that is the logic of eisenhower.either party is addressing this. >> which european country live within their means? >>two are beginning to do it. in a markell germany has done in a markell germany has done rather well -- you markell's germany has done rather well. donea merkel's germany has rather well. they have a constitutional amendment or they can only run minor deficits. they have lived up to that. they have done very well. the other country is a david cameron's of britain. they cut 25% from department to department. margaret thatcher could only dream of this. it is radical reform with austerity and it is fascinating to watch as they can pull it off. both of those countries have done well to fly -- follow this eisenhower dictate. the bond market stopped attacking the pound after david cameron did this. people believe he is trying to reach those numbers. that takes courage and honesty about what can be afforded. that is a totally different way of doing business than in america. we have not had to make a strategic

it's about eisenhower's farewell address? >> yes. >> another thing i learned in washington is it is almost impossible to lose your job in a think tank. it's not the real world. i worked hard at it. but in the real world it's really easy to lose your job, and if you look at the numbers, the pew numbers about what the elites think about foreign policy and what average people do, it's the greatest disconnect in 60 years. two quick numbers. the second most popular way to tackle the deficit, 26% of the people say cut defense spending. the number one area that needs to be fixed, washington. 36%. >> and you just almost can't be fired. we live in a world with other powers. if you just describe and are inoffensive and play the game, i know almost no one who has lost their job. the only one i know is my co-writer on the left. for writing the book with me. it is really difficult if you just go along with prevailing winds, not to have a wonderfully secure life. i understand the value, i'm not belittling that. to do what we did was not an

to eisenhower started in ninety one percent top tax rate did two things we want less and inequality and it did by the way we were far less well then than we are now every c.e.o. made thirty times what the janitor does now it's anywhere from five hundred to five thousand times as much money in history and to eisenhower felt that having that high tax rate would discourage wild speculation by c.e.o.'s and encourage them to keep money in their companies and we went for forty years of that top tax rate for the first time in the history of america since george washington without having a bad pain panic within a fifteen year period so was john f. kennedy wrong when he cut the marginal tax. he actually raised taxes and he talked about that with nixon in the nixon kennedy debates incursion go back and listen to the kennedy talk about how he was one of those guys who was supposed to pay the night a percent tax and nobody paid it we're paying forty fifty sixty percent as are so many loopholes he wanted to close the loophole and raise it up to seventy four percent he actually actually he didn't do

for peace vote for eisenhower was a slogan it's just it's it's really quite remarkable. congressman rangle we have just just a few seconds left very quick question i got a call from a dear friend on satellite phone from sudan today two years ago we did our show from sudan on the border with north sudan and are for should we given that we're now intervening in countries should we go after bashir i mean he's a he's a water war criminal in the hague. well i you know you have to go to defense the you certainly don't have to go to the office of management and budget because budget is off of the table even for discussion when you're talking about war but we have to determine whether the humanitarian relief which we all would like to do whether we're prepared to pay for it not only in dollars but to pay for it and their lives about young men and women who actually do the dying well we had a once that doing did that collaboration see here in washington so i can see it so we we go i know we quando we missed some major opportunities. to do the humanitarian thing but i don't know w

act look at the one nine hundred fifty six republican party platform and white eisenhower was running for reelection it reads like something the fox news would call socialist propaganda champion champion organized labor unemployment insurance environmental protections and federal health care assistance even republican richard nixon who less than forty years ago created the environmental protection agency fought for an employer health care mandate and kept the tax bracket for the wealthiest americans at seventy four percent it was put the way when nixon was vice president it was ninety one percent for eight brawly years that he was vice president and nixon was just fine with that so it was eisenhower anyhow those guys nixon. eisenhower they're far closer to the democratic party of today than the republicans are today michael in his letter to me went on to talk about what pushed him over the edge he wrote a one word stimulus for my opinion it was wisconsin what happened to me was simple i'm a retired teacher from the new york city high schools where calls ronald reagan's eloquent charac

