the idea behind sister cities began when then-president dwight eisenhower recognized we need to reconcile that there were agreed -- disagreement between nations coming out of world war ii and the best way to reconcile the disagreement was people to people that love to say. people, representing cities, perhaps could get it right. that is when the sisters to the movement began. hear, it began with our first sister city in the osaka in 1957, 1st diplomatic relations between the u.s. and japan. we had the privilege of being there is a couple of years back to celebrate the 50th anniversary. if you walk into the international room, you will see that the mayor from a sock and had not been enlarged robot celebrating the 50th anniversary. since then, 17 others have been established. this is number 18. we recently celebrated some significant milestones. 38th anniversary of our shanghai sister city. that was a significant moment, in terms of the relationship, again not just our two cities, but both countries. the first formal relations between the two countries were formed through that sister city b

eisenhower was a man of humility and would not want a grandiose -- dwight d. senhower was a man of tremendous humility. he would not want a grandiose monument to himself. my response is that nobody would. no president is going to write a memo saying that i am such an extraordinary figure that i think a battleship's size monument should be built to meet commemorating my achievements over the decades. i think that roosevelts memo -- i think he is being modest in a bid coming way. -- in a becoming way. i think that in the back of his head, he knew that something else would someday be built in his honor. it is typical of somebody like fdr that he would say, "please come i don't want anything." the only person i can think of that wasn't ashamed of that was douglas macarthur who wanted a fitting mausoleum and got it in more full -- 10th norfolk. -- and got it in nortfolk. >> as i was reading your book, i heard the news conference by bob gates in which he said, "there are now 40 four-star officers." i was not able to get the exact number, but i do not think there were

foundation the formation of what has become known as the america's national security state or what dwight eisenhower called the military industrial complex secrecy has really been the linchpin of everything that this faction i mean the ability to operate without transparency and behind a wall of secrecy has been fundamental to you everything that it did and that's because once you vest the power of secrecy in a group it becomes addictive because not only do you then give yourself the power to be able to act illegally illegally or criminally or abusively or corruptly but there's also no accountability even for your inept decisions and your incompetent decisions because nobody knows what what you've done and we really now accepted the idea and it's certainly intensified in the aftermath of nine eleven with all the bush and the obama administrations that anything remotely connected to national security is almost i'm a parent lee but worthy of secrecy and what we've gotten as a result is what the washington post called top secret america basically an entire incredibly consequential faction of the united

eisenhower and the american century", you start off in the opening paragraphs. as i write, congress is contemplating a memorial in washington to dwight. eisenhower, and the prospects are not encouraging. the press is almost uniformly hostile to the project and ours is not an age of monuments, or not, at any rate, monuments of the sort eisenhower would deserve. >> that is outdated now. the day or more to build a monument. -- they are going to build a monument. one thing interested me and one thing surprised me. what interested me was how we moralize people like eisenhower nowadays. -- immortalize people like eisenhower nowadays. -- memorialize people like eisenhower nowadays. there are some people that want a living memorial. others, like me, what a more traditional statue -- want a more traditional statue. i am not quite sure -- i think is going to be done is a sort of compromise. it tells us a lot about our times. i talk a little bit later in that apology about franklin roosevelt and his moral -- memorial. i thought at the time that it was very much a monument to the 1990's more than two franklin roosevelt. it was our vision of what

, dwight s president an >>> the last timing the giants scored 11 or more runs in three- game dwight eisenhower president and a stamp cost 3 cents. the reds roughed up madison baumgardner in the first. he gives up three home runs in the 1st. he gives up eight runs in two 2/3 the shortest start of his career. the reds would lead 10-1 in the 5th inning but then down 10-5 in the 8th, uribe hits a three- run shot to left. all of a sudden it's 10-8. three batters later andres torres got them closer. [ applause and cheers ] >> line drive base hit! [ applause and cheers ] >> here comes fontenot!! this game is tied! >> reporter: and then they took the lead on a sac. fly. so they are three out away from the biggest comeback in giants history. but... paul singles off brian wilson and the throw is beat fren jose guillen and the game was tied at 11. so it goes to the 12th inning. with the bullpen empty barry zito had to pitch and the reds waste no time to take the lead, joey drives in miguel cairo. 12-11 cincinnati. andres tori grounds out to end the game. the reds win 12-11 in really one of the most incre

dwight eisenhower, until 12 months before he ran for president didn't belong to a church, okay. he had to join a church, he became a presbyterian. perfectly good church. as long as you have church membership are you apparently acceptable in the american political body. >> lehrer: mark, michael, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, criminal charges against one of baseball's best known players. jeffrey brown has our story. >> brown: 11-time all-star pitcher, seven-time cy young award winner, known as the "rocket" because of a fastball that helped him strike out so many batters during his 24-year career. roger clemens is now the latest baseball great facing criminal charges tied to his alleged use of performance enhancing drugs. the charges stem from testimony before congress in february 2008. >> let me be clear-- i have never taken steroids or h.g.h. >> brown: yesterday, a six-count indictment by a federal grand jury accused him of lying. clemens stood his ground, writing on twitter: no date has yet been set for the former pitcher's first court appearance. wi

i was elected under the last two years of dwight eisenhower.r the services that we rendered, the problems were in the post office, pretty much a , and outside of that, you did not have medicare. you did not have the expansion of social security as it is today. the life of a federal legislator is -- was not as complicated, though there was definitely a division between state and federal government with respect to where the hours flow. -- where the powers flow. after dwight eisenhower and the election of jack kennedy and the dream of jack kennedy -- i would like to put a little note in your that jack kennedy and i were both the and as member of the house and the and this member of the senate and he was a candidate of the senate and he was a roman catholic and i am a roman catholic. if you ever want to see someone swell with ambition, tell them you cannot do it. that is what is all about. the catholic cannot be elected that bugged the hell out of me, we worked twice as hard. lyndon johnson made the dreams of jack kennedy the realities of lyndon jo

dwight eisenhower was lampooned for frequent golfing especially amid recession in 1958, lyndon johnson, ronald reagan, george w. bush were mocked for retreating to their ranch is often and bill clinton was ridiculed for hobnobbing with the rich and famous on martha's vineyard for several vacation. counting the time, mr. obama would vacation for 48 days or nearly seven weeks, according to a long time white -- white house correspondent for cbs news who keeps a record. at this point in his presidency, george w. bush was midway, 27- day stay at his crawford ranch, would bring his time to more than 16 weeks. also in "the boston globe" the front page, low-key visit. obama turns vineyard into aisle of seclusion. front page of "the boston globe" this morning. mobile, alabama. the democratic line. caller: the reason i am calling, it seems that they're rich, they continue to get richer. they never paid taxes, and the bottom line of it is is that we do not want the bush tax cuts to continue. the bottom line of it is, is that germany is continuing to grow. i was watching cnn the other day and they