and so eisenhower's policy we have to say, i sound very pro eisenhower. there are always unintended consequences. eisenhower's policy opened the door for military to ruin the middle east and at the same time it would not be fair to hang that around eisenhower's that altogether 50 or 60 years later. nevertheless it was a factor. personally i have an op-ed. i'm trying to get someone to print it in a moment. my prediction is the military has not done anything. they have been in charge 60 years and i will be real surprised if we don't have a military officer or somebody with close ties to the military emerge as next president of egypt. >> aside from the fact that they were in different parties what was eisenhower's relationship with truman? >> i don't pretend to be expert on that. i always forget -- there is a book called harry and ike. that is the correct title but i am forgetting the author's name. i am an old guy. part of my brain remembers names has died. i get caught with that sometimes. it was not an easy relationship. having said that, truman chose eis

eisenhower was an optimist. he may not have overestimated the common sense of america but certainly overestimated that of one or both office. born in greasy creek arkansas which i love saying, he had been raised a socialist. is middle initials stood for eugene is in eugene debs and throughout his compass to his career in politics he regularly had to fend off charges that he was a leftist of one kind or another. in 1957 what that man is he knew to prove he was tough on the issue of integration. henderson by the standards of the 19 50s have little rock had done a fairly commendable job in trying to adhere brown one and brown two. soon after the course decision to little rock school board submitted a desegregation plan to the local federal federal district court judge ronald davy and he approved of. it is a gradual plan integrating the school slowly over a decade but is satisfied they the requirements of desegregation with all delivered speed and it was moving forward until they arkansas legislator and governor fat

eisenhower was not among those moved. he elected to receive brown not as a triumph or or as a fulfillment of a constitutional right. he regarded it as an order. the supreme court has spoken, he said at a press conference two days after the ruling was handed down, and i'm sworn to uphold the processes in the country, and i'm trying. i will obey. so began the struggle for the meaning and effectiveness of brown. brown was solid in 1955 known as brown 2 allowing brown 1 to be implemented with all deliberate speed, a recipe providing for much deliberation and press little feed, and given that room, many of the south concocted ways to delay and defie. the south was encouraged by the impression that eisenhower himself had reservations about brown. as they experimented with the resistance, the court demanded its own insistence as the court changed and ranks were filled with appointees. john on the bench in 1955, william brennan in 1956. eventually potter stewart as well making for five justices that ike put on the court. despite

eisenhower said really? where?only then francis identified herself as the former first lady and eisenhower was quite embarrassed. she agreed with team that there should be an account published in 1893. and so, that followed 1917, finally broke the embargo and publish an account of the operation of all places the saturday evening post. you think you would go to a medical journal to talk about this amazing achievement in american medicine and oncology, but instead decided to publish it in the saturday evening post. i interviewed a couple of pathologists and said, why do you think this article in the saturday evening post and not some journal of medicine in the path allah just that it's like all that airs, heated a geegaws wanted everyone to know. the saturday evening post is the most popular periodical in the country so that was the place to brag about your achievement. but he also did it to vindicate edwards. the account came out and it did 24 years after the fact after he wrote finally edwards reputation as a truth

eisenhower said really? where?only then francis identified herself as the former first lady and eisenhower was quite embarrassed. she agreed with team that there should be an account published in 1893. and so, that followed 1917, finally broke the embargo and publish an account of the operation of all places the saturday evening post. you think you would go to a medical journal to talk about this amazing achievement in american medicine and oncology, but instead decided to publish it in the saturday evening post. i interviewed a couple of pathologists and said, why do you think this article in the saturday evening post and not some journal of medicine in the path allah just that it's like all that airs, heated a geegaws wanted everyone to know. the saturday evening post is the most popular periodical in the country so that was the place to brag about your achievement. but he also did it to vindicate edwards. the account came out and it did 24 years after the fact after he wrote finally edwards reputation as a truth

eisenhower said really? where?only then francis identified herself as the former first lady and eisenhower was quite embarrassed. she agreed with team that there should be an account published in 1893. and so, that followed 1917, finally broke the embargo and publish an account of the operation of all places the saturday evening post. you think you would go to a medical journal to talk about this amazing achievement in american medicine and oncology, but instead decided to publish it in the saturday evening post. i interviewed a couple of pathologists and said, why do you think this article in the saturday evening post and not some journal of medicine in the path allah just that it's like all that airs, heated a geegaws wanted everyone to know. the saturday evening post is the most popular periodical in the country so that was the place to brag about your achievement. but he also did it to vindicate edwards. the account came out and it did 24 years after the fact after he wrote finally edwards reputation as a truth