eisenhower they're far closer to the democratic party of today than the republicans are that. michael in his letter to me went on to talk about what pushed him over the edge. he wrote the one word stimulus for my of if any was wisconsin what happened to me was simply a retired teacher of the new york city high schools recalls ronald reagan's eloquent characterization of the teacher as a merican his finest but he announced in august one thousand nine hundred four his goal to put one on board a shuttle mission he was talking of christa mcauliffe as for. what i observe now is a crusade against my profession by republican governors senators congressmen and presidential wannabes egged on by the angry voices of radio and the poison pen writings of the internet and print media. they see nothing less than a glorious opportunity to move in for the kill on all of organized labor. it's a pity that the tea party composed mostly of working folks as emerged as a group of useful idiots in support of policies that will ultimately be their own undoing. conservative power elites must be rolling

about the senate but my recollection is that during the eisenhower years average import tariffs in the us it's were around twenty percent or in that neighborhood and that they really didn't start dropping until after nixon or or am i missing well there's a number of shifts if you look at the at the numbers the big fundamental decision was made after world war two when we not only cut yeah when we not only cut our terrorist but we removed various other barriers and we have applied various other policies like for example the marshall plan to rebuild foreign industry so they have the ability to produce goods that they can export to us kind of a reverse of that hearse place right and it's an understandable political decision at the time but the reality is that by about one thousand nine hundred sixty europe had recovered from world war two japan was well on the way to recovering and the soviet economic challenge to the world that had at one time seemed like a serious threat that pretty much petered out so we really should have pulled back at that point but we didn't the policy had become e

stocked their cupboards over the years and still have some antiquated paper and pictures of dwight eisenhower and things like that for social studies. most of the schools are living day-to-day. restore the school's security aides. but we have been asking you that all year. restore instructional days as soon as possible. we are lingering with furlough days. we would like to get rid of them for next year. people are transparent and open about showing the plan for the use of jobs money and other money that is coming in. you have over 3000 signatures not just from the teachers or the parents, but from the school community. they are there in spanish and chinese, these are parents and teachers, employees, professionals that care about what is going on. president mendoza: thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i am also very happy to hear about the rainy day fund coming through. it is rare to say that things are so bad that we qualify for money, but that is where we are. the reason i come here tonight is to talk about the lay off. i agree with superintendent garcia that we are going to have some

eisenhower was incoherent, and ronald reagan in the memorable words was an amiable dog. that is with the media has presented. now, if you are a black republican are you absolves? not all. you go from being a sacred cow to being hamburger. is describing what his reputation was, man of the accomplishments, an opportunistic black conservative who sold out his race, the republican party, and was ultimately rewarded with an affirmative action appointment to the nation's highest court, is an intellectual lightweight so insecure that he barely opened his mouth and oral argument. ba that is what they told clarence thomas. they aren't racist. of course not. but david remic in describing rock obama's opponent in 2004, the smartest guy i've ever stood next to and the most eloquent and prompted person i've ever seen. he described him as be -- [applause] -- a demagogue fool. now, david remic describes obama with the terms brilliant, intelligent, or smart more often in his biography of obama than walter isaacson did the subject of his most recent biography, albert einstein. go back an

dwight eisenhower, will he happened to oversee the most successful in the military warfare.ronald reagan, after being called it turned out in 2001 they published the book ronald reagan in his own words. he had written his own speeches before he was president especially in the speech from 75 to 80 and when the republicans either intelligence, coherence and a systematic, they were smart. he won the cold war. now if, gerald ford of and probably the best athletes from all-american football player, champion skier, golfer, here's what chevy chase had to say. he's on the first season of saturday night live when the campaign against it and gerald ford and jimmy carter was in progress, chevy chase said later i wanted carter in and ford out. and we're reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it. do we think that tina fey had more motives in her weekly slander sarah palin? i don't think so. now has for the democrats, are the as smart as they appear? in 1956, with a little help from joseph kennedy, a little from joseph kennedy he won the pulitzer prize for the profiles in c

