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

but dwight eisenhower was a product of a time. john kennedy -- remember 1960.hur schlesinger had to write a book. you know, it doesn't make a difference, in effect, because people thought kennedy and nixon were in many ways two peas from a pod. there was a consensus enforced not only by the cold war but you know, we'd been through -- the generation that voted for ike, and then for kennedy -- they'd been collectively through the great depression and world war ii, and they were going to enter collectively a civil rights revolution and a host of other transforming changes. it was a water cooler nation. we spoke the same language in many ways. forty, 50 years later, it feels exactly the opposite. it's a terribly fragmented country. and what is it that the media purport to bring us together around? you know, lindsey lohan's going to jail. and i mean, whatever trivial -- the polarization of america is dangerous. the trivialization of america is worse. >> what do you think it would feel like, or feel different if you were back inside the white house in 1934? fdr had j

in 1954, dwight eisenhower, the republican incumbent, his party losing 16 seats. in 1946, harry truman losing 55 seats. this is after franklin roosevelt passed away. we are keeping an eye on some of the other races including in ohio. let's get to some of your phone calls. caller: i am an independent. i'd to lean more towards the democrats and i just want to say congratulations to the republicans. they worked extremely hard but i hope that today do well. i don't see where they're going to do this. they did not do that in the past. host: the white house has released this photograph of the telephone making calls. he called steny hoyer, john boehner, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell. in these calls with representatives in a near and mitch mcconnell, he said that he was looking forward to working with republicans to find common ground and to get things done for the american people. the president was campaigning sunday in ohio and making regular calls today to a number of urban radio stations. live coverage tomorrow. we will also hear from congressman to john boehner and w

and just say no more of this slide toward empty liberalism >> buckley is a big critic of dwight eisenhower ideological dead-end being a me too republican prepared to go along with the new deal and with the arguments that led to the new deal and not oppose them. >> richard m. nixon republican nominee for vice president. >> to alay conservative fears ike chose as his running mate richard nixon who nailed alger hiss a few years ak. he won by landslides in 1952 and 56 and presided over generally prosperous times while navigating the u.s. through a cold war. >> this is a form of world stalemate. >> they ushered in a liberal liberal with california earl warren chief justice of the united states. one of warren's first big opinions was brown verses the board of education of topeka declared segregated schools unconstitutional. many applauded the results some took warren's reason to go a dangerous power grab. the ruling discounted the original intent of the framers and relied on modern social science research. >> the result in browning is board of education i think can be reached on valid constituti

dwight eisenhower was president when the intercounty connector was first put on the master plan. >> planners opening day for the toll road is weeks away. there are a few parts that are ready to go right now. >> scott broom gives us a sneak peek of the highway. >> reporter: the road is paved. the lines are painted. for now, not a bit of traffic in our way. as we cross montgomery county on the first section of the icc. seven miles from shady grove to georgia avenue. 22 minutes on local roads. seven minutes on the icc. >> we are close to opening the first section of the intercounty connector. >> reporter: ray feldman says the time is measured in weeks as the project closes in on a late december or early january opening for the first section. >> there are still a lot of items on the punch list. >> reporter: this is the most critical of the final preparations. the electronic system that will make this maryland's first completely cash-free only electronic toll road. radio devices will read ez-pass tags or cameras will read license plates for a billing charge. there will be no toll booths or slowin

presidency, and of course a normal high volume biography on montgomery you sort of met up with dwight eisenhower. so you brought all of that into this enterprise. >> guest: so i felt i had a sort of handle, but as you say the real the vantage i felt i had in relation to my colleagues in the united states who teach history was that i have actually grown up in a decade british empire. i was born in 1944. trisha was still training of holding on to india. the african colonies and so forth. one of the most fascinating things about fdr in my chapter is the way 50 are fdr tells churchill it is no go. >> host: you portray the authors and who is at this, but you portray churchill with all of his heroic qualities as essentially a man looking over his seat shoulder and fdr is someone with a grasp of the future that is yet to unfold. >> guest: i think fdr was a real visionary, domestically but also globally. he's definitely the hero of this book. >> host: that brings up something else, because we have 12 figures and it's interesting that the first four, roosevelt, truman, eisenhower, and kennedy are the gre

