and so eisenhower's policy, we have to say, you know, i sound very pro-eisenhower. there are always the law of unintended consequences operates, eisenhower's policies opened the door for military strongmen to rule in the middle east. and at the same time it would not be fair to hang that around eisenhower's neck altogether 50, 60 years later, of course. but never the less, that was a factor. and personally, i have an op-ed i'm trying to get somebody to print at the moment. my prediction is that the military is not done in if egypt. -- in egypt. they've been in charge for 60 years, and i will be real surprised if we don't have either a military officer or somebody with very close ties to the military emerge as the next president of egypt. yes, sir. >> aside from the fact that they were in different parties, what was eisenhower's relationship with truman? >> sir, i don't pretend to be expert on that. there is a, oh, i always fete this author's name -- forget this author's name, there is a book called "harry and ike." that's the correct title. i'm sorry i'm forgetting

eisenhower.ut once again with eisenhower youok have someone who in the,n the what i call the journalistic memory is, was this general who was elected to two terms as president. then just as he was leaving the white house, he had this epiphany that, oh, my goodness, the military industrial complex is very dangerous, so i should mention that and warn before i ride off into the sunset. and i think that's a terrible simplification of eisenhower's thinking. um, not only because, um, it's misleading, but eisenhower, too, had, um, had spent his whole life pondering these questions as roosevelt did. but in the guise of an officer in the army. um, harry truman famously said ike's going to be miserable as president, he's used to being in the army where they, you know, do this, do that, and he expects everyone to jump. that was really not true. truman was one of the most -- eisenhower was one of the most politically experienced people to enter the presidency. he had, he had been, worked for the chief of st

eisenhower loved football. he participated as a cheerleader before his graduation and shortly after graduating he still worked as a small town football coach and it was this football coaching mentality that would affect a later style of management when it was more than a game at stake. brad enjoyed football and he played with eisenhower but his passion was not on the gridiron. it was on the diamond. he had a rockets row of an arm. omar bradley held a west point record for longest baseball for 0. and he had a mean curve ball. his senior year he batted a 383 average. that is a very respectable number that i think any professional team nowadays including our new orleans would certainly value. there was another thing that brought the two young men together, and other trade they shared in common that occurred after graduation that they would mess will war to end all wars. war in europe that so many of their classmates got to fight in. this was a war with a lot of promotion and experience and reputation to those men

administration i'm glad you labeled a problem during the eisenhower administration you don't have that now we have we have removed regulations that were in place during years and capitalism was never meant to be completely without regulation adam smith talked about the invisible hand this idea that this is you know suddenly this free open market will really because there's trying to not believe that there's you know there's interest that completely hold on to markets and then there's been a narrowing out of allowing small businesses to thrive in that there's been a disproportionate amount of support to large corporations as opposed to you know the middle class and i think that this isn't exactly the capitalism that you know that we had signed up for as a country you know i hear i hear george's positions and points of yours there and it almost seems like the left and right in america are talking past each other and and like you know we've we've got our own you know there's fox news on the right and m.s.m. b.c. and others are. current on the left and different websites and so are we are

under the republican eisenhower administration. in a way that as we invested in this infrastructure it brought about a renaissance in america it grew our economy substantially and as a consequence of that and by the way as a consequence of that there was an enormous amount of economic activity that could be taxed and the tax rate throughout the i is it republican eisenhower administration when we got rid of this debt was ninety one percent on an income over what in today's dollars would be about three million dollars a year and boss people like the banks in the c.e.o.'s and said ok i'll take three million dollars and after that leave the money in the company and so c.e.o.'s made thirty times what average workers make an average workers actually made a good wage and you have an economy that works what are people in particular the republicans what are they going to just look at their own republican history and say oh yeah ok we can do this we can we can grow our way out safely. and the war on drugs so says a high profile panel of exp

debt so when eisenhower came to the presidency the debt i mean we we were as or more in depth and we are right now as a percentage of g.d.p. so did he cut anything you know i mean no country has ever cut its way to prosperity and say what he did this is threw money into programs like the eisenhower highway system schools hospitals and look at all the buildings around in every city in america that were built in the one nine hundred fifty s. and and the g.i. . bill the bees sent people to school they sent people to. well schooled they actually paid them a stipend they backstopped home there was a housing program or you can buy a house and the consequence of this was that we grew our way out of that what is the basic building blocks that were at that other countries are now and the end during that time the top tax rate in the united states was ninety one percent so you know if anybody said and corporations were paying thirty five percent of the total tax load it would total tax input into the federal government right now is about seven percent has been paid for by corporations during th

