eisenhower and kennedy me.his is a far off, seriously tried to warn you cannot organize the white house as a kind of type. kennedy said yeah, i'm beginning to figure this out now. he would learn. you change the way he did his decision-making as they become more like the one that pay, interestingly enough before they appear before the cameras and kennedy really needed this picture as much as he needed to talking to you because it can read need a sense of authority in command to have the old general bear. eisenhower didn't criticize kennedy in public. >> in fact, the following week in a congressional delegation congressman a pilgrimage to gettysburg to see eisenhower could do that okay, the limits of the rest of the kennedy administration on eisenhower person that said there should be no wish to. it is important that we support our president, especially in foreign policy in dangerous times this not become a partisan issue. >> which is very much like what happened about two or three weeks ago. i just have to bring

eisenhower and kennedy meet. i tried to warn you can't organize the white house this way and kennedy said i am beginning to figure that out and he would change the way he did his decisionmaking. much more -- after they appear before the cameras and kennedy needed this picture as much as they needed talking to. and to have the old general there. but eisenhower didn't criticize kennedy in public. >> the following week a full congressional delegation of republican leaders made the pilgrimage -- and the bloom is off the rose of the kennedy administration and eisenhower said there should be no witch hunt. it is important to support the president in foreign policy especially in dangerous times. does not become a partisan issue. >> very much like what happened three months ago. they bring this up after george w. bush left office and the club has its protocol. he went off the grid. he disappeared and the current president deserves my silence. was a classy thing to do. the vice president didn't take that approach. when he

eisenhower and kennedy may. this was a serious -- i tried to warn you can't organize the white house is what kind of talk and kennedy says yeah i'm beginning to figure that out now and kennedy would learn. he would change the way he made his decisions. he would become much more like the one the ike -- after they appear before the cameras kennedy really needed this picture as much as he needed a talking to. he need this picture because it conveyed a sense of authority and command to have the old general there. but eisenhower did not criticize kennedy and public. >> and back the following week a congressional -- made the pilgrimage to see eisenhower. they said the bloom is off the rose of a candidate on eisenhower brushed him back and said there will be no witchhunt. it's important that we support our president especially in policy and especially in dangerous times. that this not become a partisan issue. >> which is very much like what happened two or three weeks ago. i just have to bring this up. after george w.

maybe eisenhower was right. maybe sending blacks as part of the 101st airborne would have increased the tension and that would have led to even more violence. but the very fact that eisenhower would make a decision like that is reflective of the kinds of situations that happened, that emerged in little rock at that particular time. little rock was a crisis, no question about it. it was a crisis that was going to be followed, not just on national tv. in other words, every single day you could go home and you could see on the 6:00 news, those soldiers guarding those students at little rock. but it was going to be a crisis of international proportion, as well. indeed, one of the reasons that eisenhower actually ordered the 101st was because he knew that if he didn't, that this would be a propaganda coup for the soviets. the soviets were following this, people in germany, people in france, people in great britain. people around the world were very much interested in and some would say invested in the little rock cri

we had john kennedy trying to court eisenhower. >> right.nd over and over that actually presidents from different parties get along better than presidents from the same party which is not what we expected. we thought they'd branch out. they actually seemed to bond faster when they haveless in common. carter and ford get together. clinton and nixon.oeç even the current president obama seemed to get along best with the first bush. so we see that not because they're so much rivals inside their party for who's the greatest president of the era. >> reporter: but there is some intraparty rivalry which i found interesting including between future presidents reagan and nixon. >> there's no question that... both men are preparing for 1968. they're both from california, conservatives, different kinds of conservatives and they spent two years dancing around each other jockeying for position not trusting the other to do the right thing. competing in behind-the-scenes all the while in public pretending everything is just fine. >> meanwhile eisenhower is

