so, dwight eisenhower was born into a struggling working-class family on october 14, 1890. the place was denison, texas. although they moved to abilene shortly thereafter. eisenhower had a life-long career in public service, and when he was in the military, we had very little clue as to what his political philosophy was because of course you are not allowed to do that. he let it slip one time, and i caught him. a rare glance into his philosophy came from his reaction to congressional approval of financial legislation in march 1933 that gave president franklin d. roosevelt authority over the nation's banking system at the height of the great depression. eisenhower commented enthusiastically but privately, yesterday congress met and gave the president extraordinary power over banking. now if they will just do the same with respect to law enforcement, federal expenditures, transportation systems. there be such a revival of confidence that things will begin to move. the opinion is that eisenhower associated government activism with confidence. when he became president, when he t

no veteran behind when they come home. [ applause ] president -- okay. [ applause ] president dwight eisenhower, mr. president, i point him out there, he chose to be memorialized here. his family toll us that his wish as a five-star general, isn't that exciting? because a lot of people can be president of the united states, but hardly anybody can be a five-star general. but anyway, he stands in bronze in the rotunda, and he once said, president eisenhower did, a people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. senator dole's life and career embodied that. he has dedicated a life time to upholding our american principles and our founding values. senator dole firmly believes in the value of justice, and embattled in congress in the 1960s to expand the civil rights of every american. he believes in fairness, fighting to create and then push the americans with disabilities act over the finish line as my colleague mr. hoyer mentioned who worked with him on that important legislation. bob also believes in honoring human dignity. together with senator george mcgovern he extended

anyway -- dwight eisenhower. anyway, he said never fight unless you have to, never fight alone, never fight for long. and i think what happens in this country is because we are inflexible, we dig our heels in, then we get into longer and longer engagements. and the longer they get, the more we have to justify this to the public. and we do this by continuing to ramp up, you know, the notion of the threat itself. i mean, we're sitting here in washington thinking that, you know, that there are boogiemen under all kinds, every kind of bogeyman under our beds. i've never seen such a group of terrified people, and yet the things that harlan points out so well in his book that could be employed, you know, to alleviate and prioritize the threats to this country, these aren't even being tried. so well done, harlan -- >> susan, thank you. >> -- and thank you for the opportunity to be here. >> ed. >> that's brilliant, susan, thank you. >> likewise, thank you very much, fred. and thank you, harlan. it's a genuine honor for y

a stewardess back then, betty started her career with eastern airlines on november 4th, 1957 dwight eisenhower got the job. that's the most important thing. >> we sold sandwiches for 50 cents and milk for 15 cents. in the old days we saw a lot of ming coats but, you know, now a days we see a lot of flip-flops. so depending on where you go. >> reporter: flu bankruptcies and mergers, betty ended up working for american airlines. it it's ceo doug parker on hand to help pay tribute to the 81-year-old manassas resident. >> when you go about your work, the way you continue to go about your work 60 years later, you're an inspiration to everyone at american. you're a flight attendant and every flight attendant that's ever, um, served for any airline, and you're an inspiration to all of as humans. >> reporter: americans produced this video tribute a salute to their faithful employee. >> betty, you're looking fabulous. you're still going strong. just keep on going. we all love you. >> reporter: among the guests at today's reception fellow flight attendants and some long-time customers. >> she's the firs

[applause] president dwight eisenhower, he choose to be memorialized here.lot of people can be president of the united states but hardly anybody can be a five-star general. [laughter] anyway, he stands in bronze in the rotunda. he once said, president eisenhower, a people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. senator dole's life and career embody's that ethos. he's dedicated a lifetime of holding our american principles and advancing our founding values. senator dole firmly believes in the value of justice. embattled in congress in the 1960s to expand the civil rights of every american. he believes in fairness, fighting to create and push the americans with disabilities act over the finish line of my colleague, mr. hoyer mentioned, that worked with him on that important legislation. bob also believes in honoring human dignity. together with senator george mcgovern, he extended the life line of food stamps, school lunch initiatives and special nutrition initiatives to millions of women, children and working families. high school mcg

