to conclude, during the 1952 presidential campaign, dwight eisenhower blasted the truman administration for reneging on aid. for eisenhower, it was exploited. the truman administration had turned a good neighbor policy into a poor neighbor policy, he charged. eisenhower promised change. change came home and not for the better, at least as perceived i latin america. the president and secretary of state did not have the same views as dean acheson. they ruled the u.s. could not abide by the nonintervention principle. when i first discovered this in the documents, it was already ducted. but if you look hard, you can find the drafted memorandums, the actual passage where the u.s. ruled it could not abide by the nonintervention principle. dulles also implicitly accepted george kennan's advice that in the name of anti-communism, united states should ally with right-wing dictators like in cuba and venezuela. eisenhower and dulles also authorized the cia to destabilize the constitutional government in guatemala. i call it the mother of all interventions. the covert intervention proved catastroph

you were to give a list of to latin americans, i notice in the last c-span list of presidents, dwight eisenhower was number five and truman was number six. how truman is following eisenhower, i don't know. but if you ask latin americans to list u.s. presidents in order, people such as eisenhower, richard nixon, ronald reagan, would be near the very bottom. many of the democrats that would return to power, such as in venezuela and costa rica, simply loathe john foster dulles and to a certain extent president eisenhower. what they perceive as not only indifference, but as with the a lying dictators in the name of anti-communism. >> thank you. >> my question is, do you think that during the truman administration, in retrospect, do you think they made a mistake in not giving more economic aid to latin america, and also would it have helped prevent a lot of the future problems and dictatorships and things like that? stephen: you ask an excellent question. it is normally not a historian's duty to assign mistakes. but rather to explain why certain people made certain decisions i'm not critical of . the

here we are with dwight eisenhower. what we have from dwight eisenhower is one of his paintings. after golf, his second favorite passion was painting. he painted over 260 paintings in the 20 years after he was president. he got started after watching a portrait being painted of his wife, and that got him interested in painting. when his stuff was on exhibit at a new york art gallery in 1967, he said they would have burned this a long time ago if i were not president of the united states. here we are with john f. kennedy. for john f. kennedy we have on loan from the john f. kennedy presidential library and museum a model of his book from world war ii. it was important to him because it was the boat he commanded in the pacific which was sunk by the japanese. and he and 10 of the crew survived and able to swim to an island and able to get rescued that way. as a result, kennedy received the navy and marine medal as well as the purple heart. here we are with lyndon johnson. for lyndon johnson, we have we have the telephone from his desk at the white house. it is a mass of buttons for

fellow training american troops in pennsylvania and the operation of tanks and his name was dwight eisenhower. captain eisenhower was also involved in the use of tanks during world war i. the 37 millimeter gun on this tank was used in attacking, fortifications, and machine gun nests. they had two types of guns, a machine gun and the actual 37 millimeter gun. this tank is one of three known french ft-17 tanks known to exist that were battle damaged. this tank was hit by a german shell. luckily, to have it still here, it was a shrapnel shell and not a high explosive shell. we do not know what happened to the crew but we do know that three of the men who worked on this tank tried to repair it and one of them was from kansas city. they signed their names on the inside of the drivers' hatches. the tank also played an important role in one of the most famous heroes of world war i. his name was john lewis barkley, one of 120 americans awarded the medal of honor for their actions in world war i. john lewis barkley was in the third division of the american expeditionary forces. on october 8, 1918, he

think of republican president dwight eisenhower during the desegregation cries in little rock arkansas in 1950s if dwight eisenhower said he was going to pardon any officers who had overtepd imagine in the 19 sixth if they bakted potter for bull connor the people in the university of mississippi resisting immigration. a president's job is to speak for the entire country as donald trump tried to do last night as we've said in various ways he is just signaling support for the most divisive, least presidential, least historical moments in the responsibility of this job. so it is. it was said earlier this is we'dish event. we'dish to the nth degree and troubling. >> jennifer rub enin republican circles there is now a larger question apparently by the day. will donald trump be an unchallenged republican nominee as incumbent presidents are unchallenged nominees i'm now told he is talking about the wall and the southern border which we will go to if he talks about that. he recently tried to construct at least within the white house they are trying to construct a deal that would include the po

