they not only got along fine together, that dwight eisenhower used richard nixon in a superb way. eisenhower never got nailed. he never got criticized for the things that he told other people to do. whether it was massive retaliation or brinkmanship by john foster dulles, sending troops to vietnam allegedly by nixon, whether it was affairs, all of this stuff never stuck to dwight eisenhower. it always went to somebody else. and i spent you know, several -- to not enough minutes talking to dean about civil rights. now, just a taste for you all, i started out with three paragraphs on richard nixon and civil rights. i now have three chapters on richard nixon and civil rights. he was the lead person in public affairs under dwight eisenhower pushing desegregation, pushing equal job opportunity. he was next to lyndon johnson in 1957, bringing republican senators on board for the civil rights act of 1957. the story about lbj and richard nixon not getting along, i have their letters. they got along fine. they worked well together. richard nixon, taking all of these good will missions abroa

there's a brand-new biography coming out on dwight eisenhower's president of the united states. man is a journalist who did enormous amount of research. he went to dartmouth to take a look at the papers. went to the library of congress. spent considerable time in abilene. he lives in los angeles and never came to the nixon library. that's -- that's the long and the short of it. it's an ingrained nature among a certain subset of very, very influential people that looked at nixon from the beginning of his vice presidency. and for that matter, dwight eisenhower was a twit in the original books written about him in the late '50s and early '60s and sometimes even now. but for whatever reason, nobody really passionately looked at the papers of either dwight eisenhower and richard nixon. and to give another plug, if you're interested, one line and in the major libraries, there are the private papers of the presidency of dwight eisenhower as well as his early years. it's only 21 volumes. so if you wish to peruse it in a half an hour, it should be no problem. but vaney and galambose did

time they worked and worked and worked there was never a prayer for adly stevenson to defeat dwight eisenhower. the first time in 52 stevenson lost by 3.5 million votes. the second time he only lost by 9.7 million votes. it when these they taught grat watt system fares. when a brat was and nixon was, and it became the stuff of the rightings, and their graduate stings and it's lattsted until now. there's a biography coming out, a man who is a journalist did an enormous amount of research. he went to dartmouth and went to the library of congress, spent considerable time in abilene. he lives in los angeles and never came to the nixon lean raer. that's the lock and the short of it. it's an ingrained nature among a certain subset of very, very influential people that looked at nixon from the beginning of his vice presidency and for that matter dwight eisenhower was a twit in the books written about him in the late 50s and early 60s and sometimes even now, but it, for whatever reason nobody really passionately looked at the papers of either dwight eisenhower and richard nixon, if you want to give an

they thought dwight eisenhower was a stooge at the communist party. i can't imagine why anybody would think nixon would sign on to that. the other thing is they kept on asking questions alone that his brother had gotten from the tool company, and the fact that they had asked and answered time and time again and annoyed the hell out of this guy and there was the famous night when he loses and the famous press conference when he says you won't have dick nixon to come around anymore, to keck around anymore. john writes this was under the influence of a whole lot of scotch. when he made that speech. nixon later also wrote that he never regretted saying that at all because he thought that was partially responsible for him getting more positive press coverage as he moved back up into political life in the mid-1960s. by 1968 he starts wearing the hat of the zen master. he has figured out probably before anybody else that network tv news had changed entirely in the 1960s. i think it started. 1963 was a huge year. cbs and nbc went from 30 minute newscasts. the

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 as he the eisenhower that would appoint judges that would uphold the 14th amendment 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 president 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 hold. however, his devotion to the constitution and to the procedural guarantees of the legal system enabled him to set

one of the things they did, they thought dwight eisenhower was a stooge of the communist party. i can't imagine nixon -- why anybody would think nixon would sign on to that. the other thing is they kept on asking him questions about a loan that his brother had gotten from the hughes tool company. the fact he had to ask and answer time and time again annoyed the hell out of this guy. of course, there's that famous night when, okay, election night he loses and the famous press conference where he says you won't have dick nixon to come around anymore, kick around anymore. john elicman writes this was under the influence of a whole lot of scotch when he made that -- when he made that speech. nixon later on wrote that he never regretted saying that kind of thing. saying that at all. because he thought that was partially responsible for him getting more positive press coverage as he moved back up in the political life in through the mid-1960s. by 1968, he once again starts wearing the hat of the zen master. he has figured out probably before anybody else that tv -- that network tv new

