eisenhower, your excellencies, friends of dwight david eisenhower in america and throughout the worldher today in mourning but also in gratitude. we mourn dwight eisenhower's death, but we are grateful for his life. we gather also conscious of the fact that in paying tribute to dwight eisenhower, we celebrate greatness. when we think of his place in history, we think inevitably of the other giants of those days of world war ii, and we think of the qualities of greatness and what his were that made his unique among all. once, perhaps without intending to do so, he himself put his finger on it. it was 1945, shortly after ve day at a ceremony in london's historic guild hall. the triumphant supreme commander of the allied forces in europe was officially given the freedom of the city of london. in an eloquent address that day, dwight eisenhower said, i come from the heart of america. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> he did come from the heart of america. not only from its geographical heart but from its spiritual heart. dwight eisenhower touched something fundamental in america which only a man of immense force o

that was dwight eisenhower. >>> general dwight d. the holocaust be remembered. it was a signature move for the man who later occupied the white house. next on the presidency, his granted daughter, susan eisenhower, talks about what led like to the decision. she's the author of how ike led. the principles behind eisenhower's biggest decisions. the united states holocaust memorial museum hosted this conversation and provided the video. >> today is holocaust remembrance day. 76 years ago soviet troops liberated the auschwitz camp complex including the killing center and people around the world pause today on this somber anniversary to honor the memory of europe's jews who the nazis attempted on annihilate. it a day to remember the holocaust era and keep the historical record as we have fewer and fewer eyewitnesses to these events. please join me in welcoming today's guest,

dwight eisenhower was one of those few.the world than any president america has ever had. he captured the deepest feelings of free men everywhere. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ some men are considered great because they lead great armies or they lead powerful nations. for eight years now, dwight eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation. and yet he remained, through his final days, the world's most admired and respected man. truly a first citizen of the world. so today we render our final salute. it is a fond salute to a man we love and cherish. it is a grateful salute, to a man whose whole extraordinary life was consecrated to service. it is a profound, respectful salute, to a man larger than life, who by any standard, was one of the giants of our time.

inside the museum, the life of dwight eisenhower, born a man, is depicted in a series of murals. from infancy, that life had the flavor of grassroots america about it. eisenhower was born in 1890 in texas. to parents whose families had migrated to pennsylvania from europe and advance to the midwest. his parents lived in abilene before his birth, and it was to abilene, now a peaceful village of the plains, that they returned when he was an infant. and it was here that he grew to maturity, to a childhood that was eager, active unhappy. an experience shared with devoted parents and spirited brothers, a childhood as rich in the important things of life that has ever graced the development of any man. it was an active boyhood in which sports played an important part. he excelled at baseball, both in school and on a vacant lot next to his home. but football was his first love, and his high school coach called him outstanding. the active life was important, but the greatest single staple of the eisenhower family life was religious observance. the family home in abilene shows the influenc

general dwight d. eisenhoweround together. called to washington in the first weeks after the war began, eisenhower went to work in the war plans office of the war department. among the plans formulated during this time was the central strategic determination to make an eventual attack across the english channel the principal ally defensive effort. a mural covering the west wall of the eisenhower museum dramatizes the high spots of the next great sequence in the adventure involving the nation and the man whose ability to rise to grave responsibilities brought him rapid promotions. because an all-out channel invasion would be impossible before 1944 and because the need for offensive action was immediate in 1942, the allies undertook, as a combined operation, under the command of general dwight d. eisenhower, the invasion of north africa. the minimum objective of this maneuver was to seize the main ports between casablanca and algiers. along the rim of the north african coast, troops were assured an encounter. the c

eisenhower's biggest decisions. you may be familiar or you are likely familiar with susan's grandfather dwight d. eisenhower's the united states president between the years 1953 to 61 or during world war ii as the supreme commander of the allied expeditionary force in europe. today we want to focus on a lesser known but incredibly important aspect of eisenhower's legacy. his determination to document the crimes that we now refer to as the holocaust even as the allies continued their fight against nazi, germany. against nazi, germany. captioning performed by vitac some might deny the truth about the atrocities committed against eisenhower recognized then that one day some might deny the truth about the atrocities committed against european jews and other victim groups. please post your questions for susan in the comments section and we'll get to as many of them live as possible. so let's begin by understanding a little bit of the forces that shaped your grandfather's background. what was he born and raised and what was family like for him growing up? >> well, ike was actually born in dennison, tenn