eisenhower considered it rather differently. eisenhower also was very much president and he saw himself as the decision maker, but he placed a much higher value on a regular weekly meetings of this high-level committee. the f to sweat every key was in town there was initial security council meeting, and they would typically consider these policy papers, which has been labored over by the various agencies, as i said the earlier, policy papers to be anything from overall defense policy to policy toward thailand a yugoslavia or somewhere. and then there would be basically a decision in the form of a paper issued by the national security council staff saying this is our policy until further considered. so eisenhower thought it was a good idea to have. he love think that when it was a crisis. really follow a decision. ludicrous would be different fellow but the thought having faced the issues together was good. he says it -- he is believed to lens said plans are worthless, planning is everything. >> host: well, what to the role of th

he respected eisenhower.h a figure in the world that john foster dulles reluctantly made him an ambassador of the eisenhower administration so that in his travels throughout the world he could efficiently represent the united states. a difference between the democrats and eisenhower wing of the party were the republican party or the taft wing. if my father had been president, you probably would have had the new frontier and the great society accelerated. medicare, federal aid to education, other social programs might have taken effect earlier. as it was, much of it did not take affect until after the assassination of kennedy when johnson shrewdly -- i remember consulting my father. what is your advice? my father was taken back. he was very flattered. he said, i guess you should take some time now to put your program and administration together. he said, this is my moment. within 100 days, the program was through congress. since the 1952 campaign. little had my father won in 1952 or 1956. >> i think he has it

spearman what was the eisenhower then created? >> you wanted to have a glow were and despite what are the basic policy approach to the major issues and major parts of the world. as we put it in much more basic defense posture, policy towards committees by the department get together and draft documents that were essential d.c. stuck to fund meant. preside over this meeting. it was created by the national security act of 1947 and it is established to give -- the people the pushed it wanted to constrain the president by forcing him to meet with his cilluffo advisors before his made decisions because franklin roosevelt made decisions the way he wanted to and they didn't like that. now president truman was pleased with the national security council was created us law. it's part of the act of 47 but he wanted to constrain him. he said there is no committee. we are not the cabinet system therefore when it came time to have a meeting he convened the meeting and invite all the people basically handful of people, defense etc., and then the

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named for a class of 1915 graduate, general and later president dwight eisenhower, eisenhower hall isthe largest theater ins america, designed to hold the entire corps of cadets. so let's get right to it. here is the west point band in the hudson holiday concert, performing holiday presents. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jon: we have much more of the hudson valley holiday concert as the special continues as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the united states military academy. but as we take a quick break, here is the west point cadet glee club singing "mansions of the lord." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i couldn't concei this as a heart attack. the doctor leaned over and said to me, "you just beat the widow-maker." i was put on an aspirin, and it's part of my regimen now. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. go see your doctor now. >> jon: glad you're with us. i'm jon scott on the grounds of west point to bring you the sound of the west point band. the academy sits on plateau, overlooking the hudson river. location chosen in 1778

you wrote a letter to president eisenhower: "dear mr.enhower, i am nine years old and i am white. but i have many feelings about segregation." why did you write that letter? >> i wrote that letter because i was in a community that was segregated, in which blacks and whites were kept apart. and i looked around and i thought, "hey, everyone in my school is white. if i were a black person, i couldn't come to my school." and i thought, "this isn't fair." >> susie: many years later, faust was able to dig up that letter at the eisenhower library. it was meaningful for her and not just as a historian. >> i was proud. i felt, "wow, i was more of a person at nine than i am now." and am i-- how can i be worthy of that nine-year-old who took this very dramatic stand and saw so clearly. and i-- i worried, "do i see as clearly now? do i speak out in the ways that are important? and have i lived up to that nine-year-old?" >> susie: four years later, faust headed north to attend concord academy at the time an all-girls school. >> it was wonderful. ( la

