dwight david eisenhower, 442 electoral votes.at point. 41 states. >> one thing to keep in mind about that election is to compare it with 1948. in losing, governor stevenson got 3 million more votes than harry truman had in winning three years earlier. dwight eisenhower got 12 million more votes than tom dewey. what you had was the largest increase in voter participation. >> why? >> in 4 years since the 1820s. >> why? >> because you had two, in many ways, outstanding candidates. each in their own way who were able to excite the electorate in a way that i don't think we've seen in this country for some time. >> here's a little bit more of adlai stevenson at the 1952 convention. >> what does concern me of both parties is not just winning this election, but how it is won. how well we can take advantage of this great quadrennial opportunity to debate issues sensibly and soberly. i hope and pray that we democrats, win or lose, can campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a gre

dwight eisenhower was drafted. he didn't want to run. and he was drafted by a group that was fronted by the citizens for eisenhower, that was organized by tom dewey who i'm going to talk about a little more later, and he was drafted against his will. and adlai stevenson who didn't want to run, was drafted by a group of people who were fronted by walter johnson of the university of chicago, leo lerner of the volunteers in illinois. so he was drafted against his will. so what did i say in this first book? none of this happened. that's what i said, none of this happened. i said that neither one of them were drafted, that it was a myth. i thought it was great. the reviews were pretty good. and then i went to a conference in 1992. now, this is a where's waldo? you got to find me in this picture. i'm the guy fifth from the left with black hair. standing next to mr. and mrs. john miner wisdom, you might see herb brownell, harold stassen. and for a good three hours at the eisenhower library, they beat me up senseless about how wrong i was with my

governor stevenson lost the 1952 general election to general dwight eisenhower with 44% of the popular eisenhower's 55%. this speech is just over 15 minutes and our coverage is courtesy of nbc news. >> quite a moment and the rise of adlai stevenson. and i judge that it is. [cheers] getting a tremendous ovation after the handsome introduction by president truman. [cheers] we can see the president seated in the back. taking it easy. waiting for the speech to begin. >> mr. president, ladies and

dwight eisenhower got 12 million more votes.e largest increase in voter participation since the 18 twenties. you had two outstanding candidates. each were able to excite the electorate. >> here is a little bit more of adlai stevenson at the 1952 convention. >> what does concern me is not just winning this election. but how it is one. how we can take advantage of this great opportunity to debate issues sensibly and soberly. i hope and pray that we democrats will win or lose, can campaign, not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our pundit seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership. peopleell the american the truth, there are no gameins without pain. >> newton minow, where were you 59 years ago tonight? >> i was in the governor's mansion. one thing that topped the american people about stevenson was the way he conceded defeat. he gave the most graceful, patriotic talk. he pledged to support president eisenhower. he ended with a story that he remembered from

i'm not going to put them in a detention center. >> well you cited dwight eisenhower -- mr. trump, you cited dwight eisenhower on this program -- >> that was in 1952, who by the way, deported tremendous numbers of -- >> he rounded them up. he took them out. and so when you cited him as an example of someone that you -- >> no, i said -- >> -- the conclusion is. >> i said that it's something that has been done in a very strong manner. i don't agree with that. i'm not talking about detention centers. i have very, very good relationships with a lot of people, a lot of hispanic people, we're talking about it. we're going to get rid of the bad ones. the bad ones are going to be out of here fast. and you know there are plenty of bad ones. gang members, gang leaders. you look at los angeles, you see what's happening. they're going out fast. they're going to be out of here so fast your head will spin. as far as the rest we're going to go through the process like they are now, perhaps with a lot more energy, and we're going to do it only through the system of laws. >> okay. >> the tru

goc he lost the election to general dwight eisenhower with 44% of the popular vote to general eisenhower's 55%. the speech is just over 15 minutes and our coverage is courtesy of nbc news. >> quite a moment in the life of adlai stevenson and i judge that it is. getting a tremendous ovation after that handsome introduction by president truman. you can see the president seated in the background, taking it easy and waiting for the speech to begin. >> mr. president, ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens, i accept your nomination and your program. i should have preferred to hear those words uttered by a stronger, a wiser, a better man than myself. but after listening to the president's speech, i even feel better about myself. none of you, my friends, can fully appreciate what is in my heart. i can only hope that you understand my words. they will be few. i have not sought the honor you have done me. i could not seek it because i aspired to another office, which was the full measure of my ambition. and wonders not treat the highest office within the gift of the people of ill

