in 1960, dwight eisenhower was still the president. he was leaving after two terms. the population, 179 million, the population today in the states is about 330 million or so. and for the first time, there were 50 states, alaska and hawaii had joined the union. the cold war was ongoing. the space race was ongoing with the then soviet union. and there were a growing number of u.s. military advisors going to vietnam. troops did not get there until 1965. in a general sense, david pietrusza what was life like in the us in 1960? well, compared to the great depression and world war two and even korea. life was good. but it wasn't as good as people sort of painted in that sort of leave it to beaver clichÉ of the 1950s. because the 1950s economically was like a yo yo. we kept having a recession in the 1950s. and that's one reason, i think where jfk is talking about let's get america moving again. what's the unemployment rate in 1968? that great? it's 6.6%. what is good is the inflation rate. inflation has really been not exist in this country for a very long time. and it's o

did the sitting president, dwight eisenhower, play a role? eisenhower role is very awkward.he takes his time is sweet time and endorsing. he is running mate richard nixon and then he does it in an offhanded way. at the press conference. and when they attend, the republican national convention in chicago, they do not they're not in the same motorcade eisenhower speaks at that convention. he doesn't attack lbj or jfk. he doesn't mention nixon when they ask eisenhower or who he's voting for at gettysburg, that day, he refuses to say for nixon and the most serious incident is a press conference. they ask him, well, what's richard nixon done? what decisions has he made or helped you with? as presidency? and he says, well, if you give me a week, i might think of something. and this is brought up during the debates. and this is one of the things which hurts, richard nixon a great deal. well, it was november eight, 1960, election night. here's some newsreel coverage of election day. the whole country begins to await the results. the television networks have made elaborate preparatio

did the sitting president, dwight eisenhower, play a role? eisenhower role is very awkward.he takes his time is sweet time and endorsing. he is running mate richard nixon and then he does it in an offhanded way. at the press conference. and when they attend, the republican national convention in chicago, they do not they're not in the same motorcade eisenhower speaks at that convention. he doesn't attack lbj or jfk. he doesn't mention nixon when they ask eisenhower or who he's voting for at gettysburg, that day, he refuses to say for nixon and the most serious incident is a press conference. they ask him, well, what's richard nixon done? what decisions has he made or helped you with? as presidency? and he says, well, if you give me a week, i might think of something. and this is brought up during the debates. and this is one of the things which hurts, richard nixon a great deal. well, it was november eight, 1960, election night. here's some newsreel coverage of election day. the whole country begins to await the results. the television networks have made elaborate preparatio

dwight eisenhower now eisenhower then were republicans were trying to draft him, too. they wanted him to run in the new primary and he closed the door on that. democrats did not give up. there were, you know, some of the three of franklin roosevelt's sons were involved in trying to draft eisenhower, the american for democratic action was, you know, at times trying to to work on an eisenhower. he kept trying to slam the door and they wouldn't listen to him. and finally, the week before the convention, he said, absolutely under no circumstances they were trying accept a nomination for president. and that was when truman was was out of danger. but it wasn't really from anything that happened in the primaries. so the 1948 democratic convention, some fireworks there? yes, absolutely. fireworks the the big fireworks had to do with the platform and big the big platform issue that ignited the fireworks was civil rights. now, in 1944, there had been a platform plank that had everyone had been able to agree to the south had sort of agreed to it. and the for the most part had agr

dwight eisenhower now eisenhower then were republicans were trying to draft him, too. they wanted him to run in the new primary and he closed the door on that. democrats did not give up. there were, you know, some of the three of franklin roosevelt's sons were involved in trying to draft eisenhower, the american for democratic action was, you know, at times trying to to work on an eisenhower. he kept trying to slam the door and they wouldn't listen to him. and finally, the week before the convention, he said, absolutely under no circumstances they were trying accept a nomination for president. and that was when truman was was out of danger. but it wasn't really from anything that happened in the primaries. so the 1948 democratic convention, some fireworks there? yes, absolutely. fireworks the the big fireworks had to do with the platform and big the big platform issue that ignited the fireworks was civil rights. now, in 1944, there had been a platform plank that had everyone had been able to agree to the south had sort of agreed to it. and the for the most part had agr