. >> during the eisenhower administration, the decision was made to create the interstate highway system. eisenhower didn't really care whether you drove a cadillac or a ford or whether you drove for a commercial reason or for a personal reason. the idea was to connect the nation. today, it's digital. is there that kind of a will in this administration to connect the nation? is there the kind of will that says, "what we want is a grid that connects america without regard to who uses it or what they use it for"? >> aneesh chopra, can you answer that question? you're the president's chief technology officer. >> well, in this example, the president has been absolutely clear. we need access to broadband across all of america. the private sector has been the engine of the investment here. we're talking anywhere between $50 billion and $60 billion a year in private capital to build the connection points for us to connect on the internet. the federal government in the economic stimulus package is making a modest contribution to this effort, roughly $7 billion in capital. >> what specifically ar

eisenhower who did not treat her terribly well.he state rooms, and she said they look like bad convention hotel. there was a reason for that, which i'm not sure she knew, which is when the white house was reconstructed during the truman administration, they left the four walls on the outside, scooped out everything on inside, the floors and so on, they ran out of money so harry truman quite characteristically made a deal with a department store in new york, they just furnished the whole ground floor of the white house, and it looked that way. [laughter] she felt a day. by dick is absent the right, because sometimes the restoration of the white house of written off as pure declaration or just sort of superficial. she had to raise this money, which was not easy. she had to keep particularly to the three to five architectural advisers from the essentially collide with one another. and so if anyone doubts her political skills, the factious able to do all this, get it in on time, under budget, and for the white house to look the way it

dwight eisenhower comes into office in 1953.donovan thinks he has his best chance to become cia director. eisenhower was republican. thought a lot of donovan's work. instead the eisenhower makes allan dulles as cia director which deeply disappointed donovan. he thought dulles was going to screw up the cia. dulles had been a station chief. donovan's station chief in switching. had done a terrific job. ironically does not donovan had done a lousy job of running the oss and he could have run that agency better. so, let me end it there. we can talk about his life afterwards or anything else you'd like to discuss, his legacy, what you see today among the cia. [applause] >> yes. my name is max gross. i read quite a few books about the oss, and about donovan. one thing i've never understood and you didn't bring out yourself, there was no intelligence oversight committee. i've never known congress' role regarding the oss. and how did he get paid for it? >> good question. on the first one, whether there was any congressional oversight of

>> i would go back to the eisenhower rate. you know what eisenhower was taxing people out? 70% to 90%. you want to go back to a rate where there is a supertax on the very rich and millionaires. you want to get rid of the loopholes. look at the capital gains tax of 15%. we are taxing work the barely taxing wealth region but barely tax and wealth. that is the wrong priority. -- we're taxing work but barely taxing wealth. the robin hood taxes an idea whose time has come. radicals light nicholke nicolasy and angela merkel have a tax on currency transactions that would bring in $350 billion a year. some of my heroes are the nurses of this country. national nurses united heal america. tax-loss >>> there are a slew -- tax on wall street. there are a slew of good things that 1%ers are for. >> he is not really offering of a lot. >> he is talking about being taxed less than his assistant. there is a group of patriotic millionaires. it is the belief that you owe backe to a country that has helped to make you what you are. steve jobs -- we had a tough column in the last issue. it was t

so, president eisenhower was a very wise and experienced man. i got from that, the importance now, prove yourself in your positions to awareness and vigilance. i did not keep having to just to pay attention. this last battle reflected on that in many ways. it made me think that earlier this week, monday and tuesday, we had a meeting down in the sand kruger area. it was on what we call in the nuclear >> we can help with people. >> people and the nuclear film cycle. join me. we had a group of economists that were worried about regulation. curious who wondered about public perception. i might say implication, and if you do not pay attention, it is hard. in the nuclear area, we had a submarine there. i heard about that from wrecked. i guess at last in the discipline of how you handle it. -- its last in the discipline of how you handle it. use of the importance of people being alert. putting safety at a high priority. there are people that are completely insistent that you do it. his influence continues. and any rate, it was fantastic and a little bi

he stake makes the decision to t toites enlawyer. -- to ic eisenhower. and that is good ethos. >> there was a whilehat coolloin either or. >> the mill dr military convers. it's not just the military that does that but religion dogs that glorchlts. >> the two stukses that pro sys. there is a constant sense of building leadership. >> you see people at the ceolevt four people that may succeed me. i jaw will just saw use this asa toast. the woman was at ibm and she was among three orour that had a chance. i have a froarchld o mine she has a phrase that is at stake. what she means by that when you are making a decision is it about yourself he i esteem are t stakes or is it the subject matter you are talking about. when you challenge the decision or the youth digs they are challenging s themselves. >> ssome people are at stakearod defensive. some are not in shape. be . >> people are experts at selfext pressive people were sphra strac self deceivers. >> they thought they were bettee beer. basilly they didn't think about them seferls at all. themselves at all. y

