dwight eisenhower got 12 million more votes.e largest increase in voter participation since the 18 twenties. you had two outstanding candidates. each were able to excite the electorate. >> here is a little bit more of adlai stevenson at the 1952 convention. >> what does concern me is not just winning this election. but how it is one. how we can take advantage of this great opportunity to debate issues sensibly and soberly. i hope and pray that we democrats will win or lose, can campaign, not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our pundit seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership. peopleell the american the truth, there are no gameins without pain. >> newton minow, where were you 59 years ago tonight? >> i was in the governor's mansion. one thing that topped the american people about stevenson was the way he conceded defeat. he gave the most graceful, patriotic talk. he pledged to support president eisenhower. he ended with a story that he remembered from

dwight eisenhower got 12 million more votes.largest increase in voter participation since the 1820's. you had two outstanding candidates. each were able to excite the electorate. >> here is a little bit more of adlai stevenson at the 1952 convention. >> what does concern me is not just winning this election. but how it is one. how we can take advantage of this great opportunity to debate issues sensibly and soberly. i hope and pray that we democrats will win or lose, can campaign, not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership. let's tell the american people the truth, there are no gains without pain. we are now on the even of great decision. >> newton minow, where were you 59 years ago tonight? >> i was in the governor's mansion. one thing that taught the american people about stevenson was the way he conceded defeat. he gave the most graceful, patriotic talk. he pledged to support president eisenhower. h

quoted dwight eisenhower before and the older i get the more i like eisenhower. when he was three he wanted to go trick-or-treating and his mom wouldn't let him. she said "you're too young." so he punched the tree in his front yard until all the skin wore off his knuckles. mom sends them to his room, he cries for an hour, she finally goes up there and binds his wounds and she says to him "he thatonquers his on soul greater than he that conquers a city." and eisenhower writes 76 years later this was the most important event in his life because he became aware he had this rage inside him and he built restraints against him and eisenhower was not a guy who lacked for self-confidence. he committed large numbers of men and women to battle but he had a sense of his weaknesses and a sense of self-restraint and how to correct for my own weaknesses. i'm not sure this is a culture that reminds people all the time of their own weaknesses. we have more of a culture where we remind ourselves and remind our kids how special they are and they believed us. there's ju a whole cha

and the most important thing that happened was the dwight eisenhower, and joe's obsessed with this, as well. dwight eisenhower essentially ratified the new deal in a sense that he wasn't going to pull apart government and try to go back to the 20s. he understood that it was here, he was a military man, which by the way is a government agency, and he managed to, you know, get to berlin pretty good operation there. and it was just -- it was everybody acknowledging that the other guy might have a point. and i think that the critical thing for the economy is for the partisanship -- it's never going to go away. but what needs to go away for 20 minutes, for either simpson/bowles vote or anything. lincoln was a segregationist, let's remember that, but i think that's the critical thing. it's the holiday season, we're all thinking big thoughts. but if we don't find lawmakers who have the courage to risk their jobs, then none of this is going to get fixed. >> yeah, go ahead. >> you mentioned that, mika. the only piece of the president's jobs act that passed through congress right now is the one

when dwight eisenhower not only embraced in the new deal but even expanded it, opening up something like the department of health, education, and welfare. instituting the interstate. it was just presumed that the conservatism of the 1920's, which was seen as something that have gotten us into the depression was no longer relevant to modern life. >> in your book, you point out to dump key primaries that were critical in 1964. oregon which nelson rockefeller one and a california which barry goldwater 1. >> california was an absolutely fascinating knock down drag out political fight. i talked earlier about how barry goldwater had these impassioned supporters who would do what ever they want even if barry goldwater told them not to do it. these are people from groups like the john birch society. some were segregationists. they were far right extremists. they were basically willing to knock on doors until there knuckles were bloody. they were willing to sabotage other campaigns. it was seen as the fight for civilization itself. the other candidates -- the liberal candidates were seen as these

dwight eisenhower created the refuge in 1960, our nation's premier wildlife refuge.ife and places like the grand tetons and grand canyon and redwood country of california and the alaska arctic. he's a bad faith operator. what i want the american people to know is we can be proud we have this national park system and our wildlife refuge system. just because we're having a little tough time now, we don't want to molest these places. i've been getting, i'm not kidding you, thousands of letters including from republicans, conservatives aghast at the way congressman young treated me. 's par for the course. i've found out he's done this literally to dozens of people who have shown up on capitol hill. >> why do you think members of congress like don young are so opposed to listening to experts as yourself when it comes to drilling for oil in anwar or restoring anything that we have preserved as a nation? >> well, theodore roosevelt, one of my heroes and dwight eisenhower, both republicans, i might add. they talked about people like young as being land skinners, despoilers,

