so, will the real dwight eisenhower please stand up? was he the eisenhower who accommodated his southern friends, who made racist jokes, who kept the one black member of his staff e. frederick morrow at arm's length? or, was he the eisenhower who appointed judges who would uphold the 14th amendment, who integrated washington, d.c., and used the army to break segregated schooling in little rock. in many ways the frustrations we have in pinning down eisenhower's ideas on civil rights are the same frustrations many of us have with our nation's history as a whole. we have a sense that our country should have given black people the same access to the rights of citizenship and opportunity that it gave to white people. that our presidents should have seen this and led us toward that goal, and not been mired in prejudice or political calculation. president eisenhower was a man who held the same casual disregard of african-americans that many in his generation held. however, his devotion to the constitution and to the procedural guarantees of the

recruited dwight eisenhower. >> does it even exist anymore? what they decided to do quite a while ago was to make this a populace religious grass roots organization. chris: why are they afraid? >> they've ridden the tiger for so long and licking its own lips. chris: is that the fear that they've got to lose? >> i think you're right. gingrich can't win against obama. it has existed far long time. the most amazing thing, there wasn't a single governor that came out and reached out to him. chris: look at rick scott of florida and scott walker -- you pointed out that they've got problems of their own. >> every time the romney campaign puts out its spokesman who tends to be former chiefs of staff it helps him. chris: bringing out susan moll naree and snusnu. -- >> a candidate comes up that seems to be teflon. whatever is bounced at them seems to bounce back off of them. teflon can disappear. chris: i know a lot of you were surprised that they're voting for newt. he's the only excitement. romney bores everybody to death and newt seems like excitemen

club nominated pple from humble backgrounds -- twice an hour, ronald reagan, richard nixoxon -- dwight eisenhowergan, richard nixon. mitt romney is the richest peon to run for president. >> a big bank account is a liability, charles? >> i didn't hururt fdr johnson or the bushes who had enough momoney in the bank. i am n not sure how much i can that it t has really -- how much a candidate has really matters. what matters here is that romney had to note that when you are a a venture capitalist, democrats are going to t you on that. what surprises me is that he is attacked by r republicans on this and he does not have a good answer. he needs to have an awer. he needsds to explain what he does how, for example, what he did is analogous to what obama did with the auto companies. in order to save companies in decline, about to go under, you have to slim it down, fire people close to the ships come in order thahat you save the companany and then you grow and expand in the fututure. he did it with private money obam ♪ i'm feelin', feelin' a sunny day ♪ ♪ sunny day ♪ ♪ i'm feelin', fefeelin' the taste i c

>> reporter: from dwight eisenhower to jimmy carter getting geting theirs first wins here. >> out ofhem? >> reporter: to john mccain and bill clinton. >> tonight has made bill clinton the comeback kid. >> reporter: saving thain candidacies with strong showings here. new hampshire has a long, rich history of making and breaking presidential campaigns. >> there are two tails of tiers in new hampshire, one positive and one negative. >> reporter: university of new hampshire scientist daunte scala had no trouble to name the two most emotional moments in the history of the new hampshire primary. it's 1972 and senator ed musky, a democrat from maine, the seeming front-runner washings on a roll here. musky felt the state's largest newspaper "the union leader" and its conservative publisher had unfairly targeted his wife. >> one day, musky was so enraged by all of this he rented a flat-bed truck and they took it out in front of the union leader so musky could give this speech attacking the union leader. at the time was there a snowstorm going on and people watching thought either there's snow

dwight eisenhower did -- it's approved. if you think of the nixon majorities in 68 in 72 in the reagan coalition, it is southerners, white working class voters and suburbanites. well, what was dwight eisenhower's coalition? he was the first republican president to come close to kerry himself. he carried the deep south state louisiana in 1956. he did incredibly well the suburbs, which required part of the american medical scene pennies on the web in class voters and did very well among capital voters in union voters. he was kind of the proto- reagan majority. i would go so far as to say the reagan majority is completely based on the eisenhower majority if you look at county by county analysis went by the same counties. by this is able to persist so long? will come a of it is fortunate contingency, the coin flipping. the republicans happen to come in and times when the economy was on the upswing in democrats weren't fortunate -- i do want to get into that debate, she had johnson president the ended disastrously in in a carter

