the night before d-day, the day before this famous photo of supreme commander dwight eisenhower was taken, i happen to know president eisenhower's granddaughter, susan, and we were chatting one day about this famous photo which occupies such an extraordinary place in our history, our folkloring our memory as a nation. and she said jeff, you know what the president, the general was speaking about in that photo? i'd always made an assumption that, again, these young men who are getting ready to paratroop behind enemy lines the day before d-day were being given a last talk by the general about the immediate for courage and

since world war ii, however, it could be argued that general dwight eisenhower has probably eclipsed general marshall in fame, at least when it comes to what each of them did during world war ii. most people know that general eisenhower was the commander of the invasion of france during world war ii, but they would probably be hard-pressed to tell you exactly what general marshall did. marshall built the army that eisenhower used to defeat the germans. both men were from humble backgrounds, but both were extremely patriotic, driven by a desire to end the war quickly rather than seeking glory for themselves. this is their story. general george marshall was born 31, 1880 in uniontown, pennsylvania. he served as the chief of staff in the army during world war ii, and then as the secretary of state and secretary of defense. after the war was over. he advocated the marshall plan, for which he won the nobel peace prize, helping europe to recover economically from the war. one fact you may not know about general marshall is that he loved to ride horses. this is how he relaxed and he called i

rayburn, then, sam house and senate, the president, dwight eisenhower, we had hoped we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president is not ready for that. thank you very much. nct conversations] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org. [indistinct conversations] wed at an event hosted by the center for american progress. >> house speaker nancy pelosi made more comments later in the day at the center for american progress. absolute privilege to welcome our very special guest, speaker of the house nancy pelosi. let's just do one more round. [cheers and applause] speaker pelosi is the highest-ranking woman to ever hold elected office in american history. [cheers and applause] and she

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwight eisenhower, we thought we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president isn't ready for that. thank you very much. [indistinct conversations] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org. [indistinct conversations] >> c-span's newest book, the president's, noted historians rank america's best and worst chief executives. providing insight into the lives of the 44 american presidents. two stories gathered by interviews with noted presidential historians. explore the life events that shaped our leaders. theyenged -- challenges faced, and the legacies they have left behind. order your copy today. c-span's "the presidents" is available as a hardcover or e-book at c-span.org thepresidents. group in rojas is senior -- reporter with limburg law. this bill would increase the flexibility on retirement savings plans. how would it do that? a long ti

lyndon johnson and family learned in the house and senate the president of the united states, dwight eisenhower -- we had hoped we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president is not ready for that. thank you all very much. >> [indiscernible] >> house speaker nancy pelosi made more public comments later in the day saying she believes president trump is obstructing justice and engaged in a cover-up. she was interviewed at an event hosted by the center for american progress. [applause] >> it is my absolute privilege to welcome our very special guest, speaker of the house nancy pelosi. let's just do one more round. [cheers and applause] speaker pelosi is the highest-ranking woman to ever hold elected office in american history. [cheers and applause] and she is one of the smartest, toughest, and most effective public servants our country has ever known. this past weekend, speaker pelosi also received the john f

the night before d-day, the day before this famous photo of supreme commander dwight eisenhower was taken, i happen to know president eisenhower's granddaughter, susan, and we were chatting one day about this famous photo which occupies such an extraordinary place in our history, our folkloring our memory as a nation. and she said jeff, you know what the president, the general was speaking about in that photo? i'd always made an assumption that, again, these young men who are getting ready to paratroop behind enemy lines the day before d-day were being given a last talk by the general about the immediate for courage and persistence, the need to think of what it means to be in the face of a barbaric aggressor. the need to fight hard and solemnly to obey orders and take care of their friends, the need to win the day. that's what i would have thought. that's what i would have guessed. susan eisenhower said no. you know what the general is peaking about? fly-fishing. and football. now why would he do that at this critical moment, this mont of tension and fear and adrenaline? why would he do t

i am sure dwight eisenhower would have appreciated this work. eisenhower always said the real hero of world war ii is g.i. joe. i am pleased to introduce dr. john mcmanus. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. everybody hear me okay? good. i'll try to keep the microphone at the proper level. if not, please do yell out. thank you for that wonderful introduction. i really appreciate it. like to thank all the folks who made this possible, obviously our hosts here at getties berg college, the eisenhower institute, all of you for making the time to come here and listen to me and listen to the brilliant scholars who have proceeded me. it's a tough act to follow so, please indulge me. i'll do my best. what struck me when dr. simons was talking abili was talking aboutiz eisenhower' decision, he has all this air power to his disposal, naval power, technological power, ground power, this prestigious military might. in coiled spring. then he makes that decision and it's out of his hands. it's out of his hands and it's in the hands of really not just the gen