you know, i've been covering congress since the middle of the eisenhower administration, which really sounds like sort of paleozoic times now, and i thought i knew a lot about how congress operated, but it's different when you go back and do this kind of retrospective reporting where you say to people, "now that you've finished the markup in the ways and means committee, i'd like to try to understand what was going on in the caucuses there." because i saw what was happening publicly, but i wasn't, obviously, in those closed-door meetings. "this is not for use immediately in the washington post. this is for a book that, if you will, is an effort at history of this thing, and i'd like to know through your eyes what was happening in those closed-door caucuses." that's a different kind of reporting from what i had done in the past, and there were any number of surprises: very prominent committee and subcommittee chairmen who were nominally trying to move this process forward, but were actually so opposed to what the president of their party had offered that they were quite willing to see

have corporations who are paying about a third of the total of the federal government during the eisenhower administration up and about seven percent it's a disaster i remember in the sixty's we have ninety percent tax rate yeah yeah right up you know what you're not a rich people didn't seem to bother him and we had a strong middle class james thanks so much for me to see you great to see you great to have you with us democrats in wisconsin may have a few tricks up their sleeve as well today was consonants took to the first steps to recall eight republican senators who favor walker's anti-union legislation sixty days to collect roughly twenty thousand signatures and senators district to force recall elections if they can dump just three republican senators and the democrats to take back control of the state senate was constant and put an end to walker's ideological war against you it's. still out of the big picture fox news unfair and completely unbalanced when it comes to this bit more creative reporting . matters lindsey lowe and keep. the preaching that these women young people are seei

this is seven percent i believe thirty percent tax rate on the wealthiest one percent carrying eisenhower all the way up to reagan was much higher than it is now and i would say a lot of people with a gold in the home of john f. kennedy. the son of the middle this is not only say john f. kennedy made it clear that it's a paradoxical truth that when you lower tax rates you increase tax revenues because you allow businesses to have that many more dollars to hire that many more people which contributes that many more dollars which is i assume he's a large each of the evolutional is going to mad marty and any ministration insurers who worked in the reagan ministry the reality is that what if the majority of american workers looking right now they watch wall street tank their economy and them on main street. really should use you know get ready because you do you know first of all again let me recommend that you go back and actually i know the identity yeah usually it's ninety to seventy i would gladly want to show you that is because we can make them to make sure they sure as long as army is

less historically it's been as high as ninety and ninety plus percent percent through most of the eisenhower administration right temple how serious is the problem of wealth inequality in america and what do you think that your bill will do to solve. well i think wealth inequality actually is a problem that's more vexing even the debt and deficit problem that we face and we all agree we ought to do something about that the reason i say that is you cannot have a vibrant economy if you don't have a vibrant middle class they we have to have people who are going to go out and buy stuff people who are actually going to make stuff and make it in in america we can't live as a low wage economy we should live as a high wage economy and so this income inequality is a threat to our economy and then also tom to our democracy it is not good when the top one percent of americans control thirty four percent of all the wealth more than the bottom ninety percent who control twenty nine percent it is skews our whole democratic process as well it is amazing eighty one percent of americans chris paul are mentio

take on this is that is that there is a populist revolt in america that corporations during the eisenhower administration are paying thirty percent of the cost of government right now at six point six percent that's insane and that's brought up the tea party and that's where you know it was consonant eventually those people are going to get together and whichever party starts talking to them is going to start winning elections a bit more and you know i'm hoping as the democrats you're probably very you know america the twenty first century is bringing back debtor's prison score to the wall street journal people who can't pay off their credit cards can be thrown in jail in a third of our states and since that heart started two thousand and ten over five thousand arrest warrants were issued in just the nine counties in the wall street journal looked at against people who owed as little as a thousand dollars in credit card debt the situation is so out of hand in indiana that police are falling behind on executing arrest warrants for actual dangerous criminals because they're so bogged down wi

this begin in the republican party this whole notion this certainly wasn't the republican party of eisenhower this wasn't identify with the night it this is this this is a this is a whole new if in fact it's not of the order it's either now or the want to initially criticize it remember the military industrial complex he was so concerned about. this this you know there's always been government contracting obviously the government doesn't build its own battleships and stuff like that with a few exceptions. but the under president reagan they appoint something called the grace commission and by the way this all comes from the it's not that you are race yeah that's right. he was the chairman of it and this all incidentally goes back to the concept of the government being broke this is always the trump card and conservative in conservative governments is that we're broke we have to do something about it and here's what we're going to do about it which is basically eliminate your programs but at the same time do these wonderful things for our constituents you know for billionaires for the military

