>> dwight d. eisenhower, a republican and former supreme allied commander in europe during world war ii was sworn in as 34th president of the united states on generate 20, 1953. before donald trump he was the last to win the presidency having never held an office. he takes the old of office and delivers a portion of his address and see highlights of the inaugural parade. ♪ once again the nation's capital city was to witness the control of the federal government passed from one political party to another. the 15th time since 1789. this would require just a few short moments but much work was necessary to prepare the country's number one citizen to move into his home. now, let us see what happens and get a good seat for the celebration. as far back as june 19, 1952 in the office of the honorable style bridges, the senator from new hampshire, and chairman of the joint congressional inaugural committee planning for the festive and momentous occasion got underway. here is senator bridges discussing some of the ea

, do you solemnly swear -- dwight eisenhower: i, dwight d. senhower, do solemnly swear. >> that you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. dwight eisenhower: that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> and will to the best of your ability. dwight eisenhower: and will to to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. dwight eisenhower: preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. dwight eisenhower: so help me god. [applause] >> shaking hands with harry truman. mrs. truman sits down again. walking over, and he is kissing his wife, he is kissing mrs. eisenhower. this is a thrilling moment. the tension is broken. he smiles. he looks out over the crowd now. vice president nixon is standing. he is waving, the famous wave. the famous wave to all the crowd. dwight eisenhower: my friends, before i begin the expression of those thoughts that i deem appropriate to this moment, would you permit me

tonight, we have began a night of presidential farewells with dwight eisenhower's remarks from january 1961. his speech is best known for its warning about the increase of power of the military industrial complex. we also hear from president jimmy carter, richard nixon and bill clinton. watch tonight, beginning at 8 pm eastern. enjoy american history tv, every weekend on c-span 3. up next, president dwight eisenhower delivers his farewell address from the oval office on january 17, 1961. the speech is best remembered for the president's warning about the influence of what he called the military industrial complex. dwight eisenhower served two terms as president, from 1953 to 1961. >> three days from now, after half a century, in the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of office. as in traditional and solomon ceremony, the authority of the presidency is invested in my successor. this evening, i come to you with a message of me taking and farewell. and to share, some final thoughts with you my countrymen. like every other citizen, i wish the new president and al

in 80 minutes, the inauguration of dwight eisenhower. also produced by the aggression inaugural committee. this 1957 color film documents the events around president eisenhower's second term. ♪ >> this is the white house, the home and the office of the president of the united states. last november, some 70 million american citizens cast balance -- ballots of who would fill this chair. to determine the possible would follow responsibilities of this office. the choice was john fitzgerald kennedy. the youngest man ever elected. he follows a line which began with george washington, the first president and the only president elected by unanimous post. -- votes. he follows thomas jefferson. abraham lincoln, whose name stands as a symbol of compassion and humanity. from their home in nearby georgetown on this day, january 20, 1961, mr. kennedy and his wife, jacqueline, come to the white house where they are greeted by president eisenhower. ♪ vice president nixon, vice president elect johnson and their wives were guests of the white house. for m

>>> up next, president dwight eisenhower delivers his farewell address from the oval office on january 17, 1961. the speech is best remembered for the president's warning about the influence of what he called the military-industrial complex. dwight eisenhower served two terms as president from 1953 to 1961. >>> three days from now, after half a century and the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of all of us as in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the precedency is vested in my succession. this evening, i've come to you with a message of leave taking and farewell and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen. like every other citizen, i wish the new president and all who labor with him godspeed. i pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all. our people expect their president and the congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution which will better shape the future of the nation. my own relations with the congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis, when lon

dwight eisenhower served 2 terms as president from 1953 to 1961. >> three days from now after half atury and the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of office as in traditional and solemn ceremony the authority of the president presidenty is vested in my successor. this evening, i've come to you with a message of lead taking and farewell and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen. like every other citizen, i wish the new president and all who labor with him godspeed. i pray that the coming years jk prosperity for all. our people expect their president and the congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution which will better shape the future of the nation. my own relations with the %!áí congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis, when long ago the senate appointed me to west point, have since raised to the war and immediate post-war period, and finally to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years. in this final relationship, the congress and the administration have, on most vital issu