the eisenhower institute at gettysburg college and the dwight eisenhower society, cohosted the event in commemoration of the 75th anniversary. >> dr. mcmanus is the first-ever faculty member in the humanities to be named a distinguished professor. >> is one of the leading historians, and the author of 12 well-known books on the topic, he is equally in demand to speak as an ex

it's as if we've learned nothing from history the 34th us president dwight eisenhower warned the public about unwarranted influences when he left office over 60 years ago in the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military industrial complex . the but pensions by the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. we must never let the weight of this combination in danger are limiting our democratic process. we should take nothing for granted. in the american people don't want war presidents always run as the peace candidate and then you know we never did leave the starwars even richard nixon during the vietnam war was only elected because he was seeing he had a secret plan for ending the vietnam war as it turned out the secret plan was to escalate the war and add more troops and enlarged. you know these large monopolies. to companies wanting to get a huge bunch of money the light threats of war they like active war of the. you know the other war mongers and they have an enormous amount of in

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dwight eisenhower made it into the top five. hee started out 20 years ago in ninth place, and interesting to see what we're observing than presidency and what more we have learned over the 20 years. bill clinton started out in 21st place. remember, it was in 2000 right after the impeachment, and then by the time we did the survey eight years later, he had moved to 15th, and he stayed in 15th in this last survey as well.h okay. ulysses s. grant, this is an interesting one. 33rd place to 22nd, 13 points he's -- 11 points he's moved up. and i'm sure we'll learn more from our historians' perspectives about why he's raising up in their estimation. you might also remember there's been a great big grant biography recently published, and there's an interesting impact of big, successful biographies on the view that we haveac in society about presidents. think about david mccullough and harry truman and the impact that had on public perception of harry truman. okay, so now we're going to go to the 2017 survey which is the organizing princ

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the eisenhower institute at gettysburg college and the dwight eisenhower society, cohosted the event in commemoration of the 75th anniversary. >> dr. mcmanus is the first-ever faculty member in the humanities to be named a distinguished professor. >> is one of the leading historians, and the author of 12 well-known books on the topic, he is equally in demand to speak as an expert commentator. he has appeared on cnn.com, foxnews, c- span, the military channel, the discovery channel, the national geographic channel, netflix, -- network, the history channel and pbs. dr. mcmanus also served as the historical advisor for the best- selling book and documentary, founder. the latter of which appeared nationwide in theaters and on pbs in the american masters series. is in residence at naval academy as the chair of naval and military history. a distinguished professorship. the forthcoming book, fire and fortitude, 1941- 1943 will be out on july 30. today the talk will be based on the recent book, the dead and those about to die. the day, the big red one on omaha beach. he will speak about the

now, as a reader of history, i am sure dwight eisenhower would have appreciated john's work. eisenhower always said the real hero of world war ii is g.i. hero of world war ii is g.i. joe. i'm pleased to introduce dr. john mcmanus. [applause] dr. mcmanus: thank you. thank you. everybody hear me ok? good. i will try to keep the microphone at the proper level. if not, please do yell out. thank you for that wonderful introduction. i appreciate it. i would like to thank all the folks that made this possible, our hosts at gettysburg college, the eisenhower society, eisenhower institute. thank you all of you for making time today to listen to me and these brilliant scholars that preceded me. tough act to follow. what struck me when dr. simons was talking so movingly about eisenhower's weather-related decision, what always struck me about that moment, before he made that decision, you could argue he is the most powerful man on the planet, or one of them. he has all this airpower at his disposal, naval power, technological power, the ground power of the soldiers, this prodigious milita

thinking particularly of dwight eisenhower.ow apparently we see he was much smarter than a lot of people thought he was. those who operate in a fog, but nonetheless know where they are going. amity: it sounds a little sinister, the way you put it. but a good leader may want to retreat so others may play their roles. that happens frequently in the presidency, that the president is behind it all. i'm very fresh on lyndon johnson because of the great society book. he is a president who does not hide his leadership very well. [laughter] harold: i first became interested in government when kennedy ran for president. to an 11-year-old, eisenhower seemed a doddering person who was no longer a strong leader. but 75 years ago, this june 2019, he led the largest military operation in the history of the world, at d-day. i think historians love him because he said to beware of the military-industrial complex. that is the most reputation enhancing factor about eisenhower. lincoln said at one point, disingenuously i think, i do not claim to