the last time the bears won, dwight eisenhower was in the oval office. they were undefeated in league play. eagles up 7-6 with mission, porter scores on the reverse to give the bears their first lead of the game and they hang on to beat washington 12-7. win their first city title since 1954. finally, college hoops. gary in santa clara taking on new mexico. evan hits the deep three in overtime to put the broncos on top. he scores 9 of his 24 and santa clara wins 79-76. cbs website tonight, turn the 49ers as fool's gold, because they really struggle tonight. i don't think that is going to be the case. >> well, the ravens defense. >> lawrence benefited from defense. >> oh, is that right? how many points do you score tonight? >> a ton. looking good so far. >> domination sensation. >> well, maybe a little. all right, we'll be right back. ,, ,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, tomorrow morning at 4-30. >>> david letterman is next with jason. >> we're going shopping, right? >>

when i was president we had the smallest federal government since dwight eisenhower's last year, smallest percentage of the federal work force since franklin roosevelt was president. i wouldn't mind doing that again. but i've been there are some things that the government has to do. the government is good aggregating capital for the modern infrastructure for example, but i think that we need more private investment. so i would like to see the debate, and the committee could do this, you asked about the committee. they could say okay look the government is to do the national security committee have to help people through no fault of their own can't support themselves. we have made a decision that in their retirement years people should have a decent standard of living. we have a whole wealth of things that support economic development and if anything we have to do more because our competitors are. same thing with scientific research, same thing with technological expansion of access, same thing with education. what we need to do is to identify those things which the government should do an

dwight eisenhower. not doing this just to get people. we're doing this to keep up with the soviets. in return these sign tests, these math me tigss, these engineers that eisenhower invested in in 1957 they created a generation of economic growth. got us to the moon, created the internet, did all of these le markable things. >> tang. >> gave us tang. very, very important. >> hang on a second. >> for kids that are watching, this is the drink, tang. >> it was not one or -- the point is you could have a conversation, you could have a political conversation in which it was not one or the other. it was not the law of the excluded note. you would have public spending and private contractors and that's what gave us this. you can't just blindly dismiss one or the other. >> before we move on to the other block, i saw a news piece over the weekend. didn't see a lot of coverage but i think it is like occupy wall street where it is going to percolate and something more. national bank transfer day. they had like 82,00

and that within six years that was paid off that was paid off by mostly dwight eisenhower spending money like crazy building a highway system building america building roads building bridges between school and still have to be maintained i mean you know there is there's the produced revenue from going to i do not wish him ill this work if it's such a great idea it is a donor money you need obscene no we do small we lost two million jobs since president obama's been sworn in unemployment at nine point one percent and you show me you guys on a purely housing present at a loss in the private sector you've had in fact there has been steady gains in the private sector since the third month after his presidency or the fourth i mean if you want to call it the first couple months when it was still george bush's economy you could use those numbers we're still we have had fourteen months of continuous job growth in the private sector and i'll grant you in the red states you've got republican governors land people off as fast as they can to try to make things as bad as they can go to recommit needs

incomes it's really egregious this this really very much is the military industrial complex that dwight eisenhower warned us about and it's one nine hundred sixty one farewell address how is it different from how it was before world war two . well there's one big difference i think it used to be embarrassed seen in america for politicians or the heads of these companies to talk about the economic impacts of war profiteering as a jobs program which it's not by the way but that used to be a slur to say you were doing political engineering when you put together a contract because it rightly carried with it the connotation that you're sticking these factories all over the country in an attempt to win business and in not to do the best chop of the federal government it's a win business in those districts and when an advocate from those congressional districts in congress that has totally changed in the last couple of decades in addition to the massive amounts that these companies been lobbying he injects little pieces of their business into each congressional district so they can basically blackmail a

something that has not been done since dwight eisenhower. 40% of the black vote in 1956.advantage here in iowa. any chance something like this works for herman in the hawk eye state? >> i doubt it and i don't think it's truthful. his status as a republican is a bigger factor than skin color and playing a role in the out come of this election. the president enjoys tremendous support among african-americans and all of the polling data i have seen thus far, that is bedrock. he continues to hold that support. i think his number fading and newt gingrich being the flavor of the month is more about mitt romney than any of these individuals. craig, what i see is this support like a wave going from all of these candidates from bachman to perry to and now to newt. each time they are rejecting mitt romney. each time they find a new candidate, they say no to mitt. >> we have seen dozens of polls and mittç romney consistently poled between 20 and 25%. they are not dropping, they just don't rise. >> they are static and similar to ron paul's numbers except they are larger. mitt romney