. >>> plans for a memorial on the national mall to honor president dwight eisenhower could be on hold. his family sent a letter to the national capital planning commission objects to that memorial's design. they want the commission to delay the memorial until someone meets their concern. the family says this particular design over emphasizes ike's roots and down plays his accomplishments in world war ii and in the presidency. frank gary was picked for the project. he proposed a statue of young ike eisenhower. >> a former ups worker who remains accused as the mother, daughter slayer was sentenced to 100 years in prison today for terrorizing in a series of other crimes. prosecutors say 28-year-old jason t. scott is responsible for nearly 60 violent home invasions and burglaries and they released video of scott's tools of the trade. check him out. large arsenal of assault style weapons. >> he was a one man crime wave. he referred to him as a tsunami of crimes. >> lots of things that i just don't do. >> despite today's 100 year sentence, prince georges county prosecutors are poised to tak

now they want to stop the planning for president dwight eisenhower's memorial. we'll tell you why that might be at 7:00. >> still to come, from foul language to wardrobe malfunction. the supreme court is taking up the debate over regulating what you see on tv. topper. >> very nice evening and look at numbers that go in the books. we hit the 50s again today. 54 and 32 at national. average is 42 and 27. the record low is 3 below set in 1875. we'll come back. rain is on the way. we'll tell you which commute that is going to affect. >>> and up next, these sisters aren't just hanging out at a local restaurant, we're going to tell you what was really worth the wait. ♪ [ gasp ] [ mom ] my husband -- he thinks it's a 3-sheeter. i say 1-sheeter. bounty can clean the mess with less. [ female announcer ] in this lab demo, 1 sheet of bounty leaves this surface as clean as 2 sheets of the bargain brand. ♪ dance cooking? bring it. super durable. super absorbent. super clean. bounty the 1-sheet clean picker-upper. and try bounty napkins. >>> screams and tears of joy at a kfc t

scholars to rank the chief executives washington right up to eisenhower based on, quote, their greatness. of the 31 presidents rated dwight d. eisenhower ranked 21st. he was tied with arthur. just above andrew johnson. most of these academics would have agreed at that time with the presidential scholar who said eisenhower would be remembered primarily as a man who single-mindedly pursued his appetite for leisure and recreation while leaving the day to day administration of his office to trusted subordinates like assistant to the president sherman adams. over the past 50 years, however, these earlier assessments of eisenhower as a well-meaning but bumbling political novice have been challenged. drawing on newly opened collections of official records like right here at the eisenhower and personal papers, eisenhower revisionists have constructed a new image in which the president emerges as a capable, clever executive to led the nation with a strong hand and a clear vision. the new scholarship has enhanced ike's reputation dramatically. in 1980 a new poll modeled on that of 1962 placed eisenhower ninth. he then in 1990 slipp

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dwight d. eisenhower's family wants the memorial honoring the 34th president to be redesigned.e family says the concept focuses too much on his humble kansas roots and not enough on his accomplishments during world war ii and his time at the white house. the eisenhower memorial commission plan to seek final approval of the dedine sign but did not comment on the family's objection. >>> doomsday apparently is inching closer. that is according to the group of excites who track the likelihood of a global catastrophe. they have moved the doomsday clock to five minutes before midnight. the past two years, it has been six minutes. the group says limited efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and global warming are why members changed the clock. >>> the future of the washington redskins coming up next on fox 5 morning news. is it this guy? robert griffin iii? he is one step closer. sports headlines straight ahead after the break. o, progresso. it fits! fantastic! ring, ring. progresso. they fit! awesome. thank you. [ man ] ring, ring. pro-gresso. they fit! okay-y... okay? you do

francis jeep sanza was a driver for general dwight eisenhower and general patton. he was chosen by general patton in 1944 during preparings for allied invasion of german occupied france and drove for him from d-day until the end of the war in europe in may 1945. later that year general patton died on december 21, 1945 as a result of an auto accident. mr. francis sanza received five medals and five bronze stars during his time of service. thank you. >>> my first ride in an airplane was in a waca open cockpit type plane, rode in the backseated on my father's lap. that was quite an experience. ultimately an air force recruiter told me i could be an aviation cadet. i asked what the deal was and they explained if i had passed through the pilot training program they would give me wings and commission. if they didn't want me, they didn't want me. i said, that's a no-brainer. they can teach me to fly and i can leave if i want to? okay. sign me up. ♪ >> we lost a lot of guys in korea. i fully didn't expect to survive. i met a friend of mine that i went to high school and co

