forward is the one who runs me most of dwight eisenhower as a person.i remember meeting him in 1965 at my grandfather's behest. i was hosting an exchange student from mexico. we had an audience. my reaction was solid, serious, formidable, attractive, nothing but positives. that's the way he impressed people is a character. that is the impact white eisenhower had on people as well. something we haven't talked about is athletics. gerald ford, we are talking the two finest athletes and potential history, dwight eisenhower probably profaned professional baseball for two season before with point. what gerald ford was doing at university of michigan. the new york times profiled him as a future all-american. at west point. to complete the baseball story he probably didn't play it seriously but accepting money for any kind of game was potentially a problem. if you want to play athletics at west point. red patterson invented the late measure home run, a. -- somebody who concluded his career with the california angels. we went to california angel teams a lot and

dwight eisenhower, everybody at that great command of the great organization. there isev d no margin. >> we have another question it's really interesting for the perspective that ralph was arguably the first american officer into the concentration camp. and that searing experience would never leave him. in fact at his own version of posttraumatic stress as a result of what he encountered some of the other brutalities he witnessed. when a very interesting question out related to your grandfather, david could you talk about your grandfather having the press covered the liberation of the death camps by the u.s. army? >> i have a red he did this so no one could ever deny what had happened. >> i think that eisenhower, all these people the high command probably understood intellectual they understood they were about to enter a chamber of horrors. i think churchill says now into the abyss. i think it would be anticipated confirmation of all of our worst fears. the very things that cause the war in the first place was our capacity for atrocity on the scale. i think to

protocol the process of doing it pretty one of the questions is the relationship between fdr and dwight our eisenhower percent and ten specifically when it was it about eisenhower's leadership that allowed to be selected for these incredibly important roles joining us today, to us that question is don the director of the eisenhower library, dawn hammett. >> thank you paul and what a delight to be with year here. >> so what was the qualities eisenhower presented the made result to tim first through north africa and then at normandy and dj and what was it about eisenhower the really attracted fdr. >> when i think that it makes sense to point out that eisenhower had an amazing relationship with general fox connor and fox connor took him under his wing and helped him develop it some of his military lessons are his military knowledge. fox connor mentioned eisenhower to general marshall and general marshall introduced eisenhower to fdr as well. >> no marshall was a seasoned staff had before to the point where they had to the leader for the d-day - and so they have a complicated relationship. >> yes but i do

i think that skewers a process, dwight eisenhower has doug mentioned, and the first hole, he came in below just or after the 22nd, guess what 1966 his papers began in the eisenhower library and all of a sudden people began to see i was a more sophisticated political manipulator the famous hidden hand leadership theory from fred greenstein in that process generally tends to apply to presidents they tend to be ofwh their reputations when they leave office. it'll be fascinating to see if donald trump who is unlike any other president in so many ways terms out to be unlike other presidents in that respect as well. >> donald trump 41 out of 44 although joe biden is a 46 president, do you want to take the trivia question why it's only 1 - 44. >> one man served as president twice. grover cleveland is one president who by the way is down significant lien or pull, he is considered the 22nd and the 24th president he is only president in american history to serve nonconsecutive terms. >> have karen out of tampa florida, democrat, good morning. >> morning my question or my statement is that i bel

by the vacuum cans connection to what dwight eisenhower would call the military industrial complex. because the military industrial complex wasn't all about missile systems and bombers who's also about industrial strength coffee yearns. but you also have to think just for a minute. but what this world looked like for stella cahill here was a woman who grew up right on the edge of devastating poverty who never had a stable place to live and now she and ed owned their own home. out on eddy street here was a woman. who in their early days of her marriage and her early days of motherhood wasn't sure. whether husband was going to come home. now living in this extraordinarily stable family-centered world. here was this woman who in 1961 had her older daughter. in college when she had to leave school at 15. said any wonder it's still like cahill was smiling into the 1960s. and already that world built around eddie street already, there were cracks in the exclusions that that world. have created none more dramatic, none more important than the one symbolized by this young woman. elizabeth e

s. president dwight eisenhower signed the captive nations act $8690.00, which declared that the independence of oppressed peoples is in the vital interest of the united states. and ukraine stands out as one of the main victims are 1988. 1000 anniversary of the baptism of roost is solemnly observed in the u. s. s. r. as part of his new political thinking, mikhail gorbachev invites us president ronald reagan to moscow for the occasion. reagan rejected this offer. his reason for refusal was his objection to the u. s. s . r's policy towards the greek catholic uni, a church, and the orthodox auto selfless churches. ah, there was no doubt that such a stuff did not go unnoticed in ukraine. august 19th, 1991, the artist jew in moscow. though my youngest brother was yet though, at issue gorbachev was removed from power, most of the regional leaders in ukraine supported the initiators of the to the state committee on the state emergency. landed craft took, took a wait and see attitude without issuing any strong statements. 2 days later, the crew attempt failed friendships and pushed the declaration of

