it was 5 # years ago last january that dwight eisenhower delivered his farewell address from the oval office. i got wonderful insight to it. he gave me a few thoughts on crafting the thing. his old colleague at the heritage foundation describes the speech as one cited and seldom read. it coins the phrase military industrial complex. and there is this enduring image that the industry i'm representing is a small thing with long assembly lines. in fact, it's not at all what we are. when dwight eisenhower gave the speech, the defense industry was the largest manufacturing industry in the country. it was larger than cars. it was larger than oil and gas. it met an immediate need that was quite stark and challenging. and he references that right now are the top five of us in the defense industry. the top tier companies. combined annual income is half that of exxon. it's also half of wal-mart. if we have a complex, it exists in some other sector. david burteau did a study that since the defense consolidation and downturn of 1991, 150 companies have left the industry. either through consolidat

meanwhile tonight the proposed dwight eisenhower memorial is in trouble following a battle on capitoll today. >> this follows the controversy over the project's designed by the known architect. members of the eisenhower family did not like it. the decision to deny funding based on the concern over the design. a unique display of desks with a message on the national mall today. the college board said up 857 empty school desks on the mall today. it represents the number of children who drop out of school every hour of every school day. the messages for the candidates for president to not forget education during their administration. >> a special delivery brought traffic to a standstill this happening. a cargo ship carrying four huge cranes passed under the bridge. they stopped traffic for 40 minutes. it will allow the ports to unload huge ships that will pass through the canal and a couple of years. quite a sight. >> that looks like a really tight fit. >> if they got stuck, they were going to drain some of the water out of the bay. >> lets the started here. if you like hot weather, you

dwight eisenhower's administration, she has been the constant picture of britain plus "scoops and predictions" from the notes of these great reporters. be right back. chris: welcome back. as you can see, we're enjoying some tea here to celebrate the 60 years of queen elizabeth's reign. princess elizabeth of the house of windsor became queen when her father gorge died young. the 26-year-old new queen rushed back from her royal trip to kenya. elizabeth was crowned in the midst of britain's post war recovery. she reigned through the delivente empire and the independence of most of its colonies with prosperity and also deposition at home and an increasingly changing population. britain's leading historian rights in "newsweek" this week that when elizabeth was crowned, she pledged herself to hand over her life to the role of national matriarch so a nation might endure. so katy, match that. i guess the great old churchill war poster was keep calm and carry on. is that what she symbolizes? >> you see signs in london that say panic and freak out. part of the reason we love her is because of her stead

to the right they won't even -- they won't meet me where ronald reagan met democrats or where dwight eisenhowerichard nixon met democrats. so he's saying his goal -- the three of us can disagree about whether or not this is going to be effective. he's saying, you know the thing to do, voters? you have to break the stalemate. you have to tell the republican party. why have you gone off a cliff and why have you lost your minds? thank you to joan and rick. find out what happened on the campaign trail. that's next in the "side show." and if you want to follow me on twitter, figure out how to smell smerconish. this is "hardball." the place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." time now for the "side show." first up, jon stewart took on senate banking committee member jim de mint yesterday for his gentle questioning of ceo jamie dimon. take a look at this. >> they didn't just haul jamie dimon in to tell him how good he is and huge he is. they also brought him in to talk about how terrible they, the senate are. >> we can hardly sit in judgment of your losing $2 billion. we lose twice that ever

>> he ran twice against the great military hero dwight eisenhower. so i don't really think there's anyway that addie llai stevenso could have won those elections. americans like military heros. we have a few generals that did not win, but eisenhower is an unas saleable character and i'm not sure adlai stevenson ran the most efficient campaign at least in '52. he handled the media poorly. he would still be governing these lovely speeches and you would see at the bottom of the screen that this is a program that's supported by the democratic national committee. he never could change his rhetoric and couch it in the necessity of television time. >> he'd be cut off in the middle of a speech. because the speech -- people who traveled with him were driven to -- he had great speech writers, too, by the way. people that stephenson brought into the process. but -- >> but still, these were not -- he lost, what, in the high 40s. the second time, eches he was i lower 40s. >> he managed to lose to a president during a recession. that's not easy to do. you're right

dwight eisenhower back in and when he was president i believe it was fifty six gave a speech to the american association of newspaper editors that sometimes referred to as the humanity hanging on the cross of iron speech in which he characterized war and war machines and this was a guy who. no i mean he he led american forces in world war two in the european theater he characterized the he said one battleship is ten thousand bushels i don't remember the verbatim but you know one battleship is ten thousand bushels of wheat or it's you know five schools or it's three thousand homes and you know one one modern bomber is you know a. small city you know he used these metaphors and all and wrapped it up saying you know this is no way to live you you write extensively and have about war issues of war and peace and geopolitics isn't there a lot to be said for the concept that if we put a lot of resources into building bombs and then drop them on someone those resources are gone whereas if we put those resources into building solar panels or wind power or figuring out how to produce food that oil we