bankrupt ourselves we will bankrupt ourselves spiritually and physically and that's what dwight eisenhower said not very i learned thank you so much for joining us tonight and of course one of the questions is is libya even in our vital interest perhaps our bahrain syria these other countries are thank you the region secretary. but now coming up next as joseph mccarthy come to wisconsin i told you about republicans attempts to use a freedom of information act to read the e-mails in one professor who spoken out against governor walker and how many more are being targeted by conservative think tank and is the united states providing the tools for internet censorship abroad all of all pledging millions of dollars to fight if we're going to break it all down the rich. get some closure see the story and the scene so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some of the part of this and realized everything you saw. i'm sorry this is the. year that we had in apartheid. i think. one well. we haven't got the live shows here very safe getting ready because their freedom.

eisenhower once said farming looks mighty easy when your plow is your pencil and you're a thousand miles away from the cornfield. this weeks reminds us to bridge the gap between plowing fields and passing laws. my home state of montana, agriculture is the heart and soul of the economy. in montana agriculture is not simply a livelihood, it's a way of life. growing up on a ranch outside of helena taught me the values of hard work, faith, family, and doing what's right. values i try to bring with me to work every day. 50% of montana's economy is tied to farming and ranching. 50%. and one in five montana jobs is tied in some way to agriculture. it's our number one industry. each year montana ranchers an farmers produce $3 million of the highest quality agriculture goods produced anywhere in the world. as a nation, we are blessed with a safe, affordable and abundant food supply. our farmers and ranchers put food on the table around the world and help create good-paying jobs here at home. every year the average american farmer feeds 155 people worldwide. while agriculture stands in the spotlig

we're not even maintaining the eisenhower legacy. come on, let's get real. now, unfortunately on the republican side of the aisle, they've adopted an arbitrary rule, no new revenues for anything. now, they ought to rethink that. let's think about capital budgets. you build a bridge, it lasts 100 years. we could justify borrowing money for that, maybe we could justify raising some revenues to pay for that, perhaps from the oil companies, who knows? and put a lot of people to work and improve our infrastructure. but that's a nonstarter so far, i hope that changes. if we look at this as way to put america back to work, to make us more competitive in the international economy, we should be talking about rebuilding our infrastructure. . it's the last place we should cut and some have been proposed and made in transportation. that's not where we should be cutting and those who advocate further cuts are wrong. this is a trust-funded program. the program itself, 96% of the funding in this extension comes from the gas taskes every american has paid, diesel, every tru

nasser at that point, at which point he broke every promise he made to eisenhower.e situation seems to obtain now in egypt where they immediately allow two iranian gun boats to come through the suez canal and they are also planning to open up the palestinian, the gaza egyptian border to more missiles for the hamas and what have you. i also remember president kennedy's famous ult mate tum to the serve yet. any attack from cuba or the united states or any of its allies would require a retaliatory attack on the soviet union. i am a great believer in pots americana. i believe that we haven't used any of our strent. we really are the paper tigers there because when they blew up the marines in 82 in bay route we left and of course gave hezbollah this opportunity to claim that they had thrown the americans out and the same thing with the shah when he left. why can't we tell the al qaeda din jad and -- ahmadinejad and the mullas and the ayatollahs and whatever any more attacks anywhere would be considered an attack from tehran and require retaliatory attack? and stop this,

look at president eisenhower's national interstate highway system in the 1950's. by today's standards, you couldn't build it. it wouldn't happen by today's standards. but the fact is that more than 30% or 40%, maybe 50% of america's productivity came as a consequence -- increases came as a consequence of the building of the interstate highway system, not to mention billions of dollars' worth of spinoff jobs and tax revenues to our communities. we're still living off that inheritance. we are living off the infrastructure investments of those who went before us, and today china is investing 9% of its g.d.p. into infrastructure. europe is investing 5% of its g.d.p. into infrastructure. the united states, just about 2%, slightly less. that's what we're doing. so that we have a $2.2 trillion infrastructure deficit. mr. president, what we haven't been discussing in this debate is what we need to invest in, a coherent strategy, a policy to make certain that we're not held hostage to oil and instability in the middle east. the united states could become the first country