it's an eisenhower type thing. he's a heroic figure. >> but think about al smith was and it's relevant to today. al smith, in addition to his faith, was seen and heard as an alien figure. if you listen to smith on the radio, this wonderful accent, this was a chance for people to vote against new york. this was a chance to vote against all that they thought was alien and un-american and somehow vaguely -- he was beaten very badly. he got 87 electoral votes. and hoover broke open the south. it's not eisenhower, but herbert hoover. >> october 7th is charles evans hughes. >> i think of him in the context, and i'm not sure that you two will, of women suffrage. charles evans hughes was a progressive on women's suffrage. >> and ran against woodrow wilson. >> ran against woodrow wilson. there were four or five states during this period that had women's suffrage. so the idea was to go and use their vote, get those states to support charles evans hughes. there was an uproar. the wilsonians were furious about this. you just s

he's just -- he was, you know, eisenhower's yes guy, he's a boring guy. maybe he was a foil to patton. maybe there's -- you know, maybe there's an article there or something. and that was their opinion. obviously, i have a vested interest in saying that's not what the story is. obviously, i have a book and i want you to buy it. or at least steal it out or borrow it, don't steal it. unlike me, you know, when i came back on campus, i think the librarian was there looking for her fines. so please, if you borrow it, bring it back to the library. but i think that there's a little bit more to omar bradley than the image of carl malden that we see in the movie "patton." i mean, how many general officers in world war ii were insubordinate? how many general officers tried to cover up patton's slapping incident? how many general officers dated marlene dietrich? all right, you got me on that last one. a lot of them did. you know, as far as i can tell, nothing -- well, i don't want to give it away in the book. we'll leave it there. but more seriously, who was the guy

he didn't really like eisenhower. he didn't say that. but that was true. kennedy wrote back and said, yes, i want good relations also. and he proposed a meeting. crews clever sat on the invitation. soviet intelligence was pretty good in those days and he had known that the americans were going to attack cuba. he alerted castro. told him that there was an attack coming and he might prepare for it. which castro did as we eknow. and he also decided to wait until he could see what the results were of the castro -- of the cuban exercise. we all know what happened at the bay of pigs. i don't need to describe it here. what was interesting was cruise clever's reaction documented by his son who has written a very warm and loving, but a pretty detailed biography of his father. crews clever could not understand kennedy. hence to his son, perhaps he lacks determination. he thought there was something wrong with a person who would launch an attack and not follow it through. he thought this is a man that he can push because he's weak. then khrushchev really wanted a mee

and as i said earlier they just went back to eisenhower f.d.r. the new deal was truman had the war in korea i would say it goes back to hoover anyhow thanks in large part to the republicans in washington who forced austerity on america in my opinion just to crash the economy these numbers for obama are as small as they are so is this claim by romney just another part of his lie lie lie campaign strategy i mean he's lied about what presidents tried to do with medicare he's lied about how many jobs the president's critics lied about how many jobs he's own created now he's lying about this i think this is part of his stump speech i think just repeats this claim that president obama has increased spending more than any other president in history over and over and over again it's a lie over and over again as that as that chart shows but that chart also shows why the recovery has been slow if you look at reagan's increase in spending if you look at carter's increase in spending they were all high they were all during times of recession poor economies y

members of the eisenhower family did not like it. decision to deny funding based on the concern over the design. a unique display of desks with a message on the national mall today. the college board said up 857 empty school desks on the mall today. it represents the number of children who drop out of school every hour of every school day. the messages for the candidates for president to not forget education during their administration. >> a special delivery brought traffic to a standstill this happening. a cargo ship carrying four huge cranes passed under the bridge. they stopped traffic for 40 minutes. it will allow the ports to unload huge ships that will pass through the canal and a couple of years. quite a sight. >> that looks like a really tight fit. >> if they got stuck, they were going to drain some of the water out of the bay. >> lets the started here. if you like hot weather, you will like the forecast. we are looking at chesapeake beach. you can see tillman island on the other side. do you see it? you have good eyesight. i

