eisenhower knew where she was born for a long time they did not discuss texas. >> his parents hoped he would be born a girl. but during a violent thunderstorm dwight david eisenhower made his entry into the world in texas 8090. he struggled with a $10 a week he earned on the railroad. in the family would turn to the first cowtown abilene kansas. as a historian who has written one of the post acclaimed biographies. >> u.s.-born in poverty and realized he would not only have to work hard to work harder than the next guy. his mother was the backbone of the family. the father was on the selling side and did not say much. oliver: this is the house where they raised there six sons now part of the presidential library. >> with the six boys it is just remarkable they are rambunctious they fought in argued a and i can agree to temper one's story he beat the tree into lgbt and bloody. >> key had a great deal of difficulty to control his temper. oliver: susan eisenhower learned a lot about her grandfather for grandmother. >> he had a number of strategies to manage his temper. one was to keep a diary in he would use that to blow off steam. >> poverty was some

it swept dwight eisenhower to victory in 1952 the first republican president since herbert hoover. hoover, eisenhower inherited a prosperous economy and was forced to watch as that economy slid into a recession. hoover responded with a huge tax increase that deepened the depression. what would ike do? would he repudiate 20 years of modern economics? when eisenhower took office in 1953, he inherited a prosperity that was bubbling along since the postwar boom. factories worked at capacity to fill the demand then worked overtime to build the machinery needed to fight the korean war. ike promised to end the war and in july 1953 he did. there wasn't time for rejoicing. by august, the economy had stalled. war orders were halted. there was no explosion of consumer demand to help. where would ike turn for advice? arthur burns chaired the council of economic advisers. george humphrey was secretary of the treasury. they didn't always agree. he used to say when arthur burns came "here comes arthur with his kit of tools." he meant his tools for dealing with the recession. at various times he g

japanese relocation from 1943, a 10 minute film posted by the brother of dwight eisenhower. mr.isenhower presents arguments in favor of the forced internment policy, while scenes of the mobile process and internment camps are shown -- removal process and internment camps are shown. ♪ >> when the japanese attacked pearl harbor, our west coast came of potential combat zone. we knew that some among the japanese were potentially dangerous. no one knew what would happen among this concentrated population if japanese forces should try to invade our shores. military authorities determined that all of them, citizens and aliens alike, would have to move. this picture tells how the mass migration was accomplished. neither the army or the war relocation authority relished the idea from taking families from their homes, so the military and civilian agencies chose to have real consideration for the people involved. consideration was given to potential problems. there is san francisco. there were more japanese in los angeles than an any other area. in san pedro, houses and hotels occupied exc

here is a look at the congressman's recommended books which focus on the life of dwight eisenhower. representative coley was currently reading those aimed greed days by linda olson which looks at the internal debate over the u.s. involvement in world war ii and he finished paul johnson's book eisenhower:a life. recommends stephen ambrose and two volume biography of eisenhower which traces his path from soldier to president. next on the list is going home to glory. a memoir of the president by his grandson david eisenhower and david's wife julie nixon eisenhower. also on the list is the white house years by jim newton, editor at large of the los angeles times. next is eisenhower's personal account of strategies, battles and outcome of world war ii in crusading era band completing the list representative tom cole recommends jeanette would smith's portrayal of the 34th president in eisenhower in war and peace. to see what their

it's what made dwight eisenhower a great general and a great president. and it's what prompted alf landon with his unique wisdom to say, "there are some intelligent people in washington, but there are more of them in kansas." [applause] i hasten to add the same applies to forty nine other states. particularly iowa and new hampshire. but then, kansans have never had to look to washington, d.c. for a sense of compassion or community. as a young man in a small town my parents taught me to put my trust in god, not government and never confuse the two. [applause] something else i learned the hard way -- that while self reliance is an essential part of the american character, so is the spirit of community that reaches out to those wounded in body or soul. when i went off to war it was to defend a community of values unique in all the world. i came back sustained by the love and generosity of friends and neighbors who renewed my sense of life's possibilities. over these years, they have given me opportunities for service which i can never hope to repay. because

dwight eisenhower prepares to take office as the first republican president since herbert hoover.l he handle his first economic crisis?