book eisenhower 1956 about the days before the 1956 presidential election. in three hours we are back with more of the 2011 roosevelt rating festival. mario dinunzio with fdr's new deal legislation. after that susan dunn discusses prison roosevelt evers to change the democratic party. in about five hours from now greg robinson presents his book, the tragedy of democracy, japanese confinement in north america. that is followed by the final event of the day, discussion between pulitzer prize-winning presidential biographer james macgregor burns and presidential historian michael beschloss and susan dunn. that is all from the 2011 roosevelt rating festival. and now todd moye on his book, "freedom flyer" roosevelt, eisenhower and the american century.th .. >> hello. i am the museum curator at the franklin roosevelt presidential library and museum. wait a second. i would like to welcome you to the eighth annual roosevelt reading festival. i would like to welcome c-span's booktv which is broadcasting this program this morning. franklin roosevelt planned for the ro

republicans in terms of the left we don't even have to look at germany let's look at the white eisenhower in the republican president during during the time of america's arguably greatest growth rate after world war two eisenhower was president from fifty two to sixty five my recollection is right and during that period of time we built this great country and we. came and we were coming off world war two with one hundred twenty six percent of g.d.p. debt so when i said our came to the presidency the debt i mean we we were as were more in depth and we are right now as a percentage of g.d.p. so did he cut anything you know i mean no country has ever cut its way to prosperity and say what he did is threw money into programs like the eisenhower highway system schools hospitals i mean look at all the buildings around in every city in america that were built in the one nine hundred fifty s. and and the g.i. bill they sent people to school they said people it's too. well schooled nate they actually paid them a stipend they backstopped homes there was a housing program or you could buy a house an

host: his question about eisenhower?: eisenhower, without question, was very much determined to keep south vietnam art of the hands of the north vietnamese -- out of the hands of the north vietnamese and the communists. that was the starting point of our operations. host: golden, colorado, kathy. caller: i am interested in the historic view you are sharing. jobjust said the press' is to get us the truth. most of us are aware that -- we were glued to the media before the invasion of iraq. i can hear the four weapons inspector questioning the validity of the intelligence -- former weapons inspector questioning the validity of the intelligence of the bush administration. i would, turn on the wouldlike m -- i would turn on the mainstream channels and not see any questioning. you could go out on the streets and the american public does not even know how many people in iraq have been dyed -- have been injured, died, or been displaced. i do think that has serious moral and spiritual implications. has the press become less about

did actually get a very prominent order to in order to maintain you know eisenhower campaign slogan was one hundred fifty two when he ran. the president he had there was a great t.v. we've played it here before he had a it was an elephant walking across the stage a cartoon of an elephant beating a drum and the other word peace on it and the slogan was vote for eisenhower vote for peace he was p. pleasure to be happy and the war in korea the absence of war doesn't mean the proliferation of peace across the globe sometimes war establishes peace now you have a defense secretary robert gates who's leading the bomb ministration who was quoted by both the public the democrats saying that we shouldn't be cutting and running at a time when we're pushing the taliban on their back foot so i don't think the republican candidate we'll. daniel saying you know go to elect obama in so far in saying establishing to get is considered ron paul position is immediately withdrawal prime. foreign policy address just a few weeks ago and he made it clear in. the middle east is changing. america needs to. g

republican president dwight eisenhower said about new deal government programs back in one thousand fifty four as a letter he wrote to his brother he said should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history there is a tiny splinter group a few texas milloy of millionaires and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas their number is negligible and they are stupid the reason why eisenhower felt that way was because franklin roosevelt restored the good name of government after it was dragged through the mud in the one nine hundred twenty s. by the republican party and their business interests you see today's government bashing is not new for republicans they played the same card ninety years ago we three republican presidents beginning with warren harding in one hundred twenty and ending with herbert hoover in one thousand nine hundred two when one one harding one the presidency in one hundred twenty his campaign pledge was this is

war two we got out of that five years how do we get out of that good old fashioned republican to eisenhower poured money into a high national highway system into employment into the g.i. bill giving people free college giving people free government subsidized home loans and boom we grew our way out of that economy we want that you want to play these risky games i mean there's nothing risky because these editors are working the term called black swans where we don't know these type of financial crises arise and if you want to get up to that border thinking that you know we always want head around cut and then you have another crisis and we're you know we're greece or we're ireland read michael lewis's recent accounts from greece and ireland you travel he's probably the best financial probably best nonfiction writer there is out there it's scary we should be taking proactive steps to reduce our debt now thank god you know you don't know but you know right it really is meaningless you know the federal government thinks it can function differently from regular house i mean you know if if. i hav