government spending has gone up at a slower rate in my administration than any administration since dwight eisenhower." [cheers and applause] a at looking at health care costs and health care and medicaid. to an making itself folks in their golden years, i am happy to work with you. but here is just one thing. i think some should pay more in taxes because i do not think we should do this for a some people or in medicaid for a disabled child cut, or shortchanging our veterans for the care they need when they come home. i do not want that. i don't need that tax cut bad enough. and it turns at mcmillian there is an billionaires' do not need it either. they are doing just fine. their tax rates are lower than they have been in 50 years, and will be a purpose is let's go back to the rates and the last democratic administration when we created 22 million jobs. it did not seem to be a problem for a job creator as then, what should be a problem now? what happens? -- happened? [applause] we can reduce our deficit in a balanced way and protect this for the middle-class. we have not gotten any takers so far. act

the right they wroent even -- they won't meet me where ronald reagan met democrats or where dwight eisenhowerd nixon met democrats. so he's saying his goal -- the three of us can disagree about whether this is going to be effective is, he's saying you know the thing to do, voters? you have to break the stalemate. you have to tell the republican party, why have you gone off a cliff and why have you lost your minds? >> i've got to say thanks to joan walsh and john feehery. up next, mitt romney can't outrun that story about why he put the dog on the roof for the vacation. that's next on the "side show." and if you want to follow me on twitter, figure out how to smell smerconish. this is "hardball." the place for politics. it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all night long. the revolutionary recharge sleep system... from beautyrest. it's you, fully charged. diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic ca

and there's no way, in fact, that the president of the united states, president dwight eisenhower would have taken that step without the prompting by the courts. now, part of this is almost obvious. the supreme court is appointed. t the appointments are for life. as a result they are in some ways insulated from public opinion. in ways that the congress and the president are not. but congress and the president certainly were not embracing of civil rights at that particular moment as the supreme court was and as other courts. and i make this argument. had it not been for those courts, had it not been for the courts, i doubt if we have much to say about the civil rights movement. in other words, they played a crucial role in terms of laying the foundation for what would come in the 1960s. but i suggested there are other changes taking place as well. one of those changes was in the naacp itself. the national association for the advancement of colored people as we talked about in this class, the national association for the advancement of colored people in some ways lost its energy, lost its

for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com >> pelley: 68 years ago today general dwight eisenhower final order for the allied invasion of normandy. it was the eve of d-day. among the americans who fought to liberate europe in the months ahead was first lieutenant billy harris, and that brings us to steve hartman's "on the road"-- part mystery, part love story. >> reporter: peggy harris of vernon, texas, never got a knock at the door. never got a telegram. never got anything definitive explaining what happened to her husband billie during world war ii. and so, in the absence of answers, she has remained dutiful to this day. >> billie was married to me all of his life and i choose to be married to him all of my life. >> reporter: peggy and billie got married just six weeks before he got shipped off to war. a fighter pilot, his last mission was july 17, 1944 over nazi-occupied northern france. billie never returned from that mission. at first, he was reported as missing. then he was reported as alive and coming home. then peggy got a letter saying he'd actually been killed and was bur

it was 50 years ago that dwight eisenhower delivered his address from the oval office. mckenzie's old colleague at the heritage foundation describes that speech as one destined to be frequently cited and seldom read. but it coins the phrase military industrial complex. and there is this enduring it's also half that of walmart. so if we have a complex out there, it's existing in some other sector. david bertoe did a study that since the defense consolidation and the downturn of 1991, 150 companies have left this industry, eerts through consolidation or out right exit. this is a rather tightly, compact, very efficient business right now. >> we have gone from having a large number of unhealthy kpa s companies to a small number of healthy companies. you're better having that because unhealthy companies do desperate things. the discussion we're having right now is basically a neat ax approach to the defense budget, the defense establishment and the defense industry that secreta secretary carter called the sixth leg of service. this is an effort and circumstance that we're in

