in a breathtaking two months, 2008 eisenhower persuaded -- dwight eisenhower persuaded the congress to reorient american policy toward the middle east. the eisenhower doctrine committed the united states including oil resources in the middle east. and for good or ill, as president obama has experienced the past few weeks, for good or ill that obligation is still the cornerstone of american policy. thank you. [applause] >> if you have questions, if you'll come up to the microphone, we're being recorded, and we want to be sure we're heard. >> so use the microphone, folks. come ahead. no such thing as a dumb question. come ahead. or a comment. contrary comment. it's all right. >> that was a great talk, thank you very much. um, i had a question. did the obama administration contact you about their involvement in libya, and if not, did you find similarity in how he dealt with libya in comparison with the suez canal incident? >> no, they have not, the obama administration hasn't talked with me. i'm meeting with former senator chuck hagel tomorrow in washington, d.c. who, i'm told, bought 27

republican president dwight eisenhower said about new deal government programs back in one thousand fifty four as a letter he wrote to his brother he said should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history there is a tiny splinter group a few texas milloy of millionaires and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas their number is negligible and they are stupid the reason why eisenhower felt that way was because franklin roosevelt restored the good name of government after it was dragged through the mud in the one nine hundred twenty s. by the republican party and their business interests you see today's government bashing is not new for republicans they played the same card ninety years ago we three republican presidents beginning with warren harding in one hundred twenty and ending with herbert hoover in one thousand nine hundred two when one one harding one the presidency in one hundred twenty his campaign pledge was this is

there were some americans including some in eisenhower to including dwight eisenhower himself, who hadpretty serious concerns about eisenhower. mainly that he was a communist in the making. but many found it to be quite charming and certainly charismatic. after a few days in washington castro took the train to new york city. from the moment he arrived at penn station where he was greeted by 20,000 people, he had a grand old time ago he went to the top of the empire state-building in the shake hands with jackie robinson. he went down to city hall, went to columbia university. having lots of fun in new york city where the policemen who were assigned to attack him because there were all these assassination plot surrounding castro and these were reported in the press every day. none of these turned out to be real but the police didn't know that and castro was completely impossible to protect. he would throw himself into crowds hugging and kissing people with no concern for safety. one afternoon on a whim, he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed, federal agents followed and ne

general dwight eisenhower gave the go ahead for d-day, the largest military amphibious mission in history. the operation was a success but hundreds of brave men lost their lives in the battle to free europe. >>> it is now 4:38, 65 degrees. ahead on news 4 today, the cute little critter blamed for knocking out power to 1,000 people >> how a miracle plane caused >>> up to nowitski. nowitski spins. miami pulls on and takes game 3. >>> well, the miami heat are back in control, i don't know if you can say that, of the nba finals. nowitski fell short, losing 88-86. miami leads 2-1. game 4 tomorrow night in dallas. close game. still pretty close. >> that's right. so tomorrow will be another thrill i bet you. 4:41. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. the latest on our workweek forecast. how is it looking, tom? >> looking pleasant. another day with not a lot of humidity. more sunshine throughout much of the day as well. off to a cool start. these are the temperatures around the region. mid-60s to low 60s throughout most of the area. upper 60s in washington and near the bay. and we have the vie

but someone like dwight eisenhower, even john f.ennedy, very, very reluctant to line for more reasons. it is a form of behavior that is actually quite detestable. the fact is that when you are dealing with the edge national politics and if the security of your country is on line you will not hesitate to lie, not because you're an evil person, but because you do what you have to do to protect your country. that is really what i'm trying to get in this book. >> host: examples of people line for personal leaders -- reasons? >> guest: no, i made it clear that i was not ripe to consider those sorts of cases. there are certainly lots of them. i have been on a few radio and tv shows or president clinton about the mike gillespie affair. people have asked me how i think about that. i say that is the case of a leader line basically to save his own skin. that doesn't fit the category of lines. i'm looking at what i call strategic lines which are lines that leaders tell up for what they think is the national interest. >> host: one more exam

the economy to recover but you know i don't understand why republicans don't want to do what dwight eisenhower did in the one nine hundred fifty s. and use government money between the g.i. bill and the highway program he set the table for three decades of economic growth while why are republicans unwilling to do what republicans traditionally do. and it's hard to explain why that is that's why i was ninety one percent. and i don't know how much percentage of the you know what you've got to look at is you've got issues where you've got over a glacier in burdening the country you've got issues where we are who we are it is the banks are left less well regulated now than they were during the eisenhower administration i'm glad the problem during the eisenhower administration you don't have that now we have we have removed regulations that were in place during the years and capitalism was never meant to be completely without regulation adam smith talked about the invisible hand this idea that this is you know suddenly this free open market will really because there's giant monopolies and there's y