>> i grew up in eisenhower's washington, d.c. and kennedy's washington, d.c.was a predominantly christian community. >> john: how is that better ywh is it better? i'll tell you why. >> john: gays were locked in the closet. meant women continue have a credit card without her husband's permission? >> the good old days at least we were one day and one people. do you think the country is a success today? you have lost, america we're now 24%. >> john: so what. whole economy is bigger, china and india is richer, that is good for everybody? >> do you think a good thing that western nations are in decline? not a single western nation has a birth rate that will enable it to reproduce itself all across europe. germans are going to lose 8 million. japan is going to lose 25 million people. >> john: that is not my problem. >> let's take america. racial ethnic composition of this country, 90% were from europe. we all had that ethnic core. 95% of us were christian. we had tremendous common things, now the white population is down to 63%. it will clearly be a any majority and

the local lanes are just one lane between eisenhower and telegraph. jessica, back to you. >> thank you, beverly. >>> it is 6:11. president obama has called to congratulate evipt's new -- egypt's new president elect mohammed morsi. >> he's egypt's first democratically elected president. cjar;oe d -- charily d 'agata has more. >> reporter: they came to tahrir square to protest against military rule and they came hoping to celebrate a turning point in egypt's history, itself country's first tewellly democratically elect -- truly detectically elected president. what does this day mean to you? >> i cried like hell. i cried like hell. i thank god like hell. i can't express anything. this is just a step. we still have a long road ahead. >> reporter: it was close. election officials said mohammed morsi beat his rival former military general ahmed shafik with only 51.7% of the vote. it was the news crowds were waiting to hear and people here see this victory as justice for fellow egyptians who lost their life fighting for freedom on this very square. 16 months

>> i grew up in eisenhower's washington, d.c. and kennedy's washington, d.c. that was a predominantly christian community. >> john: how is that better ywh is it better? i'll tell you why. >> john: gays were locked in the closet. meant women continue have a credit card without her husband's permission? >> the good old days at least we were one day and one people. do you think the country is a success today? you have lost, america we're now 24%. >> john: so what. whole economy is bigger, china and india is richer, that is good for everybody? >> do you think a good thing that western nations are in decline? not a single western nation has a birth rate that will enable it to reproduce itself all across europe. germans are going to lose 8 million. japan is going to lose 25 million people. >> john: that is not my problem. >> let's take america. racial ethnic composition of this country, 90% were from europe. we all had that ethnic core. 95% of us were christian. we had tremendous common things, now the white population is down to 63%. it will clearly be a any majori

eisenhower became president and i was in the senate the last two years of mr.senhower's second term. c-span: this photograph includes sam rayburn and joe martin. who were they? >> guest: sam rayburn was, at the time that picture was taken... you see, when i first went to the house, joe martin was the majority that first year. the republicans had taken control in the 1952 elections. and so joe martin was the speaker and mr. rayburn was the majority leader. but then the next... c-span: bill nolan. who was he? >> guest: bill nolan was the majority leader in the senate. c-span: if these four gentlemen were here today, would the senate be different than it is? >> guest: no. they wouldn't operate like they did today if they were here in the senate. c-span: how would they change? >> guest: well, the makeup of the senate has changed. when lyndon johnson was majority leader, the great issue of that day was the civil rights issue. and senator russell and the southern block constituted a homogeneous block. and all of the old confederate states of america were represented

i had been with president eisenhower. we had been all over the world. i had seen the relationship first ladies at and the activities they participated in and i knew it would be fashion shows and tea party and ballet schools and i didn't want any part of that. i wanted to be where the action was so i'm extremely disappointed and i said to mrs. kennedy after that election in 1960 at her residence in georgetown near washington d.c. she was an elegant, classy lady, extremely pregnant and she was not too please that she was going to have somebody around her 24 hours a day and i was not too pleased that i was going to be part of that group sell at first it was not a mutual admiration society. but over time we became good friends. >> people might be interested to know that at that time there were only two agents assigned to the first lady. so there was clint and another agent and you were in charge of protecting her around the clock. you were not exactly working the 40 hour work week. is that correct? >> that is correct. we didn't get paid for overtime. it was