dwight eisenhower was drafted. he did not want to run. he was drafted by a group that was fronted by the citizens for eisenhower, that was organized by -- i am going to talk about a little more later. he was drafted against his will. and adlai stevenson who did not want to run was drafted by a group of people who were fronted by walter johnson by the university of chicago, and the volunteers in illinois and he was drafted against his will. so what did i say in this first book? none of this happened. that's what i said. i said neither one of them were drafted, that it was a myth. i thought it was great. the reviews were good. then i went to a conference in 1992. now, this is a "where is waldo", you got to find me in this picture. i am the guy fifth from the left with black hair. [ laughs ] >> standing next to mr. john myers wisdom. >> you may see harold stason there. for three hours at the library, they beat me up about how wrong i was with my book. i kind of thought hiding behind an "i like ike" button would make me objective. i walked awa

dwight eisenhower got 12 million more votes than tom dewy.ce the 1820s. >> why? >> because you had two, in many ways, outstanding candidates, each in their own way, who were able to excite the electorate in a way that i don't think we had seen in this country in some time. >> here is a little bit more of adlai stevenson at the 1952 convention. >> what does concern me is not just winning this election, but how it is won. how well we can take advantage of this great quadrennial opportunity to debate issues sensibly and soberly. i hope and pray that we democrats, win or lose, can campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership. let's talk sense to the american people. let's tell them the truth that there are no games without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions. >> newton minow, where were you 59 years ago tonight? >> i was in the governor's mansion and i think one thing that really taught the ameri

i mean, dwight eisenhower, richard nixon are the most obvious but there's a whole host of people who would remain -- some of them here in new york but others, kim haggerty was the white house press secretary, to this day is regarded as the best press secretary in white house history. he earned the job in new york under tom dewey. herbert brownell, the attorney general under eisenhower was dewey's campaign manager and the list is a very long one. >> osmond in richmond, virginia, you're next. >> caller: this is a very interesting subject. hello? >> yeah, you're on the air, go ahead. >> caller: thank you, go ahead, this is a very interesting subject. >> i'm sorry, can you hear me? >> we can. >> caller: this is a very interesting subject. this was the first presidential election, my mother a life long republican, voted in. and one of the things she told me was that she found dewey unattractive because of his -- she mentioned his greasy hair and his mustache. if you can comment on that. but my main interest was understanding the role a future major player in the democratic party, lyndon j

and then with dwight eisenhower. opposed to that were the conservative midwesterners, many of them isolationists, who rallied around bob taft. the son of former president, ironically president taft who with t.r. precipitated the split in 1912. that split had never really healed. so in 1946, when republicans took congress, it was the conservatives who became the face of the party. on the other hand, you had people like dewey, many of the governors, for example, who were much less hostile to the new deal, much more willing to work with its premises. >> thomas e. dewey is our contender tonight. he ran, he lost, but he changed political history, anyway. here is thomas e. dewey launching his campaign in 1948 and the criticism he has of the truman administration. >> we enter upon a campaign to unite all americans. on january 20, we will enter on a new era. next january 20, there will begin in washington the biggest unraveling, unsnarling, untangling operation in our nation's history. [ cheers ] >> richard norton smith, wha

and i think that stevenson would have done that as quickly as dwight eisenhower did. but who knows? it's a good question. yes, ma'am. >> i'm usually interested in the women behind the presidents. what was mamie's thoughts on being first lady, and was she instrumental in working with dwight or -- >> if i may, let me answer the question holistically and start with stevenson as a divorced candidate. throughout the campaign, there were rumors of stevenson being gay. and these rumors we now know through a couple of books were perpetuated by none other than everybody's favorite person, j. edgar hoover who had a file on stevenson. so stevenson had to bring his sister, buffy ives, on to the campaign trail with him in a completely contrived and phony situation where the sister looked like she was the wife, and a lot of people thought she was the wife. that was infinitely to me more interesting than what mamie did which was essentially stay in the background on the campaign train. remember the whistle stopping and everything that happened during the campaign. mamie was often ill. she was not