there were some americans including some in eisenhower to including dwight eisenhower himself, who hadpretty serious concerns about eisenhower. mainly that he was a communist in the making. but many found it to be quite charming and certainly charismatic. after a few days in washington castro took the train to new york city. from the moment he arrived at penn station where he was greeted by 20,000 people, he had a grand old time ago he went to the top of the empire state-building in the shake hands with jackie robinson. he went down to city hall, went to columbia university. having lots of fun in new york city where the policemen who were assigned to attack him because there were all these assassination plot surrounding castro and these were reported in the press every day. none of these turned out to be real but the police didn't know that and castro was completely impossible to protect. he would throw himself into crowds hugging and kissing people with no concern for safety. one afternoon on a whim, he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed, federal agents followed and ne

is that's what eisenhower warned us about but i have to say it's not just money it's also prestige it's also the institutional interests of the military not. awning to be tagged with the loss of afghanistan wanting to get the credit for at least having been close to victory and then being able to argue that well was the white house that took it away from them and that it's the politics of the national security state written large which include certainly lots and lots of money but also the prestige of the the fact that you can get more manpower more missions more roles if you can have a war going on and within the military people get promoted a lot faster absolutely or than absolutely that's a big part of the. jury for. ended the vietnam war and yet he's not remembered for that he's not condemned for that even though he arguably had he been a democrat i'm sure they would have said lost the vietnam war but he basically just pulled the plug in fact i believe congress put the plug to stop the funding for what congress did reduce the funding and what happened was of course the ne ne's had a

collections and it's it's just it's really a very straightforward all you all we have to look at eisenhower the top tax rate was ninety one percent he was spending money like crazy building bridges and schools and hospitals and roads and the eisenhower highway system and we grew our way out of the great depression and we could sort of look at this for the california we just talked about if we have high taxes telephone or not is limited by the by the initiatives that are put in by the right wingers and therefore they they can it takes a supermajority pass tax increases and. if they don't need to pass they would have gigantic taxes not very much about the federal government which decided they didn't need to pay for. this is that ok and paul stepped in this week after saying on the sean hannity radio show that muslims should be thrown in prison if they attend a speech that rand paul doesn't like. approach people on the color of their skin or on their religion but i would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might have to indirectly take into account whether or not the

and the schwarzman is in these multibillionaires paying tax rates like they used to do under the eisenhower years so he left the big guys alone and it's very clear why he did because these are the cats that fuel the campaigns for both the democrats and the republicans and all the cuts that they're softening about are going to fall back again mostly on us little people well as warren buffett does make more than a two hundred fifty thousand dollars that's what i'm saying but he's not talking about taxing them at the eisenhower rate they're they don't they are left alone and he's bringing in the middle class as those that or the upper middle class as those who should be taxed more so this is just rhetoric what he's really talking about and again the six hundred pound gorilla in the room is the pants are gone and hey you can't do it say anything about that because as i said before the business of the united states is war not business all right errol flynn say director of the transit research institute writing in from new york. all right from the united kingdom to greece one thing is clear we're

so eisenhower had no idea who she was. and they began chatting, and at one point they began to talk about washington, and she said, you know, general, i used to live in washington. and the general said, really? where? [laughter] eisenhower was quite embarrassed by that. but francis, to her credit, agreed with keane that there should be an account published of what happened on the oneida. so keane finally broke the embargo and published an account of the operation in, of all places, the saturday evening post. now, you think he would go to a medical journal to talk about this amazing achievement in american medicine and encology, but instead he decided to publish anytime the saturday evening post. i interviewed a couple of pathologists researching the book, and i said, you know, why do you think keane did this article in the saturday evening post, and the pathologists said, it's like all doctors, he had a big ego, and he wanted everybody to know. and the saturday evening post was the most popular periodical in the country, s

the side of organ how do we profile in the cold war we have to the nixon cuts ok that have to the eisenhower cuts they were the reagan building we had put reagan built up stopped in eighty five when they tell you he's in the lead and we've been living off it ever since we have you know we have that army general in the back that well he did that did live off the reagan building and look how well good luck and you know one of the great they don't allow the way they live and money. in the past that doesn't get us in the future if your roof fall down and you don't like the contrary work on your roof you still have to rebuild your real life already your military going to do it we can't live on a ring of military because that's not what is up there where you get only we don't know you may not be able to under the reagan military we may not be able to deliver under very busy time for it's as you are of course what a fight for change we are out of time a very exciting discussion i think we're going to have you back for the full half hour next time thank you so much it was it was up there lawrence ko

