eisenhower replied, first, it wasn't heratus but polanis. second, it was the punich war with carthage and third, he misquoted. and then asked why he hadn't corrected the general, eisenhower replied, i got where i did by knowing how to hide my ego and hide my intelligence. i knew the actual quote, but why should i embarrass him? a classic example of leadership is one that you're all familiar with. one that i think cemented ike's place in history of above all the rest. and that was his great d-day decision. i'm sure you're familiar with the fact that bad weather was the one criteria that the allies could not control in june of 1944. and bad weather came, as it tends to do. and ike was forced to postpone d-day by at least 24 hours. the weather was a huge factor. and 24 hours later, it appeared that there was a narrow window of possibility for d-day on june 6, 1944. but there were no guarantees. the weather was marginal. and ike was called upon to make one of the great decisions of military history. whether or not to launch d-day. the lives of 1

i laid out the case for eisenhower, and why i thought he did what he did. and i think, again, that goes a long way to explaining how he worked with allies and with his subordinates, and if you want to sum up the broad front-nair pro front strategy, it's really -- it really comes down to something fairly simple, and that's this. there were american generals, bradley and patton, who thought that we can win the war by doing it our way. you had a british general, montgomery, who thought my way will probably win the war. and eisenhower's view was, we are allies. and we're going to win this war as allies. we began as allies, and we're going to finish it as allies. now you can poke a lot of holes in that argument if it you wish, but what it came down to goes a long way i think, to explaining eisenhower, and the way that he dealt really with people and in this case, how he dealt with a strategy, you know, for ending the war in europe. i don't want to get too far into the monty thing between ike and monty and some of the other problems that hike had with others. som

you mention eisenhower. everybody mentions eisenhower. said roosevelt and truman were part of the conspiracy. >> it is a tidy and intellectually high-powered conspiracy. >> when they were done with milton eisenhower, who was talking about them anymore? >> is there always somebody in this role for conservative groups of being the boogie mmanr the john birch society, what do you need to be their boogie man? >> what they really hate is the idea of governance itself. set aside democrats or even republicans. it's the idea of governance. robert welch, the founder of the john birch society, founded in 1958, the year after the death of joe mccarthy and really founded to perpetuate that idea. democracy itself does not appear in the constitution. >> i know i know this is a bit weird question and maybe a bit sensitive. is the john birch society only be allowed in conservative groups because of death of william f. buckley? >> there was a towsle when he got rid of them. he denounced welch's theorizing that 90% is controlled by the -- >> the founder of

eisenhower and a lot of americans, including british american troops who came into england. it is the size of georgia and all of a sudden a ye

that's why eisenhower's was forced to act.e did not want to act, he was not happy about the brown decision at all and, in fact, the white house press secretary refused to comment on the brown vs. board of education decision. the only other major official who refused was the governor of mississippi, the two people who refused to comment on brown v. board of education. the president was unhappy but as the years went on he realized there was a great deal of a rebellion in some places and resistance and he had to execute the law. so he did send in the military if it was very sad, no one was happy that had to happen. but, yes, he had used the military on the united states soil to enforce the law. >> so what does that mean when people organize the fact they're doing something right in using the courts are supposed to be the final say so or the government and the government itself is fighting to come out what does that mean to particular individuals that say we won a but then again we didn't win because henry not had -- you know, it'

third, 1958, war in the taiwan strait, eisenhower says shut it down or it's gonna go up the stairs. in other words, threatening the possible use of atomic weapons, and he made peace all three times. these subtle or hidden threats worked, and he's given up our ambiguity. >> you get the point about ambiguity? he surrendered ambiguity and that's a strategic ambiguity. >> we live in a different world. we don't live in a bipolar world where we worry about some soviet general launching a weapon from mining. we're waried about some terrorist group. what this president is looking for is more certainty, clearer rules, more engagement with countries around the world. that is what this posture review is telegraphing. the purpose of nuclear weapons in today's world do not make the u.s. or indeed russia safer. they are an incentive for secondary players and rather rogue nations to accumulate them. he's trying to reverse that. you do find some bipartisan pressure now towards his goal of a nuclear-free world. >> monica? >> this change is another piece of efs that this president -- evidence that th