[applause] pelosi: president dwight eisenhower, he chose to be memorialized here.amily told us hit of his wishes as a five-star general. present,people can be but hardly anybody can be a five-star general. -- a lot of people can be president, but hardly anybody can be a five-star general. [laughter] rep. pelosi: he said of people that values -- above its principles, lose both. bob dole embodies that have those -- that pathos. senator dole firmly believes in the value of justice and battled congress in the 19 60's to expand the civil rights of every american. he believes in fairness, fighting to create and push the americans with disabilities act over the finish line. as my colleague, steny hoyer mentioned, he worked with him on that. bob also believes in honoring human dignity. together with george mcgovern he expanded food stamps, nutrition initiative to millions of women, children, and working amylase. -- working families. it has brought food from peoplen heartland to across the world. senator dole once said our temper ofis not to american ideals or replace them,

and as always dwight eisenhower. never fight alone, never fight for long. what happens in this country because we are in flexible, we dig our heels and get into longer and longer engagements in the longer they get to the more we have to justify this to the public that we do this by continuing to ramp up the notion of the threat itself. there are boogie man i've never seen such a group of terrified people of the things that harlan points out so well in the book that could be employed and prioritize the threats to the country. thank you for the opportunity to be here. >> likewise, thank you very much in thank you, harlan. it's a general honor for you to invite me. actually, i would say -- [inaudible] >> i'll get into the book of the moment. it's provocative, clear and pretty much correct. the second world war when you are saying winston churchill -- [inaudible] not just because your grandfather played such a central role of the second world war, but the last war america got into for noble reasons and it's not just nobl

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. >

think the question of the liberal international order which was created by harry truman and dwight eisenhowerthers years ago, that was called into question by donald trump in the campaign. he has also called in question by many people who said populism was not just for trump but brexit and brinton and else -- britain and elsewhere. it is not over. we still do have an international trading system, although it remains to see how well it will survive. we also have a degree of stability in the monetary system internationally. it is not over, but shaken a bit. mark: i went to about brexit in a second. giving you coined the term soft power, how has trump's first america'swer affected soft power around the world? joseph: soft power is the ability to get what you want through a traction. if you look at the public will see that you traction of the united states has gone down around the whole world. trump has been bad for american soft power. what is more is his budget, which he calls a hard power budget or mick mulvaney calls at that. it cuts one third of the resources it was scheduled for soft power

dwight eisenhower reminded us that peace was purchased only at the price of strength. and john f. kennedy spoke of the burden and glory that is freedom. when i visited this chamber last year as a newcomer to washington, critical of past policies which i believed had failed, i proposed a new spirit of partnership between this congress and this administration and between washington and our state and local governments. in forging this new partnership for america, we could achieve the oldest hopes of our republic, prosperity for our nation, peace for the world, and the blessings of individual liberty for our children and, someday, for all of humanity. it's my duty to report to you tonight on the progress that we have made in our relations with other nations, on the foundation we've carefully laid for our economic recovery, and finally, on a bold and spirited initiative that i believe can change the face of american government and make it again the servant of the people. seldom have the stakes been higher for america. what we do and say here will make all the difference to autoworkers

this was a gun presented to dwight david eisenhower and was one of his favorite guns. there is a fun story about this gun in our museum. our senior curator, phil fryer, in his early days at the museum was standing near this exhibit and he watched a gentleman come up and stand in front of the case looking at it. the guy looked like a secret service agent out of central casting. he would look one way and then another and he stood there for several minutes. finally, phil asked if there was anything he could tell him about the gun. and the man said no, but i could tell you about this gun. i had that gun in my hand the first in my hand the first and the last day on his job. he had been a secret service agent. his first day on the presidential detail, eisenhower was meeting with a foreign dignitaries who he wanted to take out hunting. the agents went into the gun room and the head agent told everyone to grab a shotgun because they were going hunting. the other agents left this one here and the kid said, that is a good-looking shotgun. and his boss said, that is ike's gun. an