some people compared him to dwight eisenhower and said he had a hidden hand presidency where he was quiet out in public avoiding military entanglements when things went really badly they compared him to richard nixon and said he was abusing his executive authority. on the left they said he was too much like george w. bush because he didn't do enough to change the strategy that they didn't much like and they called him a new jimmy carter and said he was kind of an elite intellectual in the middle east. it ought to that poin got to thr interviewing one of the top aides about this and he said sometimes i think the only president we haven't been compared to his franklin pierce which is kind of good because he's kind of a drunk. [laughter] and barack obama was not. but that tells you a little about who barack obama was. we wanted to see in him many different things. he came on stage as a bit of a cipher and we didn't know him the way that you all knew him. he was a fresh face in the national stage as we could remember winning the presidency in our lifetime almost no other president spent more

when dwight eisenhower became the first republican to come in after fdr and truman, he didn't undo the new do. he basic left it in place. when richard nixon came in he didn't undo the great society. he more or less left it in place. ronald reagan promised to abolish jimmy carter's department of energy and education but in the end he didn't. i think these presidents wanted to move forward with their own proactive agenda, the own things they wanted to build. again they took different course of but he didn't spend a lot of time on doing things. president trump in his first six months of spent a lot of time trying to undo things. obviously people the country out of the transpacific partnership trade agreement that president obama negotiated. he pulled the country out of the paris climate agreement that president obama had negotiated. he reversed him on the keystone pipeline. he is an done a lot of environmental and business regulations. he has tried to reverse the health care plan and the dodd-frank wall street regulations, and he's been very critical things like the iran nuclear deal. i t

as a distant relative of dwight eisenhower, i saw a great thing on facebook last week, and it said, "e first protest against nazis," and it was the d-day landing. >> how about that? i mean, when you think about this law, it's dubious in its nature because it still leaves too much leeway. i mean, how do you decide a misdemeanor? i mean, a misdemeanor, it could be anything. and, i mean, regardless of what side or what's being protested, i think we do have enough laws on the books when it comes to -- if someone acts up, they get arrested. but then to say arrest and then you're gonna be fined? i mean, how do you define that? >> but how do cities pay for all this extra police -- >> well, and let's also -- we're taking a pretty hard brick back to donald trump, and he deserves some of it. not all of it. because every once in a while, i'll see someone say, "there were protests against donald trump tonight," and what i see on television is a riot. antifa at the inauguration was burning cars, throwing gasoline bombs into stores, breaking windows. that's not a protest. that is a riot. and this 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. >

nomination, of course, because he was the sitting incumbent vice president of two-term president dwight eisenhower. richard nixon then went on to become the very first sitting vice president many history to lose -- in history to lose a presidential campaign. losing doesn't get worse than that, and he lost by less than 1% of the vote. everyone thinks his career's over except richard nixon who then goes on to run for governor of california and manages to lose that. and then gives this very bitter press conference where he kind of walks off the national stage. and i remember seeing this, i was in elementary school. i remember seeing this moment because you'd never seen anything like it where he says to the press, you won't have nixon to kick around anymore. he quit! we saw him all quit. he's out. now in 1968 he's back, nixon is back, and the campaign's calling him the new nixon. what nixon had to do to get back is a fascinating story in itself. the team he assembled who were mostly new to this is a fascinating team that includes roger ailes who'd never done it before. his campaign manager had never d

by picking harry truman as his understudy dwight eisenhower to be supreme commander both surprise traces fdr chose not only his successor but his successor successor. all these matters have been written about over and over. if you have given rise to controversies. but he came to feel as i burrowed into my reading used to reasonably presumed long after the fact but a dying man losing his grip in the midst of all these events. after all, he did die. yet, somehow it seems he managed to remain a convincing president to the end, or very nearly so. his medical condition was never exposed in his medical record disappeared and were destroyed afterward. possibly on his instructions. he took care as he has had to cover his tracks. some have fallen for the interpretation the doctors haven't told him it should until ten. he had been very sensitive to his medical conditions when he was struck by polio and reached out to the best medical advice in that time. he was accompanying every day in the last year for his life cardiologists who gave him ekg tests once or twice a day. he can add all of that up a