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwight eisenhower. we had hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president is not ready for that. thank you very much. we have been listening to speaker pelosi and minority doder schumer, and improv news conference where they responded to the earlier comments from president trump in the rose garden. there was supposed to have been a meeting between those people today to go forward with an infrastructure plan. apparently president trump went into the room and said it would not happen because of the investigations being pressed. nancy pelosi called it a cover up. the president said he could not work both tracks, working with the democrats and congress, and also being investigated. we heard from the minority leader saying that essentially he lost his nerve, he lacked confidence, and he did not have a excuse to go forward. turn tore going to somebody who may have some insight into this. republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, member of the foreign relations committee. we want

. >> what's the big takeaway from the book for people who may not remember dwight eisenhower as president takeaway is a story of unrequited love. robert fell in love with a young employee of the national security adviser. a young man, a gay man, who was virtually an american hero for his role in intelligence activities for the u.s. government but ultimately, the young man did not love rob cutler back. and so it is a sad story. but at the same time, it is a story about remarkable efforts by people that do their duty as american citizens. >> the book once again is ike's mystery man. the secret lives of rob cutler. thank you for coming in. >> thank you very much. >>> there will be increasing clouds in several areas of widespread fog. lows in the 50s. highs will range from low 60s at the coast to near 70. mid 70s inland. our chances for rain over the next seven days are really high on sunday, the day before memorial day. only a 70% chance on sunday. it will be a wet day. here's the seven day forecast. we are ranking that storm a 1. it will bring some wet weather here. maybe a shower or two li

dwight eisenhower, no particular order, just thinking about it.u carter, george w. bush. grover cleveland, barack obama, bill clinton, i'm sure there are many others. why does the president exert executive privilege? he's trying to hide crimes or financial misconduct, doesn't want information to be out? no, he's protecting the executive branch from congress. it doesn't say in the constitution that congress gets whatever it wants, that congress can issue whatever subpoena it wants against anyone it wants for their personal records, for whatever it is. congress doesn't function that way, isn't spoelsed to. executive privilege can be asserted for a number of reasons. including protecting the privacy of white house deliberations. in a is a president with immediate staff. like don mcgahn, his lawyer. i heard somebody say, i forget which network, i said what a knucklehead. they present themselves as a legal analyst. the president waived privilege with don mcgahn, he allowed him to speak to the prosecutor. the prosecutor is in the executive bran mp. we'r

you had a president, dwight eisenhower, republican, working against him, and one of the figures in myook, charles potter of michigan, who was elected to the senate and worked with joseph mccarthy on his subcommittee until he saw what was going on and the machinations of mccarthy and later wrote a book called "days of shame" regarding what had happened that era. i wonder two things where. is the margaret j. smith today and what republican is going to write that book, "days of shame." >> you also get to something else. i'm sitting here thinking that eisenhower really took his time, and eisenhower hung back while a lot of this was going on. history is judging people right now during this period we're living through. history is judging a good many members of the senate and house. and that, of course, is part of the history of the era you've written about. >> you're right about eisenhower. he used joseph mccarthy in 1952 in his election. campaigned with him up in appleton, wisconsin where mccarthy was from. but then slowly, as mccarthy started turning on the army, which was eisenhower's bu

here are the top five in 2017 dwight eisenhower as we talked about before. theodore roosevelt in the survey that is common not only for hours but others as well. you won't be surprised to learn the next one in line as franklin roosevelt whenever one, two or three. those features ... doris kearns goodwin. it is a terrific one. whethe one on theodore roosevels doug brinkley's book willingness warriors and it's about his role as a conservation president. for george washington, we chose rob chernow's biography. he won the pulitzer prize for it. george washington came in second place in 868 points out of a possible 1,000 is score is 13th, and the pursuit of equal justice for all. we were at mount vernon on the publication day an into the evet of a terrific job for those in the mount vernon and the people worked their way through the museum. they seem to be number one in every t survey is abraham linco. he received 907 points out of a possible 1,000 he ranked in almost every single one of them the lowest score is fourth place and that is on relations with congress

and dwight eisenhower was one of the first candidates to hire an agency to promote him as likable.ision begins to take over as a medium where candidates are proposalsing themselves. so likability is important in terms of how you're shopping your narrative. you really see campaign managers saying by the 1960s nobody is go together vote for somebody they don't like. likability is absolutely important. the question is how do we expand the category to include women. >> professor, well done. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me, michael. >>> still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook comments. what do we got, from facebook? absolutely sexist. when will we ever get past this way of judging women. yet people who voted for trump. who could have more flaws than trump. how about my last point with professor potter which is maybe likability shouldn't come into it at all because the most competent among us who could be great chief executives including of the nation get by passed in the process. actually that was your point. we'll give you the results of th