and a republican then we know from both man's diaries dwight eisenhower's and harry truman's and harry truman broad eisenhower to the white house and offered to run as his vice president if ike wanted to run for president as a democrat. ike was a republican he and largely but because he believed the democrats had been in power for too long in washington for 20 years in the white house. that there was had been too much centralization of power and too much deficit spending. those were his main reasons for identifying. as a republican, but it was as a fairly liberal to moderate republican dedicated to internationalism. and had robert taft. in fact, there was a meeting between the two men and eisenhower said if you'll to support say nato. and the united nations the european defense community. i will i will publicize this letter. i'm holding saying that i am not a candidate for president. in 1952 taft would not agree to the to that statement. that he tap we continue to oppose those organizations. and so eisenhower decided to run largely for those reasons against taft and then given his popu

here we have dwight d. eisenhower, 34th president of the united states and like hair yeah truman, very much a product of the american heartland. would have subscribed to a lot of the same values and embodied the same virtues. the men grew up within about 170, 180 miles of each other, had a lot of similar experiences. in fact, there was even a bit of overlap, eisenhower's oldest brother arthur at one time lived in the same boarding house as harry truman around 1900, i believe. even though the men did share a lot in common and there was a lot of mutual respect, there was not always a lot of mutual like for each other. we will discuss that in a little bit. which is kind of ironic, again, given so many similarities between the two men. next slide, please. we will go to ike's childhood and it always strikes me how similar this picture is to the picture of harry truman's grade school class, looks like it's about the same size and they put the students in the same pose. there you can see ike on the front row second from the

it was then that he reversed the order from david dwight eisenhower to dwight d. eisenhower. it became the name that is now so well-known. abilene was an interesting town. it was only about not even a generation removed from it wild, how child passed. abilene is a terminus of trails, you had the great history of the cattle drives, up the trails to kansas, wild bill hancock headed in the city more shot one time. yet it gunfights, everything that goes along with a cow town. eisenhower really absorbed, really enjoyed that history. coincidentally, 1890, the year he was born was also the year that the american frontier was declared closed. you had eisenhower coming into the world at this transition in american history. from this open frontier, moving to a more industrialized age. in fact it's great symmetry in his. life he was born the year the frontier was declared closed. he died the year americas land on the moon. you can see this range of history of eisenhower. embodied and in fact with his creation of nasa, it helped create that. the foundation also, the foundation rather, th

. >>> general dwight d. eisenhower ordered that the horrors of the holocaust be documented as world war ii came to an end, determined that the evidence be preserved for future generations. it was a signature move by the man who later occupied the white house. next, on the presidency, his granddaughter, susan eisenhower, talks about what led ike to the decision. she's the author of "how ike led: the principles behind eisenhower's biggest decisions." the united states holocaust memorial museum hosted this conversation and provided the video.>> today's international holocaust remembrance day. 76 years ago, soviet troops liberated the auschwitz camp complex including his killing center. people around the world paused today on this somber anniversary to honor the memory of europe's jews the nazis and their collaborators attending to annihilate. it's a day to remember the warnings of the holocaust era and to defend the historical record. now more than ever as we have fewer and fewer eye witnesses to these events. please join

such a man's general ike, dwight d. eisenhower, the man from abilene. in history have so many americans known so much about the essence of one man. 100 million americans know eisenhower the way others know him by heart. cheer for him, as he is a general we believe in. we hail the hometown boy who is all the best parts of america. main street usa. i come here first to thank you, to say the proudest thing i can tell you is that i am from abilene. [applause] i want to speak first on the dreams of a young boy. frequently, they are to be a streetcar conductor, or he sees himself as the town policeman. above all, he may reach the position of locomotive engineer. but always, in his dreams, is that day when finally he comes home. comes home to a welcome from his own hometown. >> ike is the nation's [inaudible] . >> who for the railroad tracks in texas, that's where he was born, on the red river we are texas shake hands with oklahoma. dwight david eisenhower was one of seven sons of deeply religious parents. pennsylvania dutch who moved west and brought the bibl

. >> i dwight d. eisenhower swear. >> that you will faithfully execute the office of 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 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. >> with this traditional oath, dwight d. eisenhower became the 34th president of the united states, succeeding harry s. truman. known as ike, president eisenhower came into international prominence as commander in chief of allied forces in europe during world war ii. he directed unified operations until the surrender of germany in 1945. at the war's end, he returned home to a hero's welcome following which as a civilian he served briefly as president of columbia university. in 1950, president truman recalled ike from civilian life to organize and direct the m