he had one of the first supreme court seats dwight eisenhower promised to him and then vincent dies and warren said, give me the seat. he said, i can promise to make you chief justice and said, you said the first seat, this is the first seat and held him to the deal. eisenhower points him and later says it was the worst decision he ever made. >> so the second set of oral arguments were heard december 7th to 9th, 1953. earl warren, harrell burton and stanley reid. what was the length of oral arguments the second time around and did they differ very much in the arguments made during the first. >> the oral arguments the second time around were focused on these questions about original intent and the trouble there, jeffreys already explained, the 14th amendment, not social integration in the way that we think of today and so the question that was put before the lawyers, the naacp lawyers struggled a bit and the problem was that the answer was not found in the questions that had been put before the lawyers in the court. >> the seminole question before the court in this case, does racial segr

dwight eisenhower promised it to him. and vinson dies and warren said give me the seat. and eisenhower said i didn't promise to give you the seat of the chief justice. and warren said, this is the first seat open. so he held eisenhower to the deal. eisenhower says it was the worst damn fool decision he ever made. >> so the second set of oral arguments were heard december 7-9, 1953. the court again i'll read the justices, chief justices, earl warren, black, clark, frankfurter, jackson, minton and reed. what was the length of oral arguments the second time around? and did they differ very much? >> the oral arguments the second time around were focused on these questions about original intent. and the trouble there, jeffrey has already explained what the problems were. the framers of the 14th amendment were not social integrationists, in the way we think of today. so the question that was put before lawyers, the naacp lawyers struggled a bit. and the problem was that the answer was not going to be found in the questions that had been put before the lawyers and the court. >>

know president trump doesn't like to telegraph military operations, like he thinks the ghost of dwight eisenhower is going to get him if he says too much, he is playing it slowly and that's why he didn't give specific numbers. >> he doesn't like to be drawn on specifics, which one can understand but convenient on the other level because you don't have to answer for what the specific methodology would be. i want to play you all sound from president trump last night when he was talking about the idea of shifting from deadlines to a conditions based exit. take a listen. >> a core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time based approach to one based on conditions. i have said it many times how counter productive it is for the united states to announce in advance the dates we intend to begin or end military options. >> general, just very quickly, your thoughts on this? what are the conditions that would allow the u.s. to finally leave afghanistan? >> i think that's an open question, a more difficult issue is how to get to those conditions. they are looking for a more stable afghan government a

that's what dwight eisenhower said. that's why it is so important that everything i say in public and private has to be the literal truth. in 1962, for instance, in the middle of the cuban missile crisis, john kennedy sent an envoy to see charles de gaulle, the president of france, you know, with pictures to demonstrate that cruise chauv had indeed slipped missiles into cuba. and de gaulle said, i don't need to see the pictures. i trust the president of the united states. i wonder if a french leader or another leader would have the same reaction tonight. >> john, if you put it all together, legislative failures being forced to sign the russia sanctions veto-proof vote in congress, and where his polling is, is this a lame duck president? >> well, as you said a moment ago, the time has become so compressed. you know, the democrats are leading on the generic ballot in the house race, and that's a moment where lawmakers always get nervous. the approval rating is falling. i think to go to michael's point, the great question

they will not campaign with him they want to offer the nomination -- dwight eisenhower it turns out heen a democrat. senator fulbright shows up and says, we should go to a parliamentarian system. they cannot stand this guy. weathered well in history. in previous stories i called him the patron saint of beleaguered president. but he is more than that. he is this beleaguered guy who is a truth-teller. well.thers after world war ii, these african-american soldiers come back in their suffering the same conditions or worse. lynchings, violence, after their own home. truman, with the stroke of a pen signs and order integrating the american armed forces. something eleanor roosevelt could not even get fdr to talk about. i will answer questions. i must like truman more than roosevelt. i would not set out loud, but there i have said about love. -- but there. i have said it. brian: what is realclearpolitics.com? carl: it was started by two guys who went to princeton at the same time. after college, they were political junkies, they were doing different jobs. one was a day trader, one was in polit