jim mitchell, labor secretary under president eisenhower. he said he had the president's ear, and, two, he would not mind coming down the hall with a bottle of scotch. i should add maybe if you can put this off the record, i can do both. they became close friends. nixon seriously consider the labor secretary as his running mate in 1960. especially after working behind- the-scenes on the behest of president eisenhower with secretary mitchell who played the public role on some of the steel strike issues that were current at that time. i am sure they will be touched on today. his personal intervention trying to help settle the bitter 1969 steel strike one him considerable and the reluctant respect from labor. with the election of jfk and then all the p.j.. with the arrival of the great frontier and great society. it seemed like the traditional alliance was solidly cemented. union leadership and the money lined up behind the democratic standard bearers. in 1968, richard nixon's opponents hubert humphrey watched his presidential campaign with a s

eisenhower was a very great general.but he said without question the greatest general ever in the united states was u.s. grant. he said if you wouldn't have been u.s. grant, they're very likely would not have been one united states. i thought that was the ultimate compliment. >> i do too and i think it's coming from a very gifted military historian. i didn't happen to know about that exchange, they certainly buy into it. i know jerry has something to ask me. anybody else? >> andersen generally made application for restoration of citizenship and grant never acted on that. >> would have been to that is extremely interesting. i wrote in a new book called lee: the last years a long time ago. what happened was he did do that. they got pigeonholed, literally in an office in washington does not rediscover it for more than 100 years in the name interestingly enough happen to be general forward. so he did do that. but i don't know how much difference it really made since he'd grant protecting him every inch of the way. and in a s

he said eisenhower was a very great general, but he said without question the greatest general ever inthe united states was u.s. grant. because he said if they wouldn't have been a u.s. grant they're very likely would not have been one united states. >> i concur. >> i thought that was the ultimate compliment. >> i do, too. it's coming from a very gifted military historian. i didn't happen to know about that exchange but i certainly buy into it. i know jerry had something to ask me. anybody else? please. >> do i understand that generally made application for -- grant never acted on that? >> what happened to that, extreme interesting. i wrote in a book called lee, the last years, which was a long time ago. what happened was he did do that. he got any pigeonhole literally. was not rediscovered for than 100 years, and the man who restored it happened to be gerald ford. so he did do that, but i don't know how much difference it really made since he had grant protecting him every inch of the way. and in a sense almost protecting his reputation after his death. that's another very good questi

and then eisenhower and anybody else. and asked after the war and then alexander or macquarie and how did you rate? it depends on the task. but marshall had to do entirely different from macarthur which is different from patton which was different from eisenhower. who knows? each man came to what he ought to be doing. >> anybody else? >> anything you could speak where was grant or reaction to the assassination? >> a very interesting question and then going into details of my book, he was taking his wife to a house that they rented in new jersey. stopping at the station to switch trains the career came up and looked at the telegram and he went white and julia said what is it? he said the president was shot but don't act as if a thing as happened and nobody has known that i will get you to the house but then i will go back but he was supposed to be in a box with a wink and. now with a grant later said comment he was a very muscular guy and he said i wonder if i could have stopped is the man from doing it? or captured him or

eisenhower said really? where?nly then francis identified herself as the former first lady and eisenhower was quite embarrassed. she agreed with team that there should be an account published in 1893. and so, that followed 1917, finally broke the embargo and publish an account of the operation of all places the saturday evening post. you think you would go to a medical journal to talk about this amazing achievement in american medicine and oncology, but instead decided to publish it in the saturday evening post. i interviewed a couple of pathologists and said, why do you think this article in the saturday evening post and not some journal of medicine in the path allah just that it's like all that airs, heated a geegaws wanted everyone to know. the saturday evening post is the most popular periodical in the country so that was the place to brag about your achievement. but he also did it to vindicate edwards. the account came out and it did 24 years after the fact after he wrote finally edwards reputation as a truthf