they were a letter to dwight eisenhower asking for my parents' clemency referring to a guy in czechoslovakia an american named otis who had been freed because his wife wrote to the president of czechoslovakiaa and so the things i heard, mr. otis was let go of jail, please let my mommy and daddy out of jail. that was manipulative because i didn't know know who this guy otis was. the point doctoro was making that political movements often ignore individuals and often engage in manipulation. it's just the way he chose to dramatize it very, very dramatic and, you know, pretty disgusting never happened. in the real world, it didn't happen. so interestingly my brother ticked off as hell. me saying, well, you know, i'm not sure it matters because it's a detail. that's an interesting question. >> i don't think -- i think it works and that's what matters. it makes you feel something. it's okay that it makes you maybe feel angry at the old left in that moment. i think that's okay. >> what about real -- the real world? the manipulation, though? i wonder if there were times and you wondered or have wond

relative to 2010, all that would bring domestic discretionary spending to the lowest level since eisenhower. those are critical steps. we need to move beyond domestic discretionary spending. we proposed a budget that puts it beyond that course. >> that raises my next question. i fundamentally disagree with that. when will the president or the administration lead on changing our fiscal course? i truly believe what has been announced so far has gone completely hand in terms of the markets which are ultimately -- gotten panned in terms of the markets. ultimately they are the most effective judge. that would impact the consequences we take down the line. >> i do not agree with that. what the president proposed in his budget is a series of detailed changes to our resources and our commitments to reduce our deficits from 10% of gdp to around 3% of gdp, which is at the level which you stop our debt burden growing as a level of our economy. that is necessary for fiscal sustainability. it does not solve the problem for decades. but it is the minimum thing that we need to do. we see that as a first s

it has been since eisenhower they have played against each other in the post season.rfinals tonight at usf in the collegeinsider.com tournament. rex walter's squad going for their third win of the season against santa clara and he is spreading the word about this game on twitter. >> my wife gets really upset at me sometimes. i will tweet some things that she is like i just don't know about that but i like to do that, i like to talk basketball. i like to brag about our guys because i think we have got an awful lot to brag about. i'm in one of the greatest cities in the world. at a great university. so i've got a lot of things to talk about. and the referees don't like me talking to them so that's the way i kind of get my conversation out. >> got to publicize it somehow. >> a role model. can help a lot of people with that message. >> coming back at 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com

lisa, she helped me with the book, we both started with president eisenhower who did not have a bone in his body, operated like clock work, and when president kennedy came along, the world lit up, but, gosh, -- >> what made you decide to write about your experience after all this time? >> there were very few of us left anymore, and we decided that it was time to share our story because history today is slanted towards cottage industry of conspiracy and over the past 47 years, there's not been one solid piece of evidence, so the agents decided we better get our -- excuse me, we better get our version of what happened, and that's why the book was written. >> we're going to come down and talk to clint hill, part of president kennedy's detail. can you share with us one of your stark memories of being on president kennedy's detail? >> unfortunately, i was there at the time of the assassination. i was responsible for mrs. kennedy. i was in the follow-up car and witnessed the president being shot and tried to interseed to get to him beforehand, of course, i was unable to do so, so i saw eve

he had closer ties with some like eisenhower and nixon. he was a modernizing authoritarian weak vacillating. >> rose: so even at the height of his power he was weak and vacillating. it wasn't just here in the end when he was sic as well as when he was faced a three that he couldn't comprehend? >> well, that's the complication of his character. no mosaddegh era he is exactly that weak and vacillating character we see in '78. when he feels empowered, as he does in 1974, he has no problem making decisions. it's the kind of authoritarian personality, weak and vacillating when they feel weak and overriding and bullish when they feel strong. the shah had exactly these two aspects of his personality he could sit as he literally did behind the table and order the country to become a one-party system and to the absolute dread of the u.s. he increased the price of oil, he began a nuclear program that the u.s. was not in favor of but then three years later he wouldn't drink a glass of water without first asking the american ambassador whether it was