of course inner multivolume biography, you certainly met up with dwight eisenhower. so you brought all of that into this enterprise. >> host: i felt i had it sorted and old, but to see the real advantage i felt i had in relation to my colleagues in the united states who teach history, was that i actually grown up in a decaying british empire. i was born in 1944. churchill was still dreaming of holding onto india, the african colonies. one of the most fascinating things about fdr in my chapter is the way that fdr basically tells churchill the sunoco. >> host: it's interesting, others have hinted this, but you portray churchill with all of his heroic qualities, larger-than-life qualities, as essentially a man looking over your shoulder. and fdr is someone with a sure grasp of the future that is yet to unfold. >> guest: i think fdr was a real visionary, domestically but also globally. he's definitely the hero of this book. postcode that bring something up because we've got 12 and it's interesting that the first four, roosevelt, truman, eisenhower and kennedy, in your vi

he was re-elecd in 194 dwight eisenhower lost control of the house to the democrats in 1954. he was re-elected in '56. of course bill clinton in 1994. so, you know, there is at least a precedent for bouncing back. >> lehrer: the truman example is interesting because the reason truman was able to win is because he ran against the congress. he didn't cooperate with them. he ran against them. >> there's some talk that obama has the truman model of running against congress and the clinton model of compromising. obama is taki a different model which is steady as she goes at least from my conversations. some adjustments. he'll go his own way. >> more pressure for adjustments when the reality of dawn sets in and 50 seats are lost. >> lehrer: also we'll see what the president himself has to say tomorrow at 1:00 eastern time in that news conference which will give pretty good indications. >> that's right. >> lehrer: now we have some excerpts from some of tonight's victory speeches iveny four of the newly elected senators. republicans rand paul of kentucky and marco rubio in florida, a

. >> president dwight eisenhower talked about integration but the last time the giants won the world series, well, there hasn't been a last time. >> torture. that's the word. >> reporter: ed wrangle nursed his beer at the double play and like everyone else here on this sunny monday dreamt what that might be like. >> i'm keeping my fingers crossed but i know we're gonna do it. we have got amazing pitching. >> andy herrera is 79 years old. he has been in san francisco longer than the giants. for him and others it is gonna be the chance of a lifetime. >> it would be nicely done for us, you know, without the screaming and the hype and all that and watching the kids graduate. >> reporter: at the double play, win or lose, 84-year-old bartender jim kolonoko will be pouring drinks and laying down the law. >> your ma'am a don't work here and don't ask me about happy hour because when i see the back of your head walking out the door that's the end of happy hour. >> and a 2010 world series flag flying. there is no way they want a repeat of this because if they show it again the giants didn't wi

dwight eisenhower. once again almost wrote as good a book asy lis he's grant about his war years, wrote it himself, wrote it in six years. huge best seller. you hear eisenhower's voice through the whole thing. his presidential memoirs were done by committee. just essentially defending almost everything he ever did. john kennedy when he was president read the memoirs. he said ike doesn't seem to have ever done anything wrong during his whole presidency. when i write my memoirs i'm going to do it very differently. of course he didn't get to. >> lehrer: michael and professor zellizer, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> ifill: next, a day in the life of an international medical team working in one of most remote flood zones in southern pakistan. special correspondent saima mohsin traveled with a team from medecins sans frontieres, m.s.f., also known as doctors without borders. a warning: some of the images in this story are quite disturbing. >> reporter: we joined the m.s.f. team for their latest pr

you hearken back to the global policy approach used by presidents harry truman and dwight eisenhower. will you talk more about that, please? guest: yeah. it's really interesting because when you enter a period like this for a country like america, great country like ours, people say, how does that mean, how do we readjust our foreign policy? and the fact of the matter is that our two presidents after world war ii, harry truman and dwight eisenhower, conducted a policy almost precisely along the lines i'm talking about. they had three principles. one was that our domestic economy came first, that it was the basis of our diplomatic power and our military power. if we didn't have a strong economy we couldn't play an important military role in the world. so make sure we continue to build up our domestic economy and build up the middle class. and they did that. secondly, they said we have to take care of ourselves first but our allies and best friends second. so they concentrated american resources on western europe and japan. and they made those areas of the world into flourishing domesti