in 1952 when dwight eisenhower won, but you look at the south and the impact that the civil rights vote had, the democrats in 1964, what is the difference? >> no one -- the republican party said that was the party of the carpetbaggers. that was the party that you voted for the republicans and they got a toehold, they would monopolize the black vote, and there were all these panics. we have all seen "gone with the wind", right? five southern states voted for goldwater. 87% of mississippi voted for goldwater. when lyndon johnson signed the civil rights bill, he said he was siding with the south to the democratic party for a generation. that was one of the most profound changes in electoral alignment. -- he said he was signing away the south for the democratic party. the south was a primarily republican region, and that is because conservatives, led by barry goldwater, decided to retreat from the idea of the federal government advancing civil rights for african- americans. >> two years after ge basically ended the program, the g.e. theater that ronald reagan was hosted two years before he

victory by garnering a large share of the black vote, something that has not been done since dwight eisenhower garnered 41% of the black vote in 1956. some political analysts disagree, claiming that he has made no special effort to appeal to black voters, while president obama remains popular in the african-american community. let's bring in the panel now. jehmu green is here, former president of the women's media center, and a fox news contributor. and there is matt, a consultant for the national republican senatial committee. good to see you. >> hello. >> arthel: gentleman knew, that mental was sent out in a mailer. is this sort of like undercover courting? it's not like they posted it on the big jumbo tron at the game saying will you marry me? >> my first impression when i heard this was what? herman cain is actually campaigning in iowa? what happened to georgia and all of these other states that aren't even in play? but seriously, i'm a democrat. i will be supporting president obama. but it is in the best interest of the entire country that the republicans nominate the most qualified and a

dwight eisenhower had much higher taxes than this and we did very well. isn't clear at all that i see are ing taxes on the rich wouldn't have any effect on the economy at all. the economy is has tons of capital. not short of capital. >> how do you answer bill gates' point even if you went ahead and confiscated 100% of that top 1%'s wealth that means everything, their income, their assets, their property and everything, that would be such a minuscule. that would be like spitting into the ocean in terms of the amount of debt and deficits we're carrying right now. >> it wouldn't be that minuscule. i i agree. this is going to be a proposition that's going to take many years. it's going to have to be gradual and involve both spending and taxing. we just cut taxes way too low relative to our spending. there is no magical solution. you cannot just keep spending and spending and spending and cutting the revenue over and over again unless you are heading for national default. by the way, there are some very smart people who think we are inevitably going to have de

can lead by garnering a large share of the black vote, something that has not been done since dwight eisenhowerput the question to you both, do you think he can? >> he ain't getting much of the black vote. brother, it will be a black day before the black man herman cain gets a large share of the black vote. i don't see it happening. >> you are not going to vote for him just because he's black? i'm voting for michele bachmann because i'm a white woman. just like i voted for sarah palin because i'm a woman. >> you have a crystal ball like i have a dyson vacuum. >> when are we come back, three young americans apprehended in cairo as the situation on the ground worsens. stay with us. [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes? but you've got a meat and potatoes guy? pour chunky sirloin burger soup over those mashed potatoes and dinner is served. four minutes, around four bucks. campbell's chunky -- it's amazing what soup can do. she's a black friday living legend. she even named her kid "black friday." [ woman 2 ] whoa. [ male announcer ] black friday's here. deals start thursday 10 pm. but we're

dwight eisenhower created it in 1960, and now you're hearing drill, baby, drill up there. oil was found in '68. that would be like mining the grand canyon or chopping own redwood trees in the national park. it's a bad idea because the public doesn't get up there to see the arctic. they think of it in terms of energy instead of a gift that we're going to passen to future generations. >> doug brinkly, what role did alaska play in the founding of the bull moose party? is. >> very seminal role. it's a long story, but roosevelt after he left the presidency, 48 hours after he left he saved mount olympus in washington state. went to africa for the smithsonian institute, and while he was gone he had left behind for william howard taft his chief forester. the taft administration started giving sweetheart deals to corporations, what they called the guggenheim syndicate. it would be today's exxonmobil or shell. and giving them these sweetheart deals, clearcutting whole areas and leaving, really the beginning of the raping of the coal lands of alaska. pin cho blew a whistle and went t

going to be a george washington or abraham lincoln or franklin roosevelt or harry truman or dwight eisenhower. it doesn't happen that often. with the case of roosevelt, truman and eisenhower, you have three right in a row. that is unusual. and of course some presidents have time in office cut off by tragedy or assassination, and we never will know what extent they might have seen in them at six excel. what to look for in a president among other things is how have they handled failure in their lives before they became president? because every president is going to have to face disappointment and failure. it's extremely important that they have had some experience in handling that. it's also i think extremely important to understand if -- i really mean this, what degree do they have a sense of history. all of our best presidents are exceptional presidents without exception have been presidents who have a sense of history who read history in some cases wrote history and cared about history and biography. the only obvious who never went to college would be abraham lincoln and harry truman and bot

when i was president we had the smallest federal government since dwight eisenhower's last year, smallest percentage of the federal workforce since franklin roosevelt was president. i wouldn't mind doing that again. but i think there are some things that government has to do. government is good at aggregating capital for modern infrastructure, but i think we need more private investment. so i would like to see a debate in this committee could do this. they could say okay, look, here's what governments got to do. the deputy national security and help people who can't support themselves. we've made a decision in their retirement years people should have a decent standard of living. we have a whole wealth of things to support economic development and if anything we have to do more because our competitors are. same thing with scientific research. same thing with technological expansion of access. same thing with education. so we need to do is identify those things which governments should do and do them while at no greater cost than is absolutely necessary. and those things the private sector