a war hero like dwight eisenhower, or the trailblazer like barack obama, jimmy carter- - people haveotten i think very cynical and low in their expectations, and accepting that not only this is who donald trump, but also imagining they might know who kamala harris is. we might not know much about her , even though there's no evidence kamala harris is interpersonally corrupt, she's had a long career in public service, you know there pretty obvious in their personal values and conduct. what i found in this sweet little town is people who have convinced themselves that this era in america is over where we are going to look up to a president. >> what do you think is behind the attraction to the hyper masculine authoritarian rhetoric of donald trump's? >> that's really the question. you know, for a lot of men it is something maybe they have grown use to with the fighting challenger reality tv. i think we are used to to it, this coarseness. trump has been around eight, 10 years on the national stage-- it just seems to go past people, but if you really listen to it, to many of us it's dange

the record right now is dwight eisenhower, a modern president i couldn't stand, he couldn't stand whatwas happening with the border. many years ago general eisenhower, a good president but a moderate person, he has every record, he couldn't stand watching borders crossed by people who weren't citizens of our country. i will rescue every town across america invaded and conquered and we will put vicious criminals out immediately, they will be sent back to where they came from. no choice. [cheering] to expedite removals of aragua, other savage gangs, i will in both the aliens enemies act of 1798. can you believe that? [cheering] we couldn't have an act like that now because now everything is well. woke generals like milley and malice. they don't think do things like this so 1798 when we had real people running our country. [cheering] the alien enemies act tremendous power to the president to do what's right to target and dismantle every migrant criminal operating on american soil and if they come back to our country, it's an automatic ten years in jail with no possibility of parole. [chee

you know, a war hero like dwight eisenhower, or a trailblazer like barack obama, a straight arrow likemy carter. people have gotten, i think, very cynical and low in their expectations, and accepting that not only this is who donald trump is, they don't care. but also imagining that that might be who kamala harris is. but we don't know enough about her, that that is who politicians are. you know, there is no evidence that kamala harris is personally corrupt. she has had a long career in public service. you know, there is a difference between these two people that is pretty obvious, in their personal values and personal conduct. and what i found in this sweet little town is people who have convinced themselves that this area in america is over, where we are going to look up to a president. >> what do you think is behind the attraction to the hyper masculine authoritarian rhetoric of donald trump? >> that's a really big question. you know, for a lot of men, it is something that they have maybe grown used to with fighting challenge or reality tv. i just think we have come sort of immune t

against nato usa but there was another big name in the mix for the republican nomination general dwight eisenhower had a competing vision for america's place in the world he had led the allied forces to victory as their supreme commander in europe exhausted from his years in uniform, eisenhower fantasize about buying a ranch in retiring. i intend to have nothing whatsoever to do with partisan politics but then doody came calling again in the form of a request from president truman what eisenhower will be willing to serve as nato's first military commander? >> truman needs somebody some electric personality to really sell the idea of a permanent alliance, which is something america had never done the soviets had taken over eastern europe. and we're trying to extend their control across the continent eisenhower took the nato job and order announcing his assumption of command. >> he made a forceful case for the new alliance to the nation if we american sees the lead, we will preserve and be worthy of our own past our children will dwell in peace they will dwell in freedom they will read the history o

. >> reporter: the first time vonciel gray got behind the wheel of a car, dwight eisenhower was presidenter was good. >> reporter: but despite a clean record over the decades that followed, not one accident, the 85-year-old new three years ago her driving days were over. >> i drove to church one morning. i was a nervous wreck. >> reporter: because... >> i think i ran a red light. and once i got home, i said, "no more." >> reporter: what do you miss the most about driving? >> not being able to go when i want to go. >> reporter: vonciel is one of millions of older americans grappling with that sudden loss of independence. >> she's got a lot more living to do, but like a lot of people she just didn't have a lot more driving to do. >> reporter: for kurt gray, who has spent his entire career cultivating safe drivers, vonciel's decision was personal. kurt is vonciel's son. >> one of my specialties is a senior driving evaluation, where i look at a person's cognitive function, their mobility, their vision, and then we'll go out and see how safe they are behind the wheel of a car. >> reporter: gra

i guarantee you the party of john mccain, ronald reagan, dwight eisenhower wouldn't put up with it either. and kamala harris' commitment to being that later. there was a big difference in their debate. you saw a kamala harris who was poised and you thought nearly 80-year-old man who was interested in crowds and things like that. i say it because the focus needs to be on what we're doing. this ability to turn your back on our allies and embrace totalitarians as a development i thought i would never see. i say that because i had the privilege -- and maybe some of you have done this, i never had the privilege to do it -- i got the chance to go to the beaches of normandy on the 80th commemoration this year and to be there. driving down those little dirt roads in the french village warehouses with little british and french and american flags out front. as he got closer, there would be children with all those flags. those were the sons of the democracies pushing back against the dictators. pushing back against the totalitarians. they stood side-by-side. those beaches of normandy and the dead th