we're the party of dwight eisenhower, who defeated the nazis.o the message i hear from republicans tonight, mr. president, do not make it impossible for us to support you. you have an agenda. the republican party largely supports your policy agenda. don't render it imoperable. >> the problem here is that -- the problem there is that beginning in the late '60s and early '70s, they were the party of racial division. and these are not like things that you can't find. they were -- nixon's top aides were literally going to newspapers and magazines and giving on the record interviews. one top aide gave an interview to "harper's bazaar" who said our enemies are blacks and hippies who are anti-war. now, we can't make laws to outlaw blacks and hippies, but we can associate in the mind of the public hippies with marijuana, and blacks with heroin, and we can punish those crimes to the point that we break those communities. that's a quote from "harper's bazaar." two years later, another nixon aide gives an interview to "the new york times," which he says we

dwight eisenhower demanded people during the holocaust film to show the reality of what was going on.rches saying the most vicious thing about jewish americans, spilling anti-semitism and hatred into streets and donald trump tried to pat them on the back today. it's a very low moment in u.s. presidential history. >> scott jennings said it best about there being good people there. if you see people next to you carrying swastikas and confederate flags and saying horrible things with horrible writings about jewish people and african americans and you've already checked your decency that gate. so for him to make that argument is a little bit disingenuous. >> if it wasn't for that vice media film footage, that's how history gets distorted. but we have the documentary footage to show how wrong trump was. >> we have so much to get to tonight. apologize.

and that great republican icon, dwight eisenhower, created the interstate highway system. known as the, really, officially, the national system of interstate and defense highway that once and for all made the car, i think, the preferred mode of transportation not only between metropolitan areas but reshaped them as well. a lot of people have these big, long, urban commutes, and as a result, destroying lot of these long established neighborhoods. and at the same time, federal urban renewal programs encouraged cities across the country to engage in misguided -- what was then called clearance, creating these big housing projects, where people in poverty were isolated and faced rising crime. and in some downtown medium -- and some downtown medium and large cities never recovered from that brutal surgery that removed much of our cultural heritage. along the way, i think there were dissenters from this project. which was largely a bipartisan effort among those in power. perhaps the most prominent, someone you certainly know in the audience, 1960's jane jacob. who successfully st

and's they were just a warm-up act for a five-star general who won the big but my goal is to get dwight eisenhower out of the conservative movement. hello. he doesn't want to say this openly at the time. >> even formed the magazine, what he does do -- >> you bounce national review and wants it to be the functional equivalent of the right of the new republican saturday review and some great journals that were started by socialists they started in the republic before they -- a lot of the new freedoms that wilson passed in his first term, and of child labor, eight hour day, federally reserved, a lot of these things were first introduced. buckley studied the other side very well. he said we need something for us. a policy for us that can give ideas to the next conservative president. they found national review and it becomes a place for conservatives of both parties and all persuasions to look at conservatives and publish works of emerging writers. a couple months then it becomes very clear that the administration is not going the way he wants. he has to be really careful with this because half of his

he's certainly not the first president to misrepresent the truth as far as back as 1960, dwight eisenhower lied to the public when the soviets shot down an airplane. a spy plane. eisenhower told the public it was a weather aircraft and then eventually the truth came out and he had to fess up. he was very chagrinned and upset that he had to do that. he felt his reputation was injured but the difference between that and some of the misrepresentations we have seen from the current president is that some of the things donald trump says are just head scratchers. they're kind of exaggerations according to one republican strategist seemingly to puff up his ego. >> and cheryl, you know, when you -- you go through pretty meticulous fashion some of these little lies that are so easily disproven. and i wonder what the impact is on a national security apparatus facing an undeniable urgent and perhaps imminent threat from north korea. complicated picture in the mideast. you know, homeland security crises that seem to pop up by the week. what is the effect for the people that have to govern under the ba

kennedy for a short period, but it is most often associated with president dwight d. eisenhower. it did not have this plexiglass top. that has been credited to eisenhower himself when he saw vehicles like this being used in europe during the war. it is not armored. the war was over. there was no thought of security, or a least it is not thought to be a vital concern. it does provide protection from weather, so in the event of rain or snow the president can have some protection. otherwise, all those panels could be neatly stacked in the trunk, but it doesn't have to be used. that allowed presidents to stand up in the car. there were handrails that would allow eisenhower or truman or kennedy to stand and wait to crowds as they pass by. that triangular piece is a book ld for -- is a bug shie the president standing and waiting to crowds. this is really a standard lincoln that has been stretched a bit and given a more rigorous upholstery to hold up to the wear and tear of people getting in and out. there are platforms on the back for secret service agents, and some flashing lights, sp