doctrine in 1957 and president eisenhower was very firm about the interference by different countries and different internal affairs of others. since then we have been moving back into the direction of opening up the country to greater participation. his majesty abdulah is very committed to this end we have now found the decentralization of jordan to break it up into what for no other better worded it, sort of some federal unit where local -- the local units would have their own projects and you would be wrecking monster ball to the people in terms of the provision of services. and then we also built build up over time the expertise in the enact the legislation, such that our parliaments can be fully active in this regard. i think there was a great deal of concern when the last parliament convened that they were too many bills that were left unconsidered from the government believed strongly that parliament should at least look at them. if it didn't like them, then it could always return them, but to leave them unattended with something to raise a great deal of concern. so we are movi

somehow they are weak, they are not powerful vote getters and this is an old line that when president eisenhower was run by robert tough to 1952 he was called the general who won world war ii was the candidate of offense by the far-right republicans were isolationists who didn't want to fight in world war ii. republican john mccain for example in the last election was 74% of the vote. that is because he was in the center of the party which is why he is primary it now from the right to read you look at olympia snowe and susan collins. they won decisively in the democratic dominance state to republican senators not because they are week by the extremes but they are strong in the center. declared your wins the election overwhelmingly we're only a few states away rick a very conservative center get his butt kicked. >> mitch mcconnell -- >> the strength is in the senate. for everybody to see. but we have been fed a dumbed down version of politics and the extremes are invested telling everybody their way is the only way that frankly their way of the story. >> the gentleman in a green coat over here pe

navy is a powerful deterrent, and, correspondents greg burke reports, from aboard the uss eisenhower.> reporter: long range missile tests, locally manufactured naval destroyers, and just this week a cruise missile production line. iran is working hard, to project the regime's growing military prowess. tehran's saber rattling is likely aimed at discouraging a strike against its nuclear research facilities but also is making neighbors in the arabian gulf snervous and they sent missile batteries to u.s.

at an apartment complex on eisenhower avenue in alexandria. they were serving an eviction notice when they heard shots inside. that's near the tran tracks. csx stopped rail traffic for about three hours. service was restored just before 6:00 tonight. police say they found the man dead in the apartment about an hour ago. >>> an officer from prince george's county is in the hospital now. he was hit by a tow truck. it happeneded near 52nd avenue. the officer was trying to remove an uncooperative person from a car. the passing tow truck hit the officer accidentally. that officer is said to have leg and back injuries now. the person he is trying to arrest has been locked up. >>> thieves smashed parking meters in montgomery county to get to the money inside. all that work may not have been very profitable. darcy spencer is in silver springs with the story. >> reporter: it's going to cost thousands of dollars to repair or replace those dozens of meters. police are liking for thieves with a lot of change in their pockets. nearly 70 parking meters were

one of the reasons that dwight eisenhower began the trend away from nominating people with politicalnce was the feeling that earl warren on the court was more a politician than a jurist. charles edwards hughes, chief justice of new york. hugo black, a senator from alabama. potter stewart, councilman in cincinnati. some sense of political force. but there is something to be said for that kind of diversity. also the case that the remaining eight went to harvard or yale law schools and the president could conceivably, because she's the youngest on his list, and that matters, nominate miss kagan who is head of harvard law school. >> speaking of diversity. sam, i would like to get you to weigh in on the fact that stevens is the last protestant on the court. the others are six catholics and two jews. you are a member of the suppressed minority. do you think it's important for president obama to consider religious diversity? >> i was dipped in the drainage ditch in rural new mexico at age 11, the baptist church. i don't think today we need to do that. take roe wade. all of the catholics on

government when he was majority leader so he is leading the democrats, the moderate republican dwight eisenhower's in the white house and as a result of that, johnson wasn't really expected to pass the program while he was a leader and said he could kind of pick his spots and decide when to fight and win not, so really what he does is kind of cultivate this image of invincibility by avoiding the fights he was going to lose. and so, again, the portrait that emerges is an important influential leader but not a single-handed kind of dominance. now you can think of johnson in many ways personifying this conventional portrait of the midcentury senate. he is the insider, southern democrat articulating the view that you need to work with the inner club and abide by these norms to get ahead. that raises the question, what is missing from his portrait. and i would like to point to a couple of things. what is this idea of the inner club where you get ahead by keeping your head down and waiting is kind of contradicted both by johnson's own story where he comes in and quickly rises to power, becomes the leade