this was a gun presented to dwight david eisenhower and was one of his favorite guns. there is a fun story about this gun in our museum. our senior curator phil fryer in his early days at the museum was standing near this exhibit and he watched a gentleman come up and stand in front of the keys looking at it. the guy looked like a secret service agent out of central casting. he would look one way and then another and he stood there for several minutes. finally, phil asked if there was anything he could tell him about the gun. and the man said no, but i could tell you about this gun. i had that gun in my hand the first in my hand the first and the last day on his job. he had been a secret service agent. meeting with a foreign dignitaries who he wanted to take out hunting. the agents went into the gun room and the head agent told everyone to grab a shotgun because they were going hunting. the other agents left this one here and the kids said -- that is a good-looking shotgun. and his boss said -- that is ike's gun. and the president said that the kid had a good eye and h

you could go back to sherman adams, the civilian version of dwight eisenhower's army chief of staff. he was known as the abominable snowman. man. haldeman took it to another level. they were obsessed with trying to get this right. again in nixon's words, the lord high executioner. he was the guy who was the gatekeeper, he brokered information and was in charge of communications. he was the guy who executed the president's agenda. the fascinating paradoxical thing about it is haldeman who wrote the template for the water and white house chief failed in the end spectacularly to speak truth to power during watergate, which was richard nixon's downfall. host: we will take calls now for chris whipple. we will put the numbers on the bottom of the screen. you said this type of book is not been done before. why did you decide to do it? was a phone call out of the blue from a stranger. he is a documentary filmmaker .ho had done 9/11 they want to know if i would partner with them on a documentary. we did that for the discovery channel. that it barelyme scratch the surface of this unbelievable

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>> he sounded like he was running for president against dwight eisenhower. and the second half of the speech was how all immigrants are murderers and he needs to stop them from coming into the country through family mi migration. it was a bizarre speech. >> he was trying to climb back to high 40s and get that increment back and people who are center right, angry, resentful democrats, tried to win them back. but he was cloaking his darker purposes. a lot of candy, a lot of candy coating of the speech tonight. even all those families, they were all very empathetic or sympathetic families but the message was we hate the god damn north koreans and we hate the drug dealseers and we hate the country they come from. >> immigrants are all ms-13 members. i'm sure everybody is going home tonight that ms-13 is going to attack them on the way home. as joy said, really, who runs into these people. i'm not saying they don't exist but it's not exactly a national scourge here. something else that joy was talking about, there is this sort of odd feeling you get when you list

you could go back to sherman adams who was the civilian version of dwight eisenhower's army chief oftaff. he was famously known as the noman. it was a gruff, tough gatekeeper. i chose holderman. he took it to another level. he and nixon were obsessed with trying to get this right. holderman became nixon's famous words, the lord high executioner. he became the guy who was the gatekeeper. he was the broker of information. he was in charge of communications. he executed the president's agenda. the fascinating part thing about it is that holderman who wrote this template for the modern white house chief failed in the end spectacularly to speak truth to power during watergate. which was of course, richard nixon's downfall. host: we'll take calls now for chris whipple. before we go to calls. you said type of book hasn't been done before necessarily. why did you decide to do it? guest: it was actually a phone call out the blue from a stranger. a documentary filmmaker who done 9/11 with his brother. they wanted to know if i would partner with them on a documentary, which we did in 2013 for t

trump is the first president not to visit the golden state in his first state in office since dwight eisenhowerskills will go to midterm elections not only here in california but across the country. >> thank you. thanks to all of you for joining us. ac 360 starts right now with anderson. >>> good evening. tonight keeping him honest on immigration, the border wall and how the white house was directing how steve bannon did or did not do in front of congress. president trump's own chief of staff speaks out on central campaign policy to build a wall. candidate trump's pledge on the wall was uninformed. joined by one of lawmakers who were in the room when kelly said that. more reporting on something steve bannon let sli