. >> you, dwight the eisenhower, do solemnly swear. >> i, dwight eisenhower, do you solemnly swear. >ill faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of united states. >> and will to the best of your ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. >> thank you, mister president. >> as the president looked out upon the gathering, he thought back to the year 1953 when he offered the now famous eisenhower prayer. the first time any president had ever preface his inaugural address with such a prayer. >> give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people, regardless of station, race or calling. >> mr. chairman, mr. vice president, mr. chief justice, mister speaker, m

this you provided by the due dwight d. eisenhower library and presidential museum shows highlights of the parade and ball that evening. ♪ narrator: the honor of your presence is requested at the ceremonies attending the inauguration of the president and vice president of the united states, january 21, 1957, committee on arrangement, senator styles bridges chairman, senator theodore francis green, senator john j. sparkman, speaker of the house sam rayburn, house majority leader, house minority leader joseph martin, jr. ♪ narrator: special musical score by the united states marine band, captain albert shelper, director. music composed and arranged by -- ♪ narrator: in the fall of 1956, our hand cameras were allowed to briefly cover a meeting of the joint inaugural committee as they met to discuss plans for the coming inauguration. chairman of the committee, senator styles bridges of new hampshire, speaker sam rayburn of texas, senator theodore francis green of rhode island, house majority leader john mccormick of massachusetts, senator

dwight d. eisenhower's second inauguration. the official oath was taken in private at the white house because january 20 fell on a sunday. the next day, january 20 first, a public ceremony was held. this video provided by the dwight d. eisenhower library in presidential museum shows highlights of the parade that evening. ♪ >> the honor of your presence is requested at the ceremonies attending the inauguration of the president and vice president of the united states, january 21, 1957, committee on arrangement, senator styles bridges chairman, senator theodore francis green, senator john j. sparkman, house majority -- speaker of the house and rayburn. house majority leader, house minority leader joseph martin jr. ♪ [playing my country 'tis of thee] special musical score by the united states marine band, captain albert shelper, director. composed and conducted by the staff arranger. ♪ in the fall of 1956, our hand cameras were allowed to briefly cover a meeting of the joint inaugural committee as they met to discuss plans for the

general dwight d. eisenhower arrived in the car of the army secretary, and behind him marched the future generals of west point. the brigade of annapolis passes in review. next come the cadets of the united states coast guard academy. then the marine corp march down the avenue which today is a parade ground for every branch of the armed services. the flying box cars lead one of the greatest air armadas ever to flyover the capitol, more than 700 planes in all. giant b-36 bo pass ñpassoverú3my;?,overhead. the ez are's home state of missouri has several displays, one of them a wagon drawn by a missouri mule. other floats depict the products and scenery of the various states. this is kentucky, the vice president's home state. the state of texas float moves down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington monument. from massachusetts comes a float honoring the early american setterlers who landed on the shores of that state. the figure of uncle sam strides down

bush, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy and ronald reagan. watch american history tb, this weekend on c-span three. >> house speaker nancy pelosi held her weekly briefing with reporters of the capitol earlier today. this is 25 minutes. >> would morning everyone. a difference a day makes. wasn't that just the most beautiful inauguration. the theme america united. it was so perfect in my view. only four the let's say peaceful transfer of power but the manner in which it happened. america united. i've said again and again the arts will bring us together, will be left together, we cried together, we are inspired together. we find a common ground more easily. that was certainly given proof yesterday. when amanda gorman recited her beautiful, optimism, and of course the theme of the inauguration but also of the vice -- excuse me the now president, he was president when he made his beautiful inaugural address about unity. the day began, the inauguration began, at the end of the day i loved what was on tv at the end of one of the celebrations. you kn

dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, and ronald reagan. exploring the american story.eekend on c-span 3. >>> next on "american history tv" abraham lincoln scholar revisits the 16th president's éjg. just six weeks before his assassination.mj considered one ofa#ir(t&h the m iconic speeches in american history. >>> we are honored to welcome harold back to new york historical. he is the director of the roosevelt house of policy and institute at hunter college. he previously served as chairman of the abraham lincoln. and the united states lincoln bicentennial commission. he is the author of numerous books. his most recent "the monument man: the life and art of daniel chester

bush, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy and ronald reagan. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. ♪♪ hide park, new york, where franklin delano roosevelt was born. following a political career in his native states, roosevelt became assistant secretary of the navy in 1913. in 1920, he campaigned for vice presidency. illness interrupted his political career. when the country appeared to be in a world of prosperity, it was urged by democratic party leaders to become a candidate for governor of new york. 1928 saw him succeeding the governor in albany. he served two terms. liberal measures marked his administration. the governor roosevelt became the voice in 1932. a flight to chicago marked the beginning of his rise to the presidency. the forgotten man became his campaign slogan. president hoover was the symbol of national business and personal depression as the back wash of postwar conditions engulfed america. the unemployed marched upon washington, the nation demanded a change and roosevelt was swept int