history alongside the bold initiatives of presidents thomas jefferson, theodore roosevelt, and dwight eisenhower. that's kind of smart for the self-proclaimed student of history. this is a president who really, really does not like to lose. >> you know what, you want to know something, do you want to know something? we always win. we always win. >> well, the dirty little not so secret is, he's not winning. he's not winning. he may have escaped the worst from the mueller investigation with help from his trusty attorney general william barr. the fact is, right now the president is on a losing streak. and it's not just walking away from any hope of an infrastructure deal. the president suffering his second big legal setback this week. maybe that's what this is all about. maybe he wants to just change the subject so we're not just focusing on the two big legal setbacks, i don't know. second big legal setback this week, a federal judge in new york refused today to block subpoenas from the house intel on financial services panels from trump's financial records, from deutsche bank and capital one, the

dwight eisenhower changed the name to camp david. my brother marvin lobbied for a a while to get me to change it to camp marvin. thankfully i did not. we have a lot of fond memories of camp david. a lot. again it's a place where laura , and i invited a lot of world leaders. tony blair's first visit to the united states, we took him there. laura decided to have a movie there. they have a nice movie theater there. it was called "meet the parents." i was asleep. [laughter] if you like to exercise, is a great place to exercise. we had mountain bike trails. a wonderful gym. i think the thing that i remember the most about camp david was christmases. it's big enough that everyone has their own cabin. mother and dad would come. and his family. marvin, camp marvin and his family would come. it was a spectacular time. the reason i emphasize the family aspect is that during the presidency, sometimes it's hard to count on certain people, but you can always count on your family to bring you comfort and love. that's what we're going to hear about

night we are showing programs from a recent symposium hosted by gettysburg college, and the dwight eisenhower college, with historian john mcmanus the dead and those about to die, on the first combat soldier, the storm that beat us that day, watch friday night, starting at eight eastern on cspan 3. >> this is a special edition of american history tv. a simple sample of the compelling history programs that air every weekend on american history tv, like lectures in history, american artifacts, real america. the civil war. history, the presidency, and special events coverage about our nations history. enjoy american history tv. now, and every weekend, on cspan 3. >> next, historian elizabeth griffith examines the legacy of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, and ponders the question, does suffrage matter? with women today making up only 20% of the office the biographer of elizabeth 80 stanton discusses the effects of women's rights, un-american politics. >> our speaker tonight is elizabeth griffith, you might have read her biography of on stanton, you might know her

lyndon johnson and same rayburn and the house and senate, president of the united states, dwight eisenhower. we hoped we could do something comparable. unfortunately the president isn't ready for that. thank you all very much. >> well, it has been a war of words to say the least so far this morning. it started with speaker pelosi coming to a microphone and saying the president is engaged in a cover-up. the president then coming out to the rose garden and standing at the microphone and letting loose saying that we could have had the problem at the border solved in 15 minutes. instead, we're back to impeachment. that was followed by the press conference you just saw over on capitol hill. speaker pelosi and minority leader schumer coming to the microphone to respond and again and say they were ready to do infrastructure. they don't know what happened. all right. let's go to john roberts who is live on the north lawn. is your head spinning? >> you know, melissa, we've seen a lot of strange things in washington the last 2 1/2 years. this is one of the strangest but followed along what happened t

just top five in 2017 and dwight eisenhower into top five for the first time.heodore roosevelt in fourth place in the survey can be and that's fairly common throughout not only ours but also other surveys that are done you won't be surprised to know that next one in line is franklin roosevelt in number one, two, or three -- the fdr biography that we chose to highlight in our book is goodwinn no ordinary time anyboy read that in the audience? that is a terrific one. the one on theodore roosevelt is the book called wilderness warrior all about a role as conservation president. for george washington, we chose ron's biography that he won the pulitzer prize for it. and george washington came in second place in ours 868 points out of a possible 1,000 his lowest score and i reference this before, is 13th place among the presidents for pursued equal justice for all. we were with down at mount vernon on our publication date and i'm sure many of you have been down to mount vernon doing a terrific job over past couple of decades of telling whole story of the slaves who co

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states dwight eisenhower. we had hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president isn't ready for that. thank you all very much. >>> welcome back to the program. you're watching the leaders of the senate and house. if democrats continue their investigations, the president said, there will be no conversations about infrastructure or the big issues. speaker pelosi returning fire moments after a remarkable rose garden event from the president of the united states in which he said i don't do cover-ups. speaker pelosi, among other things, saying i pray for our president and i pray for the united states of america. with me here in studio, nia-malika henderson, evan perez and margaret tolov. kaitlan, i want to go to you first. whether it's infrastructure, the president's trade deal, big spending deal they have to get done before the end of the year, all of that off the rails after this confrontation in the oval office, democrats essentially saying they were set up, that the president never i