. >> dwight eisenhower. they moved 1.5 million people out. we have no choice. >> are you going to have a massive deportation? >> we are going to have a deportation force, and we will do it humanely. >> if you are president, what will you do for those members of our country who have been here for 25 years undocumented? >> they are going to go, and we are going to create a path where we can get them into this country legally. otherwise, we don't have a country. they are going to come back -- someone who has been in the country for 20 years, has a job, ok. do we take him as a family and send them out? they owe taxes, they have to pay taxes. alex: this is not the only position trump took during the nomination contest that now seems to be untenable. last night on rachel maddow, kellyanne conway struggled to rectify her boss's original muslim ban with his current proposal, and she could not specify exactly who trump is apologizing to when he expressed regret last week. he and his campaign seem to be facing two unpalatable choices, either double dow

. >> you cited dwight eisenhower. >> that was in 1952. >> he took them out. and so when you cited him as an example of someone that you want to emulate, we think that's the conclusion. >> i said it's something that has been done in a very strong manner. i don't agree with that. i'm not talking about detention centers. >> what are you talking about? in that interview, he laid out a more targeted approach to deporting undocumented immigrants. >> we're going to obey the existing laws. the existing laws are very strong. the existing laws, the first thing we're going to do, if and when i win, we're going to get rid of all the bad ones, gang members, killers, we have a lot of bad people we have to get out of this country. the police know who they are. >> if that sounds vaguely familiar, it bares more than a passing resemblance to president obama's priority enforcement program, which focused on removing people who pose a danger to public safety. trump acknowledged cribbing from the president's policies. >> as far as everybody else, we're going to go through the proc

dwight eisenhower, he was very tough. hn eisenhower died a couple years ago, he wrote military histories and was very inspired by his father. also found his father tough to take it eyes. brian: what does it mean to be a tiger-dad? mr. kendall: ike is a tiger-dad. john eisenhower graduate from west point on june 6, 1944. that was tough to turn down. i have a scene in the book where he graduates -- right after he graduates he visits ike at the front. he is a nervous wreck, he has no idea how d-day is going. tiger-dad mode. he criticizes john. he is all over john's bidding. john gets a speck of dust in his uniform and is horrified. forget -- we can to footage ike from 1950's -- but he is a great physical specimen. he once tackled jim thorpe in a game. never hitthat ike him, but if he had he would have killed him. john said he was born standing at attention. he was terrified of his father. at the same time, he admired him. that is kind of what tiger-dad stupid they push the kids really hard. brian: when do you remember your ow

. >> you cited dwight eisenhower. >> -- it was in 1952 who, by the way, deported tremendous numbers. >> he rounded them up. when you cited him as an example of someone that -- >> no, i said that it's -- >> yeah. >> i said that it's something that has been done at a very strong manner, i don't agree with that. i'm not talking about detention centers. >> joining us now, theresa, he does not approve of what dwight eisenhower did as of tonight. >> right. and then if you saw his in ohio, he basically said, here first political add on friday is how he's doing to add it up. it was very reminiscent of sharing angle ad that ran in nevada against senator reed that brought out the latino community, again, solidified california as a blue state. donald trump, i don't think realize that latinos speak english that's why he keeps going back forth. we speak both and we are keenly aware of what his agenda is. they may not like hillary clinton, they're like, shoot, can i vote for this guy. >> is this the final turn in the immigration story with donald trump? on the wall, he only says it when the audien

but it was slightly interrupted by presidents taft and franklin roosevelt and harry truman and dwight eisenhower and john kennedy and jimmy carter and bill clinton, and the department of state and the department of defense so we seem to have a continuum through american history. this building was the largest building on the naval base, this was 9,000 square feet. and consequently it was built originally as the pay master and commander's home but by 1911 our new base commander realized things were getting a little snug and so emerged it into a single dwelling of almost 9,000 square feet and at that time key west was the command headquarters for the 7th naval district which covered everything from key west to charleston, and admiral nimitz is here inspecting the base. and he finds that our base commander moved to smaller quarters because he's a bachelor and he doesn't want to bounce around in 9,000 square feet by himself. some left this large home sitting vacant. nimitz is here. sees this large house sitting empty. is impressed with the top secret research done by the navy in key west so he gets h