reagan he did well with and eisenhower well. republicans, yet he was personally -- fdr, a new liberal. >> he was loved by america, but was he necessarily loved by the men who followed him and the men who preceded him? >> there was a great deal of animosity between murrow and cronkite. dated back to a broken handshake agreement cronkite had made with murrow in 1942. murrow held a bit of a grudge. and dan rather succeeded him in 1981. cronkite was for rather, thought he was a great investigative reporter, but within a year, their relationship soured terribly and got very, very bitter, at least from cronkite's perspective. he just thought rather should be canned and fired. and so it's not a great story there. but, you know, rather, to his credit, kind of just took the kicks of cronkite and just kept doing his job at cbs and doing it well. >> any big surprises in this book? >> many. i mean, i talk about cronkite secretly meeting with daniel elseburg to deal with the pentagon papers. i deal with a group -- a gay raider interrupted th

it and what is wrong with building up a structure in the country that we could get by fast and eisenhower would say it is a defensive move. >> and it is. >> and there is some support for this and the numbers show that people want this stuff to happen, but he does not have the horses in the senate or the congress to make it happen. >> if the you believe in what you do, the public will buy it and if you don't, they will never buy it. the president tried to champion some of the during his political -- wait, i'm sorry. no, we just put up the wrong prompter, and somebody told me to reintroduce you joan walsh and nia -malik henderson. and here is where the president was stumped. >> we have created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. where we are seeing the weaknesses in the economy had to do with state and local government. >> the private sector is doing fine, miscue, and a tad eschew as "seinfeld" would says. even mitt can catch this, baby. >> he said that the private sector is doing fine. he said that the private secto

cronkite did with the great dwight david eisenhower.d if we could, we'd show two quick clips, and, guys, you may want to stand up to see this because it's a wonderful moment. very early on in the shooting, this happened. >> undertaking. you can see from back here, walter, this was where the battle took place, and it was a natural thing to do because you knew you could blow out roads if necessary. but there were these bore avenues, and that's what we were trying to get through. and there, of course, is the battle plan they developed. everything went fine. but the first day was really a tough one. look, here comes a little nun with a whole little -- >> well, that's for another parade. how do you do, sister? how do you do? how do, sister. >> they're pretty children. >> i must say that this has been the most interesting thing to take a look at. if the g.i.s of 20 years ago could have seen that, that would have been something, wouldn't it? ♪ >> run it through. ♪ >> thanks. that's why we liked ike. wonderful moment, sister. how do you do? sis

it was 5 # years ago last january that dwight eisenhower delivered his farewell address from the oval office. i got wonderful insight to it. he gave me a few thoughts on crafting the thing. his old colleague at the heritage foundation describes the speech as one cited and seldom read. it coins the phrase military industrial complex. and there is this enduring image that the industry i'm representing is a small thing with long assembly lines. in fact, it's not at all what we are. when dwight eisenhower gave the speech, the defense industry was the largest manufacturing industry in the country. it was larger than cars. it was larger than oil and gas. it met an immediate need that was quite stark and challenging. and he references that right now are the top five of us in the defense industry. the top tier companies. combined annual income is half that of exxon. it's also half of wal-mart. if we have a complex, it exists in some other sector. david burteau did a study that since the defense consolidation and downturn of 1991, 150 companies have left the industry. either through consolidat

, excuse me, a student asked me whether we would ever again have generals like lee and grant or eisenhower patton and stillwell or macarthur? have the circumstances and conditions of war changed so much that battlefield leadership of the kind we are considering is impossible or unnecessary or irrelevant? no one in my seminar could furnish the name of an american general now serving who its not called david petraeus who i reminded the seminar had retired three months ago. in 1940, the secretary congratulated the head of the army on having selected "good war men" on his first list of new generals to be sent up to congress. mr. stinson was saying two things -- battlefield commanders of large formations, mainly infantry, and second, soldiers most of whom probably had blots on their records during peacetime service. men of an eccentric career pattern or occasional lapses in judgment. three of the five most famous american generals of the last big war, the war of the 1940s, would not advance today beyond the grade of major. battlefield command as we think of it by general officers is no longer a