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such a man is general ike, dwight d. eisenhower the man from abilene.er in history have so many americans known so much about the very essence of one man. >> 100 million americans know eisenhower the way you know a neighbor. we know him by heart. >> and why do we cheer for him? not because he is a general, but because instinct ifl we believe in him. we hail him as a hometown boy who is all the best about mark. his roots are in the hard land, main street u.s.a. >> i come here first to thank you, to say the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. i want to speak first of the dreams of a barefoot boy. frequently they are to be a conductor or he sees himself as the town policeman. above all he may reach a position of locomotive engineer. but always in his dreams is that day when finally he comes home. comes home to a welcome from his own hometown. >> the wheat fields of kansas claim ike is a native son. >> but the to then and cattle state of texas stake first claim, hard by the railroad tracks in dennison, texas, that's where he was born on th

first of all, they should've learned the lesson to dwight eisenhower and harry s truman, who said that korea was a mistake. an endless war. we go through vietnam, kennedy said, in a press conference in 1962. i do not intend to get bogged down in vietnam. he knew we shouldn't do it. and then we go to afghanistan, 2001. america should've read "the new york times," back of the first section. osama bin laden wrote a dossier, whatever, saying that he hit the buildings and his main

he originally supported dwight eisenhower for president. but became disillusioned with him when he felt that eisenhower's response to mccarthy was too weak. and it was about eisenhower that drew pearson made one of the larger mistakes of his career. at least he thought so. and that was a week before the presidential election in 1956. one which democrats had made eisenhower's health a major issue. the merry go round reported that eisenhower collapsed on the campaign trail and that his motorcade, his limousine had pulled out of the motorcade and rushed to the next stop to the airport where he flew to the next city and then he sequestered himself for 24 hours in a hotel suite, not seeing anyone except for his family and his doctor. eisenhower's press secretary jim hagerty deannounced this as a complete fabrication. he showed the press corps pictures of the motorcade and showed that his limousine had not pulled out and he insisted that eisenhower kept his schedule the next day. in fact of the matter, it was jim hagerty who was misleading the pre

dwight d. eisenhower's diplomatic and peace making efforts through his military career and presidency. speakers are team members, troy elkins and jeff nelson of the eisenhower presidential library and museum, which hosted this event and provided the video. >> how would a person that spent a majority of their life studying war, learning how to apply not just man power but technology, industry and everything towards fighting major battles? it's weird. it seems weird that the man that studied all this, who ended up leading an allied army of multiple nations of over 5 million men would be the person who would be at such a large -- would be such a large advocate for people and that was just a few decades later. well, his foundations for this is -- it starts in abilene and actually for the majority of his life, he was always reading, observing, listening and learning from other people and those around him. the lessons is he gained over time, they built and compounded on each other and they created a person who understood that peace is not a -- a lasting peace is not the normal state of human

dwight eisenhower as doug mentioned, when i left office, he came in below chester arthur at 20 seconds. guess what in 1966 his papers began to be opened at the eisenhower library. people began to see ike was much more sophisticated political manipulator. and that process generally tends to apply to presidents when they leave office. it will be fascinating to see if donald trump who is unlike every other president in so many ways turns out to be on like other president in that respect as well per. >> donald trump we should note joe biden is the 46th president of the united states. richard norton smith you want to take the trivia question whites one through 44 here? that is right one man serves as president twice. grover cleveland is one president by the way it is significantly in her pole. he is the 22nd in the 24th president pretty so far at least the only president in american history to serve nonconsecutive terms. >> we got karen out of tampa florida good morning. >> good morning. my question is or my statement is that i believe crisis management is probably the most important factor

dwight d. eisenhower's diplomatic and peacemaking efforts through his military career and presidency speakers are curatorial team members troy elkins and jeff nelson of the dwight d. eisenhower presidential museum which hosted this event and provided the video. >> a person that spent a majority of their life studying or learning how to apply not just man power but technology towards fighting major battles it's weird it seems weird that the man that studied all this ended up leading an allied army in multiple nations over 5 million men would be the person he would be at such a large advocate for people and that was just a few decades later. >> his foundations for this starts in abilene. and actually the majority of his life he was always reading, observing, listening and learning from other people and those around him the lessons he gained over time, they compounded on each other and they created a personal understood that piece is not a lasting peace is not the normal state of humanity it is the most desired one. i clearance ever lessons about diplomacy from his boyhood time in abilene. his first