>> he sounded like he was running for president against dwight eisenhower. he sounded like a president from the past. and the second half of the speech was how all immigrants are murderers and he needs to stop them from coming into the country through family migration. it was a bizarre speech. >> he was trying to climb back to high 40s and get that increment back and people who are center right, angry, resentful democrats, tried to win them back. but he was cloaking his darker purposes. a lot of candy, a lot of candy coating of the speech tonight. even all those families, they were all very empathetic or sympathetic families but the message was we hate the god damn north koreans and we hate the north koreans, the drug dealers and we hate the country they come from. >> immigrants are all ms-13 members. i'm sure everybody is going home tonight that ms-13 is going to attack them on the way home. as joy said, really, who runs into these people. i'm not saying they don't exist but it's not exactly a national scourge here. something else that joy was talking about

ronald reagan had a period of time towards the end, dwight eisenhower might have. it's not so clear whether there were questions about his own acuity. never has america take ton driving out a president based upon assumptions or as karen said, weeg being unwary. if we drove a president out of the office because of the way he tweets it would be a true constitutional crisis of some kind. >> you're not preparing for the 25th amendment to be -- >> no. i would say this. i think the whole ball game here about his, his vulnerability will happen ten months from today and that is when there is the midterm election. if republicans lose the house and senate, there will be an impeachment. >> stanley pottinger, appreciate your time. ann carney, and karen tunnelty, appreciated. thank you. >>> a quick programming note. tomorrow morning, "fire and fury: inside the trump white house" author michael wolff will be on the "today" show for an exclusive interview. we've been waiting to hear from him and on sunday he'll join chuck todd on nbc's "mtp daily." >. >>> "meet the press." and me

announcer: president dwight eisenhower used to call this his summer white house in 1958 through 1960.

if we had a dwight eisenhower or franklin roosevelt they would say let's figure ut out, act like grownups feel demind to go through the rituals of condemnation. so it shouldents be like this. the second thing, the way i think this is a significant moment, sit represents the parties defining themselves in the middle of a big demographic shift in the country. this is funneling down to a debate about immigration. we used to have the debate about the size of government or war and peace, but immigration is one of the central issues in american life and really at the core of this thing, and the republicans clearly feel especially in red states, they can go to red states and say, you know, we want to keep government open for americans, we want to keep healthcare for americans, the army for americans and they want to hold it up for a bunch of illegal americans, so which party do you support? and that's what the republicans are going to hang their hat on in a country that's rapidly diversifying. >> woodruff: how do you size all this? >> i disagree in that republicans don't say illegal americans. t

. >> pete: they called dwight eisenhower the hidden hand presidency. if you don't think this president does not have a hidden hand behind this debate you are wrong. he's got a twitter feed, rapport with mitch mcconnell, clearly mitch mcconnell is able to drive some sort of deal to start a debate on immigration. >> harris: couldn't have been the president of the united states who started that conversation on friday? senator schumer was headed to the white house. >> kennedy: he made mitch mcconnell jealous. we can report this, the government will reopen. the vote is still open but they are right now pushing 80 yeses and of course they needed 60 to break the filibuster as we continue to watch this vote play out. the government will reopen, obviously having over 60 votes, now pushing 80. >> pete: the word went out, it's time for everyone to vote yes. you will probably have rand paul and mike lee voting against it, god bless them. from the freedom caucus to those groups, will be played on the margins. it will be played on the left, elizabeth warren kamala h

dwight eisenhower had great faith in prescott bush. in fact, put him on a short list of vice presidential candidates he was considering and thought that he should be president himself. he expressed that aspiration for prescott bush. >> no nixon people. [laughter] >> but he was extraordinarily moderate by today's republican standards. in fact, as you pointed out to me at lunch, he was the president of the planned parenthood chapter in his hometown in connecticut. >> yeah. >> so a very moderate force. when george h.w. bush throws his hat in the ring, it's as county commissioner for the republican party or in harris county, texas. and he's battling john bier chers, as you say, who are extraordinarily radical and virulent in their thinking. and they don't want an establishment republican particularly from the northeast to tell them how to run things. george h.w. bush achieves the office, and he invites them in. he has the spirit of inclusion where he brings them into the party operation. he unites them by including them. it's a remarkable