on eisenhower i think said the plan is worth less. planning is everything and the plan is worthless because the na -- >> one of rumsfeld's rules. >> it is a rule that i quote from someone more intelligent than volume. >> with full credit. >> indeed. but it's true every time you try to do something for every offense or defense, for every defense there is an offense and if there's a constant change that take place on the battlefield, i think that we are unlikely for a period of time to end up with the kind clarity we had in world war ii because of the nature of the world we are living in. it is asymmetric, it is ever changing and it is clear to be a challenge for our leadership. it's come to be a challenge for our country. but the growing lethality of those weapons -- what president bush was faced with when he made his decision on iraq was there was a study by johns hopkins university called dark winter and if my memory serves me correctly, a series of experts got together and they said what if we took smallpox and put it in three locat

and then dwight eisenhower. opposed to that were the conservatives, mid westerners, many of them isolationists who rallied around bob taft. he was a son of the former president, ironically who had precipitated the split in 1912. his father had precipitated the split with teddy roosevelt. that never really healed. when republicans took congress, it was the conservatives who became the face of the party. on the other hand, you had people like thomas e. dewey, many of the governors who were much less cost out to the new -- much less hostile to the new deal, much more willing to work with its promises. >> thomas e. dewey is our contender tonight. he ran for the presidency, he lost, but he changed history anyway. here he is launching his campaign in 1948 and the criticism he has of the truman administration. >> on january 20, we will enter in a new era. on january 20, there will begin in washington the biggest unraveling, unsnarling operation in our nation's history. >> what do you make of what he says there? >> that

he stake makes the decision to t toites enlawyer. -- to ic eisenhower. and that is good ethos. >> there was a whilehat coolloin either or. >> the mill dr military convers. it's not just the military that does that but religion dogs that glorchlts. >> the two stukses that pro sys. there is a constant sense of building leadership. >> you see people at the ceolevt four people that may succeed me. i jaw will just saw use this asa toast. the woman was at ibm and she was among three orour that had a chance. i have a froarchld o mine she has a phrase that is at stake. what she means by that when you are making a decision is it about yourself he i esteem are t stakes or is it the subject matter you are talking about. when you challenge the decision or the youth digs they are challenging s themselves. >> ssome people are at stakearod defensive. some are not in shape. be . >> people are experts at selfext pressive people were sphra strac self deceivers. >> they thought they were bettee beer. basilly they didn't think about them seferls at all. themselves at all. y

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eisenhower a five star general supreme commander of the allied forces two term presidents a republican at that hardly what you would call in those days a pinko liberal and warning the american people that the military industrial complex is taking over the country does anyone need any more proof than the bill that you just talked about and the one that i just talked about this is unprecedented in american history and but why are we seeing that and why are we seeing more money being pumped into the military and not more money being spent on job creation i mean what does it say about about the priorities well that's what i'm saying the military's taking over the country just now i did say it just as general de white the eisenhower warned follow the money how could america be in all of these foreign countries and as you pointed out now expanding in so australia as you know look what's going on a detroit they're going bankrupt look what's going on in the bronx in cincinnati in st louis hey how about taking a couple of walks away from d.c. over there and walk into the ghettos if you want to

it is about dwight eisenhower.he went trick or treating on halloween but his mom won't let him that he has a huge temper tantrum and punches a tree in the front yard and cuts the skin off his knuckles and his mom sense into the room and he cries for an hour and he goes up and she goes up and finds his land and give some band-aids and whatever and says to him, quote the passage that he who can carter his own soul is greater than he coup can conquer the city. is all about being aware of the temper and danger and weakness we have in ourselves and the need to get that under control. 76 years later eisenhower says this was an important moment in my life because i realized i had to control my weakness and be aware of the problems i have, struggle against them. that is a great lesson for people. has for the integrity of the people in washington. it is easy for me to write a column but for the people in government they have to organize a coalition. they need to build severe limits on what they can do, one of the hard thing

he fought to the nails on eisenhower on the first civil rights bill in 1957 -- two-and with eisenhower on the first civil rights bill in 1957. they were trying to deny black children the rights to go to school, to integrate schools. it was republicans who were trying to do the civil rights thing. that is enough about that. so, definitely, eisenhower does not get enough credit. lyndon johnson got who was guarding against civil-rights in 1957, -- lyndon johnson, who was fighting against civil rights in 1957, gets all the credit. my favorite politician right now -- i have several of them. it is the tea party members. i have one especially that i really like. he is my favorite. it is not paul. it is not some of the other ones. it is not my representative. it is one allen west. all the people down south are not the racist homophones that we are made out to be. west is a champion. he is a 1 and under -- is a 100% black man. he is the best. i wish he was the president. i would feel a lot safer. host: more regarding the war in iraq. from "the houston chronicle" -- that is the lead story in thi

