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here you go. >> the correct answer is -- >> dwight eisenhower.nd played 800 rounds while in office those eight years and built the first putting green, it got moved but still being used today by our presidents. >> back to kath. >> very pretty lady from kansas, how many hot dogs will be consumed on the fourth of july? 50 million, 100 million, 150 million or 200 million? >> 200 million. >> she's only off by 50 million. >> this is a good day for kathie lee gifford. 150 million. >> it is national hot dog month, by the way. 150 million. and if you line those hot dogs up, it would go across from new york to l.a. five times. 150 million. >> that's unbelievable. we have time for one more, kath. >> all right. where are you from? >> new hampshire. >> okay. true or false, george washington was among the original group of men appointed to draft the declaration of independence. >> true? >> no. but i'll find a record somewhere for you. >> all right. the answer there, last one, false. >> george washington was not a delegate then. he had resigned to become comma

without hesitation, he said -- the most skilled politician i ever knew in washington was dwight d. eisenhower. and he began talking about eisenhower's political genius, which was a revelation to me. and he said, who do you think the first person was that i called from air force one after the assassination on the second person after i called rose kennedy? i called eisenhower. i said i haven't been elected in this terrible tragedy. i don't know what to do. i want you to come to washington right away and give me advice. and he said, eisenhower came down from gettysburg and he said, mr. president, i'm a military man. i give advice in writing. and my secretary, ann whitman, is in retirement in an apartment on connecticut avenue, let her come down and i will dictate to you, while you go to the events of the funeral, i'll dictate my advice. and president johnson said, the advice that he wrote in that memo became the script for the first 100 days of my presidency. and he said, during that entire dime when eisenhower advised me to speak to a joint session of the congress and make that my inaugural add

dwight eisenhower, you always see presidents rise, you see presidents fall, and over the past four, five, seven years i have found myself going back and reading ambrose's eisenhower over and over again. talk about -- let's start with eisenhower right now, my favorite president. it may change after i read your biography. >> exactly. >> and i find out that he would actually kick dogs instead of go golf. but talk about a guy like eisenhower who was just derided, dull, and worthless and you look back and say my god, what he did over eight years, pretty unbelievable. >> one of the great things of all time was the kennedys on eisenhower. to make jack kennedy look young and vibrant you had to make eisenhower look old and dull. that stuck. what people didn't realize was that with a hidden hand, as a professor named fred greenstein once said he was doing a lot, really keeping us out of war. you don't credit for things that don't happen, but he for eight years, got us out -- we were in korea when he got in, got us out by bluffing, basically. >> brinksmanship, threatening to use the bomb and other

my feeling about where we are and what we're doing now, i'm always drawn back to dwight eisenhower, who warned us when he was leaving office of just the situation we're in today with the military industrial complex. that's our war machine. if you have a standing army that's already always primed, it's like having a junkyard dog chained. you've got to let him out and let him eat some meat at some point or other, and i just get the feeling sometimes that's all we're doing. we're just giving them something to do, some reason to be spending the kind of money we're spending on the military. we don't really need all this junk we're buying, we really don't. i would much prefer to see us take even half the military budget and give it to nasa. that's where we'd be having fun. that's where we'd be doing something useful. right now, i don't think we're doing anything useful. i think this whole excursion that we have in places in the world; we can do a better job than killing people. yes, we have enemies, and you can name them. they usually have one person right now. but i don't know if we need to

really smart today, tell your friends that the 39% of the african-american vote garnered by dwight eisenhowerpublican presidential candidate since 1936. since 1964, no republican presidential candidate has received more than 15% of the black vote. now, enough with the real news, let's gather around the water cooler to watch democratic congressman from new york, joe crowley, compare the gop's health care alternative to campbell's soup? here he is on the house floor yesterday. >> i think i figured out what the gop wants to replace the affordable care act with. hmmmm. here is what i i assume must be the republican plan for health care in our country. chicken noodle soup. been diagnosed with a serious disease and can't afford the prescription drugs you need to treat it? have some chicken noodle soup. the truth is, chicken noodle soup might be mmm-mmm, good for lunch but as a health care policy it is mmm-mmm bad. >> mmm-mmmm this comes only weeks after illinois representative luis gutierrez made his point on the house floor with help from the bieber and selena gomez and we can't forget washington