is incredible -- as this debate goes on, dwight eisenhower is put in charge of the operation. he is in london and he essentially is trying to figure out what to do with this operation while roosevelt and churchill are playing strategist, as they like to do. be settledvade would over the course of a two-week exchange of telegrams between roosevelt and churchill at the end of august and beginning of september in 1942. eisenhower would later refer to it as the transatlantic essay contest. settled, the allies decided, the brits and the americans decided, they ,ould come ashore in morocco with casablanca as the primary objective so they could take the port. they would come ashore in algiers at iran and they would algeria atshore in out years. what you see on this graphic, the western half of the force would come for morocco. for iranforce comes and the eastern task force comes for algiers. so the western task force comes for casablanca. october, a naval force would depart. it was under the command of george patton. you may have heard of him. these five small fleets would then meet

dwight eisenhower used to call this his summer white house in 1958 through 1960. originally it was the commandant's house. join us as we learn more about this historic home. >> the eisenhower house was used as a summer white house during 1958 and 1960.

ninety six bills into law the fewest by any president not just of these six but actually since dwight eisenhower and he's had major trouble getting some of his big campaign promises through congress as well let's have a look at some of them what's going to be obamacare repealing and replacing it remember this was trump a signature campaign promise it hasn't happened because he failed to get enough support from elements of his own republican party what about his campaign pledge of pumping a trillion dollars into rebuilding america's infrastructure and creating millions of jobs not a big red cross on that one there's also as we've discussed already the grand plan to build a wall along the border with mexico that one is also stuck in a legislative logjam then we've got the promise to renegotiate nafta the north american free trade agreement that pitted him against canada and mexico one year on that one is still stuck as well but let's be fair this is what president trump has done and we just talked about this with chris and stephen he's managed to pass his tax bill which is his most significant leg

. >> president dwight d eisenhower signed the civil rights act of 1957 which created the u.s. commission on civil rights. next on american history tv, to 60th anniversary, current and former chairs talk about its mission, scope, how it has changed. the way that commissioners interact with the public and government. the library of congress hosted the event. it's about one hour and 20 minutes. >> i want to thank everyone for coming. it is really, really thrilling to have everyone in this room who is deeply committed to civil rights together. i am thrilled to be here to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the u.s. commission on civil rights.

dwight d. eisenhower, who didn't serve overseas but was a major in gettysburg, in fact, he was training tankers and also at camp mead. that was his life as well. so, the army had downsized significantly. i don't know the exact number, but i know that if you were in the military in the so-called interwar period between world war i and world war ii, it wasn't all that glamorous, and there was a possibility that you couldn't make much of a career out of it, although truthfully, a lot of the belligerents in the first world war, including general pershing-an inkling that this was the first world war. the fact that germany hadn't been invaded, germany was forced into an armistice, eventually the surrender at versailles. there was a lot of thought that there was going to be another war. so, if you could hold on in the regular army like guys like patton and eisenhower did and kind of make yourself useful in thinking about the next technology, there's a good chance you're going to have an opportunity to see more a

. >> president dwight eisenhower used to call this his summer white house in 1958 and 1960. originally it was the confidant's house. join us as we learn more about this historic home. >> the eisenhower house we are in today was used as a summer white house during two summers, 1958 and 1960. he came in 1957 and stayed in the naval war college. he found that living in the war college was not exactly what he was looking for. he took a tour of the town and saw this house that was being used as the commandant's quarters, and decided that would make a fine summer white house. he was here for two summers, middle august to the late part of september. it was the integration of central high school in little rock, arkansas. it was a politically charged event that he dealt with while here in newport. he famously said that the white house is essentially wherever he is. there were always things that go on that he had to deal with, here as well as in his remote office. it is a beautiful area. this is historically part of a larger fort. it was easily defensible and still under navy protecti