dwight eisenhower as doug mentioned, when i left office, he came in below chester arthur at 20 seconds. guess what in 1966 his papers began to be opened at the eisenhower library. people began to see ike was much more sophisticated political manipulator. and that process generally tends to apply to presidents when they leave office. it will be fascinating to see if donald trump who is unlike every other president in so many ways turns out to be on like other president in that respect as well per. >> donald trump we should note joe biden is the 46th president of the united states. richard norton smith you want to take the trivia question whites one through 44 here? that is right one man serves as president twice. grover cleveland is one president by the way it is significantly in her pole. he is the 22nd in the 24th president pretty so far at least the only president in american history to serve nonconsecutive terms. >> we got karen out of tampa florida good morning. >> good morning. my question is or my statement is that i believe crisis management is probably the most important factor

in 1919 dwight eisenhower took a convoy to explore the state of the roads and that includes pioneer trailstains, deserts, and from that time on people are saying how do we do this. and henrys. ford said you're not going to do this with privateng money, you're going to need federal funding to do it. so they don't raise enough money, they did a subscriber with woodrow wilson, i think that he gave $5 to something. and that includes a network of highways on the planet. the nearly 600 billion-dollarol projects. not includes what we are looking at now. and as with a lot of my stories and this is like my fifth book on infrastructure history, finance and telling stories about pool behind me and the principal idea is powerful but you must make investments. this is how we link cities and towns in our farm fields from coast-to-coast and there's a lot of things that we need to do, and i'd be happy to take questions but i will leave you with this one thing. that what we have got that lincoln personified as the idea of innovation that not only was economic entrepreneurship in inventions and discoveries

. >> i dwight d. eisenhower swear. >> that you will faithfully execute the office of 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 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

to the construction of the civil war and the dwight eisenhower highway system of the 1950's. the investments that literally connected our entire nation and fundamentally changed the pattern of life in america. to the public investments that took us to the moon and the discovery of lifesaving medicines and vaccines. gave us the internet. america has often had the greatest prosperity and made the most progress when we invest in america itself. and that's what this infrastructure bill does, with overwhelming support from the u.s. senate. 69 votes in the senate. a vote margin bigger than when the internet highway system passed in 1956. -- interstate highway system passed in 1956. creating jobs across the country, smitty's, small towns, rural and tribal communities. america, america, this is how we truly build back better. this bill is going to put people to work, modernizing our roads, highways, and bridges so that commuters and truckers don't lose time and traffic. today up to 10 million homes in america, more than 400,000 schools and childcare centers have pipes with lead in th

to dwight eisenhower's interstate highway system in 1950s. the investments that literally connected our entire nation and fundamentally changed the pattern of life in america. to the public investments that took us to the moon, and the discovery of lifesaving medicines and vaccines, and gave us the internet. america has often had the greatest prosperity and made the most progress when we invest in america itself. and that's what this infrastructure bill does. with overwhelming support from the united states senate, 69 votes in the senate, a vote margin bigger than when interstate highway system passed the senate in 1956. it makes key investments that will, one, create millions of good union jobs all across the country. in cities, small towns, rural and tribal communities, america, america. this is how we truly build back better. put people to work. this bill willput people to work. modernizing our roads and our highways and our bridges. so commuters and truckers don't lose time and traffic, saving billions of dollars nationally. today, up to

especially if i'm in the midwest or the west, in 1919 dwight eisenhower takes. from one coast to the other and it comes with the real undeniable conclusion that they are just awful. some of them. from that time on, people were saying how do we pay for this, how do we do this. the first idea was lincoln. it was that it should be privately financed. we could raise the money to do this. henry ford says often. you are not going to do this with private money and i'm not going to contribute. you arete going to need federal money to do this. they don't raise enough money. they get some subscribers includingg. eisenhower becomes president in 1956 and the interstate highway act and creates the largest network of highways on the planet. i tried inflation adjustment for today'str dollars. now we face $6 trillion and of course there's a proposal for the 2 trillion-dollar american$6 jobs plan by president biden and then we are looking at that now. telling stories about the people behind these ideas and the principle here is very powerful that you do need to make these invest