into question but roger morris has an interesting anecdote about the checker speech in that dwight eisenhower, the last u.s. president ironically born in the 19th century, whats in a hotel room with his aides watching nixon on the checkers speech and the aides are laughing and chortling and thinking this is really funny and they turn around and look at eisenhower and he has a pencil in his hand and he cracks the pencil. they look and they say what's going on? he says you guys don't quite understand what just happened. we can't go against him right now. it was a masterful use of the media. by 1960 he is starting to have a rougher time. herb block notably of the washington post is doing some fairly funny cartoons which could not have been comfortable for richard nixon. at this point -- now, there's an open question of what kind of -- how the news media covered richard nixon. now, in his autobiography, the one in the 1970s that mr. beganon wrote about, mnixon pretty solidly said everybody was against me in the 1960 race. when you look at six crises which he wrote in 1962, he didn't seem at that

when dwight eisenhower left office, we had 600 advisers in vietnam. by the time richard nixon took over in 1969, there were 535 american troops in vietnam or on the way. what nixon -- nixon understood was that the american people did not want to lose the war in vietnam. it was a different america. they desperately did not after all that sacrifice, 30,000 were already dead, at the same time they didn't want to continue the war. i think they trusted richard nixon because of his foreign policy experience, and i believe what that was was probably a clip tied to the footage you had of nixon's speech at the miami convention. now, that speech whatever people -- i know people ridiculed it, but we took pieces of that speech and turned nixon's on own words into ads tied to the footage that you saw there. i think that was one of the convincing things, was that johnson had been with lyndon johnson. he was broken on the wheel of vietnam. he had stood down, and quite clearly one argument we had was if the democratic party cannot unite itself, it's fighting in the s

i was thinking about recent history, dwight eisenhower didn't belong to a church until he decided to run for president. then a republican advisor said you better join a church, he decided to become a presbyterian. we didn't care what religion dwight eisenhower was when he was commanding forces in europe or president. in 1960, we decided as a country when we elected john kennedy you didn't have to be protestant to be president. to even enter into this conversation i think is bothersome. it's fine with me, i think religious people have a right to bring their own faith to the public square if they want to, but to start questioning someone's religion and saying, questioning someone's religion as if that is a barrier is a real problem. >> it seemed to me in that interview this morning that reverend graham said based on his analysis, he does not think people should support president obama. that is how i read it. there was a real political message there, he could not give conviction in saying he believes that the president is a christian, which is code talk to the religious conservatives in

and, by the way, if you want a contemporary parallel, look at dwight eisenhower, whose great hero was george washington and who was like washington, you know, the man who won world war ii didn't need a favorable story in that day's new york times to burnish his reputation. eisenhower and what became famous as the hidden hand approach to the presidency, the idea of pulling strings in behind the curtain in many ways because ike didn't need the ego gratification of a teddy roosevelt and the bully pulpit. but also that's how he preferred to operate in many ways from the shadows. and part of that was the example of washington whose great success was to keep both hamilton and jefferson in the cabinet long after both of them wanted out. again, it's all part of buying time. and the consequence was that washington, first of all, subjected himself to some very unpleasant cabinet meetings and occasionally lost his temper. we have jefferson's account of one at which the president threw his hat on the floor. i don't know why he was wearing his hat at the cabinet meeting, but in any event -- but we

and, by the way, if you want a contemporary parallel, look at dwight eisenhower, whose great hero was george washington and who was like washington, you know, the man who won world war ii didn't need a favorable story in that day's new york times to burnish his reputation. eisenhower and what became famous as the hidden hand approach to the presidency, the idea of pulling strings in behind the curtain in many ways because ike didn't need the ego gratification of a teddy roosevelt and the bully pulpit.