. >> mcarthur spent his days working with his chief of staff, dwight eisenhower. especially closeeis r eisenhower's wife, mami. >> i drew down to mami's apartmentmented and we talked for hours. >> one day, mcarthur had an aide escort jean to his office. nearly everyone was surprised when they married in new york on april 30th, 1837. eight months after marrying jean, he fully retired from the u.s. army. he was now a strict military advisor to the philippines. >> people would say i didn't think you had it in you. and he said i didn't think i had it in me, either. >> the f.b.i. called mcarthur back into service. douglas referred to it as his destiny. >> i can remember it. >> when pearl harbor was attacked, mcarthur ordered reconnaissance flights in the philippines. >> mcarthur made an assessment that the philippines, it matly, cannot be held. >> everyone knew that the philippines could not be held. >> i remember the number. >> i remember the confusion. i think i've seen enough. >> the news was tightening, but mcarthur rallied his troops. >> it starts out your men are

it is a old lockheed constellation that was the official aircraft for president dwight eisenhower between54, before these types of aircraft were referred to as air force one. now it has been sitting on a firmed in a regional airport near tucson for about a decade. it was an incident on this aircraft that prompted all american presidents to fly under the call sign air force one. the plane now sits in a field at the airport outside of tucson. >> that is a very significant number there, 8610. that changed the whole course of presidential transport history. >> it carried president dwight eisenhower in about a year. one evening in 1953 the aircraft was involved with frightening incident with the president on board. >> for air traffic control purposes, flight 8610, in 1953, this aircraft and eastern airlines flight 8610 ended up in the same airspace over new york city. >> call sign air force one was born. plane was eventually replaced and ended up at davis air force base. where the history was lost and sold at auction to a man named mel chrysler who needed planes for crop dusting. 10 years late

the cuban regime has been endureable by dwight eisenhower as it did with attempts to bring the regime the presidency of eisenhower, kennedy johnson nixon, ford carter reagan. bush clinton, bush and obama. that's 11 presidencies so it's not going to tall by itself. we don't know what will work but 50 years of futility is probably about enough. jason as we heard in this hour critics of this policy say this was the time because the soviets are no long he supporting what they did neither is venezuela because of fallen crude prices. if this is the time critics say this is a lifetime for the cast toe brothers. >> what we have learned is that if you look at countries like china and vietnam you can have relatively economic free countries that socoexist with political repression. that is what we have in cuba. that's what we could possibly have in cuba under this regime. you have to remember while the u.s. has not been trading with cuba for a long time other nations have. and there is no reason to believe u.s. dollars would work some sort of magic in the countries from the west that have long b

that would be a plus. >> that was alicia akun yo reporting. >>> the staff says the dwight d. eisenhowersidential library and museum say they are actively per pursueing that plane. >>> the time now 25 after the top of the hour. balance the budget or don't get paid. good idea? why congress could soon see a pay cut if they don't compromise. >> pack your bags and head to key west. the american city that is giving up on winter's wrath. >> it is wednesday february 18th. a fox news alert. in the immigration show down president obama vowing to fight until the end to keep millions of illegals in america. >> i think we will win all of the way for one simple reason the man you had on the screen barack obama is our star witness. >> what is next in the legal standoff. >> when times get tough blame fox news. >> we spend more time talking about what do you call it as opposed to what you do about it. if fox didn't talk about this they wouldn't have anything to talk about. >> shouldn't he call it what it is? islamic extremism? >> mother nature's fury leaving people across the country trapped in ice. how