in 1960, general dwight eisenhower gave a speech when he spoke about the military industrial complexn this nation. in 2010, it is legal for defense contractors to lobby congress and get legislation that allows them contracts. we have grown our military to a size that is simply not sustainable host: those are three issues on the table. back first too osama bin laden? . i agree with the viewer. he is critical. i think he should have been taken out in the first set of u.s. actions in 2001. apparently, there was no plan to do so. the was some confusion about what the requirements were. was he actually there? i think the cold hard facts are that he was there but we did not have a plan. we put the resources in and did not get him. the previous administration and the military leadership at that time have to answer for that. there is a dilemma in going after a single individual in any conflict. it is hard to get a single individual. osama bin laden is a tremendous symbolic leader. how much actual day-to-day control he has people dispute that. i would like to see him taking down. for the gove

members that took umbrage by the act and swung massively by two democrats, and that prompted dwight eisenhower, who ran on a platform of modern republicanism, which is no more expansion but no more repeal, which led to the modern conservative units, so we can make the argument of this political decision in 1946 set of the modern politics we have today in some direct cents. 1966, republicans did take power in a number of state legislatures across the country, including in my home state in california, but they did not know what to do with it. they did not think they could repeal a lot of the things they had run against, but they did not have an alternative, and one sees quickly there is no legislative confirmation of nixon's victories, and we moved back to the 1970's 1 working- class voters returned home. 1994 we saw with a government shutdown that a move to quickly move towards more based republican concerns fizzled out. republicans lost seats, and you quickly saw an eisenhower-like response. george bush ran as not to hinder -- newt gingrich and not clinton, and the legislature majority move to

you hearken back to the global policy approach used by presidents harry truman and dwight eisenhower. will you talk more about that, please? guest: yeah. it's really interesting because when you enter a period like this for a country like america, great country like ours, people say, how does that mean, how do we readjust our foreign policy? and the fact of the matter is that our two presidents after world war ii, harry truman and dwight eisenhower, conducted a policy almost precisely along the lines i'm talking about. they had three principles. one was that our domestic economy came first, that it was the basis of our diplomatic power and our military power. if we didn't have a strong economy we couldn't play an important military role in the world. so make sure we continue to build up our domestic economy and build up the middle class. and they did that. secondly, they said we have to take care of ourselves first but our allies and best friends second. so they concentrated american resources on western europe and japan. and they made those areas of the world into flourishing domesti

voters have done something that hasn't happened since dwight eisenhower has been president. a sitting senator winning back her seat on a write-in. it is not official yet but looks like alaska has made more history. >> they told us this couldn't be done. >> reporter: alaska making human rights. >> c -- making history. >> 100,000 people writing in the same name. >> reporter: lisa murkowski but voters through an election spelling test. and she scored big! >> you are m-u-r-k-o-w-s k-y. >> reporter: she held a 10,000 vote lead, a stunning comeback. in august, senator murkowski lost her republican primary to newcomer joe miller backed by the tea party express and her long time rival, sarah palin. she was called a sore loser when she launched her write-in campaign. now, miller says he hasn't given up. >> it's looking like it's less than 1% where it will come out and we will obviously continue to watch the process very closely. >> reporter: back on capitol hill, it was speaker, nancy pelosi, who bounced back after the democrats shattering defeat. >> they know that i'm the person tha

interesting about this election is what barack obama did, what ronald reagan, george bush, and dwight eisenhowerhich is give the republicans a solid margin in the u.s. house of representatives. this will be the most solid margen in the u.s. house of representatives since 1947 that the republicans have. >> most solid margin. looking ahead to 2012. ronald reagan and bill clinton came back from big midterm defeats. the president will have to do it with a much tougher economy right now. if you look at the map last night, he lost so many of the states that he'll have to win to get reelected. >> this was an electoral earthquake for president obama. if he can display the leadership that the american people voted for in 2008, bring both parties together, voters will give him a second chance. >> i wish we had more time. we don't. let's look at one more look at ed perlmutter doing those ca cartwheels in colorado last night. cartwheels in colorado last night. we'll be right back. ldren scream [growl] i met my husband here. i got to know my grandkids here. we've discovered so much here together. but my doct