dwight eisenhower didn't inherit fdr's taping system but he was accustomed to using a dictaphone machine to pick up conversations around the desk. there are a couple of his tapes that survived. the big tapers are john f. kennedy, lyndon johnson and president nixon. john f. kennedy left us 270 hours of tape. the kennedy library i believe just released a few more tapes. they have almost released all of those tapes. lyndon johnson left us 800 hours. most of them are telephone tapes and the johnson library has released all of the telephone tapes. there are still some tapes that were done in the cabinet room that will be released in the next few years. 800 hours for johnson, 270 hours for kennedy. then you come to president nixon. in february 1971 president nixon installs the beginning of a taping system. it is installed by the secret service. this is a taping system that is going to grow, but ultimately, it would cover the following scenes and sights. the president's hideaway office in the executive office building. the oval office. the cabinet room. the president's office at camp david. and

seemed to have of more patience for richard nixon than dwight eisenhower. t when eisenhower goes to capitulate, as they said, to nelson rockefeller on the campaign because rockefeller had been vying for the nomination and was causing, making all sorts of noise, goldwater gets all upset, goes to the convention in san francisco and says to the gathering -- because he had been placed in nomination so he could make that speech -- grow up, conservatives, and we can take this party back. and voila, they did four years later. >> host: this e-mail, jim torborg. hi. on baseball, please, discuss the movie "eight men out." it is one of my favorites. did rothstein's men really threaten lefty williams and his family? >> guest: that's -- i have seen recent -- even though it's in my book in "rothstein," i will reveal that i have seen information now that that did not occur. that that did not occur. so maybe it occurred, maybe it did not occur. keep an open mind about it. in terms of the movie, it seems quite faithful to elliot's book. i had the pleasure of meeting him a fe

power i think the last president in whom i have genuine confidence to be commander in chief was dwight eisenhower. and that's no coincidence. he actually was the defacto in chief of the greatest military victory in history. and a very important book called eisenhower 1956 frankly in spite of my own politics i ended this book relieved that ike beat stevenson for the presidency because ike was able to stand up in to the military because he knew something about the military. since then, we've had a string of amateur presidents. some of whom you might like. some of whom you don't. i'm not a fan of george w. bush and therefore i was horrified by some of the things that john wrote about presidential power. i assume that many of you in this room were no fans of bill clinton or barack obama in terms of their capacity to be commander in chief. i think all of us are right. that you wouldn't select out these people to make the decisions of peace and war, life and death. shift to the financial crisis. one of the most interesting books on that was written by a reporter for "the wall street journal." and one o

rate on the billionaires or their equivalent in the dollars of that day republican president dwight eisenhower kept that tax rate at ninety one percent during his administration and even richard nixon embraced a seventy percent tax rate on the billionaires today at thirty five percent and we know where that's got us. our nation does not thrive on the goodwill of billionaires we thrive on the hard work of average americans who wake up every day go to work care for their families raise their children to believe that america is a wee society a place where we all work together not a place where we wait for scraps to fall off the billionaires dynasty billionaires are not job creators they're not smarter than the rest of us and they're not harder workers of the rest of us they are hoarders plain and simple if they had to convert their wealth into actual cash they would be able to move around their lavish mansions we need to bring back common sense taxes on wealth including an absolute tax above one billion dollars that once and for all prevents the ascendency a predatory billionaires in america time