archives administration, and those libraries, herbert hoover, franklin d roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhowerjohn f. kennedy, lyndon johnson, richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george bush, william jefferson clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and donald j. trump presidential library has a site online that you can go, not a physical building yet, and the obama presidential library is being built, as well. we talked about the truman library being the second one, which edward rothstein was talking about. i think we have you back, mr. rothstein. glad to have you back. guest: i do not know exactly what happened. host: that is quite all right. we will continue with the discussion and have invited the viewers to call in. you have written about the idea of ego versus truth when it comes to presidential libraries. i wonder your thoughts on whether these libraries are monuments to the individual or are these places for history and pure historical research? how should we look at these museums and libraries? guest: it is a difficult and complicated issue, and it varies from libr

and then along came fred greenstein and princeton writing about the hidden hand leadership of dwight eisenhower, which was the opposite of the theatrical. stage center president of avalatharsinger for example and then came ronald reagan who? combine some elements of both. who clearly had the theatrical? centralism if you will of the roosevelts. who had an agenda? who had unique communications abilities the abilities to to persuade we carry truman said is the main job of the modern presidency, but for for a small government. decentralized reversal of the new deal in a very real sense so, so anyway, the reason i mentioned all that is there are there are multiple schools of thought about what makes for a successful president and at times they they into stereotypes and caricatures. how do you measure? when nick johnson hugely important in the history of civil rights a president maybe a uniquely so more than fdr. who insisted the american people? had the wealth and the moral obligation to care about the poor in their midst i mean a president. was willing in some ways to shame us. and yet a president

presidents, dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan and fdr all of whom changed the course of history and the fate of the nation. his newest book, on our 18th president ulysses s. grant entitled "to rescue the republic" is as educational as it is timely and i say educational and that grant was far more important in u.s. history and some historians had given him credit for. and timely and that when it comes to the fragility of our national unity and the times we live in today their read of his book shows you that we have been here before. it is always a pleasure and an honor to have him with us us so ladies and gentlemen if you would, please join me in welcoming to the reagan library mr. bret baier. [applause] >> thank you very much. i started with reagan sound bites. the issues that reagan deal with that were big issues when we are dealing with the debt so it kind of all works out pretty well to say hi to my friends and i know i have friends in the audience. we are here to talk about grant. years ago you wrote your first book in the challenges you had with your son paul, remarkable but please

at any rate, this is a repudiation of the wisest president in my lifetime, dwight eisenhower.ast call today, bernadine out of indiana. go ahead. caller: two comments when president trump was debating. someone asked him a question. they were talking about war. he made the comment very casually, i love war. everybody was kind of stunned. and then somebody said to him, what about nuclear. he kind of smirked and he shrugged his shoulders. my other comment was during the debates, when former president trump went to the cleveland clinic in cleveland ohio for the debates, cleveland clinic asked the family to where masks. they refused. that was unbelievable. i absolutely could not believe it. who in the heck do they think they are? host: bernadine, our last call her today, but we will of course you back here today tomorrow -- be back here tomorrow at 4 a.m. pacific, 7 a.m. eastern. in the meantime, have a great president's day holiday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] >> c-span's washington journal. we get your calls live on the air and discuss policy issues. t

dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan and fdr, all who changed the course of history in the fate of the facing. his newest book on our 18th president and i say educational in that grant was far more important in u.s. history than some historians have given him credit for. it comes to our national unity as in the times we live in today. it shows you that we have bye-bye here before. it is always a pleasure and an honor to have him with us. so ladies and gentlemen, if you would, please join me in welcoming to the reagan library mr. bret bai, r. >> thank you very much. thank you for making the effort to come out. we had our show out here today, which we love to do ahead of these events. and started it with reagan sound bytes. looking at the big issues that reagan dealt with that are big issues we're dealing with with today. so it kind of all works out. and i want to say hi to my friends the in the the audience. but let's talk. >> before we talk about grant, bret, your very first visit here eight or nine years ago was about your first book and the real challenges that you had with your son paul. a

ended, that top marginal tax rate on the wealthy went down to 92% and we kept it there through dwight eisenhower'ser presidents and former congresses have done. i would argue it should go to healthcare first and foremost. we should make sure that we fill the gaps that we saw emerge during the pandemic and also to look at those gaps in social welfare where to this day we still have an awful lot of people struggling because of the economic hit that came as a result of the pandemic. >> so, look, you referenced specifically big pharma and the ceos and the huge gains they got there. you're saying that they have exploited the pandemic, but what kind of responses did you get from these companies? we have to note, pfizer, it also helped solve a problem. it created a product that was beneficial to the global society, so shouldn't that be seen as a positive? >> look, i am vaccinated. i'm boosted. and if another booster comes, i'm ready to get that. i celebrate the vaccines. i'm delighted that they're available. what i want to make sure that they're available to everyone who needs them. and the fact of the m