when resident eisenhower ran against robert taft in 1950, he was called the general who won world war ii was called the candidate of a feminist by the far right republicans who were isolationist who didn't want to fight in world war ii. john mccain for example in this last election won with 74% above. that is because he was in the center of his party which is why he is being primary from the right. olympia snowe and susan collins, win decisively and a democrat dominated state. not because they are weak by being on the extremes but because they are strong in the center. dick lugar went in election overwhelmingly, where only a few states away rick santorum, the conservative senator. >> mitch mcconnell, jd hayworth. >> this strength is in the center for everybody to see that we have been so vetted dumbed down version of politics and the extremes are so invested in telling everybody that there ways the only the only way that frankly they lie and distort. >> let's go to the audience again for question. the gentleman in the green coat over here perhaps. >> i'm andy from brooklyn. >> speak u

eisenhower. a lot of americans who worked very hard to make this alliance is success.oncluding british troops and british american troops who came into england. there was a sometimes confrontational relations between american troops and the british. think of this island. a tiny island, the size of georgia. all of a sudden within a year-and-a-half 1.6 million gi's descend on this place. and many of the people in england had never ever met a foreigner at that point. >> none of them speaking. >> none of them speaking the language. that is very true. the soldiers would complain, i thought they understood english. a thought they could speak english. nothing like it. so there was this great clash of cultures that sometimes is very funny and sometimes dramatic, especially for the british. you know, american gis tended to be young and not surprisingly brash. we are coming over here to save you. the british not surprisingly thinking, it took you a long time to get here. we have been putting up with rationing, axa wow you guys are, you know, being paid much more than we are. you

i mean flight eisenhower went over to london in 1942 with the idea that this was going to be an alliancethe british and american military were going to work together. if anybody didn't they could go home. this actually did send a number of officers of. even though a number of his own generals said this

it will feature 11 gouns from mameie eisenhower to michelle obama, and it really offers a 50-year review of first ladies fashion at the smithsonian. not only do we have a world-class collection at the sitsdzsonian, but we have a world-class staff here and i want to thank them all who put together this exhibit and contribute so much to the success of this museum. [applause] for the past two years, we have enjoyed the inspired leadership of wane cluff, the 12th secretary of the institution. he has made the understanding of the american experience a core theme in our new strategic plan. it gives me great pleasure to introduce dr. wayne cluff. [applause] >> thank you. good morning and welcome to this great museum. this very special occasion for us. a special thanks to all the board members of this museum who helped support its role and to john rogers, the chair, for generous do nation of his time, talent, and resources over the years. the first ladies' collection is one of the most enduring and popular exhibitions at the smithsonian institution, and today we celebrate the newest addition to

government when he was majority leader so he is leading the democrats, the moderate republican dwight eisenhower's in the white house and as a result of that, johnson wasn't really expected to pass the program while he was a leader and said he could kind of pick his spots and decide when to fight and win not, so really what he does is kind of cultivate this image of invincibility by avoiding the fights he was going to lose. and so, again, the portrait that emerges is an important influential leader but not a single-handed kind of dominance. now you can think of johnson in many ways personifying this conventional portrait of the midcentury senate. he is the insider, southern democrat i would like to point to a couple ofhi

overnight construction gone on the beltway near eisenhower avenue. spinning around the beltway in fi fashion. we're good on 66 and 95. nothing on 395 to worry about. good to get to 109. nothing on 95 in and out of baltimore. the baltimore-washington parkway it looks good. aire 4 is good to benchers' force base. good into clinton. -- good to panders bear for . >> we have so many people here to see our famous cherry blossoms. today it would be a great day. the blossoms are now in peak bloom. they are attracting people from all over the world. >> our parents used to take pictures. >> it is so amazing. he wanted to see the monuments and the smithsonian and i wanted to see the cherry blossoms. >> a beautiful day. >> the timing is so perfect. the festival runs through april 11. abc 7 is a proud sponsor every year of the national cherry blossom festival. if you're going, you should go first thing in the morning. >> the earlier the better. >>> 5:12. tablefuls day. a new way to pay for your morning cof carol loves to rescue dogs, and spends a lot of her time

>> well, from hofstra i went to the university of new orleans there in the eisenhower center, continued the magic bus programs. in fact, used natural gas buses and went about 17,000 miles taking students on these semesters across america where we'd go read willa cather in nebraska or steinbeck in california or walk martin luther king's, you know, atlanta or truman's missouri. and so i continued that program and i started doing civil rights bus tours, taking kids on civil rights tours. interestingly enough, i participated in two of somebody else's this year. i went with john lewis on a pilgrimage, a faith and politics pilgrimage where we went. i spoke on rosa parks in montgomery. i went to the selma bridge with john lewis. and then julian bond out of university of virginia runs a civil rights tour and i became the guest speaker of it in new orleans about new orleans and the civil rights movement. the landrieu family, mary landrieu and mitch landrieu who's now mayor and the morials, dutch morial, the first black mayor and mark morial who's the head of the urban league today. so it's refle