eisenhower's conviction was that no department should run the process. this would be difficult for the other departments to accept. it led him to propose that the chairmanship of the committee should be in the white house. that should follow the various points of view. this is how it has been maintained. the process depend on the personality of the president to, how he prefers to work. of course, on the attitudes of the various cabinet members and the security -- that is the outline. as it emerged -- actually, in its present form. that is how it was evolved. this is how it evolved. >> there was a real continuity. a lot of people talk about how divided we are, in national security establishment, there is a continuity. do you agree with that? >> the national security council is established in statute. congress set it up in 1947. its only has four members. the president, the vice president, secretary of defense, and secretary of state. it is given a general charter to coordinate all aspects of foreign policy. that is all that is said. the question is what s

eisenhower, patent and kane and others that the marriage as great heroes. these men took leadership positions and roosevelt wisely stuck with them. >> i am with the heritage foundation. with the wars in iraq and afghanistan we're familiar with the concept of suicide missions. in your research did you come across any fascinating in affirmation of the kamikaze pilots it and how they carried out attacks and elsewhere? how much of that was a departure of conventional warfare about war should be conducted? >> for the japanese culture to be a prisoner of war that is the worst thing you could do. death was preferable to be a prisoner of war. there were rumors after december 7 that the kamikaze pilots were used but they found no evidence of the organized kamikaze attack there were also reuss and others subsequent battles. it was a part of their culture and the gentleman made reference how the japanese soldier fights to the death and the same with the japanese pilots prevent was a great honor to die in warfare. >> not he was that important but i want you to comment

we jointly called him president eisenhower. he designed the outline.department -- this would be difficult than for the other departments to accept it that led him to propose that the chairman of the committee should be in the white house. that, of course, -- there were various points of view. the process depends on the personality of the president. how he prepares to work and, or course, the attitudes of the various cabinet members and the security adviser. that is the outline of the system. -- outline of the system as it emerged in its present form in the nixon administration. that is how it was -- a clear conception of enter depart malt -- interdepartmental movement. >> there was a real continuity. a lot of people talk about how divided we are, but in the term national security, there is a continuity. >> the national security council was established in statute. congress set it up in 1947. it only has four members -- the present, vice president, secretary of defense, and secretary of state. it is given a general charter to coordinate all aspects of fo

to carefully consider have we heeded president eisenhower's admonition? regrettably and categorically, the answer is no. in fact, the military-industrial complex has become much worse than president eisenhower originally envisioned. it's evolved to capture congress. so the phenomenon should now rightly be called the military-industrial-congressionl complex. on july 16, 2009, in a speech to the economic club of chicago, then-secretary gates described the military-industrial-congressionl complex this way: -- quote -- "first there is the congress which is understandably concerned about protecting jobs in certain states and congressional districts. there's the defense and aerospace industry which has an obvious financial stake in the survival and growth of these programs. and there is the institutional military itself, within the pentagon, and as expressed through an influential network of retired generals and admirals. one aspect of the military-industrial-congressionl complex i've focused on considerably over the last few years is its role in congressional

tuesday, adlai stevenson, who lost to dwight eisenhower. wednesday, barry goldwater. wednesday, vice president and civil rights advocate hubert humphrey. friday, the fourth time governor of -- george wallace. saturday, george mcgovern, followed by billionaire businessman ross perot. "the contenders" every night at 10:00 p.m. eastern only on c- span. >> the white house recently opened its doors for tour of this year's holiday decorations. the team is "-- the theme is "shine, give, share." >> pleasure to be here. beautiful holiday ornaments. probably the state dining room is absolutely spectacular, but there are a lot of beautiful rooms. it is all done very well. [inaudible] >> a replica. you're looking at the cards. those are historical cards. >> one to my senator. senator -- office contacted the white house on my behalf. >> when did you get the word -- [inaudible] really little.'s [inaudible] ♪ ["what child is this?" playing] [inaudible] >> the house is made of gingerbread on the inside, that is the foundation, and white chocolate on the outside. in his architecturall