the states in the country were hit with this those states that chose to do the same thing that dwight eisenhower did when when he after world war two had one hundred twenty seven percent of g.d.p. debt worse than we have right now and he spent out of it by stimulating the economy building highways building roads building schools building hospitals and blew this country out of that out of the great depression and out of that debt we went through world war two didn't have anything to do with this was this was five years after world war two this is the economy after world war two was one of the fud government programs that i actually approve of the g.i. bill to get all those guys into college get them out of college during the eisenhower administration and. i'm all in favor i'm in favor for a college to see what that will probably never happen but there is that if you invest in the public sector you will increase the number of jobs in there with more investment in public sector jobs the economy the unemployment rate will be cut by at least. one point but private sector jobs add more to the economy

and why is that and i said you know historically the parties could get along if you go back to dwight eisenhower he was sort of a good liberal he spent a lot of government money on education technology and infrastructure john kennedy a democrat was very conservative he was he cut taxes and stood up to communism so the parties can't get together but there's something holding them back he's rent seekers in the democratic party it's public sector unions who are double dipping you know pumping up their last couple years pay so they can get inflated retirement benefits retiring at fifty five a lifetime medical in the rest of america's working till they're seventy and paying their own way on the republican side you've got wall street. you've got the banks jamie diamond lloyd blankfein goldman sachs etc they figured out a rigged game they're getting very wealthy they're doing fine for themselves but they're really hurting society with you know derivative so says if each party to get rid of the rent seekers in it's own party if the democrats can separate themselves from the unions and the republicans ca

. >> another roadblock for the memorial to honor dwight eisenhower. >> breaking news from annapolis whereaw makers have failed to come up with a plan to add a casino at the national harbour in prince george's county. a group of maryland legislators wrapped up a meeting where they failed to reach a consensus on the issue. just last week and gm made a deal to build a casino pending state approval. maryland gov. martin o'malley would have called a special session. that would have put the issue on the ballot in november. >> every summer deaf blind individuals travel across the country to spend a weekend and anne arundel county. the stepped outside of their comfort zone physically and mentally. that is what makes the deaf and blind camp of maryland tonight's harris's hero. whether it is soaring through the air on a giant swing. or bouncing across the water on a banana boat, the camp anchorages campers to step outside of their comfort zones. >> it is there week of total change of lifestyle. >> volunteers help them communicate. >> special accommodations are in place like this ropewalk way to gui

it was dwight eisenhower who created the arctic national wildlife preserve. it was richard nixon who created the environmental protection agency. ronald reagan went after lead in gasoline, george h. w. bush when after acid rain. these were republican presidents, everyone, and i daresay, they would not recognize some of the members of their own party in the house today, and they certainly wouldn't vote alongside of them. .. los angeles was the smog capitol of the world. and the waterways of our heartland were so does a crowded and polluted that the kaj of the river which really caught fire. we have come of long way since then. some would have us believe that our job is done. well, it isn't. not when a copper mine in alaska can still present one of the greatest areas in the world. we have more work to do. now when a renegade oil welcome put at risk the fertile waters of the gulf of mexico. we have more work to do. not when commuters across this country are terrified of hydraulic fracturing, not when thousands of our children suffer from asthma, exacerbated by a

he was pushed on the show to say that dwight eisenhower was a murderer too.ant the person we're opposed to having this executive power. but i would say that the real drone is the bureaucracy making these decisions. >> cenk: we all get it. we've killed civilians in wars before. i think that's why you're saying that jeremy's comments are too harsh as it applies to eisenhower and etc. but on the other hand can we get an agreement across the political spectrum that if it's an american citizen we should indict them in court before we execute them? >> i don't know if we're going to get that agreement. it would be a nice thing at the minimum and the constitution thing to do. but given the fact that we want to fight wars on the cheap and keep people out of way, it's understandable in its way but something that people are ready to lose the thread on and let it go where it goes unfortunately. >> cenk: paul, indict american citizens before we execute them? can i get that much? >> absolutely. people will accept it not based on abstract principle but based on what we're t

he got very close to dwight eisenhower because cronkite covered d-day as a wartime correspondent in worldaimable relationship. john f. kennedy's relationship with cronkite was quite testy because kennedy wanted to do a do-over on an interview like we're doing now. cronkite said no. kennedy was miffed. he became very close to bobby kennedy. i write in the book in 1968 walter cronkite even urged bobby kennedy to run for president. kennedy being the new york senator at that time. and challenge lyndon johnson for the democratic nomination because cronkite had gone to vietnam and was sick by what he saw about the johnson administration had lied to the american people and called the war a stalemate. many people are questioning why would a cronkite, a serious journalist, urge somebody like bobby kennedy to run for president. the answer is vietnam tore the country apart. cronkite stayed in the middle from '55 to '68. once he went inside the country being a humanist transcended being an anchor. >> i want to talk about this whole idea of liberal and conservative when it comes to news. we hear so mu