eisenhower, the economy wasn't very good when he got the interstate highway system which really opened this whole country up. you can go right back here. we always talk about the eerie canal which was done in tough times or the railroads which were built lincoln's time. those were the things that really changed the country and to not -- the equivalent of those thing is investing in the schools. like these guys talked about, it's in investing in getting companies, the high tech companies to come here and invent new things here. >> investing in the future or are you going to stay in the past. >> so as mayor bloomberg said, yes, you have to run the city, yes you have to balance budget. >> charlie: yes have you to make hard decisions. >> yes, every day but you always have to be looking toward the future and you cannot december mate -- dessimate the place you're taking today down the road. these tough times will not last forever. >> charlie: you have to build a solution for the future which costs money today and you call that an investment. >> absolutely. >> partisanship can get in the way

in the 1960s, president eisenhower was given a rare white tiger as a gift. this tiger, mohini, was sent to live in the national zoo in washington, d.c., where she was put into a 12x12 cage. for years, mohini lived in this cage, pacing back and forth in a continuous figure eight. and then one year, the zoo decided, "well, let's build mohini a more natural habitat: several acres of trees, hills, a pond, and grassy areas." and do you know what happened the moment they put mohini into her new beautiful habitat? well, she ran to a far corner by the wall, marked off a 12x12 square for herself, and stayed in that square, pacing until she wore the area beneath her bare, for the rest of her days. this is classic conditioning. you and i are exactly the same as mohini. based on our conditioning, we have created invisible cages for ourselves that we have not been able to break free of. now, people who are pretty good achievers may exist in cages this big. most of us pace off an area of life that's just about this big. and too many of us exist in cages just this big. but

second a former president eisenhower made a speech that came close to being racist. from that speech of course as today, the hooligans took over. they berated the press. they use of language that i could not repeat in calling names of the press by name. in fact, one very famous correspondent was arrested and taken off the floor that night. soon, the attention turned to lewis and i. and we were there, and lewis was a man of steel nerves, i called them or at least he was a really great actor. so he said we will not be driven out. so we took our time packing our dear, because now we are surrounded, there's no security, we don't know what to do. then they started throwing things at us. we still worked at a normal pace, got our gear together, started our walk down that long ramp to get down to the main floor. and by that time things were getting a little hot because we could hear bottles hitting the floor that were being thrown down the aisle. as we were going and one bottle got close to my head, people asked me how can you come after all these years, remember this? and i

february i said we should find ways to get rid of him using the kind of strategies that reagan and eisenhower used which was to help freedom fighters by using american force. that became impossible once the president publicly said gaddafi must go. so she said, this is march 7, four days after the president said gaddafi must go and my answer was the context of if gaddafi must go, you establish the zone, but notice immediately after i said it, you take steps and you need to get rid of it. i'm against a no-fly zone if it's 90 or 120-day or six-month experience of the truce. the goal should be to get rid of gaddafi. that should be communicated publicly so gaddafi forces lose the morale. it should be unequivocal. you can't find any unequivocal statement anywhere that gaddafi must go. in fact the alliance is saying this is really humanitarian, it's really not directly, you know -- >> chris: okay. enough of the past. >> okay. >> chris: and the february greta show versus the march greta show. if you are president gingrich and speaking to the american people as president obama will be tomorrow night,

that cuts discretionary spending down to a share of the economy that it has not been since dwight eisenhower was the president. and then he said, look, once we do that, that's all at one another and agree that is only 12% of the budget. that is not what the problem is. if we want to hold hands and together in a bipartisan way think about the aging of the population in the acceleration of healthcare costs, think about the tax rates on high- income people over the long run, let's do that and a bipartisan way. but let us not continue saying that the problem is runaway discretionary spending, because that is 12% of the budget, and we are running a deficit in 2010 and 2011 because of the business cycle. growth is going to be a key component in getting the deficit down. before the financial crisis, that deficits may be free% of gdp. it goes up to something like 11% of gdp. most of that 11% is from the business cycle. getting the business cycle reversed is critical to getting it down 4% or 5% and getting from that to primary surplus, it has to get -- come from cuts. but growth is fundamentally impo