that happened when dwight eisenhower was president and most significantly vietnam was not johnson's war in the sense that he really didn't want to fight it. there's a whole slew of dying first and historians have made clear the last thing johnson wanted to be was a war president. he had a soaring domestic agenda, what we called the great society. lyndon johnson was by far the most liberal president we will of. if we're defining liberal in the way it's been described in the last hundred years or so. at bottom, lipidon johnson believed in the ability of the federal government to effect domestic change in the political arena. johnson experienced grinding poverty growing up in east texas and during the depression as a young man johnson had seen the capability of the federal government to alleviate at least partially the suffering of millions of americans. this was his passion. this is what he hoped would be his presidential legacy, a legacy of reform in domestic politics, and he felt totally ignorant, totally ill-equipped in the field of foreign affairs, unlike his immediate predecessors jo

president dwight eisenhower and vice president nixon. the vice president elect, lyndon johnson.ake his place, the president elect. this crowd gathered on the capital grounds is about to witness the chief justice administer the oath of office. >> do you john fitzgerald kennedy solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. and well to the best of your ability reserve, protecting defend the constitution of the united states. so help you god. >> so help me god. [applause] in his inaugural address, the president emphasizes that the same revolutionary beliefs for wet our forebears fought are still an issue around the globe. that the rights have men come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of god. >> let every nation know whether it pushes us, that we shall pay any price bear any burden, beat any hardship, support any friends, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. [applause] this much we pledge and more. to those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge loyally and

he was a amazingly and surprisingly great writer, i was not expected to dwight eisenhower to be a bigwriter, but i read his memoir, and particularly his diary entries and it's precise, and vivid and colorful. there was a part of eisenhower that really surprised me. for all of the paper that the eisenhower administration generated, he processed information best buy hearing people at the big issues in a group. he liked to have all his experts in front of the table, and go around, and the big an issue. everyone says that eisenhower was surprisingly creative, interesting, sort of out of the box thinking, as he was poking of peoples theories and ideas. again, we think of him as a placid, old guy, but up close he was quite an impressive character. kennedy was very, very, different 27 years younger than eisenhower. as we know from boston, although he never lived there, long urban harvard educated, junior officer in world war ii. a war hero in the sense of having his boat destroyed and saving a number of people. kennedy was also very different than his public perception. we think of him now a

john fitzgerald kennedy with her mother, president dwight eisenhower and vice president richard nixon, the vice president-elect lyndon baines johnson, and the last to take his place, the president-elect. this crowd gathered on the capitol grounds is about to witness the chief justice of the united states earl warren administer the oath of office. >> do you john fitzgerald kennedy, do solemnly swear. >> i john f. kennedy do solemnly swear -- >> -- that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states -- >> that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states -- >> and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states -- >> and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states -- >> so help me god. >> -- so help me god. >> in his inaugural address, the president emphasizes the same issues are at issue around the globe, that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of god. >> let every nation know whether

general dwight eisenhower arrives in the car behind him.hem is a battalion of graduates from west point. and brigade of mid shipment of indianapolis academy passes in review. next can be cadets of the united states coast guard academy. men of the marine corps marched down the broad avenue, which today is a parade ground for every branch of the armed services. flying boxcars league one of the greatest air armada as ever to fly over the capital. more than 700 planes in all. john -- giant b-36 bombers pass overhead. the parade includes not only the military, but it is a panorama of american [inaudible] >> the presidents home state of missouri has several displaced, one of them a wagon drawn by missouri mules. other floods depicts the products and scenery of the various states. this is kentucky, the vice president's home state. the state of texas float moves down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproduction of the capital and washington monument. from massachusetts comes afloat honoring the early american settlers who land

book by larry hi call i think it was all i can think the very complicated relationship between dwight eisenhower and richard nixon, he was chilly next to . when nixon was in the white house, broke down for that eisenhower died, nixon broke down and wept bitterly and those who knew him said he wept bitterly because it was like losing a father before the father had told him he loved him and he was proud of him. he can never please eisenhower and felt like he was on the outside . even eisenhower's own son said his father was the percent, something along the lines of 50 percent lovable, 50 percent coldhearted and then he thought of second and said that 75 percent coldhearted. he was a tough guy. >> i there's a big gap between the genealogy of the public eisenhower and the emotional withholding of interpersonal eisenhower. that may be what made him so effective, but i can see why it would be hurtful. i have two great questions about the contemporary applications of your work and contemporary conservatism. the first isthe event the republican party will be able to rebuild receptor after this election?