they have lost 11 straight road games for the first time since dwight eisenhower was president in 1954he fifth inning giants down 2/1, the bases loaded, this is a tailor-made double play ball except the cubs shortstop starlin castro thought there were two outs, he thought the inning was over. wrong. instead of the inning being over the giants tied the game and in the seventh the lead run at third base, castro hot shot, ryan theriot stays with it and the giants would take the lead in the bottom of the inning. in the nice, the giants go in for this week. jeremy pitched two innings. this line drive caught, giants take all four games from the cubs 3/2 is the final. >> did you ever play wide receiver? >> do you see how big i am, i'm not play football. i gave him a big hug after that one. you don't really see a guy sweep a ball like that and it comes back in front of them. i felt like that saved the game for us. >> the giants are to behind the dodgers and play tonight. at the stanford pitcher was widely considered the top pitcher in the draft but it turns out he was not even at the top local

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cronkite did with dwight eisenhower. let's show two clips. you might want to stand up to see those. wonderful moment. very early on in the shooting this happened. >> you can see from back here, walter, this is where the battle took place at a natural thing to do because you knew you could blow out roads if necessary but these were more avenues and this is what we are trying to get through and the battle finally developed and everything went fine but this first day was really a tough one. here comes -- that is something. how do you do? just testing. i must say that this has been the most interesting thing to take it attach. 20 years ago if i had seen that that would have been something. ♪ >> reporter: that is why we like a lake. those wonderful moments. i think we are running out of time. if it is okay could we skip ahead to the final thing? is important we close on this note. my book -- my book begins at the normandy cemeteries. in that same place with those great iconic figures. >> 86th battalionthe cold 90th division -- from new jersey, 8 second airborne. i think there are some 9,

. >> dwight eisenhower. [ buzzer ] >> who are you? one of the mental patients? >> that nixon?zzer ] ♪ ♪ >> what's your prediction for the game? >> giants 27-17. >> 28-18. >> anything you want to say to bill o'reilly. >> what's the factor zone? it won't be any bill o'reilly affair equal when we get over there playing this football. >> i don't know what that means. ♪ ♪ >> bill: all right. pinheads and patriots on deck. the octomom once again. p and p just over two minutes away. our cloud is not soft and fluffy. our cloud is made of bedrock. concrete. and steel. our cloud is the smartest brains combating the latest security threats. it spans oceans, stretches continents. and is scalable as far as the mind can see. our cloud is the cloud other clouds look up to. welcome to the uppernet. >> pinheads & patriots, starring the octomom. but first the mail... >> agreed roy, but when she goes, i not the job. >> last time almost all of that was paid for by private funds, mostly green companies that wanted federal funding -- just a joke. but private funding is true. >> to the private econo

nobody is pulling apart of dwight eisenhower or betancourt. obama is failing to lead the democrat party. both parties agreed it was in our national interest. closing guantanamo, ending this stain on the moral reputation of the u.s., stopping what has been a recruiting symbol for the administration's declared enemies in the "war on terror." >> shayana kadidal, can you tell us more about -- andy worthington, can you tell us about the prisoners to remain? >> as i was mentioning earlier, two-thirds of the cleared prisoners are yemenis. the problem for those men has been in the wake of the failed bombing by of do, the president capitulated and block the release of any yemenis. it seems this is something everybody is extremely reluctant in the u.s. to raise as an issue. but there is no excuse whatsoever for continuing to hold people who approved for release on the basis the united states has suspicions about the status of the entire country of yemen. that would be the equivalent of having issues with somebody from california and as a result, not rel

. >> dwight eisenhower. [ buzzer ] >> who are you? one of the mental patients? >> that nixon?? [ buzzer ] ♪ ♪ >> what's your prediction for the game? >> giants 27-17. >> 28-18. >> anything you want to say to bill o'reilly. >> what's the factor zone? it won't be any bill o'reilly affair equal when we get over there playing this football. >> i don't know what that means. ♪ ♪ >> bill: all right. pinheads and patriots on deck. the octomom once again. p and p just over two minutes away. we're sitting on a bunch of shale gas. there's natural gas under my town. it's a game changer. ♪ it means cleaner, cheaper american-made energy. but we've got to be careful how we get it. design the wells to be safe. thousands of jobs. use the most advanced technology to protect our water. billions in t economy. at chevron, if we can't do it right, we won't do it at all. we've got to think long term. we've got to think long term. ♪ >> pinheads & patriots, starring the octomom. but first the mail... >> agreed roy, but when she goes, i not the job. >> last time almost all of that was paid for by priva