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coming up, we take a look at how the state gave momentum to ronald reagan dwight eisenhower and wouldere. >> which is not looking too likely this morning. >> you may recognize these ladies from their political parodies. the republican candidates are jon huntsman daughters and we will to them did their bad's tough campaign to win here in new hampshire. >> bringing a little levity to what can sometimes be a overly serious process. >>> first, here is debbye turner bell with today's headlines. >>> one of the six police officers shot during a drug raid overnight has died. gunfire erupted as the officers searched a home in ogden. five officers remain hospitalized. a suspect was arrested and is under guard at a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords will attend a candlelight vigil in tucson. it marks one year since the shooting rampage that killed six people and included 19 including gifford. >>> casein anthony has been in hiding since her acquittal in july and now she has resurfaced on youtube. the video was apparently made last october. she talks a

dwight eisenhower built the interstate highway system and invested in boosting our science and math andwith the help of republicans that fdr helped millions of people. returning veterans like my grandfather had a chance to go to college on the gi bill. that same purpose still exists today. it may not exist in washington, but out in america when you talk to people on main street and in town halls they will tell you they still believe in those values. our political parties may be divided, but most americans understand we rise and fall together as one nation. that is what is at stake right now. that is what this election is about. so chicago, yes it has been three tough years. there are times when the changes we wanted did not come as fast as we want. after all of the noise and washington, i know it is tempting to believe that maybe change is not possible. remember what we said during the last campaign. yes, we can. a real change and big changes not easy. i warn you it would take time. i said it was going to take more than a year and maybe more than one term. it might take more than one pr

to stablish opposed to office and in fact the only rationale that the federal government the dwight eisenhower the republican president had for building a national highway system was that the constitution says that we should have roads to facilitate the postal service. and we're finding many roads now the. being privatized so why should we want the private sector participate because i don't want to pay to use the roads it's not only government bureaucracy bureaucrats that love this country we all love this country america small business that i love this country should we stream what are the one thing. what do we want to excuse me if we love this country shouldn't we strengthen it should we be strengthening our commons rather than what we're doing into private enterprise she that's where i tell you that terry depart in a price free enterprise that strengthens or it's not a common anymore is that people into government that's not the commons anymore. this is why i think for example health care should be part of the commons that you try to take on your insurance company you can't you can't call t

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 there are some things the government has to do. the government is good at aggregating capital for the infrastructure but i think we need more private investment so i would like to see a debate and the committee could do this, you asked what the committee, they could say look chairs with the government has to do the to the national security. the have to help people with the fault of their own can't support themselves. we have made a decision 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 the scientific research, same thing with the technological expansion of access come same thing with education. what we need to do is to identify those things which the government shouldn't do and do them well let no gr

in his last day in office he was asked do you think the press corps has been fair to you and dwight eisenhower says i don't think that there's anything any reporter could do to hurt me and that is absolutely the right attitude. i'm not sure that this is the first president to search the web at night with blogs and the reaction to this book i'm not sure that is the attitude they have taken but certainly one they should take that's quite an ad miring and complicated portrayal. let's go to the floor and if anybody wants to go to the microphones in the aisle. >> how are you? >> i am great. >> i have a quick question for you. what do you think that michelle will allow barack to do after the presidency? >> that is a fantastic question and i think a real source of suspense because as she has discussed and there is more reporting in the book equal the has been an issue in the marriage. the best question i've ever asked by far as i said to them in the oval office and me and my colleague the help me write this question and says how is it possible to have an equal marriage when one person as president an