track goes up ok that's a measure of what you can do you can't buy perfect security back in the eisenhower administration we spent knife percent of g.d.p. on defense the marginal tax rate the highest tax rate was ninety percent you want to go back to that ok you know and if you want to spend more imagine going to have to work tax more you know a lot of folks don't want to you know they say if you increase taxes that's going to slow down the economic economic recovery or days you can look at what your competitors do you know during the cold war we spent you know eight or nine percent the soviet union up to forty percent of their g.d.p. and that's what led to their own doing they overspent on defense if you put in constant dollars what we're spending right now it's higher than on average in the cold war and as you were you know lead in show you know we count for almost half of the world's military expenditures and so i mean this is what you gotta look at what do you competitors doing ok in a cold war the competitor was a of the super top al-qaeda it's not going to be defeated militarily goin

eisenhower in the 1950s. it was 91%, the marginal tax rate on the very rich. what happened? we didn't slow down. the economy grew dramatically. with that kind of marginal tax rate on the very top, it meant the disposable incomes of people in the middle and at the bottom, given the kinds of public investments that those tax rates at the top allowed, given that we could as a nation do so much more than we are doing now to open the gates of opportunity, given that we could actually build the economy from the bottom up, it men that we grew at an average rate of over 3.5% a year during those very prosperous years. since then, if you permit me to finish quickly, we've seen marginal tax rates drop dramatically. we've seen the economy slow and we've seen the rich get richer and richer, to the point they're now claiming over 20% of total income. this doesn't let the middle class purchase. it robs the middle class of the purchasing power we need to keep the economy going. >> david? >> well, i agree that taxes are at th

(laughter) >> stephen: who can forget when general eisenhower knocked on hitler's door and said hey, adolf we're landing at normandy, here's a warning shot, ding dong you bastard. and then our boys stormed the beach at normandy with bells around their necks. (laughter) >> stephen: didn't see that in saving private ryan. and for those who say it is implausible for revere to have ridden a horse while ringing a bell and firing multiple warning shots from a front loading muss ket, all i have to say is, prepare to eat historical reenactments. here we go. (cheers and applause) yes, all right okay. okay, got that right there. there you go. just like that. see, i got my powder magazine. actually two different types of powder. okay. put that in there. okay. i got my musket. (cheers and applause) get in there get in there. okay. first we insert a farting to accurately-- a farthing. hey, hey british! you, you the british are coming, here's a warning shot. okay. now to warn the next town the british, that they are on their way, i just have to reload, just have to-- . (laughter) okay. that's good

my agent called and said they are sending you this because they want you to play general eisenhower in the lead up to d- day. i said what are they thinking? i just never thought i would be excepted in those kinds of roles. when i read the script, i knew the ending, because everybody knows the ending of the day, but it moved me. it was a big risk. you are playing a historical figure, not ferdinand, king of all of spain. you are playing a pretty contemporary figure. i think the saving grace was, most americans remember him visually as the older gentleman who was president. in world war ii he had a gift for a building coalitions, but he was also a bit of a bulldog. so i had some stuff to go on, but i could not wear a mustache, and i had to shave my head bald and bleach my hair great. it was during my scalp and i did not know if it was really worth it. the other thing that was a risk for me, i did not want to do an imitation. i think too many actors try to look exactly like them or imitate them. it was better than christopher columbus. tavis: i never know where these conversations are goin

president eisenhower was warning against in his farewell address in one thousand nine hundred sixty one where he invented the phrase military industrial complex meaning hidden power power that was not really under the supervision of congress that. and that was often out of control represented private interests rather than the national interest i'm sorry to say that we in america did not pay attention to the warning he gave it gave to us and today it's close to out of control. in the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil every day more than any other country far more than any other country the u.s. department of defense alone consumes says much petroleum is sweet and does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured day in day out three hundred sixty five days a year. to safeguard the oil the united states must have some capacity to protect it and in this country that job has been given to the military. and the military must have bases naval bases air force bases and army bases in the areas where the oil is located or along the supply routes. if you look a