relationship with the filipino president and also build his own board department family which included dwight eisenhowermother again. >> of first she was 16. she was young filipino he had met with before he became chief of staff and was living with his mother who would be aghast at the fact that only he had a mistress but was a filipino. >> was not a good time to be a professional soldier in the midst of the depression hoover / military spending and told easily the 17th largest in the world silicon implants and stood more than 20 percent especially hard hit was veterans of world war i that was promised a $1,000 bonus and demanded early payment. they camped out by the thousands in washington. >> macarthur's role becomes controversial. >> to some degree macarthur was a victim from the assistant chief of staff. >> they conclude to be a terrible mistake to have the hour rigo across the river in he had orders to tell him do not cross the bridge. but they made sure the order did not reach macarthur. >> they felt that people believed the burn down the camps but it was the washington police that did that. his a

so i think eisenhower was doing his patriotic duty as a republican, but his heart wasn't in it and it showed. >> newscaster: on that note, the dialog between general dwighta close. >> mann: the one guy who really probably could've helped him was somebody that goldwater and his people didn't really welcome into the fold. >> newscaster: ladies and gentlemen, we take pride in presenting a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. mr. reagan. >> mann: reagan had this idea to give this nationally televised speech. the goldwater people didn't want to pay for it. they didn't want to do it. so reagan went out and raised the money and aired the speech himself. >> ronald reagan: and this idea that government is beholden to the people -- that it has no other source of power, except the sovereign people -- is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. this is the issue of this election -- whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. >

jimmy carter, dwight d. eisenhower, ronald reagan, ulysses s. grant. jake, i'll start with you. he was president of a college before entering the white house. >> dwight d. eisenhower. >> first president born in a hospital. >> carter. >> that is correct. he served five years as president of a labor union. >> reagan. >> the first president to appoint an african-american executive assistant. >> carter. >> incorrect. eisenhower. his nickname was unconditional surrender. >> grant. >> correct. he became bankrupt after his presidency. >> grant. >> correct. appointed the first female supreme court justice. >> grant. >> first televised news press conference. >> eisenhower. >> that is correct. upon graduation from west point -- >> grant. >> collected bottles and arrowheads. >> reagan? >> incorrect. carter. he reportedly smoked 20 cigars a day. >> grant. >> correct. this president had a seven-year career in the navy. >> carter? >> incorrect. ten correct. got 40 points each. obviously 400 points. you take the lead once again. [ cheers and applause ] that's where the scores are right now. whe

. >> it carried president dwight eisenhower for a year and in 1953 the aircraft was involved in a frightening with the president on board. >> for air-traffic control purposes flight 8610, in 1953, this aircraft and eastern airlines flight 8610 ended up in the same airspace ovnew york city and the call sign air force one was born. the plane was eventually replaced and ended up at this air force base where its history was lost and sold at auction to a man named mel chrysler who needed planes for crop-dusting, ten years later in 1980 the smithsonian called him to tell him the history. >> he decided to restore it and they flew it around-the men tried to sell it, but with no buyers it ended up here, where timothy kooms hoped to restore it. >> i hope 134 day, somebody goes you know what? let's go get that thing. and that would be a plus. >> several museums have shown interest in doing a complete restoration of the plane, but so far none has been able to come up with the $1.5 million to fund it. >> in denver, alicia kuna, fox news. >>> the lady washington came into port to join its sister shop. the

it seems when i grew up, dwight eisenhower did a bang up job of transportation. all we need to do is follow his formula and get rid of these paid shills. host: chris edwards, care to respond? guest: the cato institute has been around since the 1970's. we do not get any federal funding or corporate money. in a lot of ways, we are the model institution that has been around the 1920's. independent think tanks are important to get involved in the discussion in washington. you do need an independent voice. guest: we do not take federal money for any of this work either. our metropolitan policy program really works local funds. at this time there are challenging discussions here in washington. we think that the city is in the states and the metro areas are doing the hard work. they're creating the innovation that eventually will make a difference here washington. right now, the ballgame sees to be outside the subway. host: trish in seattle. caller: good morning. i would just like to comment on chris's idea of privatization on developing the infrastructure. here in seat