it was republican leadership under dwight eisenhower that kept the peace and passed along to this administrationld has ever known. and i need not remind you that it was the strength and the believable will of the eisenhower years that kept the peace by using our strength, by using it in the formosa straits and in lebanon and by showing it courageously at all times. it was during those republican years that the thrust of communist imperialism was blunted. it was during those years of republican leadership that this world moved closer not to war, but closer to peace than at any other time in the last three decades. and i need not remind you, but i will, that it's been during democratic years that our strength to deter war has stood still and even gone into a planned decline. it has been during democratic years that we have weakly stumbled into conflict, timidly refusing to draw our own lines against aggression, deceitfully refusing to tell even our own people of our full participation and tragically letting our finest men die on battlefields unmarked by purpose, unmarked by pride, or the prospect

. >> dwight eisenhower. they moved a million and a half people out. we have no choice. >> are you going to have a massive deportation force? >> we are going to have a deportation force and you are going to do it humanely. >> if you are president, what will you do for those members that are the fabric of our country that have been here for 25 years undocumented? >> they are going to go and we are going to create a path where we can get them into this country legally. otherwise we don't have a country. they are going to come back -- >> -- been in the country for 20 years, has done a great job, a job, everything else, okay. do we take him and the family, her or him or whatever, and send them out. they will pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes. but we work with them. >> this is not the only position trump took during the nomination contest that now seems to be untenable. last night on rachel maddow's show, kellyanne conway struggled to rectify her boss' original muslim ban with his current proposal and could not specify exactly who trump was apologizing

about president eisenhower's deportation program in the 1950s -- >> dwight eisenhower, you don't get nicer, you don't get friendlier, they moved 1.5 million people out. we have no choice. lot of people like eich. >> he deported, as you rightly pointed out, about a million, maybe more back in the 1950s, but believe me when i tell you, mr. trump, that was brutal what them back. i mean, the stuff they did -- >> well -- >> was really brutal and could never happen today. >> i've heard it both ways. i've heard -- >> no, no. you know me -- >> good reports, bad report. we would do it in a very humane way. >> at a rally last night, trump attacked hillary clinton over the clinton foundation and her newly discovered e-mails. >> the fbi investigation of hillary clinton's private servers uncovered nearly 15,000 state department yesterday to review those messages that clinton didn't turn over and make them public. clinton brushed off the news during a late night tv visit. >> the state department said that they have to release 15,000 e-mails by the deadline, couple days before the debate. are you c

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 dwighto a 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.

the first was, he gave a speech attacking dwight eisenhower for -- for a big budget, which he calledquander bus spending. the other was there was a big labor hearing in the late '50s run by senator mcclellan and it was meant to take on jimmy hoffa's corruption and barry goldwater kept interrupting saying i'd rather have jimmy hoffa stealing my money than my freedom. walter ruther was the head of the you a nighted auto workers who basically pioneered things like the automatic cost of living increase. he was fighting to make the operations of corporations much more transparent. he was the most politically aggressive labor leader in history, and one of the most successful. and by taking on someone like walt ruther, be businessmen all over the country flocked to barry goldwater as their savior. these were the guys that ended up organizing the group, that again, under barry goldwater's nose, without him being involved at all, put together conscience of conservatism. first put him forward as presidential candidate. >> let's get a quick call. >> can i halfway disagree with what he just said

when dwight eisenhower not only embraced in the new deal but even expanded it, opening up something like the department of health, education, and welfare. instituting the interstate. it was just presumed that the conservatism of the 1920's, which was seen as something that have gotten us into the depression was no longer relevant to modern life. >> in your book, you point out to dump key primaries that were critical in 1964. oregon which nelson rockefeller one and a california which barry goldwater 1. >> california was an absolutely fascinating knock down drag out political fight. i talked earlier about how barry goldwater had these impassioned supporters who would do what ever they want even if barry goldwater told them not to do it. these are people from groups like the john birch society. some were segregationists. they were far right extremists. they were basically willing to knock on doors until there knuckles were bloody. they were willing to sabotage other campaigns. it was seen as the fight for civilization itself. the other candidates -- the liberal candidates were seen as these