. >> charlie: he didn't get the appointment from truman or eisenhower. >> no, that's true.nd the relationship that he had with hoover what was the problem? >> i think hoover saw the oss invading his territory. and he had carved out -- when you read doug's excellent book, you usually are appalled how far hoover went to destroy one. i how much the american people reads it because i think it's a very important lesson in democratic see. >> hver thought donovan's over assessment of amateurs and in the beginning it was a collection of amateurs. hoover spied on donovan's oss reporting to him. dawn man spied on hoover's fbi. he had moles in hoover's fbi portg to him. i wonder when they had time spying on others when they were spying on each other. >> donovan was appointed as -- >> he was. >> charlie: how old was donovan when he died. >> 76. he died very tragically too. in fact ambassador was at his side when he died. he side of arteriosclerotic atrophy of the brain. it's a very severe form of dimension and the brain shrinks in size. severe form of alzheimer's. he was at walter reed

first of all, start off south of town on the eisenhower connector. an accident with the center lane getting thru. you can see the slow traffic because of it. let's take you over to the west side of town. on the outer loop of the beltway, you'll have to trust me on this one. things are looking good at river road. it's a little bit slow at the dulles toll road. now to another map. the bw parkway is not looking too good. an accident affecting nasa with authorities on the scene. it's two vehicles involved there. now a commuter alert for you tonight about some work along i- 95 in virginia. crews will be doing some milling and paving in the northbound lanes in woodbridge and that will be between exits 160 and 161. two lanes will be closed between 9:30 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. that's tonight. the work will continue through thursday night. so head's up there. derek, back to you. >> thank you so much, monica. our good friend would call this chamber of commerce weather. nice, sunny, not too humid, but all good things must end. >> yeah, this is a really great night t

but someone like dwight eisenhower, even john f.ennedy, very, very reluctant to line for more reasons. it is a form of behavior that is actually quite detestable. the fact is that when you are dealing with the edge national politics and if the security of your country is on line you will not hesitate to lie, not because you're an evil person, but because you do what you have to do to protect your country. that is really what i'm trying to get in this book. >> host: examples of people line for personal leaders -- reasons? >> guest: no, i made it clear that i was not ripe to consider those sorts of cases. there are certainly lots of them. i have been on a few radio and tv shows or president clinton about the mike gillespie affair. people have asked me how i think about that. i say that is the case of a leader line basically to save his own skin. that doesn't fit the category of lines. i'm looking at what i call strategic lines which are lines that leaders tell up for what they think is the national interest. >> host: one more exam

general dwight eisenhower gave the go ahead for d-day, the largest military amphibious mission in history. the operation was a success but hundreds of brave men lost their lives in the battle to free europe. >>> it is now 4:38, 65 degrees. ahead on news 4 today, the cute little critter blamed for knocking out power to 1,000 people >> how a miracle plane caused >>> up to nowitski. nowitski spins. miami pulls on and takes game 3. >>> well, the miami heat are back in control, i don't know if you can say that, of the nba finals. nowitski fell short, losing 88-86. miami leads 2-1. game 4 tomorrow night in dallas. close game. still pretty close. >> that's right. so tomorrow will be another thrill i bet you. 4:41. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. the latest on our workweek forecast. how is it looking, tom? >> looking pleasant. another day with not a lot of humidity. more sunshine throughout much of the day as well. off to a cool start. these are the temperatures around the region. mid-60s to low 60s throughout most of the area. upper 60s in washington and near the bay. and we have the vie

out of the -- to run dwight eisenhower oust o out of the ren party. in more recent time, the republican party has spearheaded scientific discovery and innovation that's created millions of high-value jobs. i know my time slimented. i just want to mention a couple of it was the federal government specifically the defense advanced research projects agency called darpa that created the internet. no, i'm sorry, my young friends, it was not google. and it was not microsoft, although bill gates built a great empire. it was the federal government that created the internet. making possible everything you get from e-mail to social networking, dimension tweeting, and the world wawide web. this has revolutionized wait we do business and has created untold millions of jobs. it was not a private company. it was the federal government. amassing the money that people pay in taxes to create the internet. federal researchers at this same agency also created the global positioning satellite system, g.p.s. when you get in your car, you think garmi nivment invented that?

if pawlenty ever became president, eisenhower kennedy, and nixon would all turn over in their graves.es what he means is to lower already minuscule taxes for the rich. this way, the shrinking middle class will become serves and toil on the land to grow food for those deserving. that would be their wealthy master. jane in minnesota, a fairer tax system is a good idea but t-paw's idea of that is more trickle down economics, a theory that results in upward wealth redistribution. i live in minnesota. i've seen tim pawlenty, the ex-governor, in action. the rest of the country can look at the shape minnesota's in, billions in deficits and all this economic genius did was kick the deficit can down the road to the next governor and legislature to deal with. ken writes, 10% and 25% tax rates sound good but they don't solve the $63 trillion unfunded federal liabilities. getting elected and solving problems are two different things. if politicians want to solve the debt problem, they need to go after wall street. a simple 1% tax on the $700 trillion derivatives market, a penically tax on all sto