whereas, dwight david eisenhower was rationalizing a lot more for us.nd by the way of the overwhelming course doctrine was most symbolically in the american history deployed on d-day. and the defense that within three or four weeks we had war arms and equipment ashore than the german's had. and it was all military doctrine in terms of force being used, it's about logistics. ike was an old fashioned american and expert. that was his circumstance. now in terms of memories, we also don't carry as a whole intergenerational grudges. and some other societies have intergenerational memories that are really of stark importance. and our last president learned something that we all sympathize with them. we as a people didn't understand as deeply as it was held abroad. he casually in one speech used the word crusade. we have a crusade to stop such and such. the word crusade as the meaning in the muslim world that doesn't relate to king arthur in and the nights in the cheerful way that we look at king arthur. for many, particularly radical muslims, the crusades are

or dwight eisenhower or jimmy carter because in each of those cases you can see that by no means for these presidents kowtowing or listening or being controlled by the pro-israel lobby. let me talk a little more specifically about the case of barack obama and where we are today in the peace process to show you a case study of the arab lobby's influence. the israeli lobby's basic philosophy is the government of israel has been democratically elected representatives of the people should decide the fate of israel and should engage in direct negotiations with the arabs, palestinians and other arab states to negotiate a two state solution, is the preferred result. the arab lobby has a different approach especially in the state department. they believe a number of things. one, israel has become worse. israel is not going to make peace on its own unless the united states uses its power to force them. they believe that israel, the israeli people are either too stupid or image shore or evil to know what is good for them and they should be saved in spite of themselves. a very famous article wr

in fact that swing back compton they turn to dwight eisenhower who supposedly ran on a platform of modernrepublicanism which is no expansion the new deal but no repeal which led to the modern movement. so we can make the argument that this political position in 1946 to the modern politics that we have today in some direct sense. 1966, republicans didn't take power but they did take power and a number of state legislatures across the country including the last time in my home state of california that they have held a majority for more than six months since 1958 but they didn't know what to do with it. again, they didn't know-- they didn't want to, they didn't think that they could repeal a lot of the things that run against but they didn't have an alternative aside and basically continuing lebanon with perhaps lower funding schemes and there is no legislative confirmation of richard nixon's presidential victory. the state legislative gains were lost quickly and we move back into the 70s is working-class voters return home. 1994 with newt gingrich we saw very quickly with the government shu

that's wingback prompted the turn to dwight eisenhower who expose of lead ran on a platform of moderate republicanism which was no new deal. we can make the argument that this political decision in 1946 set up the modern politics we have today in some direct sanskrit in 1966, republicans took power but they took the presidency but they took power in a number of state legislatures across the country including in my home state of california. they have held a majority there for more than six months since 1958. they did not know what to do with imperiit. they did not think they could repeal many of the things they had run against what they did not have an alternative aside from continuing what went on with perhaps lure. funding.er the state legislative gains are lost quickly and we move back into the 1970's as working-class voters return home. 1994 with newt gingrich, we saw quickly with the government shut down that a move to quickly move to base republican concerns fizzled out to republicans lost seats. you very quickly saw again an eisenhower-like response. george was grants specifically

in 1960, general dwight eisenhower gave a speech when he spoke about the military industrial complex in 2010, it is legal for defense contractors to lobby congress and get legislation that allows them contracts. we have grown our military to a size that is simply not sustainable host: those are three issues on the table. back first too osama bin laden? . i agree with the viewer. he is critical. i think he should have been taken out in the first set of u.s. actions in 2001. apparently, there was no plan to do so. the was some confusion about what the requirements were. was he actually there? i think the cold hard facts are that he was there but we did not have a plan. we put the resources in and did not get him. the previous administration and the military leadership at that time have to answer for that. there is a dilemma in going after a single individual in any conflict. it is hard to get a single individual. osama bin laden is a tremendous symbolic leader. how much actual day-to-day control he has people dispute that. i would like to see him taking down. for the government to not

the last time it won the world series and dwight eisenhower was the president so was a long time. san francisco fans have never even tasted it. they are desperate for women. if they win tonight third and king will be ground zero for the party. >> i like we put like that but when you say like that it feels like distant history. speaking of ground zero. a lot of people are trucker treating in going to work going on vacations. you are in new york on vacation in may as well been in san francisco because i heard the story. you're watching tv in new york instead of here. >> we found a pub around the corner and we took over the bar. they had the larger mass and we are going to toe with the yankee fans i had to deal with. but it felt really good. to walk out of their two days in a row with those victories. wearing it giants colors proudly. >> i wonder if this is appealing to the nation. because it's not the yankees vs. and nationwide fan. the first thing have to say is i don't care. i don't care who likes it and who doesn't like it. ultimately five years from now doesn't matter. all the f