franklin roosevelt, george marshall, and dwight eisenhower. you will remember dwight d. senhower at this point, early in 1942, is still working for george marshall as chief of the war plans division. it is up to eisenhower to try to figure out, how will they did the philippines. both marshall and franklin roosevelt really have a commitment to do that and as the war goes on in there are more and more people, more supplies and everything that go into the south pacific theater, at one point marshall, in january 1944 has got to write macarthur and say, would you please hurry up and unload these supply ships? you are clogging the pipeline. they have dozens and dozens of ships waiting to be unloaded. macarthur, through all of this, with this great buildup of america's industrial-strength, is basically saying i am operating on a shoestring i need more stuff i need more material and supplies. so i understand that it is the job of a field commander to lobby for more resources but let me suggest to you that i think macarthur took that to the absolute extreme and there is an element

trump you cited dwight eisenhower >> that was in 1952 who by the way deported millions of people. >> he rounded them up. he took them out and so when you cited him as an example of someone that you would emulate that's what the solution is. >> no i said it's something that has been done in a strong about president eisenhower's deportation program in the 1950s. >> dwight eisenhower. you don't get nicer, you don't get friendlier, they moved 1.5 people out. we have no choice. lot of people liked ike. >> he deported as you rightly pointed about 1 million back in the early '50s. believe me when i tell you, mr. trump, that was did to those people to kick them back. i mean the stuff they did -- >> well -- >> -- was really brutal. it could never happen today. >> i've heard it both ways. >> no, no, you know me -- >> we would do it in a humane way. >> at a rally trump attacked hillary clinton over the clinton foundation and her newly discovered emails. >>> the fbi investigation of hillary clinton's private servers uncovered nearly 15,000 more emails. those messages that clinton didn't turn ove

trump, you cited dwight eisenhower on this program -- >> who, by the way, deported a tremendous number of people. >> he rounded them up. he took them out. so when you cited him as an example of someone you would emulate, that's what the conclusion is. >> yeah. i said it's something that has been done in a very strong manner. i don't agree with that. about president eisenhower's deportation program in the 1950s. >> dwight eisenhower, you don't get nicer. you don't get friendlier, they moved 1.5 million people out. we have no choice. >> a lot of people like that. >> okay. now, he deported as you rightly point out about 1 million, maybe a little more illegal aliens back in the early '50s. believe me when i tell you, mr. trump. those people to kick them back. i mean, the stuff they did was really brutal. >> well -- well -- >> it could never happen today. >> i've heard it both ways. >> you know me -- >> we would do it in a very humane way. >> in a rally last night, trump attacked hillary clinton and the clinton foundation and the newly discovered e-mail. >> the investigation of hillary clin

whistle that it will still be the harsh deportation policy that we have been talking about citing dwight eisenhowerreassuring moderate republicans that it's not going to be the harsh deportation thing that we've been talking about for the last few months. john: bill o'reilly said you liked operation wetback. i said i was not --, which is a lie. in the world we now live, pivots are harder for everybody. it's harder for this guy given the things he has said. when we come back, what hillary clinton was up too late as night after these words from our sponsors. ♪ ♪ >> are you enjoying being a grandparent? >> it is the best. >> do wish you had more time? >> i would be distraught if we did not have facetime. >> do you do that a lot? >> i have. >> have you considered using facetime instead of e-mail? [laughter] [applause] >> actually, i think that is really good advice. john: that was hillary clinton looking amazingly comfortable and relaxed on "jimmy kimmel" last night. this is stuff you study. what did you think? >> she is so much more relaxed than she used to be. it is obviously something she really wor

i remember dwight eisenhower, a republican president.and nixon, he was a pretty fair republican, except for watergate. as far as after that, ronald first, i voted him the time. then i realized that he didn't know what he was doing. class.against the middle and the middle class is the one that really gets this country going. party isemocratic definitely for the middle class. and they're not against rich people. to help everybody. that's the way the democratic party is. poorhey definitely help people more. so i want to thank this man for vote forepublicans to his third party, because that's going to make it easier for get intolinton to office, and the democratic party will definitely run the country better. do. always it's not my opinion. that's a fact, whether you like it or not. are they perfect? not.urse i thought nafta was one of the biggest mistakes clinton ever think the trade deals are awful and i think they should be changed. and i think hillary realized and he's gonna do it -- she's gonna do it, once she gets elected president. >>