lee and dwight eisenhower. contemporary americans are confined to confuse such reserve with emotional constipation. but there is another word for washington's conduct towards the two most important women in his life. that word is judgment. rarely confused with charisma, it may not bring us to our feet, but it is the lifeblood of leadership. judgment supplied the foundation for washington's success as revolutionary and somewhat reluctant executive. it is precisely what was missing in his younger self. far more than a marriage of convenience, the love match that developed over time between the washingtons bestowed on each partner gifts beyond material wealth or social prestige. deeply domestic by nature, washington found in his agreeable consort an equanimity and transport transcending worldly riches. at the same time there is no doubt that his marriage to martha put the seal on washington's dramatic ascent in the planter aristocracy, which brings us to the second significant change that defines the washington of

robert taft and dwight eisenhower, i think if you got some younger -- that's jack kennedy. jack kennedy was tailor-made for the new age he came into. handsome, charming. he had all those skills. let me tell you when i was a journalism student, we had field observation week, and it was a week that john glenn went around the world. they took us over -- marvin aerosmith took me to the state department where kennedy had his press conferences in that room. this guy gets up from the washington daily news. he said, washington daily news, mr. president. when john glenn comes to town, they urged there be a holiday for all the school kids in d.c. kennedy looked down and said, this administration has always followed the policy of the washington daily news. it was just that spon taneity ad humor that even if you disagreed with him, which i did, made me think, the democrats really have something here. >> later we'll be talking about debates. richard nixon did not debate in 1968, nor did he in 1972. why? >> i think all of us didn't think he ought to debate. and neither did he. and we use

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time they worked and worked and worked, there was never a prayer for adlai stevenson to defeat dwight eisenhower. i mean, the first time in '52, stevenson lost by 3.5 million votes. the second time he only lost by 9.7 million votes. when these folks went back to their graduate programs, either consciously or subconsciously, they taught graduate seminars on what a twit eisenhower was and what a rat fink nixon was. and it

president dwight eisenhower once said, and i quote, "unless we progress, we regress."ince passing the affordable care act we made tremendous progress on the health care fund. health reform is saving millions of americans money, giving them more choices and better access to their doctors. prescription drugs are cheaper for seniors. 3.6 million medicare beneficiaries save more thanned 2dz billion last year. and that's because health care reform fills the donut hole. to date, 2.5 million young adults, many facing a difficult job market, have been able to stay on their parents coverage. 40,000 americans were denied insurance due to pre-existing health condition and have been able to obtain coverage through state based high risk pools. a woman from billings, montana, can tell that you just how health care reform has helped her. like most seniors, vera lives in fixed income. has to be conscious of every penny she spends to get by. before health reform, vera was forced to pay as much as $8$85 month for one prescription. now she is saving $20 a month on medications she needs w

discretionary spending is expected to fall to its lowest level as a share of the economy since dwight eisenhoweras president. and the president's plan would significantly slow the rate of growth in spending in medicaid and medicare both through the affordable care act and the additional reforms proposed in the budget. but as we reduce spending, we also have to protect investments that are critical to expanding economic growth and opportunity. that's why the budget proposes a series of targeted investments in education and innovation and manufacturing and in infrastructure. now, in order to achieve this balance, significant savings but some important investments, we're proposing to raise a modest amount of additional revenues through tax reform. we propose tax reforms that raise revenues because we do not believe it is possible to meet our national security needs to preserve a basic level of health care and retirement security or to compete effectively in the global economy without some increase in revenues as part of a basic plan. the president's plan includes $2.50 of spending cuts for every do

have been trashed all of it exactly the way james madison predicted and the way that president dwight eisenhower warned us about in his farewell address in the councils of government we miss carr guard against the acquisition of government that influence whether sought own sought by the military industrial complex the potential for the disastrous rise of this place power exists and will persist we must never let the weight of this combination in danger our liberty our democratic process. and all of eisenhower's worst fears will come true should romney santorum or gingrich be elected commander in chief and take us to war against iran. nobody knows how serious these guys really are about war with iran they maybe just sensationalizing the threat against america to make this election about national security instead of the rapidly improving economy just change the topic but given how we were all conned into war not too long ago by the likes of bush and cheney and now these republicans are parroting this same exact talking point points just replacing the human iraq with an end in iran then we the peop