. >> if you look at what happened in 1952 when dwight eisenhower won, but you look at the south and the impact the civil rights vote have for democrats in 1964, what is the difference? >> that was the party of the carpetbaggers. it was the party if you voted for republicans and they had a total, it would monopolize the blackfoot. there were all these panics about -- we have all seen "gone with the wind." the shift began in 1964. five states voted for goldwater. when lyndon johnson signed it the civil-rights bill, he said i and signing away the south for the democratic party for at least one generation. the south now is primarily a republican -- and and that is because conservatives led by barry goldwater decided to retreat from the idea of the federal government advancing civil rights for african americans. >> two years after -- and two years after he became governor of california, we had a portion of the speech he delivered. is called a time for choosing. late in the campaign as ronald reagan talked about the virtues of barry goldwater. >> i think it is time that we ask ourselves now w

but i thought it was very interesting that dwight eisenhower, who's not such a heavy in some aspects of the highway system, was leading one of the first convoys across the country after world war i when it started to pick up and the road-building urge spread. there were these very splashy, very colorful--and i must say i enjoyed reading about all that; i wasn't so anti-car that i couldn't enjoy, you know, the fun and games of going out on the road. and they go through these roads which were disgusting and rutted and pitted, and they're showing with these long convoys of army cars how we could have a better american way. and of course, i enjoyed only one thing more, and that was the web of streetcars that laced the nation all but 200 miles in the earlier part of the century... c-span: what... >> guest: ... which i think was a tele--technological marvel, actually. c-span: what happened to them? >> guest: they were dismantled. there are many theories. there's a very strong theory that general motors and the bus companies bought out, bribed, did all sorts of dirty tricks to make sure the

. >> dwight eisenhower has been quoted and recently by a member of his family as saying that if he had known adlai stevenson was to be the democratic candidate, he would not have run for president. i think on the large international issues, there was probably not a good deal of difference between them. one thing my father really felt strongly about richard nixon, he was loath to just about by everybody in washington. his strength was at the grass roots. after that incident and eisenhower's retention of richard nixon on the ticket, i think that caused some doubts in his mind about eisenhower. he respected eisenhower. dulles reluctantly made him an ambassador of the eisenhower administration so that in his travels run the world he could efficiently represent the united states. a difference between the democratic ex -- the democrats and eisenhower winning the of the party were the taft wing. if my father had been a president, you probably but have had the new frontier and the great society accelerated. medicare, federal aid to education, other social programs might have taken effect earli

and to come home not only with an american daughter-in-law but, you know, dwight eisenhower's granddaughter, must have been a terrible shock. i think they both, as i say, were quite upset about it for a while, but they got talked out of it. and by the time we arrived there and that picture was taken, they had decided that it was ok. c-span: let me ask this question as softly (ph) as i can -- i can envision somebody watching this, saying, why does this -- and i think it's a 43-year-old woman -- want to marry, first of all, a 62-year-old man who... >> guest: it's a good question! c-span: ... with three children that she has to support, and he, obviously, has to come here and adapt... >> guest: start again. c-span: ... himself to a new country and adapt to a new environment and all that kind of stuff, language problems, cultural problems? what was the attraction? or what is the attraction? >> guest: he's shorter than i am, too! (laughter) >> guest: which, by the way, he thinks is one of the reasons the kgb could never imagine it could be that serious between us because this is a very macho soc

time and mo udall is behind me because mo udall had the right idea to protect our alaska as to dwight eisenhower. the arctic was saved by ike 50 years ago. he was not a son of her great precedents per se it is a fiscal conservative. he pushed for alaska statehood very briefly because that red state in the first two senators were democrats. i went forward and not in the arctic refuge for creative at fairbanks daily minor for the arctic refuge. it's become eisenhower's great reserved. which is celebrated the 50th anniversary of the arctic and it is like yellowstone super great smoky mountain rebate then, one of the most treasure and landscapes in the united states. i am here and the reason i threw it today if my family three kids back in austin, texas. i came here to propose that these kind of eating properly to start. i think where to point out that president bush nominates two use the act of 1906 at the powerless without you so effectively to see the grand canyon from congressional people who wanted to minotaur is a copper and put the coastal plain, what is called turnouts here, the biological h