so, what do we quote dwight eisenhower saying? we quote him saying the military industrial complex is troubling. a five-star general who actually believed there was a worry there. he spoke out against it. lyndon johnson, a white, southern democrat from a segregated state undoes the dark legacy of reconstruction. richard nixon goes to china. ronald reagan, the great cold warrior ends the cold war. george h.w. bush votes for -- takes a risk on fiscal responsibility. these are people who tell their supporters on this one the right thing to do is not what you thought. and one of the reasons to go into politics is to be able to move the ball in that sense. and what surprises me -- i guess not surprises, but what's noteworthy here is he's the president of the united states. if he can't say no to stephen miller, god help us. >> oh my lord. >> to john's point, that would be the historical fantasy right now that president trump after all of his divisive rhetoric on immigration would swoop in and achieve some master bipartisan compromise an

looking at the example set by president device eisenhower -- dwight eisenhower and the establishment of the interstate highway system, it is clear that the infrastructure investment boosts our economy, creates immediate jobs, and produces decades of economic prosperity. -- and opportunity. unfortunately, since president eisenhower signed the federal highway act of 1956 we have relied on the fix as fail apostcloture to our nation's infrastructure. not only is this causing more expensive, increasingly causing delays to commerce, but it is also posing a risk to public safety. by ensuring that our roads, bridges, and water systems meet an american standard for excellence, we can save many lives. in water infrastructure spending alone, the united states faces an over $500 billion shortfall which includes drinking water, waste water, storm water, and water supply projects. this funding shortage is reflected in the american society of civil engineers' overall grade for america's infrastructure, which is a d +. this is not a rural issue or a big-city issue. it's not a red state problem other

if that is not good enough, think about 1956 when dwight i desire -- when dwight eisenhower dedicatedbillion for a new 41,000 mile interstate highway system. these investment systems changed the way that we live. ladies and gentlemen, we can not be strong abroad if we are not strong at home. now is the time to invest at home. [applause] so mr. president, with the greatest respect that i can muster, and the members of congress, the mayors of america are not interested in you telling us what you cannot do. we are here to tell you what you must do if you want to put americans back to work, to give america her competitive advantage to honor your promises to rebuild our country, and put america in a position to win. in other words, on infrastructure our message is really simple, go big or go home. [applause] lastly, i want to discuss how the labels we place on each other drives us apart and makes harder for us to work together and get anything done. we too often talk about people as categories, educated, the ,lite, the establishment instead of poor, working clas, immigrants. urban versus r

see the five stars, the five-star general. .hen you see the initials it was presented to dwight david eisenhower and one of his favorite hunting guns. there is a fun story about this gun in our museum. our senior curator, in his early days was standing near this exhibit. he watched a gentleman come up and stand in front of the case looking at it. the guy looked like a secret service agent out of central casting. he would look one way, look at the other. five or 10 minutes he stood there looking at the gun. finally he said, is there anything i can tell you? he said i can tell you a couple of things about this gun. i have a gun in my hand the first and last day of my job. he was in the secret service. on his first day of presidential detail, eisenhower know with a foreign dignitary and wanted to take out hunting. they went into eisenhower's gun room. he said everybody grab a shotgun, for going hunting. he thought it was a good-looking shotgun. they said that is ike's gun. eisenhower said he has a good isolation take it. taste, let him take it. when he retired, misses eisenhower asked him to get th

young upstart democratic president called the old establishment military retiree general dwight david eisenhower to camp david a place he knew better than kennedy did at this point and pretty much says what did i do wrong and eisenhower says i told you so, i told you we would've planned this and how to execute it, you messed it up and this is what happened. think about this, what politician today anywhere would call on someone, one a predecessor of the opposite party and say how do you hope he. so a very humbling time i think in a classy move on both of their parts eisenhauer goes there for the day and they pulitzer prize-winning photograph was taken. president roosevelt and aspen, the stone hearth is so fair. still there. it's a lot cleaner today. that is the fireplace inside of aspen, president truman driving himself in his convertible, one of the few times he was there and mentioned the president of churchill, president church of roosevelt smoking cigars, probably having some whiskey and a shout of cigar dust keeping mosquitoes away talking about the war and what the u.s. and great britain ne