so he is leading the democrats, moderate public and dwight eisenhower is in the white house. and as a result of that, johnson was a really expected to pass a program while he was leader. and instead he would kind of pick a spot in decide when to fight and win not. so really what he does is kind of cultivate this image of invincibility by avoiding those like that he was going to lose, and so again, the portrait that emerges is an important influential leader but not a single-handed kind of dominance. now you can think of johnson in many ways personified this conventional portrait of the mid century senate. the consummate insider, seven democrats to articulate the view that you need to work with the interclub and abide by these dogs to get ahead. so that raises the question, what is missing from this portrait? and i'd like to point to a couple of things. one is i think this idea of the interclub where you get ahead by keeping her head down and waiting it's kind of contradicted both by johnson's own story where he comes in and quickly rises to power, becoming leader after four y

you say general to an american and we think macarthur and eisenhower.we think people don't look at all like this. but actually this image has an appeal on the people of north korea. just to make sure i'm not reading anything into these pictures. because north korean propaganda is not so. when they want to make a point they come right out and say it. so they do say literally our great mother, general kim jong-il. that's not all they call him of course but they do call him on occasion father leader as well. he's also been referred to as the parent increasing and also his paternal qualities are at the forefront. he is worrying about whether the soldiers are one of, whether they are eating enough insulin. he is not in educating figure. the party is also referred to quite literally as the mother party. this is the attitude that is expected of north korean citizens. i cry out for ever in the voice of a child. mother, i cannot live without mother. one of the signs that's held up during parades is we cannot live away from his breast, ending kim jong-il. so the

or yellow line is a dead armadillo, you tell them from jim hightower, you trump him with dwight eisenhower is that the middle that the middle of the road is all the usable surface and the extremes are in the gutters. that is a deeper source of strength we can draw on. i think we can take america back from the lunatic fringe because we have the numbers. they may be screaming the loudest that they don't have the votes. they don't have the bodies and there are three things we can do. the first thing we need to do is have orifice declare our independence. we need to get away from this effect the situation applies excusing the extremes on our side because they may be crazy but there are crazies. then we do see the problem. more americans declare their independence and the parties are going to have to compete for their vote. they are not going to be a lot to take them for granted as much. that shakes up the political calculus. party should be panicked about the fact that 40% of the american public has rejected them. they are in denial about it because it is their interest. that is the first thin

. >> where the sports teams -- >> well, it may go back as far as eisenhower. >> well, it's a cool thingell, especially when the college kids get to go, too. >> you know what? especially. [no audio] >> coming up on coffee with, we got done with the interview and we thought, well, this was a nice sit down. brooke is very relaxed and it's actually a kid's movie coming out, but it's a good parent's kids movie. there's truth in hollywood and broadcasting coming up on this coffee with. and all right, we have tv traffic control. and we have first warning weather and more as the morning edition continues after this. ,, the only place that you can find southwest fares on the internet is southwest.com. we're not on travelocity. the only place. what's the other one? we're not on expedia. what about orbitz? no! southwest isn't on orbitz. the only place! let me make this clear. the only place online to get southwest fares... southwest.com. southwest.com! i know. we're only on one website. you want to fly all over. you don't want to browse all over. [ all ] grab your bag. it's on. [ ding ] >>> this i

. >> she counseled roosevelt and eisenhower. >> reporter: she was an organizer and leader with the ywica. she has mapped out a plan for the whole year. this is the seventh year. she has mapped all of the plans. she was the founding member of the service so wrote delta sigma fata and established the black annual reunion on the national mallment. >> she played the role as the glue in the civil rights movement. mrs.height could bring it together. >>> as news of her passing spread, admirers stopped by the negro women building on pennsylvania avenue to pay tribute. this sunday at coppan state university in baltimore the schoolable is announcing an endowed chair in dorothy height's name and renaming the dorothy i. height school of justice. >> she is just such a remarkable woman and i interviewed many times. the last time i interviewed her was the day of the inagriculture race. i was so struck and i know you are too, shawn, with the level of clarity that she had even at the age -- i guess she was 97 at the time, showed no signs of slowing down. >> told her favorite story about trying to get int