in 1952, they elected president a man who had played a vital role in europe, dwight eisenhower.eme commander, eisenhower had led the allied armies in the liberation of europe. there for the second time in a generation, american boys had joined in the cost for freedom. -- in the cause for freedom. ♪ ♪ kxxçzthey went home, they wouldp repel aggression in europe and asia. their country sought to help them resume a peaceful life. schools opened their doors to millions of veterans. ever since it began, the united states has seen a constant growth of education. a high school diploma is now almost taken for granted. every year, two and a half million students enroll and universities and professional schools. many of the young men who had fought in north africa and normandy went back to the forms. they went back to working the earth in the quiet rhythm of the seasons. they reaffirmed their spiritual values. different faiths living side by side and mutual respect, in the belief that many are the ways to god. americans have a keen sense of fraternity. should a neighbor's livelihood be jeo

[ laughter ] >> anyway, so i looked -- i looked for good jokes told by dwight eisenhower.he best i could come up with is eisenhower's definition of an atheist. he says, it's somebody who goes to a football game where notre dame plays smu and he doesn't care who wins. [ laughter ] >> okay. i'm running out of time. so i'm going to tell you -- i got to tell you a story about lyndon johnson. and this is one, lyndon johnson -- it's not at all clear that lyndon johnson has much of a sense of humor. stories were told about lyndon johnson rather than stories told by lyndon johnson. but here's one that does capture the essence of lyndon johnson. and it's told of the 1960 democratic campaign for the nomination for president. and lyndon johnson has thrown his hat in the ring and the other two principal candidates are a senator from missouri and john kennedy, a junior senator from massachusetts. and the three men are sitting in the green room ahead of this debate. they're about to have a debate. why the green rooms are called the green rooms? i don't know. i've been in lots of them an

eastern, we'll look at past inaugurations of president john kennedy, richard nixon, harry truman, dwight eisenhowerand franklin roosevelt. sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern, historian mark talks about the 1945 battle of iwo jima and the island's strategic importance to the american and japanese forces during world war ii. at 6:00 p.m. on american artifacts smithsonian national air and space museum curator jeremy kenny shares some of the museum's one of a kind artifacts that tell the story of the first half century of aviation and at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a look back to january 16th, 1991 as president george h.w. bush announces the bombing of iraq and the start of the persian gulf war followed by his state of the union address. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on cspan3. >>> next on the presidency, george h.w. bush delivers his 1991 state of the union address to a joint session of congress. about two weeks earlier he announced the start of operation desert storm military drive sad hussein from neighbors kuwait. the miller center and george h.w. bush presidential

dwight d. eisenhower's or do you solemnly swear?l faithfully execute the office of of the united states. >> and world to the best of your ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> so help me. god >> so help me god. >> thank you. as the president looked over the gathering, he sought back to the year of 1953, when he offered the eisenhower prayer. the first time that any president had preface and inaugural address, with such a prayer. >> give us we pray, the power to discern purity and right from wrong. and allow, all our words and actions to be governed thereby and by the laws of this land. especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people, regardless of station, race or calling >> mr. chairman, mr. vice president, mr. chief justice, mister speaker. members of my family and friends. my countrymen, and the friends of my country, wherever they may be. we meet again, upon a li

dwight eisenhower served two terms as president, from 1953 to 1961. >> three days from now, after half a century, in the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of office. as in traditional and solomon ceremony, the authority of the presidency is invested in my successor. this evening, i come to you with a message of me taking and farewell. and to share, some final thoughts with you my countrymen. like every other citizen, i wish the new president and all the laborers with him godspeed. i pray that coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all. our people i respect their president in congress, to find essential agreements on issues of great moments. the wise resolutions of which will better shape the future of the nation. my own relations with the congress which began on a remote and tenuous. basis, longer go who was the senate will point me to west point, has since been imminent during the war and post war period. and finally -- during these past eight years. in this final relationship, the congress and the administration have on most vital issue