title has normally been reserved for presidents such as hoover's co-religionist dwight eisenhower. however, as presidents came and went usually every four to agent years hoover remained. in fact, for almost half a century he led the bureau and for countless americans he was the person to look to for all things for god, flag and country. second. a keen eye on the importance of religion reveals that the bureau itself had a religious culture which shaped how americans viewed and understood their fbi. understand hoover's auspices the fbi instituted private worship services, spiritual retreats and communion and prayer breakfasts exclusively for fbi agents and even when the fbi admitted african-american agents, she is worship services and private religious affairs were exclusively for white agents only. similar to american civil religion, the bureau's religious culture borrowed from protestant and catholic forms, especially the militaristic aspects of jesuit spiritually. hoover's g-men were seen as more than federal bureaucrats but as buyout soldiers drafted to embark on a crew side agai

dwight eisenhower. i think of ronald reagan and donald trump.ys even in the case of fdr i strongly disagree was so much of what he did. but when it came to defending the united states of america, when it came to defending united states of america, each faced different kinds of threats and they stepped up. they were great men. we are now confronted with a bumbling fool in the office of the presidency prove. week incoherent generals. we can incoherent secretary of state and national security advisor. we are in a grave statement now. and our enemies are sharpening their fangs and fingernails. it's a very dangerous time in our country. when i say in our country, i mean domestically with the borders wide open, the push of american marxism in classrooms, a media utterly corrupt and a congress bankrupting us, america if you have not waking up it is about damn time that you do. i will see next time on "life, liberty & levin". >> a poll out today shows america one to withdraw from afghanistan but they disapprove of the way you have handled it also over t

museum is the jump uniform that dick or for the march 1944 practice jump that was witnessed by dwight eisenhower and winston churchill. and so these are short signs and indicators that big things are afoot. and perhaps the invasion is only a few weeks away. it was during this time when he endeared himself further in regard to written correspondence. she herself joined the military service. she joined the ways which was the female component of service at this time. he was really proud of her when she did this in march of 1944. hey wrote to her there's a lot of smart modern things to say to find out who joined the wave. all i can say is what i feel. you have got what it takes, congratulations ricky. these were the very endearing words. these two members of the military would share throughout the conflict. his anticipation of the invasion really reaches fever pitch. once we get into early june of 1944. one of the most poetic things that he wrote to her was just four days before the invasion took place. he said every night at tabs i will meet you at the north star. the north star is a soldiers guidi

on on january 20th 1953 dwight eisenhower's inaugurated as the 34th president of the united states. he entered office with a deeply developed sense of duty to serve his nation that sense of duty was developed during his years in the military where he did nothing but serve the united states. his duty as president though was was a little bit different than his duty. as general he no longer was there to simply seek victory over enemies. um, he was there to make sure that the nation as whole thrived and survived. he also felt an obligation to work for a lasting global peace in a world that was severely divided by ideology. as troy mentioned earlier. he used the word. peace. hundreds of times in his speeches up until the presidency. he concluded his inaugural address by highlighting the importance of cooperation in a world that was ever more closely bound economically and politically he said 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. one of eisenhower's greatest tools in his effort to crea

know is lady bird and lyndon johnson had the highest possible esteem for the secret service dwight eisenhower called them soldiers without a uniform and over the last couple of decades the reputation the secret service has taken a beating i'm hoping we can get down to what has happened with the service and what can be done to fix it. so now please join me to welcome carol and evan. >> good to be with you congratulations on the book. >> thank you. i'm so glad tonk be here with you. host: my pleasure. the book is great not only a great read that i learned a lot. honestly i'm embarrassed as a political junkie and history buff i feel i should have known more than i did. how much of this did you know before researching the book? >> i r have to say i really got into this by accident looking at something in 2012 i was really shocked almost every time i delved into another presidency and there was something new to learn. sometimes it was heroism sometime security debacle. host: this was an outgrowth of your reporting on the post with that presidential trip to south america but what about that story s

harder edged they were against the new deal program long after most republicans started with dwight eisenhower given up. ronald reagan was one of them. and yet he put, he approached it with a smile and long into his presidency people like his style. it was far more conservative. it was still true to some of the foundational matters like free trade and immigration. in internationalism that is now missing from the republican party. when gingrich came along there was a desire to be more militant still. in many ways sought ronald reagan as to pragmatic and they were much more doctrinaire. it was not even about ideas as much as newt gingrich would like to say i think, it was more stylistic. it was more geared toward culture war issues as opposed to economic. for instance ronald reagan antiabortion politics was a big part of his campaign, he never did anything about it. he talked a good game. by that 90s newt gingrich again they were more willing to do it. mainly it was about society. and just a sense it was a beginning of what we came to for russian with donald trump as they were picking on the gri