earl warren in the 1950s who became chief justice of the most liberal court, the warren court and eisenhower said it was the biggest mistake he made and george h.w. bush with david souder. it's a lifetime appointment so if you make a mistake, it's a big mistake that lasts long after you're out of the white house. >> shepard: president ford says his legacy can stand on this one appointment. he was proud when he gave an interview in 2005. >> that's through, jerry ford's positions changed. interestingly enough, stevens ace conservative principles were the same as in 1975. he stayed the same but the court moved to the right. well in any case -- one of the reasons this is important, look, the president's going to appoint a liberal to replace a liberal but there are certain justices who are deal makers, and stevens was a good politician in the court. that's the way conservatives have been in his ability to reach out to sandra day o'connor and kennedy to get them to be the swing vote to side with them. losing him, even with another liberal on the court, it will not be another john paul stevens. >>

president eisenhower was very firm. since then, we have been moving back into the direction of opening up the country to engage participation. we have a plan at the moment for the decentralization of jordan, to break up into federal units where the local units would have their own budgets and would be directly answerable to the people in terms of the provision of services. and then we also built up over time and expertise in the enactment of legislation such that our parliament can be fully active in this regard. there was a great deal of concern, as the last parliament convened, that there were too many bills that were left on considered. -- un considered. to leave them unintended was something that raised a great deal of concern. we are moving in the right direction. we're confident about that. i am in constant touch with many of the democracy think tanks that are vigilant in this area. we have a very healthy discussion about this issue. >> how do you evaluate the role of china economically in the middle east? >> i wi

right now police are negotiating way man in an apartment tune 4800 block of eisenhower avenue.y have a reporter on the scene. and fox 5 with the very latest. what do you know? >> well, bryan, this is the exchange of firemen, and what we have right now is police in the process of negotiating with the man who is inside that apartment building that you were talking about. this all started at about 10:45 this morning when a deputy came to serve an eviction notice to one of the residents. he knocked on the door, feed himself and then he heard what appeared to be gunfire coming from his side. he called for bac

and president eisenhower was very firm about interference by different countries in the internal affairs of others. since then we have been moving back into the direction of opening up the country to greater participation. his majesty king abdullah is very committed to this and we have at the moment this plan for the decentralization of jordan to break it up into for a better word federal units where the local units will have their own budgets and will be directly answerable to the people in terms of the provision of services and then we also buildup over time and expertise in the enactment of legislation such that our parliament can be fully active in this regard. i think there is a great deal of concern when the last parliament convened that there were too many bills that were left on considered and the government believed strongly that the parliament should at least look at them if it didn't like them it could always return them. but to leave them unattended was something that raised a great deal of concern so we are moving in the right direction and we are confident about that and i

the e-2-c hawkey was returning from a mission from afghanistan in route to the uss eisenhower.e're told the ukraine born pilot was from columbus, ohio. he had served in the u.s. navy for eight years. five people killed in one of the nation's most deadly oil refinery accidents. now as the investigation moves forwards, officials may be looking for prior safety records for clues about what happened. that's ahead. plus, where is wilson. an intense search for missing sixth grader who vanished a week ago. we will talk with the family's uncle about how the family is doing and what they think might have happened. that's come up. stay close. wondering about your retirement plan? who isn't? retirement planning is all questions... how long? how much? how soon? what if? welcome to answer city... td ameritrade's retirement center. i get planning tools, like wealth ruler. strategies. and investment ideas. and retirement experts, on the phone, when i need them. for a little help. or a lot. whether retirement is way off. or way close. time for fresh thinking. time for td ameritrade. hargs hair

there was president eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation way ed hostile nations that the united states reserved the right to retaliate against hostile nations at a place and time of its choosing. there was president john f. kennedy's notion of flexible response. which implied the country was capable of responding to any provocation, large or small. president reagan drastically increased the defense budget. by forcing the soviet union to keep up drove it into bankruptcy. now comes president obama who has turned a blind eye to the lessons of history and embraced a dangerous draw-down in america's defense. the obama administration declared yesterday the president plans to depart from these precedents. secretary of defense gates and secretary of state clinton announced the president will not use nuclear weapons against any nonnuclear state even in the event of a chemical or biological attack. beyond that the united states will not develop any nuclear weapons. our enemies must be rejoicing. it could it be more clear this president's desire to deter enemies pales in comparison to brin