maybe we know it in the early dwight eisenhower america.pared for a labor prosperity that will drive this will market higher? stephen: i think the fed has thatclear about the fact they want to tighten monetary policy said they have retreated from qe and they are shrinking their balance sheet and are engaged in h tightening desk in a tightening cycle. -- in a tightening cycle. the ecb is reducing extraordinary stimulus as well. the unemployment number is incredibly low, but we know the participation rate fell relatively dramatically over the last 10 to 15 years. there may be better news in employment from a participation rate if that rises, and that translate into a broader rise in consumption. when you go from out of work into in work, your income rises. francine: if there is one bit that you need to get right this year, it is whether inflation picks up or not. do you believe it well? stephen: i do. it has been extraordinarily low, depressed partly by the issues that was formed i the financial crisis, partly also by the plunge in commoditie

let's mention president eisenhower, dwight eyes now because he's the first president since eisenhower california, the largest democratic state, i should say, during his year in office. has the interrupt administration, do you think he's single out or that administration is single out california? >> i think it's pretty clear. whether it's offshore drilling where he's given an exception to florida but not california, whether it's the home mortgage deduction, which he capped, whether it's state and local taxes which he's also capped, he's focused on our policies around immigration, health care, the environment. yes, i think it's pretty clear, he's made it absolutely clear that he's going to do everything he can to punish california. and, frankly, it's not going to work. we're going to take a page out of governor perry's book. we'll use the tenth amendment, the courts to stand up for california values, values that i used to think were american values. but he seems to think another way. >> well, let's talk about the reason -- one of the reasons you're running. governor brown is popular the

that was presented to dwight david eisenhower and was one of his favorite guns. there is a fun story to this me -- to this gun. our curator was standing near this exhibit and he watched a gentleman come up and stand in front of the case looking at it. the guy looked like a secret service agent out of central casting. he stood there for 5-10 minutes looking at the gun. finally, phil asked him if there was something he could tell him about the gun. he had been a secret service agent and his first day on the presidential detail, eisenhower was meeting with a foreign dignitary who he wanted to take out hunting. the agents went into eisenhower's gun room and asked everyone to grab a shotgun because they were going hunting. the agent grabbed this one here. he reached over for it. and someone said -- that is ike's gun. and then the president said -- the kid has a good eye, let him take that one. the last day on the job, amy eisenhower asked him to go up and get the gun and bring it out to the car. he had him drive it to nra headquarters and take the gun in an presented

. >> president dwight d eisenhower signed the civil rights act of 1957 which created the u.s. commission on civil rights. next on american history tv, to 60th anniversary, current and former chairs talk about its mission, scope, how it has changed. the way that commissioners interact with the public and government. the library of congress hosted the event. it's about one hour and 20 minutes. >> i want to thank everyone for coming. it is really, really thrilling to have everyone in this room who is deeply committed to civil rights together. i am thrilled to be here to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the u.s. commission on civil rights. we will have with us later today two representatives. we understand in this building that can be a challenge. fingers crossed we will have both congressional representatives with us. we also have several former commissioners with us. thank you very much. two fellow commissioners on the eeoc, thank you for coming. i understand that susan eisenhower, the granddaughter of president eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the commission into existence -- th

democratic president, president kennedy, called the old establishment military retiree general dwight david eisenhower to camp david, a place he knew better than kennedy did at this point, and pretty much as what did i do wrong? and eisenhower says i told you so. i told you we planned this and i told you how to execute it. you messed it up here this is what happened. think about this. what politician today anywhere would call in someone, one, predecessor, two, opposite party and say how will you help me? so very humbling time i think a very classy move on both of their part but eisenhower goes there for the day and pulitzer prize-winning photo is taken. president roosevelt in aspen, that stone hearth is still there. it's a lot cleaner today. that is the stone hearth fireplace inside aspen. president truman driving himself in one of the few of ten times he goes there. i mentioned the president churchill earlier with -- excuse me, president roosevelt with winston churchill twice he visited. also find this intriguing, they are out fishing outside of camp david in the park smoking cigars, probably having