welch had famously or perhaps i should say infamously suggested that president dwight eisenhower was a conscious agent of the communist conspiracy. russell kirk, another conservative and ally of buckley's responded, ike isn't a communist. he's a golfer. next to go were the objectivists who buckley saw as two doctrinaire and whose militant atheism offended him and offended other conservatives. and finally, the racists and extreme libertarians who at the time seemed more interested in selling the highways and legalizing drugs while agreeing with the so-called new left that the u.s. rather than the communist world was mainly responsible for the cold war, had to go. remember it wasn't just that buckley found the beliefs of the birchers of the objectivists, the racists, and the monarchists objectionable, though he did, but that he was trying, trying desperately to put together a coalition that could present an appealing and consistent philosophical message to those fed up with the direction in which the united states seemed to be heading in the '50s. buckley, of course, succeeded beyond h

i mean, dwight eisenhower had a largely successful presidency. richard nixon, my goodness, an enormously talented man with a wonderful mind and a seriousness of purpose and brought an honestlial ended team of people into government who effected the course of government for decades after, like henry kissing jer, bill steinman, alan greenspan and so many others. >> we are out of time, but why did you not take the job to reelect the committee under richard nixon back in 1972? >> i was interested in the substantive side of the government as opposed to the political side and didn't have any interest in doing it. >> we are out of time. the book is called "known and unknown." a memoir, donald rumsfeld, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> for a dvd copy of that program, call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this

then just vanished this was the kind of right you know this is no way to run a war was it was dwight eisenhower they had that i think it's an urban myth i think not but maybe i will say but it was was eisenhower we have just a minute left was eisenhower wrong when he warned the nation of the military industrial complex. i think we have more of today than we ever did previously but. you know it's a very complicated issue and to cut our military spending right now when we are at this very delicate point in time i think would be folly and the consequences would be very dangerous it's in central that we stay strong well you know staying strong is one thing having a fat and happy military well and we can we can will live to debate that another day david see that thanks so much for being with us tonight. thank you tom thank you do your viewing audience thank you as the old saying goes when the elephants fight the mice get trampled so expect republicans to try to please both their bases war profiteers and the romney level super rich and push for even deeper spending cuts in unemployment benefits and o

>> i'd say most are, but i don't think, for instance, dwight eisenhower was. i think he understood how to be a manager, executive, how to get things done. i don't think lyndon johnson was an amateur when he inherited the presidency after the assassination. i think of lyndon johnson who could not give a good speech really who did not speak well for the tell -- teleprompter, but understood how to manipulate the levers in washington. he understood human nature. he understood the strength and weaknesses of the people in congress and how to play on those weaknesses and streps. obama doesn't seem to have the skill set to use human nature as a way of getting done what he wants to get done in washington. >> how many books have you written? >> well, i think this is my 11th book. there's three novels and eight notary public-fiction -- non-fiction books. >> what do you say to critics of your books? you refer this as a journalist book. >> yes. what do the critics say? >> about the accuracy of the stories you tell, ect.. >> right. well, the fact of the matter is that as fa

viewing those cranky billionaires the way my dad's generation did as a republican president dwight eisenhower did when eisenhower referred to their ilk as small in number and stupid and not stupid anymore if we really value american traditions we really must push back on this kind of power and influence in american politics for more information go to move to amend dot org. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech dot org dot com also check out our two you tube channels are links over top of dot com also thom hartmann dot com check out all the different ways you can send us your feedback or just paid our message boards you can write your own blog we've got a live twenty four seventh's chat room there was a call or rant line you can volunteer and don't forget the moxie begins when you show up get out there get active occupy something tag your pursuit of. the mission. couldn't take should free in-store charges free arrangement free. three stooges free. old free blogs just wanted a video for your media proje

>> i think most of them are but i don't think dwight eisenhower was. i think he understood how to be a manager, an executive, how to get things done, i don't think lyndon johnson was an amateur when he inherited the presidency after the assassination. lyndon johnson, who could not give a good speech, really, who did not speak well from the teleprompter, but who understood how to manipulate the levers of power in washington. he understood human nature and the strengths and weaknesses of the people in congress and how to play on those weaknesses and strengths. obama doesn't seem to have that skill set to use human nature as a way of getting done what he wants to get done in washington. >> how many books have you written? >> well, i think this is my 11th book. there are three novels and eight nonfiction books. >> what you say to some of the critics of your books? you research of -- your research of this book, there are some criticisms about its. >> the fact of the matter is that as far as i know, there hasn't been a single fact in this book that has been