the evangelist has counselled commanders in chief since dwight eisenhower.ent most of his time at home since his wife's death two years ago. >>> the nation is remembering dorothy height who passed away at the age of 97. she was a civil rights pioneer. special celebration was held today at union temple baptist church in southeast. on tuesday height will lie in repose at the national council of negro women. her funeral service will be held thursday at the national ka teed rational and burial -- cathedral. >>> on the national mall a celebration of earth day and a push to affect change on capital hill and in your homes. john legend just one of the headliners lending their voice thought climate rally on the mall. fox 5's roz plater was there and shows us why supporters say the event is important. >> reporter: earth day 2010 is a very different celebration than when this all started four decades ago. for one thing the movement has gone global. the issues are part of our national dialogue and there seems to be a renewed sense of interest. a sea of faces on the nati

although let's remember under dwight eisenhower, it was 91% the effective rate was closer to 60%. nevertheless, i think you could raise it sbomewhat. also i think it's possible if we focus on the part of domestic discretionary that is really public investment, that is infrastructure, education, so forth, separate that out, we don't right now have a separate capital account or investment account in the federal budget accounts, and focus on overall the debt versus gdp ratio, not get fixated on these absolute numbers, but look at the ratio of debt to gdp and get that gdp number up. >> we're not going to get it up by raising tax rates, my friend. that's the thing. i agree that denominator is very important. you mentioned 91%. let me go to jfk. first supply cider in the post war who took the top rate down from 91% to 70%. that was a huge catalyst for the boom in the 1960s, which, by the way, lowered the budget deficit. >> larry kudlow, are you endorsing 70% marginal tax rates? i am shocked at your radicalism. >> i'm endorsing the drop, as you well know, from 91% to 70%. that was the ri

and we've gone back, in effect, to the eisenhower administration's view where the middle east is an area where the united states has problems and israel is in a sum's small way one of those problems. >> do you see the shift as dramatic as you were just describing? because what obama has said and what petraeus' report has said is not israel is a strategic drag. it is that the lack of progress in the peace process is the problem. you know, that we need this process to be energized. otherwise, it is pointed to by jihadis, it is used as a recruiting tool. that's very different from saying, israel is a strategic drag. >> i think that discursively, if you sit down and parse what they're saying, at base, at root, that is essentially the message. far from being an enormous asset, if israel continues to act in a way that antagonizes opinion all over the muslim world, all over the arab world, and in other parts of the world, to tell you the truth. you go other places and say, why is the united states supporting this crazy policy, then it becomes a liability instead of an asset. >> yeah, but at tha

there will be rampant lane closures between eisenhower connector and the telegraph road interchange. it all begins tonight after rush hour. vdot tells us drivers can expect traffic to be backed up as much as four miles which is back to the springfield interchange. if at all possible try to avoid the outer loop in virginia. work expected to wrap up sunday night. >>> so metro passengers had to be evacuated from metro center today because of a small fire. officials tell us that a track insulator caught fire and sent smoke through the tunnel. the fire was put out quickly. and there were no reports of injuries. metro says the system resumed normal operations. >>> family, friends and officers from around our region gathered today to remember a montgomery county police officer who died in the line of duty. derrick ward is in our newsroom with more on this. >> you know, it is a sad inevitably of police work when an officer dies in the line of duty. hector ayala was laid to rest. celebrating the life and service of an officer cut down in his prime. routine familiar. ceremony, drills, practice

infantry school most of the great generals of world war ii and then he also identified and brought eisenhower into the fold and he didn't raise mcarthur said tuesday that he got him out in 1942 and said he was also overseeing the character and identified pac-10 as a great leader so martin was sort of the godfather of the forces of world war ii. and in addition to that almost everybody has heard of the marshall plan and this was 1947 when he became secretary of state. first he was the champion of the war and then after world war ii he became the first ambassador to china and tried to work out a case between shanghai and then secretary of state and as secretary of state he basically hatched in design and sold to the congress the marshall plan which have a lot to do with the prosperity of the western europe from that time on. he was also involved in the berlin blockade and creation of nato and he became very ill and after he recovered he was appointed as president of the american red cross of all things. and he was highly successful. he rebuilt the american red cross. the experience a lot of --

from van dorn to eisenhower avenue, toward the wilson bridge area, be forewarned.headed over to maryland on the interloop. this is no picnic. that's the interloop coming off the american legion bridge. construction takes away the left lane up toward river road today. as a result delays begin well before the american legion bridge back near the georgetown pike. outer loop of the beltway looks pretty good. keep an eye on it and keep you updated. barbara? >> talk to you again shortly. >>> new today, a park dedicated in memory of a murdered teen. diamond teague was a 19-year-old when he was murdered back in 2003. teague was a member of the earth conservation corps, a group whose members worked to restore and clean the river and surrounding areas. in his memory, the mayor and conservation corps just a short time ago dedicated the diamond teague park and marina. the park cost $8 million to build. it's located across from nationals stadium. the marina at the park lets baseball fans get to the stadium by water taxi. teague's slaying is still unsolved. his parents attended