dwight eisenhower. good, you got one. number two, this is not a political figure but some i thank you know. one line i draw on how to keep social security future is on raising the eligibility age for social security and medicare. sounds fair since people are living longer but it isn't. lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65 and they will get penalized with lower benefits. hence, it's a columnist. a female columnist. for the new york times. not marine doubt, i wish marine would write some villages. gail collins. she's been doing great work on this. said this? i don't believe there's a red state in america where people believe you should cut medicare and social security. current member of the senate. from a blue state. not a democrat. bernie -- who said bernie? very good. bernie sanders. number four, listen carefully. there is a lot of room for improvement in social security. we owe our children the most financially sound system possible. they deserve to be protected by it. senator, r

dwight eisenhower. very good. you have one. number two. this one is not a political figure but someone i thank you know. one line i draw on how to keep social security's future secure, one line i draw is on raising eligibility age for social security medicare. it sounds fair since people are living longer but it isn't. lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65 and they will get penalized with lower. i'll give you a hint. it's a columnist female columnist for the new york times. numbering doubt. gail collins. ever heard of gail collins? number three. said this? i don't believe there is a red state america where people believe you should cut medicare and social security. current member of the senate from a blue state and not a democrat. bernie. bernie sanders. very good. number four, listen carefully. there is a lot of room for improvement in social security and we owe our children the most financially sound system possible and they deserve to be protected by it. senator, republican, a leader of the party

dwight eisenhower had promised it to him. then vincent dies, and he said give me the seat. izen hower appoints him, later says it was the worst damn fool decision he ever made. >> so the second set of oral arguments were head. chief justice earl warren, hugo black, felix frankfurter, sherman minten, and stanley reed. what was the second round of arguments and did they differ? >> the oral arguments the second time around were focused on these questions of original intent. and the trouble there, jeffrey has already explained what the problems were. the pdivision that was put befoe the naacp lawyers, they struggled a bit. and the problem was that the answer was not going to be found in the answers that had been put before the lawyers in the court. >> the question before the court in this case, does racial segregation of children in public schools deprive ninort children of equal protection of the laws under the 14th amendment? so i would like you to tell a story because the chief justice decide it had to be unanimous. how did he get to uniimity. >> the arguments are heard, and

the supposedly deal republican dwight eisenhower is the one that creates interstate highway, one of the things we take for granted as state and federal politics comes into being because of the innovation brought about during the presidency of franklin roosevelt. reagan does not reject this. he never rejects this. he explicitly affirms it, affirms it from the moment he is talking on behalf of barry goldwater, he is about cutting excesses and eliminating the idea that the bureaucrat rather than the american should be the center of american life but he is not for turning back the clock, not for going back to a pre-new deal world. in that sense he was the only authentic new deal republican because people who are republicans who were otherwise new dealers were being me too democrat in adopting the old democratic new deal government solution, always more taxes and instead what reagan does is craft a third way between social democracy and libertarianism and gives it a name called conservatism. the third thing i want to talk about his principle versus ideology and i get into that in a whole sec

even dwight eisenhower said that this made the difference -- >> we had the spike in african-american turnout in new york, new jersey, michigan, illinois, missouri, minnesota, noticeable. 5% to 10% of figures and yes, i said it swung the election and so did the republican national chairman that year, a good guy from kentucky named thurston martin. >> we have time for a one-minute question and a two-minute answer, so -- >> impossible. 1960s is the richest legislative history we have in the country in the last half century and that's due to kennedy and lbj. could you comment a little bit more on what actually happened out of that relationship at that time? it's very productive period in our history. >> he's all yours. >> it was in the time in 1960, lynd lyndon johnson did not have much of a substantive relationship with his running mate that only came later to come to the forefront, but at the time lyndon johnson did not even like to use the term civil rights. there was a euphemism preferred by people we called white moderates at the time, constitutional rights, to say civil rights was

here we are with dwight d. eisenhower. we have one of his paintings. after golf, his second passion was painting. he painted over 260 paintings in the 20 years after he was president and he got started after watching a portrait being painted of his wife and that got him interested. when his stuff was on exhibit at a new york art gallery in 1967, he said "they would have burned a long time ago if i were not president of the united states." here we are with john kennedy loan a model of his boat from world war ii. it was important to him because it was the boat he commanded and it was sunk by the japanese and he and 10 of the crew survived and were able to swing toward the island and get rescued that way. receivedlt, kennedy the navy and marine medal, and the purple heart. here we are with lyndon johnson. we have the telephone from his desk at the white house and if you look at it, there are massive buttons for different lines and an extra side panel for extra buttons because he needed more to contact more people. he was always on the telephone. he had a