that was not in the clinton era or even the jimmy carter era, dwight eisenhower was president and elvis presley recorded his first single in the same year that spending went down for the first time. the good news is voters are ready to change that. i'm not sure the politicians have caught up yet. i wanted to ask ralph to start us off, and, ralph, the issue is very simple. right now as we look at the presidential election, we see a republican electorate that is not excited about their front-runner, but 75% of republican voters think that mitt romney will be the nominee. how do you see this playing out? >> the political landscape is littered with imponderables and improbables and unknowables far later in the contest than it usually is. and i hate to say this at a conservative political action conference, but none of these things as i see are particularly good. intensity has gone from -- usually it's with republicans. polling i've seen shows that intensity and enthusiasm about voting is now with the democrats. i regard that as a very bad sign. the enthusiasm among republican voters for any

spends money on and this is of course a warning that came decades ago also from president dwight d. eisenhower in his farewell address back in one thousand sixty one i want to play just a little bit about what he said and then talk about its relevance today. in the councils of government we must car guard against the acquisition of government that influence whether sought or loans on by the military industrial complex the potential for the disastrous rise of this place power exists and will persist all right lou to what extent is this military industrial complex strong enough to remain as it is i mean when you think about americans and you look at polls people are sick of war and the ron paul school of thought continues to pick up steam that the government should not be involved in or finance these wars i mean do you think eisenhower's fear which arguably has happened sustain. well of course it's exactly right i mean there are probably three big interest groups about the corporate state that are in league with the government now the wall street banking complex you have the big pharma medical c

there was an inkling of conservatives about the media in the 1964 convention speech of dwight eisenhower. eisenhower was not a great, blazing or for, and he got up and made a statement like, and we don't need the advice of sensation-seeking columnists and commentators. in that convention, the roof went off it. it said americans at least conservatives had already taken to heart the idea that the media was negative. then in 1969 dafsh this was agnew's famous speech in des moines where he attacked all three networks. incidentally, i wrote na speech. i suggested the speech first to the president. he said go ahead with it. so i wrote it, and then i wrote -- i did two best drafts for speech writers and the best draft is your third draft in my view. after that it turns to mush. so i had the first draft done and the second done. you had to take some things out. i was over there -- president nixon calls me over into his office. nobody saul him. he wears glasses, you know. he's wearing glasses and he's reading the speech and he says okay stick in this in here, stick in here. he leaned back and too

. >> for the last 60 years, every president since dwight eisenhower has attended the national prayer breakfast and tomorrow, president obama will be on hand at this year's prayer breakfast. watch live coverage at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> u.s. officials continued to monitor europe's economy and debt crisis. up next, the senate budget committee looks at the economic outlook for the eurozone and we'll hear from economists and financial analysts at this hearing chaired by north dakota senator kent conrad. >> i want to welcome everyone to the senate budget hearing and today's focus is the outlook on eurozone and its impact on the u.s. and global economy. we have three really distinguished witnesses with us this morning and i want to thank them each for being here. first, we have dr. simon johnson, sr. fellow at peterson institute and proif he tr are sore of entrepreneurship at myth sloan school of management. dr. johnson has testified before this committee on several occasions and we welcome him back this morning. we also have dr. freedbergston, director of the the peterson insti

discretionary spending is projected to fall to its lowest level as a share of the economy since dwight eisenhower was president. and the president's proposal would also slow the rate of growth of spending in medicare and medicaid through the affordable care act reforms and additional proposals we laid on the buget fdget. as we reduce spending, we also have to protect investment that's are important to expanding future economic growth. and that's why the budget makes a series of targeted investment proposals in education and innovation and manufacturing and infrastructure. these are not expensive proposals. there's things question afford. we propose to pay for them within a framework that reduces our deficits to more sustainable levels. now in order to achieve this balance, this balance between significant substantial deficit reduction over time with still some room for invest ams that matter, we're proposing to raise a modest amount of revenues for tax reform. the president's plan proposes roughly $2.5 in spending cuts for every dollar of revenue increases. these revenue increases would fall only

go back and look it up harry truman and dwight eisenhower democrat and republican they borrowed more money they built the national highway system they built hospitals they built schools they put people like my dad through college for free and gave one hundred dollars a month stipend to live on they borrowed more money and spent it and invested it in the intellectual and physical infrastructure of this nation and and created fifty years of of prosperity as a consequence of it and then reagan came along and said not we're not going to do that anymore we're not going to invest in our people we're going to stop building schools stop building hospitals stop putting you know no more federal funds for anything and by the way tax cuts for the rich in and he ran up the biggest debt in the history the country ronald reagan one guy you are more money than every president sort of the washington jimmy carter you just revealed a prob with your argument which is that you bring up ronald reagan and a lot of folks talk about ronald reagan certainly people in my side of the world are very fond of him