dwight eisenhower was devoted to vegetable soup, which he ate almost every day.lizabeth once sent ike a recipe for scones with a note she wrote herself. "i generally put in less four and milk," she wrote, "but use the other ingredients as stated." that recipe is part of the exhibit, along with presidential favorites like john kennedy's fish chowder, and lyndon johnson's famous chili. first we need the tom tomatoes. today, we set out to make some lbj chili. we asked marcus samuelson, world famous chef who has prepared state dinners at the obama white house, to help prepare it. >> when you read this recipe, not that much has changed. >> reporter: chef samuelson also whipped up another dish featured in the national archive exhibit -- ham shortcake -- which was actually one of the first meals promoted by the government back in 1946 as part of the national school lunch act. >> you're going to love this. >> reporter: i know it. what do you think? really? as for the current president, accounts vary about what is his personal favorite food, but clearly he has his eyes on

buy our nation if we did that we might bring the republican party back to sanity back to its dwight eisenhower roots back to the days when they actually could have an opposite opinion from the democrats but honestly broker solutions and situations and have reasonable conversations exorcisms for the republican party. or to. our ship of state is headed toward another financial crisis iceberg and republicans are at the helm why because since the financial crisis of two thousand and eight little has been done to reform wall street of its bad behavior and what little has been done republicans are now trying to undo at the end of last week the republican controlled house appropriations committee passed legislation that cuts funding for the critical government watchdogs in charge of making sure the financial crisis of two thousand and eight doesn't happen again that includes cutting the consumer financial protection bureau the republicans are doing a lot in trying to do this and pledging to block anyone who president obama nominates to run that agency the republican bill also includes holding flat th

was far higher than it is today president harry truman and republican president dwight eisenhower used government spending to grow our economy out of debt republicans know this they know spending cuts will harm our economy yet here they are pushing for cuts anyway because as mitch mcconnell said making president obama one term president and not fixing the economy is their number one priority. is jon stewart singlehandedly bringing down fox news. as part of the recent nielsen ratings the daily show averaged two point three million viewers and nineteen percent increase in the month of may alone and a number that beats every single show on fox except o'reilly but o'reilly's poll of the top may not last long either it's viewership dropped nine percent last month along with most of the other shows on fox especially glenn beck show that saw its ratings plummet seventeen percent overall fox viewership is down ten percent oksana photo news bubble for angry white guys with air france on guns gays in the war on christmas but now those same angry white viewers appear to be thinking about economic

dwight eisenhower this is a republican presidency that dropped and well harry truman as well that dropped a good chunk of this debt did not anything to do away with this debt how do we do it with the debt we grew our way out of this right eisenhower spent like crazy every returning g.i. from world war two and my dad was part of that generation he went to college for free he got a statement to go to college he was able to i'm on a loan that was backed up by the by the federal government eisenhower was spending money like a drunken sailor building highways all over america building infrastructures we still have look in any city in america you will find school buildings government buildings hospitals that were built in the one nine hundred fifty s. under the republican eisenhower administration. in a way that as we invested in this infrastructure it brought about a renaissance in america it grew our economy substantially and as a consequence of that and by the way as a consequence of that there was an enormous amount of economic activity that could be taxed and the tax rate throughout the i

a cadet named dwight eisenhower watched from the sideline. he played for the army team but he had an injury that day and couldn't perform. everything has gone wrong he wrote to his girlfriend. the football team got eaten most gloriously by notre dame. before then no one had really heard about notre dame before. after then everyone knew notre dame as a foot ball powerhouse. when you think of notre dame today it started with that very game. with a game foot football also g first chapter came to a close and the game we enjoy today the distinctively american game was born. violence in football didn't and. the sport solve this problem and improve his quality of the same time but nobody speaks of prohibiting football any more. anymore. many influential people did and theodore roosevelt stepped in and played an unheralded but critical role in the sports development and preservation. i think is a general rule we don't want our politicians thrusting themselves into our sports. the only thing that can make the championship series worse is congressional

dwight eisenhower was fantastic. ronald reagan -- love ronald reagan.he one thing i remember about that was that the person that i looked up to the most, the person that i would listen to anything that he said, love america. he loved this country, and he was not from here. i can promise you on my life that did not run for chairman of this party, and i would venture to guess that not one single one of you in this crowd is here because you have some great concern about the future of the republican party. i love this party. of course, we all do. but i ran for chairman, and you are here today listening, because you are worried about the future of this country. this is about america, not about the republican party or the democratic party. this is about america. [applause] we have an opportunity in this country, if we work together. we could disagree on a lot of things. i am sure to squabble about a thing or two here or there. but we have all been blessed, everyone of us, in a different way. god has blessed us all differently. but we are unified in one thing,