so it was -- >> tom -- >> it was -- even dwight eisenhower said after the fact that this made the difference in the -- >> we tracked the spike in african-american turnout and in new york, new jersey, michigan, illinois, missouri, minnesota, noticeable, 5 to 10% above 1956 numbers and ike said it swung the election. so did the republican national chairman that year. a good guy from kennedy names thurston morton. >> we have time for a one minute question and a two minute answer. >> in 1960 is probably the richest legislative history in the country in the last half century. and that is due to kennedy and lbj. could you comment a little bit more on what actually happened out of that relationship at that time. it is very productive period in our history. >>. >> we don't have the time. in 1960, lyndon johnson did not have much of a substantive relationship with his running mate. that only came later. as johnsons, i this inherit liberalism had a chance to come to the forefront. at the time lyndon johnson did not even like to use the term civil rights. there was a euphemism preferred by people we ca

so vinson dies, frankfurter says there's a god and then earl warren is appointed by dwight eisenhower. >> who is earl warren? he's the former governor of california, the republican candidate for vice president in 1948 when tom dewy ran. and he's a tall, blonde, all-american moderate republican. this is someone who really made civil rights one of his callings in california. and called for the people to be brought together. he does have one stain on his legacy, a very important stain. and that is, supporting the japanese internment that you talked about so vividly in koramatsu case. and as attorney general of california, he had supported that. it wasn't until the end of his life in his memoirs in 176, he finally expressed remorse for the japanese internment and he wept when he reflected on what he had done. he was nevertheless a very, very moderate, remember this with is a time when the democratic peanparty had been the party of desegregation. so for earl warren to be in favor of civil rights at the time was not unusual. he had won the one the first supreme court seats, he had wanted it

to violence might have an impact on american war politics was actually a point that general dwight d. eisenhower made. he wrote pyle a letter of admiration in december 1944. he valued pyle's writing, he said, because i get so eternally tired of the general lack of understanding of what the infantry soldier endures that i have come to the conclusion that education along this one simple line might do a lot toward promoting future reluctance to engage in war. so eisenhower thought that it mattered whether civilians had a relationship with the experience of soldiers. as he understood the cultural understanding of war lays the basis for the politics of war. the culture of war lays the basis for the politics of war. to understand the political trajectory of the civilian relationship to war and what i see as the production over time of the profound apathy that we see now, i think it helps to step back on the civil war and what she calls a republic of suffering. so her landmark book on death and the american civil war shows she argues that americans couldn't escape being affected by it. that there was b

of oura picture governor, dwight d. eisenhowerand winston churchill in an open car going down monument avenue. what happened in iarlottesville, number one, do not like seeing these people carrying the battle flag of the confederacy at these rallies. i think it is ridiculous. you know, i would never fly one. know, the same token, you i think monuments do represent history. there is nothing wrong with that. richmond was the capital of the confederacy, and those monuments byt are down there were paid people out of their own pocket. it was not a government-sponsored thing. itlast point is this -- mostly goes on to the city council to vote on this, but i want people to look at all the cities around this country and how they are being run. because no tax base, businesses do not want to operate in cities when you run the risk of having -- if something makes somebody mad, down yourmow building, break in and steal a tv. there is no tax base, and people are not getting educated. tearing down these statutes is not going to change that at all

the office of chief of staff was actually modeled on beetle smith, who was dwight david eisenhower's adjutant during world war ii, set up as the chief aid to camp job transferred from military mod toll white house and it was operationized in the most linear, anal way by dennis mcdob know, barack obama's last chief of staff, who is very conscious of lines of communication and people getting through those lines of communications. none of this, by the way, is a guarantee you veal great decision make. dennis mcdonough infamously went on that walk with barack obama in which they decided to ignore red line in syria. but this is a white house in which the organizational chart is unbelievably flat and anything that imposes any order onto this is important. and we're not just talking about people. we're talking about information. the president gets a lot of his information from temperature, an alarming amount of it from "fox & friends, "and kelly's big job, and a lot of the stories today haven't focus thond but i think t's central, capitol hill's job is going to be restricting the flow of inf