let that influence whether sought or known by the military industrial complex the morning of dwight d. eisenhower spoken more than fifty years ago is being reverberated today this time by ron paul who also says the us is on a dangerous path toward fascism i'll tell you what keeps this presidential candidate up at night. there's a wise old greek proverb that the person who borrows. becomes the slave who he borrows from and on your marks they get set bail out european ministers are meeting in belgium to plug the holes in greece's economy what's at stake and what does it mean for your finances well explore. is this another step potentially on the road to road to potentially making nuclear weapons and iran's nuclear potential has lawmakers and media outlets crying wolf but haven't we seen this story somewhere before isn't this the equivalent of iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and is fear and not to send us into yet another war. good afternoon it's monday february twentieth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you watching our team. well it's president's day today and we're in the f

sixty four believed and he were been outraged this was a republican party that rallied behind dwight eisenhower elected him president united states twice in fifty two and fifty six eisenhower also did not believe in an all powerful military security complex famously saying this in his cross of iron speech in one hundred fifty three. every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final game the fans from those who are not. those who are cold and are not going. this world in arms is not spending money. you spend in the sweat of its labors. do you see the sign of the obvious to. the cost modern heavy bombers is it. a modern brick school in more than thirty. two electric power plant each serving its sound sixty. two. only possible. it is some to be mine. the. we pay for a single fighter plane with us i have many invoices. we pay for a single destroyer with new homes and put it how. more than a thousand feet. that is not a way of life at all. in anything. under the cloud of fencing already humanity hanging from a cross of our. and today we are firmly nailed to a cr

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 31st. he was tied with chad arthur. just above andrew johnson. most of these academics would have agreed at that time with the presidential scholar louis kuhning who said eisenhower would be presenting his appetite for leisure and recreation while leading the day to day administration of his office to trust the assistant to the president sheryl an axe. over the past 50 years, however, these earlier assess ams of eisenhower as a well meaning, but bumbling political novice have been challenged. the corrections of official records like right here at the eisenhower and personal papers and eisenhower revisionists have constructed a new edge in which the president emerges as a capable, clever, executive that led the nahition with a strong hand and a clear vision. the new scholarship has enhanced ike's reputation dramatically. a new poll placed eisenhower ninth. he then in 1990 slipped to 15th. the sienna college research institute poll. ike had once again moved back int

dwight d. eis eisenhower said he would seek a second term.ffered a heart attack that led to speculation he would not run again. he beat adlai stevenson by more than 9 million votes and one could argue dwight eisenhower is america's least ideological president in the 20th senn ture century, but we'll discuss that at a later date. both candidates arrive on super tuesday states with the political imprint from last night's results. alex wagner host of "now with alex wagner" on msnbc at noon, 9:00 pacific, and errol louis is host of inside city hall on new york one. welcome, one and all. mitt romney win or rick santorum win last night? >> mitt romney won it, and he revealed his just immense flaws as a candidate, that he just reeled from gaffe to gaffe, couldn't deliver anything resembling a message. it was all his fault, he could have talked about the economy and he would have won the state. >> i want to stay with you for a minute because you retweeted something, and, you know, you like when sometimes tweets get a little bit off the reservation. s

corporation tax revenues as a total are down to 10% 33% under dwight eisenhower.s hard to understand why he feels compelled to reduce tax rates. the cynic would say he's doing it because after all there are a lot of campaign contributions coming in from big corporations and c.e.o.'s. i'm not quite that cynical. i think there are people in the treasury department that say we you got to rationalize the tax system get rid of loopholes make it neutral. i think there are political advisers saying let's take away an issue they are going to nail you with, corporate taxes too high relative to our international competitors. to me, those are not very good reasons, but nevertheless, that's what we have. >> could the argument be made that it looks bad that there is some quid pro quo. let's make sure no one can inherit the full riches of the father the wall street journal saying congress should pass allows that would break up the big banks. it seems suspicious that that would be followed up by a presidential plan to reduce corporate taxes. >> well, it's a little odd particular

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