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he was ambassador to southeast asia under eisenhower and i was his executive assistance in those days. then i was associated with robert kennedy having been his assistance when he was attorney general. great friend and edward kennedy was a great friend of ours all those years. then i was appointed ambassador the united nations by president carter so i've had a wonderful opportunity of public service but always in my own life. i went to his funeral, franklin roosevelt when i was a boy. i hitchhiked from rochester, new york, to get there. and my family, my parents were immigrants, working people didn't speak very good english but to them franklin roosevelt was a very good thing. the mortgage, unemployment, social security and then in the warhol land and belgium being innovated it was roosevelt's bringing the allied forces together that meant so much to us. so it was a very personal experience. i got to know mrs. roosevelt quite well in new york politics. she was a formidable force. >> rose: all history writes about the fact that winston churchill's primary aim in terms of prosecuting th

commission on civil rights was founded by president eisenhower to promote civil rights.ay sound self-evident, but let me list some of the recent actions by the commission and commission members. they include, one, testifying against the reauthorization of the voting rights act, to do, opposing the matthew shepard hate crimes bill, and three, opposing legislation to protect diversity. that is the civil rights commission there. as the nation poser chief enforcer of civil rights, -- as the nation's chief enforcer of several -- a civil rights, can you tell me what is happening there? i would also like to talk to about the voting rights act. are those pieces of legislation central to your mission? >> absolutely. in the voting context, we are feverishly preparing for redistricting. senator sessions mentioned some voting cases. i look forward to giving him the full and monopoly of a voting cases that we are -- the full panopoly of a voting cases that we are working on. we are working on a case in south dakota to make sure that people living in indian country have access to the

in later year, she encouraged presidents dwight eisenhower presidents dwight eisenhower and lyndon baynes johnson to she served on the committee of women but the show is a consultant on african affairs and secretary of state. she was on the platform with dr. martin luther king jr. when he gave his speech in 1963. it he winced at that event in 1963. -- mr. conyers was at that event in 1963. she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 1994 and the gold medal in 2004. at the age of 98, dorothy height passed away at howard university hospital here in washington, d.c. i encourage my colleagues to join in supporting this resolution. i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from michigan is recognized. >> the recognize james clyburn for as much time as teammates. thank you four leading this resolution. >> the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. >> thank you. i thank you so much for joining in this resolution. i was born and raised in a small town in south carolina. outside is a little town, the birthplace of their mcleod t. , the founder of the american council of neg

eisenhower. -- republican dwight d. eisenhower. what would the founders make of this extra constitutional record compiled by sitting justices? would they conclude it depicts occasional departures from their process? in a way, recommendation of supreme court nominees by income and justices comports -- by incumbent justices comports with one particular point. the people, as he said, could not select. rather, the executive would be -- with the advice and consent of the senate would apply the proper criteria for selecting. would not incumbent members of the court a better than anyone what qualities their colleagues should possess -- members of the court know better than anyone what qualities their colleagues should possess? here is the final count. three greats, five near-greats, 12 average, 2 below-average, and 2 failures. the distribution skews to the qualitfied. the three rates are 1/4 -- three greats are 1/4 of those in the highest category. how does this square with the theme of athe lecture --

president eisenhower was very firm about the indifference in the internal affairs of other countries. since then we have been moving back into the direction of opening the country's to great participation. his majesty abdullah is very open to this. we have plans for a decentralization of jordan. to break it up into federal units where local unions would have their own budgets and be directly answerable to the people in terms of the provision of services. then we also built up over time and expertise in the indictments of legislation such that our parliament can be fully active. there was a great deal of concern when the last parliament convened that there were too many bills left not considered. the government believes strongly the parliament should at least look at them. if it did not like them, it could return them. but to leave them not attended raised a lot of concern. we're moving in the right direction. we are confident. we are constantly in touch with many of the think tanks. >> have you evaluate china's efforts to play a growing political and economic role in the arab world th