so against the wishes and warnings of dwight eisenhower lacey us leader, the they, the complex has ever been expanding. so is it the are paying so they have been expanding their ne, til under the guidance of the us and look what happened now that's what happened. now i know that base, you know, one of the interesting things is that the, the west likes to peddle a rules base order, but the rule space order only benefits the few at the expense of the many. and it seems to me that the bricks proposition is just the reverse. go ahead. well, you know very well that the united states has an empire. we've only been a piece for 231 of 248 years. we solve our problems by taking things from other people, any challenges viewed as a threat and will be met with excess idle and warranty. the response of it is just part of our nature because this is where we are in history. the question is, will we ever transition to civilization where we started thinking about managing the things that we have like our poverty, the fact that we have so many, 10 point one percent poverty, 30 percent of our people can r

senator margaret chase smith conducted a televised debate on behalf of aid laid stevenson and dwight eisenhower in 1956 on face the nation, modeling the famous kennedy and nixon debates to come and she and the senator were the first women to appear on the show. this is after eleanor hosted the new york city mayoral candidate showdown on her own program in 1950, which may have been the first teleadvised political debate ever. in 1959, her third regular television program began airing under the guidance of producer henry morgan thal iii, sound familiar? an and ran monthly before eleanor's death in 1962, and once again attracted some of the most important and cultural figures of the area, including ralph bunch, henry kissinger, edward r. murrow, adlai stevenson, paul tillic and john f. kennedy both as senator and president although she dispied jfk's father and had to be convinced to book the younger kennedy. some of her kennedy remarks were incorporated in television commercials for republican richard nixon for whom she also had little respect. eleanor roosevelt spoke with authority, yet, she had

smith conducted the televised debate on to have a presidential candidate adlai stevenson and dwight eisenhower in 1956 on "face the nation." modeling the famous nixon debate to come and she and the senator were the first woman to appear on the show. this is after owner hosted the new york city mayoral candidate showdown on her own program in 1950 which you may have been the first televised political debate ever. in 1959 or third regular television program began airing under the guidance of henry morgan fell to third. sound familiar? the son offr good friends on our andsu fdr secretary of the treasure. it ran monthly before an owner's death in 1952. once again she attracted some of the most important political and cultural figures of the era including ralph bunch henry kissinger edward r. murrow adlai stevenson paul tillotson john f. kennedy as senator and president. although she jfk's father and the younger the candidates. some of her anti-kennedy remarks were unfortunately it appropriated to televisionn commercials for which richard nixon had little respect. eleanor roosevelt spoke with autho

so against the wishes and warnings of dwight eisenhower lacey us leader, the they, the complex has ever been expanding, so it would be or pain. so they have been expanding their ne, til under the guidance of the us and look what happened now that's what happened. now i know that basically, you know, one of the interesting things is that the, the west likes to peddle a rules base order. but the rule space order only benefits the few at the expense of the many. and it seems to me that the bricks proposition is just the reverse. go ahead. well, you know very well that the united states has an empire. we've only been a piece for 231 of 248 years. we solve our problems by taking things from other people. any challenges viewed as a threat and will be met with excess. i don't have a warranty. a response of it is just part of our nature because this is where we are in history. the question is, will we ever transition to civilization where we started thinking about managing the things that we have like our poverty, the fact that we have so many, 10 point one percent poverty, 30 percent of our pe

you could say that dwight eisenhower, in an existential moment over future of career, his career and what i think is moving about what i read in research when i wrote my book is that he cared not one whit about he was remembered now i that sounds like it's too good to be true but if you read his musings in diaries for really the place to go naive dwight eisenhower thought nobody would ever be reading them. of course they're now published and you can read them. but he muses what he called. the shortsightedness of the average human and their care about the intense promoting, their intense personal outlook that most officers have even in such a critical thing war. how many? he went on to say that he that his principal effort was going to do his duty no matter where it led and in doing so he would be meeting a higher calling which was serve something larger than himself. now this is not too to be true because this was deeply embedded his religious beliefs that were fostered right here in pennsylvania, not far from, you know, his father grew up not far from harrisburg as a matter of fact.