. >> dwight d. eisenhower. >> the defensive barrier to the heart of germany was pierced. the final defeat of the enemy was just around the corner. >> "decision points" by george w. bush. >> are my testicles black? >> i still don't know the context. >> how can they be taken out of context? >> willie geist in washington, willie -- >> oh, no, oh, no. >> too much information. you and i have both asked that question repeatedly for a lot of different reasons. we won't get into the details. can you give us the context of george w. bush's question? >> please. >> no, i cannot is the answer. all i know is david letterman is reborn with these interviews. it's given him months of material. >> that line can be used for great moments in history. >> is it real? >> it is real. >> i think it has something to do with something that his father meant to say but it obviously came out wrong. it came out are my testicles black? >> he was quoting a misspoken line. >> look how excited they all are. >> note to self. don't do that. don't do that. >> what he is trying to say is the wall has come dow

bush's presidency, he lost 34 seats in the house. 1954, dwight eisenhower, republicans lost 16 seats. in 1946, harry truman, democrat, lost 55 seats. it looks like this one will be bigger than that election. guest: that is right. it does not look like it will be as big as the one in the 1930's, but it is an historic level. the incumbents, as you have been discussing this morning, they were going down so fast last night, whether it be subcommittee chairman, full committee chairman, a freshman. they were all going down. outside of tester -- outside of texas redistricting, only four republicans lost last night. since that time, wave after wave after wave. just unbelievable. host: will was the biggest surprise for you last night, bob? guest: i think just the extent of the win. rick out church, that was indication of kit -- rick -- some people think he was hurt by his youngest vote on climate change. -- by his yes vote on climate change. when he went down, that was an indication that it was going to be a big night for the gop. there were some indications that the democrats could do ok, and

. -- i would say dwight eisenhower agreed he had the stature of being allied supreme commander and we are already eisenhower- republicans. people in the center of the country or a moderate and are fiscally conservative yet eisenhower build the interstate highway system and the st. lawrence seaway and did many great things with infrastructure. we need somebody that focuses like that. it seems we are tormenting ourselves too much in this country and not find a way to unify. iraq and afghanistan could have been unifier is but instead, 50% of the people think iraq was a terrible mistake. >> i have an admiration for eisenhower but he was a product of the time. remember 1960 and john kennedy -- people thought that kennedy and nixon were two piece from ipod. there was a consensus enforced by the cold war. we had -- the generation that voted for ike and then kennedy had been collectively through the great depression and world war two and they were going to enter collectively through the civil-rights and other transforming changes. it was a water cooler nation. we spoke the same language in ma

paterno's tenure at penn state, presidents and congresses have come and gone, dating back to the dwight eisenhower administration. paterno began winning before other coaches on other teams were born. he's turned penn state football into a powerhouse program, one of seven football programs in history to have more than 800 wins. but what makes joe paterno so different and well respected by his fellow coaches, players and fans is the manner in which he led and built the program. paterno emphasized his success with honor on and off the field. when he asked what the milestone meant for joe, his wife, sue, said that the milestones were not important to the penn state coach but rather the most important thing to joe was to, quote, the young men you develop. under joe paterno, penn state has had one of the highest graduation rates in college football. in 2009 the graduation rate was 89%, the highest percentage in the top 25. he's had 25 hall of fame scholar athletes, 30 first team all-americans with 44 overall, and 18 ncaa postgraduate scholarship winners. joe paterno has donated millions of his own money

in addressing another korean crisis, as a presidential candidate almost six decades ago, dwight eisenhower said in this anxious autumn of america, one fact looms above all others in our people's minds, one tragedy challenges all men dedicated to the work of peace. this word is korea. when the shelling which we condemn today in the attack on civilians is merely the tip of the north korean sphere of hostility. one came a week earlier of a secret nuclear uranium enrichment plant and one described it as stunning. the plant also laid bare the deceit and tretch erie which north korea has approached the whole issue for the past 20 years. the unconscionable revelations of classified information by wikileaks has opened our eyes to the full extent of north korean cooperation with the little tyrant from the deds earth ahmadinejad and the iranian regime. thanks to pyongyang's proliferation, yirian warheads can now reach american jile eyes in the middle east and even as far away as europe. we have learned that air iran transports landed at the airport to carry missile equipment from north korea to iran