and continuing through thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, dwight eisenhoweron johnson. in discharging the powers of his office, the president works closely with congress. to gain congressional approval and support, the president exercises his right and duty to propose legislation. each year, he outlines in general terms and proposals in a speech before congress that has come to be known as the president's state of the union message. later, congress will receive the president's annual budget message which outlines expected federal revenues and expenditures and details how the money will be allocated among government departments and agencies. the president proposes, but congress enacts, fulfilling the fundamental principle of checks and balances. another of the intertwining relationships between congress and the president is the conduct of foreign affairs. the president may propose international treaties, but the final pact must be approved by a two-thirds vote. however, in conducting our relations with other countries, the president determines those foreign go

read a book i think it was called ike and talking about the complicated relationship between dwight eisenhower richard nixon he was chilly to nixon to two. when nixon was in the oval office and heard that eisenhower cried he broke down, nixon broke down and wept and those who knew him said he wept bitterly because it was like losing a father before the father had told him that he loved him and he was proud of him. he always felt like he was on the outside and even eisenhower's own son had said that his father was something along the lines of 50% lovable and 50% coldhearted and then he thought about it and said make that 75% coldhearted. >> i think there is a big gap between the geniality of the public eisenhower and the emotional withholding of the interpersonal eisenhower and that may be what made him so effective. i can see why it would be hurtful. so we have two great questions about the contemporary application of your work and the contemporary conservatism. you think the republican party will be able to rebuild and re-center and what gives you the most open what worries you the most? >> w

bush, dwight eisenhower, john kennedy, and ronald reagan. exploring the american story watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. >> michael kirk is joining us, he is the filmic of the documentary filmmaker of this pbs frontline film president biden, again that airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern time on your local pbs station. mr. kirk, why make w this documentary? what was the goal? >> while we make an annual film or every four years to make a film called the choice about the two presidential candidates. we weave it together is two hours and always airs right before the election andnd october. and essentially the idea is to get in side the method of the two different men. we do not interview the candidates we interview their friends, their family the people of known them allnt their lives as close as we can get. we try to really answer the question is the boy the father of the man? when you get down the begin to learn everything you can about this case trump and biden. and weave them altogether was a very interesting picture. w

i was not expecting dwight eisenhower to be a good writer, but i would read his memoir, particularly diary entries, and it's precise and vivid and colorful. that was a part of eisenhower that really surprised me. for all of the paper that the ads and howard ministration generated, he processed information best buy hearing people debate issues in a group. he liked to have all his experts in front of a table to go around and debate an issue. everyone says eisenhower was surprisingly creative, interesting, out of the box thinking, as he was poking at peoples theories and ideas. we think of him as sort of a prodding, placid, kind of dull guy, but up close he was quite an impressive character. kennedy was very, very different. he was 27 years younger than eisenhower. as we know, he was from boston, but didn't live there long. urban, harvard educated, junior officer in world war ii, a war hero in the sense of having his boat destroyed and saving a number of people. kennedy was also very different than his public perception. we think of him as a big almost larger than life historical figure

>> dwight eisenhower would have beaten anybody in the political landscape. he was extraordinarily popular and he was a great politician. a couple days ago, was so confident, he went out for press conferences -- don't know what i am talking about or get confused, knew how to play the press, how to play the affable leader. >> 65% approval rating all eight years of his presidency unmatched. >> it was an extraordinary presidency and i measure it, measured how extraordinary it was by how kennedy ran his campaign and how critics of eisenhower in the 1950s as boring. peace and prosperity over what happened in the 60s, 70s, any day of the week. and extraordinarily popular person, the guy that helped win world war ii. harry truman was unpopular, he was mired in unpopular war in korea and made decisions that split the democratic party in 1948 against a lot of aids recommendations, the armed forces were way ahead of its time in 1948, not popular with a lot of democrats in his own party, progressives in his own party, people like henry wallace. and take that long lonely

with dwight eisenhower's remarks from january 1961.rioters breached security and caused extensive damage to the u.s. capitol for the first time since british troops burned the building in 1814. coming up tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, revisit c-span's original production of "the capitol" taking you inside and through time for the story of the history, art and architecture of this iconic home to the congress since 1800. granted special access in 2006 by congress to grand public spaces and private rooms off limits to the public. watch c-span's "the capitol" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> wednesday joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states in our nation's capital. and in light of the attack on the capitol and the temporary closing of the national mall, the traditional inauguration ceremony has been modified. follow our live coverage as the day unfolds starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern. watch the arrivals at the capitol, the swearing in of joe biden and kamala harris, and the inaugural address. the inaugu