imagine what would have happened in 1954-'55 if dwight eisenhower said, i'm responsibly ending two wars, i'm withdrawing u.s. troops from europe and i'm withdrawing u.s. troops from kerry korea and we've responsibly ended two wars. the world would look a lot different than it does today. the president should have maintained a stay-behind force in iraq. he himself said it was necessary in order to keep the country stabilized and maintain the gains we had main there. and he should keep a stay-behind force in afghanistan. the afghans want it. our allies and partners in the region want it. yet he says now, i ended it responsibley by pulling all u.s. troops and iraq now finds itself in the situation where we lose our gains in afghanistan. >> all about taking the slow approach and not being reactive. we'll see. thank you so much. >>> an actor best known for his role in a popular kids show accused of murder. how police say the red power range killed his roommate allegedly. >>> and a handful of presidential hopefuls speaking candidly about spoking weed. >>> and one character in this picture is

. >> reporter: the columbine 2 carried president dwight eisenhower for about a year., the aircraft was involved in a frightening incident with the president on board. >> for airdxquo traffic control purposes in 1953, this aircraft and eastern airlines flight 8610 ended up in the same air space over new york city. >> reporter: and the call sign the plane was eventually replaced and ended up where its history was lost and sold at auction to a man named mel chrysler, who needed planes for crop dusting. ten years later in 1980, the smithsonian called him to tell him the plane's history. >> so he decided to restore it and worked with another gentleman for ten years and they flew it around in the early#zgxs@&c@ '90s. >> reporter: they tried to sell it, but with no buyers it ended up here where timothy koonce hopes to help restore it if money is ever found it fund it. >> i just hope some day, v ññmebody finally goes, you know what? let's go get that thing and that would be a plus. >> reporter: several museums have shown interest in doing a complete restoration of the plane,

executive action providing immigration relief notwithstanding the fact that every president since dwight eisenhower has taken executive action to provide some form of immigration relief. it's occurred 39 times since the 1950's. president eisenhower did it, president nixon did it, president ford did it president reagan did it president george herbert walker bush did it, president george w. bush did it. but when president obama issues an executive action to provide immigration relief to fit these times all of a sudden we got a constitutional crisis. now, perhaps reasonable people can disagree about the lawfulness of his order, but the reasonable approach would be to allow the courts to work it out, not shutting down the department of homeland security. many of my friends on the other side of the aisle are so-called strict constructionalists. what would the constitution have us do? well, we have an article 1 legislative branch, an article 2 legislative branch an article 3 judicial branch. the founders have indicated, i believe, that they would have us work out constitutional differences through the cr

can you imagine harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, lyndon johnson, richard nixon jimmy carter george h.w. bush leading the country in the cold war against communism, against soviet communism, without ever calling it what it is. there's a reason why the president is seen widely in all the recent polling as having no strategy. it is why in all the recent polling the president is being seen as failing to confront the percentage of people he says that airstrikes are sufficient is dropping. the number of people it's now 60% in some of the latest polling that say ground forces are needed to solve the problem in the middle east. it is why americans today feel 47% of them feel that they are less safe. that's compared to 20% after 9/11. american people look at comments like that made by the soon-to-be former attorney general and they scratch their heads and say what planet are these people living on? >> and then you're not only talking about a soon-to-be former official but former administration officials who are now out are saying pretty much you do have to call this what it is and de

it seems to me that when i grew up, dwight eisenhower did a bang-up job as far as getting transportation moving around the country. and all we need to do is follow his formula and get rid of these paid schills. >> chris, care to respond? >> the cato institute's been around since the 1970s. we get no government funding of any sort we're privately funded by individuals mainly. we hardly get any corporate money. we get some foundation money. in a lot of ways we're modelled on the brookings institution which has been around since the 1920s, i think. independent think tanks are important for the policy discussion in washington. you can't trust everything the politicians say so you need an independent voice. >> we don't take federal money for any of this work. even though we're a washington-based think tank at brookings, our metropolitan policy works outside of washington in cities states, metro areas across the country. at this time of really challenging discussions here in washington, we think that the cities and states and metro areas are doing the hard work to put this country back to work