but i've been -- done a lot when i particularly ran the eisenhower center we would do world war ii oral history interviews. and i liked talking to soldiers a lot because it's hard to understand battle from a perspective, one general's perspective. but if you can get a sampling of 50 people -- i, for example, just got back from haiti and i went around with general ken keen, the head of our southern command, and he's a first battalion army ranger. and then looking at the job that our humanitarian army has done in haiti and hearing the stories of different soldiers of what they encountered after the earthquake, the death and the devastation and the famine and the amputations and the tailgate medicine. to just start talking to all these soldiers, my mind said there's only one way to do this, an oral history project on talking to all these guys, making tapes to capture what it was like when the 82nd airborne first arrived and saw this devastation, you know, over 200,000 people killed. >> but where does it go? i mean, where does all this material go and who listens to it and is there a chance

guest: it was during the eisenhower years, not because he wanted to do it. but he like most presidents really thought these weapons should be eliminated. every single president has said that. but it was during a time of intense competition between the u.s. and the soviet union. we had built a bomb in 1945, and used it. the soviets caught up in 1949. that is when the arms race began. in the 1950's it was thought that atomic weapons were the thing to do. we had nuclear death charges, torpedoes, mines. the army even had a nuclear bazooka called the david crockett that would filefire abt half a mile. these were seen as prestigious items, weapons to be used in the normal combat. but the time kennedy came, that is when we began to limit the number of weapons. those that we were applying. the word tends to have arms control talks with russia. there was a limited test ban treaty signed, then in the atmosphere of tests, but no real strategic reductions took place for many decades. host: let's get to telephone calls. we can also be reached by twitter and e-mail. water

fdr did, truman did, eisenhower did, va loans, fha loans etc.. 65% in 1969. something else happened in 1969 and that is california passes and some of you were there probably, for the first time no-fault divorce. california celebrated that by going out and getting divorced in record numbers. in 1970 there were more divorces in california than there were marriages in 1960. in the middle of the country if you get divorced you will a mended and in california gives celebrated. it becomes part of the culture. hollywood had been doing this forever and they had long since left the moral capability of telling people that marriage is good. they long forgotten what jesus had told them 2000 years before, let no man dare asunder what god has joined together. in 1980, though divorce rate in california, for some reason they thought no fault divorce would cause a decline but he didn't. in 1982 you know how many people got divorced in california in one year? 276-- 276,000 people. they solve the problem of divorce records by stopping keeping records. they were so embarrassed b

commission on civil rights was founded by president eisenhower to promote civil rights.t actions by the commission and commission members. they include, one, testifying against the reauthorization of the voting rights act, to do, opposing the matthew shepard hate crimes bill, and three, opposing legislation to protect diversity. that is the civil rights commission there. as the nation poser chief enforcer of civil rights, -- as the nation's chief enforcer of several -- a civil rights, can you tell me what is happening there? i would also like to talk to about the voting rights act. are those pieces of legislation central to your mission? >> absolutely. in the voting context, we are feverishly preparing for redistricting. senator sessions mentioned some voting cases. i look forward to giving him the full and monopoly of a voting cases that we are -- the full panopoly of a voting cases that we are working on. we are working on a case in south dakota to make sure that people living in indian country have access to the ballot. i would be happy to share the full load of cases

eisenhower. -- republican dwight d. eisenhower. what would the founders make of this extra constitutional record compiled by sitting justices? would they conclude it depicts occasional departures from their process? in a way, recommendation of supreme court nominees by income and justices comports -- by incumbent justices comports with one particular point. the people, as he said, could not select. rather, the executive would be -- with the advice and consent of the senate would apply the proper criteria for selecting. would not incumbent members of the court a better than anyone what qualities their colleagues should possess -- members of the court know better than anyone what qualities their colleagues should possess? here is the final count. three greats, five near-greats, 12 average, 2 below-average, and 2 failures. the distribution skews to the qualitfied. the three rates are 1/4 -- three greats are 1/4 of those in the highest category. how does this square with the theme of athe lecture --

president nixon goes into visit eisenhower. nixon says is there anything i can do to help you. the president says yes, get your foot off my oxygen tube. that's how i feel about obama and the economy. who knows what the new tax rates and environmental regulations are going to be. employers are scared to hire. if he were to say i'm not going to touch any regulations or taxes on employers for the next two years we would see a spurt of hiring right away. megyn: this week we got an announcement they are going to have a special irs tax squad that's going to go after high earner. >> high earners are no problem. but what i don't want to see is the foot on the oxygen tube of the small and medium size business. that's vital that we let them thrive. there is nothing you can do more important than saying i'm not going to touch small and medium size business. megyn: he does say that. he says he will protect the small business. >> but he doesn't. small business owners will be subject to the carbon tax and cap and trade. he will go after them in a big way. nothing is more important than givin