taxes need to be raised on the wealthy and government spending actually needs to increase like dwight eisenhower jack kennedy and richard nixon all did to put the unemployed back to work after all of the banks and health insurance executives succeed in privatizing medicare and social security and that means a boatload of new profits that they can skim billions off the top. so we know why fox news to us but what's really important here is this is is this that fox is partially right only they have the two labels reversed the makers are people who make things the workers and not people like mitt romney who haven't actually ever made anything in their lifetimes the makers are also the people who help the workers make things people like teachers and cops and firemen you know i's public sector workers who ensure that our communities are safe clean and that our kids are well educated and people make sure that our markets have rules on the other hand the takers are people who take pics like the billionaires who live high on the hawg all their workers are making things the prime example of a taker is a c

was dwight eisenhower who created the arctic national wildlife preserve. it was richard nixon who created the environmental protection agency. ronald reagan went after led and gasoline. george h. w. bush went after acid rain. these were republican presidents everyone. i dare say they would not recognize some of the members of their own party in the house today and they certainly wouldn't vote alongside them. the worst of this dark vision has not yet come to pass only because the senate has either voted down or refused to act on the worst impulses of the house but let's be clear. votes counted. they are how we know what really matters to the people we elected. they are how we hold our officials accountable to the public. after all the rhetoric and political cheap shots have died down, votes are all we have got. in this case more than 200 of them. forty-two years ago when we pause as a nation to mark the first earth day our environment faced grave and gathering threats. we had seen oil washing ashore in santa barbara. los angeles was the smog capital of the

rather than governor romney going off dwight eisenhower republican foreign policy, he's chosen the neoconn, help me out here. why do you think he's not going to iraq or afghanistan in this trip? >> i don't know. i think he should. i think the people around him want to go to poland and drum up this missing defense stuff. i i can't answer why -- it makes no fundamental understanding to me. >> but there is a good reason why he's not going to afghanistan. that is because he doesn't have -- >> give me your reason. >> he doesn't have a clear position on it. he'd be asked what your position is. you know, the war is very unpopular. the president is trying to wind it down, slower than american public opinion would like, certainly slower than people in the democratic party would like. romney's there, he's said five different things about this over the last year. his current position seems to be stay in there as long as it takes without defining what the "it" is. listen, this guy doesn't talk convincingly about foreign policy. if he was asked again and again and again what your policy is in afghanis

. >> well, dwight eisenhower is the man we should give credit to that. i don't know anymore. that's an excellent question. my former boss, colin powell, mentioned about nine months ago or something about us having created a industrial terrorism complex, and when you look at the homeland security budget, you look at $100 billion-plus for the intelligence community and ask what are we getting for it, and you look at this complex that we've created, dana priest and bill arcon of the washington post did a great job of covering this complex. 800,000-plus security clearances now. this is unkons shabl and taking away the money we need in the united states, and this business of borrowing to pay for these wars is simply unsustainable. we're looking at an even greater deficit in the future and the d.o.d. and national security budget in general has to pay its part of this need for us to get the deficit down. >> let's follow up on that. give us the sense after danger of a bloated defense budget then. it's doing a lot of harm versus the good calculated by its defenders. >> absolutely. we'

"pat nixon: the untold story", and also worked with her husband david eisenhower in writing "going home to glory: a memoir of dwight d. eisenhower 1961 to 1969." ladies and gentlemen, your panel. [ applause ] >> well, i hope we can get that video working before we're done because it's really good. we take it for granted these days that senior government officials travel all around the world, but that hasn't always been true. so i think a great place to start today would be to ask julie, who although she was only 5 years old when her parents went on their first international mission in 1963, because she's an authority on her mother, and her biography of her mother, "pat nixon: the untold story", the definitive biography of pat nixon. >> where might we buy that? >> it's available as an e-book now. be sure to find it for your kindle or nook or any other reading device. but julie, if you would start by talking a little bit about the context in which that first trip that president eisenhower asked your parents to make 45,000 miles, 10 weeks, 17 countries. >> well, it was 1953, and eisenhower, when he was elected, i woul