the day, he's a self made man as was ronald reagan as was gerald ford as was richard nixon, dwight eisenhowerm an elite family. his brother was the president, his father was the president. some people see it as an asset. others say it as a liability. it will be discussed. i think walker was making his case that he had a great blue collar upbringing and let's move forward. >> joe, even given the controversy over his education and comments about christianity he's having a good run the last few weeks. >> there's only -- it always gets down to two sxeem if you look at the screen we were just showing, it's him and jeb bush. that's the screen scott walker wanted and he's really pushed himself into that position. doesn't mean he and jeb will be the two that this comes down to but that picture those two side by side that's what he wants and he's actually put himself in position to be there in the last -- in a very short period although ed and i can both attest, be careful getting into one of those stations too early. it could be a big problem later on. >> yeah. and he doesn't -- he has a lot of exper

it's a lockheed constellation, and it carried president dwight eisenhower during about one year of hiswas sold as a package deal by the air force in 1970 to a man named mel chrysler who needed planes for crop dusting. there were no official markings like what you see today on presidential aircrafts, so no one knew what he had. it is the only air force one not in a museum, and it holds a very important place in aviation history. one evening in 1953 when there was no call sign air force one, the columbine ii as it was known was carrying the 34th president as air force flight 8610 over new york when there was a near miss. >> for air traffic control purposes this would be air force flight 8610. in 1953 this aircraft and eastern airlines flight 8610 ended up in the same air space over new york city. because of that incident, the air force designated a call sign for this presidential aircraft. >> reporter: after being a presidential aircraft it just became a vip plane and then on to mel chrysler. bill. bill: what happens to the plane now, alicia? >> reporter: well, the owner's now trying to

he was a -- people talk about the hidden hand presidency of dwight eisenhower. lincoln in many ways was a hidden hand president. he would do many things, some of which we don't even know about, to help move events. he was a kind of prime mover of politics. and i'll just say one of them, i don't want to speak too long, but, when he had decided to move for the 13th amendment, he arranged very quietly for the first african-american to step on the floor of the house of representatives and to address the house. never happened before. it was a close friend of his, very little of their conversations are known. he was henry highland garnet. and he was probably closer to lincoln than frederick douglass. he was a radical. he was a minister. he was a free black. and he had a congregation in washington. he had been in new york. and his speech which undoubtedly lincoln discussed with him includes many of the themes of his second inaugural. and begins to raise the question of what emancipation means in terms of rights for the slaves. lincoln is acting in very subtle ways here

>> well, i think if you ask ronald reagan colin powell dwight eisenhower, they would all tell you, andments of how they approached war, they all said that war was the last resort so many of our famous generals most of our famous fighters those have been involved in combat are never eager for combat. i think we do have to militarily confront isis. i think it's a problem and a bigger problem because we allowed and were somewhat complicity in allowing isis to grow within the syrian civil war because we and our alloys sent 600 tons of weapons into the civil war. most of those weapons wound up in the hands of isis. i voted against arming the syrian islamic, islamic rebels in syria because i said one irony is we'll be back one day to fight our own weapons. now that day has come and we do have to militarily confront isis. i think hillary's war in libya and the president's admonition and some republicans' admonition to get involved in the syrian civil war has actually now created a bigger problem which is isis. >> that debate continues. two more topics quickly now. you're in iowa over the week

president dwight eisenhower created one of the greatest public work's projects but it also enabled whiteght to the suburbs and eviscerated long established communities in the inner city. i wanted to tell that history in part to remind us that it may be a public good but always a political battle. >> it always has. you can go back earlier than that which is 1883 overturning of the civil rights act, which was the 1875 civil rights act which was a specifically about an instance in which a black woman and white man were riding a train and they were ejected for being in the company of a person of another race and that case went to the supreme court and led to overturning of the first major civil rights act at the civil war. and so it's there. and ida b. wells and then filing a lawsuit about this. as long as there's been transportation, we think about this fundamental element of ability which is what slavery was rooted on. people cannot move. the ability to move freely has been linked to people's civil rights and freedom. >> there was this other moment then that emerges and it was sort of with