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general dwight eisenhower gave the go ahead for d-day, the largest military amphibious military operation in u.s. the u.s. joined its western allies with a total of 155,000 troops on the beaches in normandy. the operation was a success but hundreds of brave men lost their lives in the battle to free europe. >>> today pepco crews will work to finish repairs on underground cables in northeast d.c. that lost power last week. the cables are on north capital street between l and m and pierce between north capital and 1st street. a section of the curb lane on north capital at the intersection of l will be closed through rush hour. >> four kiddy pools in the district remain closed because of a pool drain recall. kiddy pools at harry thomas, rumsey, upshu are closed. the current drain covers are recalled because there is a risk swimmers could be trapped in the covers. d.c. officials say they don't know exactly when the new covers will arrive. the kiddy pools can't be opened until the drains are installed but the regular pools are open. >>> all right. it is now 6:19. 71 degrees out there. nice, mi

dwight eisenhower universally known to his friends as ike and omar bradley known more familiarly as brad became best friends at the academy. the work point was to instill marshall quality and bring out the military sciences, neither i can nor brad lidge were particularly militant back in those days. eisenhower was a notorious rule breaker particularly when those rules concerned curfews. brad for his part, actually out ranked ike by the time they graduated from west point. wasn't the kind of guy who would stand out in a crowd. he was just a quiet guy. these two cadets didn't stand out in the classroom or even sometimes in a crowd but they did stand out in one place where they could fight their battles on fields of grass. their love of sports brought them together and forge a relationship that would last until the end of their days. as the young man skycaps sport was football. he was a solid defensive tackle who cracked helmets with a gym for. he was an above -- we would call a running back. until he injured his knee in a football play football was like's passion. even after the injury der

and similarly, my other subject -- the somewhat unlikely partner of fdr, dwight d. eisenhower -- the only time he ever gets quoted nowadays in the press is that one sentence in his farewell address where he warns against the power of the military industrial complex which he believed and which is true and which is valid. but it's just a speck in the great ocean of what eisenhower really represented and is a little bit, i think, misleading. and similarly, with fdr i think that while he is the, obviously in be my view, the dominant president, the greatest president of the 20th century and, obviously, the man who invented really our modern politics in many ways, he was also a global theorist. he was also a man ambitious for american power in the world. um, and, um, as with all such things you often wonder where did this come from? why did roosevelt think this way? what, what made him a kind of liberal imperialist, to use a scholarly term, as he was? why did he actively pursue a kind of american, what i call an american empire without colonies which is to say american power around

it's important to know their general, dwight david eisenhower wrote out a letter before the invasionure. in case it was a failure, he took blame for it. luckily for them, it was not released. >>> when we come back tonight, what someone saw by chance on this broadcast that is now making a difference across the country. a difference in this country. as shipping it, though. cad i mean shipping is a hassle. not with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that is easy. best news i've heard all day! i'm soooo amped! i mean not amped. excited. well, sort of amped. really kind of in between. have you ever thought about decaf? do you think that would help? yeah. priority mail flat rate shipping starts at just $4.95, only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. fore! no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to ...get in the way. not anymore. ink introduces jot. a real time expense app that lets you track and categorize expenses on the go. so you can get back to the business you lov

what could happen if as you say sort of the business of war i want to play something from dwight d. eisenhower and his warning to the country which can be argued was not heeded. in the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of the unwanted influence whether sought alone sought by the military industrial complex the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power. and will persist we must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process. all right so president obama recently mentioned we've got this troop pullout of ten thousand troops by the end of this year an additional twenty three thousand by the end of next year but the fact is there are cities small cities being built inside of afghanistan continuing to be built and i know stephen you've written about this about seven hundred bases in afghanistan nearly a hundred in iraq how much in the hundreds around the world so what do you think i mean are we are we there forever oh absolutely. the analogy i went to is a war two ended nine hundred forty four i was still in germany we wat