he got very close to dwight eisenhower because cronkite had covered d day as a wartime correspondent, ii. so just had a good amiable relationship. eisenhower always seemed to do well with cronkite. john f. kennedy's relationship with cronkite was quite testy because kennedy wanted to do a do overon an interview like we're doing now. cronkite said no and kennedy was miffed. but he became very close to bobby kennedy. i write in the book that in 1968, walter cronkite even urged bobby kennedy to run for president, kennedy being a new york senator at that time, and challenged lyndon johnson for the democratic nomination because cronkite had gone to vietnam and was sick by what he saw about the johnson administration and lied to the american people and called the war a stalemate. many people are questioning why would cronkite urge somebody like bobby kennedy to run for president. the answer was vietnam tore the country apart and cronkite stayed in the middle from '65 to '68. once he went in-country, looked around, his sense of being a humanist transcended him being an anchor. >> it seems no

dwight d. eisenhower and the surface transportation system he gave us. i have a great poster, which is a great photo from the air of the kansas, brand new spanking new, kansas turnpike, 1956 and it ends abruptly and you say wow. why does it end there? oklahoma said, we'll build our section, too. and have a new coordinated thing. they said we don't have the money and couldn't do it. and it wasn't done until the eisenhower bill was adopted and we had a national investment and national transportation highway system. they want to go back to the good old days, a system funded by the 50 states. flake comes into l.a. which is going into the western united states, maybe not all the way to georgia, who knows, maybe some of it and i guess california would have to move all the freight for the rest of the country. and maybe they aren't going to do that and maybe the other states aren't going to do that under this bizarre theory of devolution. we need a competitive, world-class, national transportation system. the bill that the senate passed won't get us there. i wou

dwight eisenhower and the interstate highway system. ronald reagan and george bush all supported working wages to support our infrastructure. we will not take a back seat, nor will we be criticized by a party that completely failed in its mandate given to them in the election of 2008 to do a single thing to employ people in the transportation sector and to move this country forward. and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the clerk will read. the clerk: page 141, line 13, united states interagency council on homelessness, operating expenses, $3,300,000. title 4, general provisions, this act, section 401, sum for the pay raises for programs funded in this act shall be absorbed within the levels appropriated. section 402. none of the funds shall be used for the planning of any program to pay the expenses of nonfederal parties intervening in regulatory proceedings. section 403, none of the funds shall remain available for obligation, nor may be transferred. section 404, the exp

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dwight eisenhower, mrs. franklin delano roosevelt, and mrs. mary mccloud mcleod bee among hundreds of others. even as the soviets spread their territorial umbrella over much of central and eastern europe, hellman remained a staunch believer in peaceful coexistence. quarrels start and quarrels end, she told one audience. it is not right to weigh large things on small scales. it no longer matters whose fault it is, it matters that this game be stopped and that our arms and legs and heads and faces not be used to find out who was right and who was wrong and who said what on what day. to stop the game required talking to the enemy. though she knew that communists played a substantial and often dominant role -- excuse me -- in many -- excuse me. though she knew that communists played a substantial and off dominant role in many of the organizations she joined, i did not really care, she writes. i felt as they did, that the russians really did not want war and that this was what counted most. i was guided by a feeling that russia would never again se

fundamental question what is the purpose of an economy even republicans do as republican president dwight d. eisenhower wrote to his brother it is quite clear that the federal government cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people firmly believe should be undertaken by it should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear that party again in our political history there is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things among them are a few texas oil millionaires their number is negligible and they are stupid but then with ronald reagan came a new answer to the question of why an economy an answer that we're still stuck with today rather than an economy serving the needs of society reagan in this new breed of supply side he can't economists and free marketeers believe that society you and me exists to serve the needs of the economy or more specifically the society serves the needs of the leaders within the economy corporations and their c.e.o.'s or as they called

on the bench for four years was a long time conservative a republican activist who'd helped dwight d. eisenhower win the white house he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court in sixty nine by richard nixon who'd been eisenhower's v.p. and had known berger for decades and berger had voted mostly in a conservative direction for example in seventy two the year before roe v wade albeit in the minority he argued hard and voted to keep the death penalty legal in the united states but then in one nine hundred seventy three roe v wade came before the court and this conserve and conservative nixon appointee chief justice warren burger voted in a split decision that abortion during the first three months of pregnancy should become legal in the united states pundits and republicans were shocked that the nixon appointee for chief justice had joined with the liberals on the bench there was all kinds of huffing and puffing but again the liberals figured a it's a done deal that's going to be that it's going to blow over a year or so live with it right wingers was the montra of the day but immediately