people only knew dwight eisenhower from black and white footage., a beaming ike in his khaki uniform set against the stars and stripes. >> good night, folks. >> in front of a teal background, jimmy durante and his famous schnozz. >> louis armstrong, almost makes us hear the notes pouring out of his trumpet. >> color does bring them right into the present day. right here with us now. the color as fresh as the day it was made. >> the color of a generation now taking all of us back in time. for "today," tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> beautiful photographs. runs until september 9th at the national photograph gallery. >>> a patriotic picnic after news and weather. >> ancer: this is a news 4 news break. >> good morning. it's 8:26 now. happy independence day. i'm aaron gilchrist. veronica johnson is watching the forecast. as we take a live look outside, 73 degrees outside the studios. but it will heat up in a big way. >> it is. we'll easily and quickly go from the 70s to over 90 degrees. that will happen by noontime today. topping out at a high la

patty murray's plan in my -- >> senator, we pay the lowest percentage of federal tacks since dwight eisenhower. the question is that are you willing -- you heard leon panetta say these types of cuts would decimate d.o.d. job wobs lost, especially in important swing states. is all that worth not raising taxes on the richest 1%? >> you no he that's not going to balance the budget. we need to generate overall tax revenue. to increase taxes on the very people that are creating jobs in this country is a mistake. for the president to say he's for jobs but against the people that actually create the jobs and hire and put people back to work is not a good idea to help our economy. i want to make it easier and cheaper for the private sector to create jobs and the president seems to want to continue to find ways to make it harder and more expensive for the private sector to create jobs. after all, he said the private sector is doing just fine. well, it is not, based on the regulations, the taxes, the increase cost of health care law. those are all reasons people are not hiring and why unemployment conti

cronkhite did with dwight eisenhower. if we could, to quick clips.u may want to stand up because it's a wonderful moment. very early on in the shooting, this happened. >> undertaking. the >> you get to see from back here, this is the battle, a natural thing to do because he could blow over as if necessary. that's what we were trying to get through. they finally developed where everything went fine. this first day was really a tough one. what tommy here comes the little man. >> msa this has been the most interesting to take a look at. that would've been something, would not? ♪ >> already. thanks. that is why we'd like i ate. a wonderful loving sister. >> ray. i think we are kind of running out of time, so nathan if it's okay, can we skip ahead to the following thing? is important that we close on the snow. my book begins in the most sacred place in the world, the normandy cemetery of both omaha beach and this wonderful documentary concludes in the same secret place with two iconic figures. >> eighty-sixth battalion, name deactivation, arizona, pennsyl

the largest peacetime infrastructure investment program in this country was under dwight eisenhower in0's. the interstate highway program. that was with broad ar bipartisan support. obama's in the mix stimulus program was the love-it is things like that better part the solution to the problem. >> we will in the conversation here and continue offline and post it democracynow.org. donald barlett and james steele , their latest book is called, "the betrayal of the american dream." there the authors 20 years ago of the no. 1 best seller, "america: what went wrong." democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

people only knew dwight eisenhower from black and white footage.a beaming ike in his khaki uniform set against the stars and stripes. >> good night, folks. >> in front of a teal background, jimmy durante and his famous schnozz. >> louis armstrong, almost makes us hear the notes pouring out of his trumpet. >> color does bring them right into the present day. right here with us now. the color as fresh as the day it was made. >> the color of a generation now taking all of us back in time. for "today," tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> beautiful photographs. runs until september 9th at the national photograph gallery. >>> a patriotic picnic after news and weather. >>> good independence day to you. two people are under arrest in connection with a suspicious four-alarm fire that destroyed four homes and displaced ten people in san francisco. a woman was arrested late tuesday morning just hours after a 55-year-old man was arrested in the city's bay view district. both suspects face arson charges. no one was injured in the fire, but one home is destro