dwight eisenhower, ronald reagan and fdr, all who changed the course of history in the fate of the nation. his newest book on our 18th president ulysses s. grant entitled "to rescue the republic" is as educational as it is timely. i say educational in that grant was far more important in u.s. history than some historians have given him credit for. and timely in that when it comes to the fragility of our national unity as in the times we live in today -- well a read of brett's book shows you that we have been here before. it is always a pleasure and an honor to have him with us. so ladies and gentlemen, if you would, please join me in welcoming to the reagan library mr. bret baier. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. it is great to be back here. thank you for making the effort to come out. mask and all. we had our show out here today, which we love to do ahead of these events. and started it with reagan sound bytes. looking at the big issues that reagan dealt with that are big issues we're dealing with with today. so it kind of all works out. and i want to say hi to my friends, the o'hurl

all, which generation are we talking about george marshall born in 1880 george patton in 1885 dwight eisenhower's 1890 or the generation a trigger pullers born mostly in the 19 teens 1920s my father born in 1924 went into the army in 1942. so that doesn't have the same ring the greatest generations, but beyond that i think it tends to diminish the contribution of generations that were just as critically important to us. as a nation starting with that revolutionary generation now. you know, that's a country of two and a half million people versus the country of 140 million people in the in the in world war ii, but the generation that commits itself to fighting for eight years. so that we can be here today as we have convened in this wonderful country. i think you know, you can't suggest that they're not the greatest generation. the civil war generation fighting to hold together the union fighting to destroy slavery. that's a pretty great generation. so rather than narrow it down and and when i raised this issue with broke all he says that's my story and i'm sticking to it. what's next rick? after

organization, although it was heavily funded by the newly established central intelligence agency and dwight d eisenhower, who was then known as the famous general from world war two and was not yet president. he launched a campaign to run to raise funds for radio programming books and other projects quote to fight the big lie of soviet communism with the big truth. by america in eastern europe under the banner the crusade for freedom, although heavily subsidized by the central intelligence agency. it was billed as sponsored by private american citizens and much like a religious crusade this the idea was at this propaganda that's funded by the american people with men saying sure i want to fight communism but how and women were saying you mean i can fight communism and being encouraged to have meatless even meatless dinners in order to give their their grocery money to the crusade for freedom. it was heavily heavily subsidized by the government. here we have other other advertisements again bringing in the religious. give us this. they are daily truth the crusade for freedom funded radio free europe and

the national archives are the herbert hoover library, franklin d roosevelt, harry s truman, dwight d. eisenhower, john f. kennedy, lbj, richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and now the donald j. trump library. we will be talking a lot more about presidential libraries in about half an hour on this program. for now, a conversation about presidential rankings and which presidents you want to talk about. phone lines split by political party. this is mark out of florida, a democrat. caller: hello, good morning and happy day before washington's birthday to you. what generated my call, i was going to stick by and just listen to the information. your first caller showed how politicized this all is. the first thing he wanted was to fight about how the world has been against donald trump. i thought this would be a good opportunity, miss shlaes was so eloquent in supporting her organization's patron, which she knew was often not well-liked by the general public. so eloquent in supporting andrew jackson, who at this time in histor

this is a repudiation again from the wisest president in my lifetime, dwight eisenhower. caller. caller: trump made the comment very casually that i love war. everybody was stunned and somebody said to him, what about nuclear? he kind of smirked and shrugged his shoulders. former president trump went to cleveland clinic for the debate, cleveland, ohio. cleveland clinic asked the family to wear masks and they refused. that was unbelievable. i absolutely could not believe it. who do they think they are? host: our last caller in today's "washington journal" but we will be back here tomorrow at 7:00 a.m., have a great presidents day. ♪ ♪ >> c-span's "washington journal" every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day and discussed policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, we talk about the latest developments in the russian-ukrainian border conflict and a look at the synthetic opioid crisis in the u.s. with the rand corporation. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning on c-span or c-span now, our free mobile app

together not what divides us of the tradition of the national prayer breakfast dates back to dwight d. eisenhowerho confided in one of his close friends the white house is the loaniest house that he had everlied. in senator carlson said i think this might be the right time for you to come and meet our prayer group and this's what he did in this group, he found individual who is were willing to offer their nonpartisan support for our president, the leader of the free world because they knew that's what was best for our country. the job of the president is not easy. and you'll often find yourself in the midst of difficult political situation. however, as the president, you should still be able to count on our prayers for the success of our country. this event allows us to recognize our common bonds to offer our prayers for one another, our president, and our nation. senator gillibrand and i are near this effort together. we both understand what our found fathers believed in. the right of each other us to worship the good lord the way that we see fit. whether it be in a church, synagogue, mosque, mo