the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom.s. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] impossible. announcer: when you open a book, you can explore new lands... [bird screeches] meet new friends, and discover new adventures. there are amazing possibilities when you open your mind to reading. [roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. >> good evening, everyone. my name is filled in the third, the director of your parks department. my job can be challenging at times, but on and that light tonight, i feel like the luckiest guy in the world to be here, to support families in the event like this is truly fantastic. this is the greatest city in the world, the greatest parks department. thank you for joining us. 82 years a

the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom.ourselves. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] impossible. announcer: when you open a book, you can explore new lands... [bird screeches] meet new friends, and discover new adventures. there are amazing possibilities when you open your mind to reading. [roar] you can log onto he library of congress website and let the journey begin. >> good morning, and welcome to our city hall. as you know, yesterday -- first of all, let allthank all the members of the board of supervisors that are here today. it is really great day for our city and san francisco. i want to thank the members who are here, and even those who have not made it here, they have already registered. there certainly here in spirit. yesterday, you

. >> there is a bit -- the over a memorial for president dwight d. eisenhower>> here is a rendering of the park. his family says the part is not would want to be remembered. toit is a new opportunity that this great american experiment works. >> anticipation continue to build for the proposed memorial. it has attracted unexpected critics, the eisenhower family. the former president's granddaughter asked to halt the process. the family thinks that the is too much on his childhood. current design does very to depict the reason he is being honored. >> it is not a barefoot boy. but the executive architect says memorial has three main parts. a statue of eisenhower as a but two blocks with photographs. addressing the troops the day before d-day. the other one of them as president. the family has objected to a set of tapestries. the commission access they and not aetting focus. >> the memorial commission has plans to halt the process. it says will break ground this year and dedicate in 2015. >> it is not just a grandfather father we are memorializing. he was a great h

. >>> the family of the late president dwight eisenhower wants to put the brakes on a memorial honoringyou why. that's coming up. >>> is america ready to election the first mormon president of the united states? what fellow mormons are say about mitt romney and jon huntsman in a brand-new poll. you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties have sixty calories or less per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. try green giant frozen vegetables with sauce. >>> a florida university student beaten to death, his parents are suing the bus company, but experts say the case may be more complicated than it appears. george hall well has the story. >> reporter: severely beaten, killed on this tour bus, 26-year-old florida a & m robert champion died after a hazing incident. now his parents' attorney say they are taking legal action. >> we want to know what bus employee was assigned, how did the students get on, how did the bess gut turned on, how was the air conditioning on, how were they able to stake on there long enough to beat him to death. >> reporter: the

we have civil control of the military, the only military control we had in recent times was dwight eisenhower to the generals, but the actual goal of our foreign policy is under civilian control. we're not a democratic country if we are letting these people tell us should we stay in afghanistan until 2013. i think what the commanders need is civilians who know when we should go to war and when we shouldn't. >> we're not supposed to be a military state. we're supposed to be a democracy. our commanders don't control us. we control them. i also blame the media. because they have built this cult of the commander, right? and if you have this conversation almost on any other network, their heads will explode. oh, my god, you challenged the commanders. you have challenged the gods? aim on to something there? >> well, we have sort of a -- a giant -- well, the military industrial complex is nothing new, but sort of the military pundit complex is something that has gotten much, much broader. there is a study about people leaving the military while being funded by defense contractors, and various intere

a health care and employer-based health care system that dates to dwight eisenhower. of evidence, all these things. the president comes out and says i want to reform health care. only to watch $600 million come from private drug companies, private insurance companies, private hospital companies into washington, d.c., including to the president. and only to watch nearly the president and the congress leave intact the month nopoly, do a back-room deal, and ultimately do little more than reform the health care system beyond giving hng away. one more thing. banks 2010, same thing. $600 million. don't break up the banks. don't put swaps on an exchange. don't reform the system. that's a small price. these are multi-trillion dollar businesses. that's big money. that makes