it could be jimmy carter, dwight eisenhower, and everyone of them was great.er was fantastic. ronald reagan -- love ronald reagan. the one thing i remember about that was that the person that i looked up to the most, the person that i would listen to anything that he said, love america. he loved this country, and he was not from here. i can promise you on my life that did not run for chairman of this party, and i would venture to guess that not what -- not one single one of you in this crowd is here because you have some great concern about the future of the republican party. i love this party. of course, we all do. but i ran for chairman, and you are here today listening, because you are worried about the future of this country. this is about america, not about the republican party or the democratic party. this is about america. [applause] we have an opportunity in this country, if we work together. we could disagree on a lot of things. i am sure to squabble about a thing or two here or there. but we have all been blessed, everyone of us, in a different way.

nevertheless, it was over 70% officially, even under dwight david eisenhower, republican general president eisenhower in the 1950s. it was 91%, the marginal tax rate on the very rich. what happened? we didn't slow down. the economy grew dramatically. with that kind of marginal tax rate on the very top, it meant the disposable incomes of people in the middle and at the bottom, given the kinds of public investments that those tax rates at the top allowed, given that we could as a nation do so much more than we are doing now to open the gates of opportunity, given that we could actually build the economy from the bottom up, it men that we grew at an average rate of over 3.5% a year during those very prosperous years. since then, if you permit me to finish quickly, we've seen marginal tax rates drop dramatically. we've seen the economy slow and we've seen the rich get richer and richer, to the point they're now claiming over 20% of total income. this doesn't let the middle class purchase. it robs the middle class of the purchasing power we need to keep the economy going. >> david? >> well, i a

public see him playing golf since the became was so cloeshly associated with his predecessor, dwight eisenhowerse images to be recorded because he wanted arnold palmer to watch them and to critique his game. 48 years later palmer saw the footage and said you know, president's setup is solid but his swing, apparently, needed a little bit of work. >>> yesterday cnn along with other media outlets reported that at least 20 bodies were found on a property in texas. but it turns out that was not the case. police converged on the property and searched but no bodies were ever found. the search started with a tip and there was some confusion about what was happening on the property. federal official gave incorrect information to cnn and other officials gave the same misinformation to other media outlets. we apologize for the mistake. trying the clear that all up. >> i'm glad we always do that. when there is a mistake we should fix it. my interview with senator rand paul. does the republican think democrat anthony weiner should resign. >> approval ratings are very low. i don't think that his behavior is

dwight inns hour. what did he do? did he pull the plug on all this? let's look at history. eisenhower, a proud republican, was determined to move america forward. he championed, at a time when the federal deficits continued into the 1950's from world war i i, because the national debt grew so big during world war ii, we were still in debt and during the 1950's. now what did eisenhower do? did he say we have to retrench, we can't do anything? no, he championed -- he championed one of the greatest public works projects in american history, the construction of the interstate highway system. the national interstate and defense highways act of 1965 ensured dedicated federal funding to build a network of highways. a 1996 study of the system concluded that "the interstate highway system is an engine that has driven 40 years of unprecedented prosperity and positioned the united states to remain the preeminent power into the 21st century." end quote. well, you know what? i'll bet the tea party contingent of today phs republican party would probably try to run driet eisenhower out of the -- to

dwight eisenhower building highways and schools. around this country built in the 1950s by the republican eisenhower. they stimulated the economy to the point that we had within ten years, paid off a debt that was 126% of gdp. they did not cut their way to prosperit prosperity. >> you're talking about economic policies that did work, what, we're talking years and decades ago. >> that have worked every single time in history they've been used. >> let me finish. you already have highways. we can't go out and build a bunch of roads to nowhere just because you think it's going to fix the economy. >> one country that's cut it ways to prosperity. china is building bullet trains. we have nothing. >> we're doing more in this country than in world war ii and for you to act like -- >> let's have no more schools? >> again, let me finish. if you want to hear what i have it to say you can let me finish and i'll tell you. but to act like america and what obama ran on was the same economic type policies that we had after world war ii, is a sad, sa