this is a location that was dwight eisenhower's wartime head quarters in london. it's centrally located and beautiful, but the fact is it had to be moved, and this is a process that takes place in the state department where there are endless studies. it is the most incredibly bureaucratic process to decide where a new embassy will be, and how it's designed. all of that preceded president obama's administration. the fact is he was not welcome. it have not a state visit. he was not getting a royal welcome. the palace had no interest in this. the government and mayor made it clear, and all because of the racism he's projected which is not welcome in europe, and it goes to europe's alliance yesterday in brussels against u.s. and against the trump administration and how angry he was with the macron call from france yesterday. many policy advisers feared it would get him to reverse his anticipated decision today to again kick the ball down -- forward and not reimpose central bank and oil sanctions. there's so much antipathy in europe. he's not just angering africa and l

>> yeah, joe mccarthy, 1952, '53, the mccarthy hearings, the preds of the united states, dwight eisenhower, quite late in the game stood up the way he should have came up and came to a lawyer, joseph welch to stand up and say senator, have you no sense of decency. but ron johnson's comments as willie pointed out, are truly, deeply irresponsible. and we're talking about tampering with the institutions of government that have always been independent. the federal bureau of investigation. the department of justice, they do not belong to the office of the president. they belong to the united states of america. they are charged with operating independently and they're being tampered with daily. >> all right. the "washington post" devlin barrett, thank you very much. carol lee, thank you as well. we'll be reading the exclusive nbc news report that you and kristen welker have out this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," former vice president joe biden sounds off on russia's election interference. why he says republican leaders share some of the blame in not stopping moscow's meddling. >>> p

president dwight d eisenhower signed his civil rights act of 1957 which created the u.s. commission on civil rights. next on american history tv, to mark its anniversary, current and former chairs discuss history and future and talk about the mission, how its scope has changed and the way commissioners interact with the public and government. the library of congress hosted the event. it is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> thank everyone for coming. thrilling to have everyone in this room who is deeply committed to civil rights together. thrilled to be here to commemorate our 60th anniversary year at the u.s. commission on civil rights. with a fewtart special recognitions in addition to my gratitude for everyone who is here. u.s. commission on civil rights now. we will have with this later today both representative -- and representative derek kilmer. expect we allas i do, that in this building there can be some challenges. we will bessed that able to have both congressional representatives with us. we also have several former commissioners. dena titusntative with us. thank

president dwight d eisenhower signed his civil rights act of 1957 which created the u.s. commission on civil rights. next on american history tv, to mark its anniversary, current and former chairs discuss history and future and talk about the mission, how its scope has changed and the way commissioners interact with the public and government. the library of congress hosted the event. it is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> thank everyone for coming. thrilling to have everyone in this room who is deeply committed to civil rights together. thrilled to be here to commemorate our 60th anniversary year at the u.s. commission on civil rights. with a fewtart special recognitions in addition to my gratitu f

that gets you back to where we were in the time of whit dwight david eisenhower.ordinary. enough how them zeitgeist is unprepared for a 1950's-like unemployment rate. this is not something to predict, but to look towards for 2018. francine: that is quite a chart, tom. well done for the zeitgeist chart. we've brought it back to 1970. are we midcycle, or late cycle when it comes to hiring in the u.s.? it is not uncommon for the rate to accelerate at the midpoint of the cycle, which is the yellow portion. thinking of that, you are expecting the jobs data, looking at the stronger household income gains. this is one of the things we are looking at together with the participation rate. stocks rallying around the world on signs that the global economic expansion that pushed benchmarks in 2017 remains intact. daq in s&p 500 -- the nasdaq and s&p 500 breached new hieights. you crossed the world markets in politics. is it surprising that markets are on a tear? when the politics are still there? >> that is the right question. i'm not sure it's taht surprising. -- i'm not sur