. >> dwight d. eisenhower. very good. you've got one. >> number two, this one-- this is not a political figure, but someone i think you know. one line i draw on how to keep social security's future-- future secure, one line i draw raising the eligibility age for social security and medicare, it sounds fair since people are living longer, but it isn't. lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65 and they'll get penalized with lower benefits. a hint, it's a columnist. a female columnist. the new york times. not maureen dowd. i wish she would write-- gail collins. great work on this. number three, who said this? i don't believe there's a red state in america where people believe you should put medicare ap social security. who do you think said this, current member of the senate, from a blue state and not a democr democrat. bernie, who said bernie, very good, bernie sanders. number four listen carefully to this one. there's a lot of room for improvement in social security. we owe our childre

this is the relationship that conservatives had with richard nixon and to some extent with dwight eisenhower. conservatives got too close to the bush administration during the war. there were reasons for it. you know, wartime president. his critics were being so unfair. you have to overlook the fact that he was spending money like a pimp with a week to live. i get all that. read the federalist papers you should have a healthy distrust of any political leader. sometimes particularly the ones who claim to be speaking to you. i have lots of friends at national review and the weekly standard who love to go have lunch and dinner and drinks with lots of politicians. i tried really hard not to do that. because friendship can be corrupting. if you become friends with somebody it is harder to tell the truth about them. you don't want to get too attached. it is much easier to stick a needle in test subject 42 b than fluffy. and same thing with politicians. for the most part i try to stay away from. the job, at the end of the day, to get back to this, the job at the end of the day for conservatives, is

would propose that we go back to that which was in place under president, republican president dwight eisenhowerat took a great deal more from that person than the tax system we have today, and we had a faster rate of growth, and we had lower unemployment. [inaudible conversations] >> you had recessions every other year. >> recessions every four -- >> every other year. >> never have we had that. [inaudible conversations] stuart: hold on a second. there's one thing you are forgetting and that is that in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, there were enormous deductions that wealthy people -- >> always. stuart: it wasn't anywhere near 70%. >> absolutely. but it was way above what we have now. so i wanted to stress i'm not asking for something utopian and strange and distant in the future, i just want us to go back to what we all as a nation -- stuart: tax the rich, tax the rich and expropriate wealth. >> no. change the system so we don't have the problem. stuart: i was -- [inaudible] folks like you. >> that's why you were surprised by what i said. [laughter] stuart: you could never surprise me, professor. t

that's what dwight eisenhower used to do when they used to go out and roar about saying we're going toat we show strength is to be mild and quiet. >> susan. >> michael, i'm wondering what you think about the extent to which president trump is trying to follow explicitly in president nixon's footsteps. he seems to often want to use foreign policy crisis as a distraction from sort of the talk inside the white house here and back in washington. >> yeah, susan, i think that is entirely right. and i keep on going back to what steven miller, the white house aid said in february on five different networks saying, the president's powers as a national security, he said are very considerable and will not be questioned. and i'm not suggesting that that is the reason why president trump said what he said yesterday, but i think we have to always be on guard for any sign that any president is trying to use national security to divert from domestic problems. >> a perfect day to have you on, michael, always good to talk to you. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> elise, what will you be looking

the finance chairman of the campaign for the national eisenhower memorial, leading the private fund-raising effort to memorialize president dwight david eisenhower, our favorite son in kansas, here in washington, something near and dear to both of us. i'm privileged to be the chairman of the eisenhower commission. it is abundantly clear that throughout his long service to our country, bob dole has embodied the american spirit of leadership, determination and serves as one of the most prolific role models both in and outside of politics. i'm reminded of the time when i was stationed at quantico as a young marine and my dad wes roberts who was a friend and advisor to bob, said i want to take you up to the hill and meet congressman bob dole. i consider him to be the most -- to have the highest potential to be whatever he wants with regard to public service. so i went up to the hill and i met this handsome young man. he didn't sit on his hands very long in terms of what he wanted to accomplish. i first met him then and then as a staffer for my predecessor, the honorable keith sebelius, and then as a member of the house for 16 years.