the president and ceo of people to people international, and the granddaughter of dwight eisenhower and guest of mr. denise. -- mr. sinise. or speaking -- speaker committee chair is doing a fabulous job today. she organized this event. we will skip over our guest speaker for a moment. we have a news contributor from the daily beast. the research director for cnn. producer/director of "the lieutenant vanzandt." -- the lieutenant dan band. now a round of applause. [applause] our guest speaker today is widely recognized for his humanitarian work on behalf of u.s. military troops and he is an award winning actor. he now plays a detective, the start of the -- star of a cbs series. he has been in a number of collaborations with tom hanks. it is worth noting that he played a president in a television movie "truman," that particular president as a matter of fact. the former governor, george wallace as well. it was his academy award winning role in the movie "forest gump " " that has endeared him to many fans. he plays lieutenant dan and is still known to many as lt. dan. he is here to announce

these are the words of a five star general, president dwight eisenhower. we have spent billions of dollars, thousands of our sons and daughters have been left on the battlefield and scarred by the brew tality of war. -- brutality of war. and glad the president is bringing 10,000 soldiers home from afghanistan, but we must do more to end this war and start investing in our future. we must continue, we cannot continue to fund this war while we tell our seniors there is no money for medicare. we cannot fund war and tell our children and young mothers that we won't pay for food stamps. we cannot pay for war while bridges and our roads are crumbling. we cannot afford to make bombs and guns. we must use our resources to solve the problems of humankind. to build and not tear down. to reconcile and not to divide. to love and not to hate. to heal and not to kill. if you want to create the beloved community, create a beloved world, a world that is at peace with itself. if that does not go, our way must be on peace an nonviolence. skilled diplomacy not military might

still have looming over my desk the portraits of two of my heroes and role models, generals dwight d. eisenhowermafr shal that i take a closing thought, first delivered more than six decades ago during the opening years of the cold war. addressing new university graduates, marshall extolled what he considered the great musts of that generation. they were, he said, the development of a sense of responsibility for world order and security, the development of a sense of the overwhelming importance of the country's acts and failures to act. now, as when marshall first uttered those words, a sense of america's global responsibilities and what we do and do not do remain the great musts of this dangerous new century. it is the sacred duty and thust to all of us proven to serve in it duties of leadership and responsibility. a duty we should never take lightly. a duty have every confidence you will continue to fulfill. thank you, god bless our military and the country they so nobly serve. >> last day on the job for outgoing defense secretary robert gates who oversaw two wars and military operations aroun

roosevelt, harry truman, eight years side by side with harry true man, he served under president dwight eisenhower and in just a minute i'll explain why he made lyndon johnson who he was and finally passed away under the term of richard nixon's first term as president of the united states. back to richard russell and lyndon johnson. johnson became president of the senate and later president of the united states. in his own works, lyndon johnson credits richard russell as the strength of his career as a senator. so great was senator russell's control of the united states senate that in a quote by powell moore, his press seact few year, he said, "when president kennedy gave advice to newly elected senators, he said the following: 'if you want to become an effective senator, you should start by going to see dick russell'." that's exactly what lyndon johnson did. so good a friend was he with him, that every sunday night, lady bird would have richard russell over to the house to thank him. as lyndon johnson grew in power, he kept beside him richard brevard us are elt. he is the greatest senator who eve

i am hoping this might be the end of what dwight david eisenhower called the military industrial complexo can make hundreds of billions of dollars disappear every year, not to do anything good, but especially in the case of george bush, to destroy stable, sovereign nations. it viciously murdered a million americans in iraq. this is historic. this might have been going on since the american civil war. somehow, we've involves a military sub-class or something. host: thank you for calling in. our next call is from a democrat in maryland. please go ahead. caller: thank you. host: what did you think of the president's speech? caller: it's a very great speech. that's why i called. i really support the idea to come out of this little mess and concentrate on unemployment and the debt ceiling. we are trying to get out of it. it's a good country. we want us to come out and build our self -- and get out of the hole. i am really happy. that's what i called. i support the removal of our troops. host: sir, do you worry about afghanistan being able to take care of itself? little i am worried a bit, but

it was president dwight d. eisenhower ready to bare all for our country, our history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week and timid. americans have never been weak and timid. and shall never be weak and timid. for it was alexander the great to stated, i do not fear an army of lions if they were to be led by a lamb. but i would fear an army of sheep if they were to be led by a lion. we need a lion to lead us. [applause] >> our american cause was and is grounded in a faith heritage. judeo-christian faith heritage and never forget the words of thomas jefferson when he said can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of god, that they are not to be violated, but with his wrath. indeed, i tremble for my country when i reflect that god is just and that his justice cannot sleep forever. george washington said no people can be bound to acknowledge and endure the invisible hand which conducts t