dwight eisenhower, very strongly about borders. you don't have borders if you don't do this.f you want to see how sick and distorted kamala harris' priorities are, just consider fema. f-e-m-a. you know what that is the federal emergency management agency. you read about now all the time because there's nobody that's handled a hurricane or storm worse than what they're doing right now. kamala spent all her fema money, billions of thrars, on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country. [crowd boos] including $1 billion for gift cards for illegal aliens, putting them up in luxury hotels. with a gift card, with a gift card to welcome them to america as our veterans are sleeping on the sidewalks below those hotels and they're being walked into luxury hotels. now we have a horrific disaster in north carolina. georgia. south carolina. alabama. tennessee. florida. virginia. that's how big this hurricane was. and the harris-biden administration says they don't have any money, they've spent it all on -- they spent all of their money. they have almost no mone

chase smith conducted a televised debate on behalf of presidential candidates stevenson and dwight eisenhower in 1956. on face the nation modeling the famous kennedy-nixon debates to come, she and the senator were the first women to appear on the show. this is after eleanor hosted in new york city mayoral candidate showdown on her own program in 1950, which may have been the first televised political debate. in 59, her third regular television program began airing under the guidance of producer henry morgenthau. the third, sound familiar is the son of good friend eleanor and fdr, secretary of the treasury henry morgenthau jr. prospects of mankind. rand monthly. just before eleanor's death in 1962. once again, she attracted some of the most important political and cultural figures of the era, including ralph bunche henry kissinger, luis munoz, marin edward murrow, julius nyerere, bertrand russell, adlai stevenson, paul tillich and john f kennedy both as senator and president. although she really despised jfk's father and had to be convinced to book the younger of the kennedys, some of her anti

dwight eisenhower right now has that record.ce. what they have done to our country... choice. what they have done to our country. . ._ choice. what they have done to our country... former president donald trump — our country... former president donald trump addressing - our country... former president donald trump addressing the i donald trump addressing the large crowd in pennsylvania on the talk of immigration. going live will grant who's also at the rally in butler. describe the scene there for us. well, this is been an image that donald trump would have wanted to project after the events of two months ago. returning to the stage in a bullish mood in the first thing he said to them was as i was saying, picking up his speech from the point it was left off when the assassination attempt took place. he is trying to project an image of strength and fearlessness was what his camp wants to do with just a month ago before voting day and a lot of people have turned up for this. a lot of people have turned up forthis. some a lot of pe

chase smith conducted a televised debate on behalf of presidential candidates stevenson and dwight eisenhower in 1956. on face the nation modeling the famous kennedy-nixon debates to come, she and the senator were the first women to appear on the show. this is after eleanor hosted in new york city mayoral candidate showdown on her own program in 1950, which may have been the first televised political debate. in 59, her third regular television program began airing under the guidance of producer henry morgenthau. the third, sound familiar is the son of good friend eleanor and fdr, secretary of the treasury henry morgenthau jr. prospects of mankind. rand monthly. just before eleanor's death in 1962. once again, she attracted some of the most important political and cultural figures of the era, including ralph bunche henry kissinger, luis munoz, marin edward murrow, julius nyerere, bertrand russell, adlai stevenson, paul tillich and john f kennedy both as senator and president. although she really despised jfk's father and had to be convinced to book the younger of the kennedys, some of her anti

then i would have moved on to other republicans that i revere like teddy roosevelt and dwight eisenhower. so no i look, it's sort of esoteric or irrelevant historical kicking around what could have been, might have been, should have been, but no. >> i mean, maybe maybe somebody maybe i like history a lot, but i mean, i know it's maybe it's an esoteric, but he is running to be president united states. >> and if the model is, if there's a if there are confederate states that have slavery, which are seceding from the union, that should have been negotiated and settled yeah, if it was just a guy in a bar, are having this argument, it wouldn't matter but wanting to be the president noted states, i mean, i don't know, maybe maybe maybe he thinks, maybe he thinks that politicians could have negotiated an end to slavery without the bloodshed. i mean, that would be a charitable look at this, right? maybe they could have settled it and gotten the south to agree to go. but again, look, we're sitting here kicking around things that have happened so long ago and that have long has since been settled

i don't like saying that, the record is dwight eisenhower, general eisenhower, better than -- talk about good president but moderate guy but he has the record for deportation because he could not stand people pouring into the country. i think we will break that record. .. i had to go back, we couldn't find anything because modern-day politicians, nobody had the courage of these original people so we had to go back to 1798 and it gives you the power to target and dismantle criminal operating on american soil you can get them out and there's no problem. [cheering] at least you can't say it's been around for a while, that's something. they come back into our country, ten years jail with no possibility of parole. they come back in, they kept coming back in. what to do it differently. [cheering] you will be amazed. when i was in the white house, we had a lot of people pulling down batches of things. we didn't have time to pass a law, they were getting pretty violent in washington d.c. when they started, i'm not even sure they knew what they were doing but we found a law in the early 1900s, a