but the biggest gap in the past century between presidents was dwight d. eisenhower and john f.nnedy was 27 years younger than eisenhower. kennedy, of course, 43 at the time when he took office. kennedy was the youngest candidate ever elected president, by the way. so what about 2016? looking at the current wide field of presidential contenders, there's a real mix. some are younger than president obama, including governor chris christie. senators paul, rubio and cruz, governor scott walker and even former maryland governor martin o'malley, again, all younger than president obama. here are the list of candidates that are older than him. including businesswoman and former senate candidate carly fiorina. former governor mike huckabee. governor john kasich and on the democratic side vice president joe biden, senator elizabeth warren and former senator jim webb all older. but the two people considered by many to be the front-runners, both are older than president obama. take a look at this. jeb bush would turn 64 just after taking office. he's eight years older than the president rig

he alluded to a similar strategy dwight d. eisenhower implemented during world war ii.re public servants. they work for the public. i think a lot of critics would say that they're emphasizing so much the coddling of officers' feelings that they're not emphasizing the fact that police officers are feared by part of the community they police. they're not the military. >> right. and i think that's a pr spin by the commissioner. second, it's wrong. we don't want to militarize the police officers. in fact, we have to change the attitude of the police officers and how they stereotype people especially in the african-american and latino community. residency requirement, foot patrols again, so people know who they are. we were at a forum the other night, a young latina got up and said, we don't know them they don't know us we're strangers. we need a special prosecutor for cases where there is allegations of police misconduct. we have to change the grand jury system. in 26 states around america today, they have an alternative, a preliminary hearing that's public. two states have

. -- dwight eisenhower. he was elected when the korean war was going on he got us out of that.nd only one troop was killed. he balanced the budget. he warned us about a larger and stuff. i think you is a great president. host: by the way, the portraits w have been showing you come from the national portrait gallery. we will go to robert from brooklyn, new york. independent line. hi. caller: my favorite president is richard nixon. not exclusively but mostly on the basis of three achievements. first, china. second during his campaign for office and during his ministry should, he made environmental concerns and major factor. he established the environmental protection agency i got the clean air and clean water at pass. substance -- a subsequent presidents had followed up, we may not be in the same situation we are in now with respect to global warming. finally, third this is primarily a concern of younger males, jerry has a ministration, the malignant practice of conscription was terminated. i consider that to be the last of slavery. host: that was robber in new york talking about

president of authority, by the way authority that's been exercised by every president since dwight eisenhower immigration, let's have an immigration debate but at its core congress do your job, fund dhs, and what's been happening over the past couple of weeks should be -- should raise a sense of urgency as to why they need to separate these and deal with it cleanly. >> hopefully the president can rally his side of the aisle to do what needs to be done in the senate and the house to get the dhs funded before the deadline because we see the threat is all too clear and all too present. mr. simas, thank you, as always for being on "new day." >> chris, thank you. >> alisyn. >>> chris, we're following breaking news that reveal's jihadi john's real identity. who is he and what does it tell us about isis's long-term strategy? in my world, wall isn't a street. return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for colle

dwight d. eisenhower in the white house from 1953 until 1961. and what do we think about mrs. eisenhower's style? >> very '50s. >> very. >> quintessentially '50s. pretty in pink, big poofy skirt. >> one of the most popular with little girls who visit the collection. you can't beat the fairytale pink princess dress. >> well, that we see right here. most definitely. certainly is bedazzled. so, valerie, do you think mrs. eisenhower was able to retain the style because she could purchase it or do you think it was embedded in her and, lisa kathleen, i'm asking you the same. >> it's of the period so in that sense it's fashionable but it's by no means cutting edge fashion. it's sort of ann fogerty. it's not dior. >> she loves clothes, but mimi eisenhower will tell you herself -- this is by netty rosenstein, she will go to a designer or buy it from a mail order catalog. whatever she thinks is pretty is what interests her and also doesn't look old. mimi eisenhower is concerned she doesn't look old ladyish. and this dress to me is an example of something that made her feel young in whic