i was not expecting dwight eisenhower to be a good writer. i would read his memoir, particularly his diary entries, and it is precise and vivid and colorful. that was a part of eisenhower that really surprised me. for all the paper that the eisenhower administration generated, he processed information best by hearing people debate issues in a group. he liked to have all of his experts in front of a table and go around and debate an issue. everyone said eisenhower was surprisingly creative, interesting, sort of out-of-the-box thinking as he was poking at people's theories and ideas. again, we think of him as this plotting, placid, kind of dull guy, but up close, he was an impressive character. kennedy is very, very different. he was 27 years younger than eisenhower. from boston, although he did not live there that long. urban, harvard educated, junior officer in world war ii. a war hero, in the sense of having his boat destroyed and saving a number of people. kennedy is also different from his public perception. we think of him as this big, alm

bush, dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan.american history tv this weekend on c span 3. >>> each week american history tv's american artifacts visits historic places and museums. the national building museum in washington, d.c. was known as the pension building in 1885 when grover cleveland's inaugural ball was held in the still unfinished building. composed of over 15 million red bricks, the building contains a great hall that's 316 feet long and 160 feet high. american history tv vis

tonight we begin a night of presentation farewells with dwight eisenhower's remarks from january, 1961. his speech is best known for its warn being the increasing power of the military industrial complex. we'll also hear from presidents jimmy carter, richard nixon, and bill clinton. watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern, and enjoy apparently history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> on january 6th, rioters breached security and caused extensive damage to the u.s. capitol for the first time since british troops burned the building in 1814. coming up tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, revisit c-span's original production of the capitol, taking you inside and through time for the story of the history, art, and architecture of this iconic home to the congress since 1800. granted special access in 2006 by congress to grand public spaces and private rooms off limits to the public, watch x(z tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> wednesday, joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states in our nation's capitol. and in light of the attack on the capitol, andtzçgñr

tonight, we begin a night of presidential farewells with dwight eisenhower's remarks from january 1961 and bill clinton. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern, and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. on january 6th, rioters breached security and caused extensive damage to the u.s. capitol for the first time since british troops burned the building in 1814. coming up tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, revisit c-span's original production of "the capitol," taking you inside and through the time for the story of the art and history and architecture to this iconic home to congress since 1800. toud■7 private rooms off limits to the public. watch c-span's "the capitol" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. ♪♪ wednesday joe biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the united states in our nation's capitol. and in light of the attack on the capitol and the temporary closing of the national mall, the traditional inauguration ceremony has been modified. follow our live coverage as the day unfolds starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern. watch the arrivals at the capitol, the swe

dwight eisenhower: the peace we seek then is nothing less than the practice and fulfillment of our whole faith, among ourselves and in our dealings with others. it signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. narrator: more than an escape from death, it is a way of life. more than the haven from the weary, it is a hope for the brave. >> on january 20, 1961, senator john f. kennedy, a democrat from massachusetts, was sworn in as the 35th president of the united states. next on the presidency, we see the inaugural ceremonies and oath of office on the west front of the u.s. capitol. ♪ >> members of the house of representatives were preceded by kenneth r harding, deputy sergeant at arms in charge of the mace. this is an indication that it really was cold. ♪ >> representative martin, former speaker and presently representative for massachusetts. senator dirksen, minority leader, and the senator majority leader, lead the members of the united states senate. ♪ former president truman is escorted by senator clinton anderson. former senator from rhode island, theodore green

today. 68 years ago in springfield, illinois, governor stevenson gracefully conceded his loss to dwight eisenhower and said it is traditional american and told his disappointers to fight hard but then he added that it is equally to close ranks as soon as the people have spoken. not the congress, not the electors the people have spoken. that which unite us as american citizens is far greater than that which divides us. -- us as political partiers. it was another man from spring springfield, four scores and eight years earlier, who won re-election to the presidency and the national crisis that tested our country and its democratic institutions. who pleaded even in his hour of ctory for the same spirit of reconciliation. that was the party of lincoln. that hasn't happened to this hour. lincoln said, now that the election is over, he asked, may not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to save our common country. such is the duty of an american who stands for elections, or participates in our politics, to be either humble in triumph or gracious in defeat. i've lost some elections. no