were acting for like three years by the time -- >> that's what i tell my kids all the time. i was working. yeah. he's 10. she's 8. and yeah, i was working from the time i was 9. >> your first

. >> an agency started by president dwight d. eisenhower, it is our eyes and ears on the ground. >> an you trust them? >> you can trust them to do what they do, monitor the existing facilities. as we're just seeing with iran, you have to supplement their intelligence with our own national intelligence. we did that in a dramatic way today. >> joe is being nice here. this is a u.n. agency that is pretty much useless. they didn't know what iran was doing, they should have. it's their job. it appears they found out from western, probably american, other intelligence agencies of iran, had this secret facility building part of the nuclear weapons' program. iran wrote a letter, by the way, we have a nuclear facility. meant to tell you that. we kind of slipped on that. >> ahmadinejad says he's within the rules. >> he is not within the rules. president obama, good for him, made that very clear in the sound bite we just heard. we know this also from members of congress on both sides of the aisle who have said they're building nuclear weapons. we need

[applause] she has prided counsel to numerous policymakers, including eleanor roosevelt, dwight eisenhowernd lyndon baines johnson. in 2004 she was awarded a congressional gold medal. in 2001, the recipient was mr. vernon jordan. [applause] mr. jordan also has close ties to the naacp. he served as a film director in the state of georgia prior to moving to serve as director of the united negro college fund. [applause] last but not least, a gentleman who has already been recognized this morning with some of the previous comments that has been made, congressman john conyers. [applause] the 92nd recipient, he received the award in 2007. he has represented detroit in congress for more than 40 years. [applause] he is a well-known and well- respected champion and is the first african-american chair of the house judiciary committee. [applause] so there is our distinguished line up. these are the giants that have been previously referred to. even before we move into the conversation stage, i think that, given their summary of extraordinary accomplishments and contributions to america and the world,

the change of command ceremony takes place aboard the uss dwight eisenhower. those are some of the latest headlines. >> some republican members of congress take plat -- part in a health-care rally today on capitol hill, receiving a petition opposing public health care options. speakers include michael medved and radio hosts and house minority leader john boehner. president obama speaks to a joint session of congress tonight about health care at 8:00 p.m. eastern although the coverage starts at 7:30 p.m. live on c-span and also on line at c-span.org and c-span radio. we will take your calls after the speech and the republican response. >> as the debate over health care continues, c-span's healthcare hub is a resource. watch the latest events, including town hall meetings, and share your thoughts with your own citizen video, including video from any town halls and you're going to. there is more at c-span.org /health care. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we welcome the white house correspondent for "time" magazine. how did the speech come together? guest

asking, uss mccandless, uss dwight d. eisenhower. and among others. and he commanded the uss cape st. george, winning gold and anchors and both tours -- wining ning golden anchors in both tours. he has served in office of the secretary of dispense where he worked on that our early bird. he later served in the office of the chief of eight new -- @ chief of naval operations. he was executive assistant to the commander of u.s. fleet forces command. and following promotion to flag rank in 2006, he was assigned as deputy director of surface for air for combat systems and weapons and later as deputy assistant secretary of the navy and director of international programs office. he completed his education by earning a be a from -- by earning a ba. the admiral and i have wanted. [laughter] -- ahvhave bonded. he completed the advanced management program at harvard business school. in december 2008, she became the 22nd chief of naval research with the additional duties as the test and evaluation and technology requirements director. ladies and gentlemen, please

dwight d. eisenhower's among others. he commanded the uss ealry bird, winning in two tours. while in command of cape st. george, the ship52q participatig combat operations in support of combat -- iraqi freedom. apple cart has served in the office of secretary of defense where he worked on the various ships. he worked on several ballistic missile defense programs. he later served in the office of the chief of naval operations as requirements officer. he was executive assistant to the commander u.s. fleet forces command. following promotion to flag rank in 2006, he was assigned as deputy director of surface warfare for combat systems and weapons and later, as deputy assistant secretary of the navy, and director of international programs office. he completed his education by earning a b.a. from the united states naval academy. he and i gave each other a high five talking about maybe an army football. i was at an institution and rooted for army and we have no bonded. [laughter] he received his master of science degree in operations research from the naval postgraduate school and