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just make the tax burden heavier now you know grow the economy let's do it for it let's do it dwight eisenhower did you know we came out of world war two with a with a debt that was one hundred twenty six percent of. we're not anything in close to that right now and he paid the whole thing off without cutting anything in fact he went on a spending binge he built a highway system all across this country while we did slow down defense spending and that's something that republican candidates really haven't been forthright about even santorum he's proposing to just freeze outlays as part of his budget cutting plan i don't think you can really do that and get deep we had i think we have defense he said look at that you know i'm not yet we have we have just a minute left today the president has appointed richard cordray as the. to head the consumer financial protection bureau and did a recess appointment republicans are hysterical i'm just curious your take on this . well i mean it's i think republicans you know they're trying to they're trying to play a game and you know they didn't want don't want

washington right up to eisenhower based on their greatness. of the 31 presidents raided, dwight d. eisenhower ranked 21st. he was tied with ched arthur, just above andrew johnson. most of them would agree with the presidential scholar who said eisenhower would be remembered primarily as a man who single mindedly leaved the day to day administration of his office to trust subordinates like sherman adams. over the past 50 years, however, these earlier assessments of eisenhower as a well meaning but bumbling political novice has been challenged # drawing on a collection of rouds like right here at the eisenhower and personal eisenhower revisionists in which the president emerges as an executive to led the nation with a strong hand and a clear vig. the new scholarship has enhanced ike's reputation dramatically. in 1980, a new poll modeled on that t he then in 1990 slipped to 15. but in 2010, last year, s ichie college research poll ike had slipped back to the top ten. the revisionists have focused on ike in the foreign policy sphere. they have not focused as much on ike in the domestic

ñm Ñoó >> bret: the family of late president dwight eisenhower wants planners of a memorial to go back drawing board. the current model overemphasizes the kansas roots and neglects his accomplishments. the plans call for a life-size statue of 7-year-old ike surrounded by 8-story tall pillars that hold up large steel mesh tapestries displaying kansas scenes and images from his adult life. the daily caller reports it's not just the family who is unhappy with the plan for the $100 million effort. conservative commentator george weigel called at it travesty, that was steamrolled through the federal bureaucracy. the national civic arts society president said he has not found anyone who likes the design. illinois democratic congresswoman jan chikowsky discussed a keystone pipeline in the radio interview. the host brought up the number of direct jobs the president would reportedly create. to which he is said this -- >> 20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs. investing in green technology, will produce that and more. the unemployment rate in illinois is 9.#%. he is went on to say the republi

look back in the 1950's under dwight eisenhower, republican president, nobody ever accused of being a socialist, the top tax rate was 91%. now you have mitt romney earning $20 million a year, more than anybody, how many people do you know who are earning $20 million a year, top one-tenth of 1% taking in more money than a percent age of total income since the late 1920's and he and most other very wealthy people are paying 15%. we have a budget deficit, we are laying off teachers, our roads are impassable. we don't have money to do what we need to do and here you have the wealthiest people in america getting off not doing their patriotic duty. it's morality. >> you win the crowd you win the issue. it seems to me if the democrats will win the conversation and explain to americans as everybody seems to be paying attention now to this discussion about economic fairness in america, it would seem to me that romney's tax release came at the right time. no doubt. go ahead. >> it came at exactly the right time but comes at the right time because americans know they are losing public services.

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. >>> creative differences are getting in the way of a memorial honoring president dwight eisenhower. it's slated to be built along maryland avenue near sixth street southwest. frank gary's concept focuses heavily on eisenhower's boyhood home in kansas. the family of the 34th president objects to the design saying it neglects military accomplishments and his time in the white house. they've asked the planning commission to delay the memorial till their concerns are met. >>> time 6:39. we don't know if you're ready for winter driving but virginia sure is. >> monika takes us behind the scenes of a new command center. learn how it hopes to make driving in the snow a little less messy. >>> no snow in the forecast. rain is, however. should start after lunch. highs in the 40s. coming up next howard will tell us how long this is going to last. >>> now a quick check of what's on channel 9 tonight at 8:00. it's "kind minds. -- it's "crime minds." after that the people's choice awards and 9news now at 11:00. >>> howard bernstein is here with the forecast. you need your scraper this morning if y