i was lucky because in 1952, i was married to my wife and dwight eisenhower was running for presidentd my father-in-law, dr. harden was a republican delegation to the national convention from louisiana. and he and john minowisdom led the delegation from taft to eisenhower. after that, eisenhower would take my calls. i beg you, you have so much power and ability. you got to know how to make a difference. i, you know, the other day, a gentleman came into me from the arabian country and said, you know, saudi arabia that 99% of the oil is owned by six families. they are very angry because people that used to do the investment haven't done well. they want to get somebody new. if i can pull that off, i don't have to come to the god damn meetings anymore. [laughter] >> i'm serious. look at the people. are you board of chase? chase now has an american charge account. every month they bug me. but i stay with american express. i think it's running a good company. i just really get looking at the company, what are they doing and get people at the top. i think that'll make a lot of difference. i

introduced by president and veteran dwight d. eisenhower in 1954, veterans day eventually replaced armistice day as a day of remembrance in 1978. veterans day is a time to honor and not just heroes, but all of the men and women who served selfishly even before our nation began. when asked by his grandson if he was a hero in the war, major richard winters replied, "no." it is this hubble example that illustrates how important it is that we observe -- it is this humble example that illustrates how important it is that we observed the referenced -- observe veterans day. this month, remember the 14th exceptional shipmates that we honor for our new fast-response cutters. billy-ray flores only one year out of boot camp, save the lives of ship makes after eight collision when he opened the life jacket locker and stayed behind to help the wounded. when the vessel capsized, he was trapped aboard and lost his own wife. someone else volunteered to wade through heavily mined waters to guide ships and troops onto normandy beach during the d-day invasion

introduced by president and veteran dwight d. eisenhoweraced armistice day as a day of remembrance in 1978. veterans day is a time to honor and not just heroes, but all of the men and women who served selfishly even before our nation began. when asked by his grandson if he was a hero in the war, major richard winters replied, "no." it is this hubble example that illustrates how important it is that we observe -- it is this humble example that illustrates how important it is that we observed the referenced -- observe veterans day. this month, remember the 14th exceptional shipmates that we honor for our new fast-response cutters. billy-ray flores only one year out of boot camp, save the lives of ship makes after eight collision when he opened the life jacket locker and stayed behind to help the wounded. when the vessel capsized, he was trapped aboard and lost his own wife. someone else volunteered to wade through heavily mined waters to guide ships and troops onto normandy beach during the d-day invasion. someone else get a light for 40 year

. >> by dwight d. eisenhowerme confronted by an evil conspir y conspiracy. >> decision points by george w. bush. >> ate of people didn't think i could read much less write. >> great moments in president's memories. >> that was a great moment. joining us now for the politico playbook, mr. john harris. >> willie, how are you? >> doing great. talk about the bush tax cuts. a lot of people talking about them this week. where's the white house at this moment on the bush tax cuts? are they ready to concede at least in part this fight? >> the white house is trying to wreck in with the reality it's going to be really hard to not just accept the fact that these tax cuts have to be extended. having sort of embraced that reality, they're trying to coax democrats along by saying, hey, let's look at facts. david axelrod gave an interstlu just got posted overnight to "the huffington post" saying we've got to deal with the hand we're played and if we want to save tax cuts for the middle class we're going to have to accept things

buckly stood up to the administration and claims dwight d. eisenhower was a soviet agent. that's my favorite. i'm sorry you think he's a spy, and then you're not welcome in our con conservative movement. he stood up. the problem is we don't see that today. i think because our political leaders are afraid. they recognize or fear that the fringe is blurring with the base e and if they stand up, they alienate their base and lose a primary. there's political resumÉs that add credibility to that fear, so what we need to do to restore some balance with backbone to our politics is stand up to the extremes on both sides. i really believe that's the only way that we will stop the cycle of insightment we're in before it getting ugh leer. that's not to clack that at any -- claim at any given time there's quality of extreme, but if you buy into the idea that only one party is to blame, you compound the problem, and that's what i'm concerned about. i care less about the parties, and more about the country. it's an attitude that's unfashionable these days. i mean, this is a rebellious p