turns out he was, he was appointed by president eisenhower. hired by president eisenhower. he was a republican from the midwest. he had this incredible reputation while at the justice department. so he started to get on our list. and i started to feed these names to the congressman as -- and there were maybe ten that we decided that had reached the place where they would meet congressman rodino's criteria and that it was time for him to start meeting these people and we began the interview process. i think john doar remembers that -- i think i called him. i think that's how he remembers it. that i'm the one who called him and had him come in, and i can't remember the time. i think i talked to him first. you have to think about that for a minute, for people who are watching this. here was this young staff person. not a lawyer. very low experience. i'm interviewing sort of the icons of the civil rights movement for this job, but clearly, i'm just a clearing house. anyway, we present the names. he interviewed the various candidates, and he came to the conclusion, he thought th

cronkite did with dwight eisenhower. let's show two clips. you might want to stand up to see those. wonderful moment. very early on in the shooting this happened. >> you can see from back here, walter, this is where the battle took place at a natural thing to do because you knew you could blow out roads if necessary but these were more avenues and this is what we are trying to get through and the battle finally developed and everything went fine but this first day was really a tough one. here comes -- that is something. how do you do? just testing. i must say that this has been the most interesting thing to take it attach. 20 years ago if i had seen that that would have been something. ♪ >> reporter: that is why we like a lake. those wonderful moments. i think we are running out of time. if it is okay could we skip ahead to the final thing? is important we close on this note. my book -- my book begins at the normandy cemeteries. in that same place with those great iconic figures. >> 86th battalionthe cold 90th division -- from new jersey, 8 second airborne. i think there are some 9,

so with things going poorly, marshall tells eisenhower, you know, you have to straighten out. and among other things that happens, bradley gets sent to africa to take a look at the situation. and interestingly enough for bradley and a lot of people who think that bradley, the g.i. general, is a real nice guy and everything else. bradley makes a lot of recommendations, but kind of to boil them down into layman's terms, basically, you know, the american army doesn't like to kill people. and you've got to change that. we've got to kill these s.o.b.s, and that's all there is to it. of course, he used really fancy military terms to say that. but basically, that's what he was saying. at the same time, patton is or roughly the same time, patton is assigned to take over that army corps and to get them into shape. now, patton comes in, and patton and bradley spend a few very concentrated hours, and then it works into days, together. and patton's first really important decision in africa is to appoint bradley as his second in command. now, it seems to me kind of a remarkable decision th

[laughter] that's my view on eisenhower. [laughter] >> very good. i wrote this book really because obama was a man who blazed across the national scene in 2004. i heard of him before 2004 because my son, gabe, was a student at the university of chicago, and he called me up one night after a speech in 2002, and obama was still a state senator, and he said there's a guy who sounds like a sike analyst, dad, talking about putting yourself in other people's shoes, and he said, i don't remember his name, but he was pretty cool. well, in 2004, he gave a speech, which everybody knows, which is when he talked about he doesn't see red states and blue states, but the united states, one country, and it really struck accord with a lot of people who had been feeling about one way or another the elections and the stream court, and there was a lot of division in this country, and people really rallied to him as everybody knows, but it turned out in retrospect that there were two obamas, not two americas, and that after he became president, he was very different fro

bill to get all those guys into college get them out of college during the eisenhower administration and. i'm all in favor i'm in favor for a college to see what that will probably never happen but there is that if you invest in the public sector you will increase the number of jobs in there with more investment in public sector jobs the economy the unemployment rate will be cut by at least. one point but private sector jobs add more to the economy create value public sector jobs reach valuable inside job of not be chris out in the county project a job i mean you have more people who are able to purchase more and become more active consumers in the marketplace econ one hundred one people spending money is what drives an economy doesn't matter where they get the money from people who are spending money that you drive you know that's came to me well when i drive it is still you know but it's not going to help with your i just hope the money being spent is being well be having the ability to speak and speaking of money i wouldn't want romney i think the third of a billion dollar man he'

nixon who'd been eisenhower's v.p. and had known berger for decades and berger had voted mostly in a conservative direction for example in seventy two the year before roe v wade albeit in the minority he argued hard and voted to keep the death penalty legal in the united states but then in one thousand nine hundred eighty three roe v wade came before the court and this conserve and conservative nixon appointee chief justice warren burger voted in a split decision that abortion during the first three months of pregnancy should become legal in the united states pundits and republicans were shocked that the nixon appointee for chief justice had joined with the liberals on the bench there was all kinds of huffing and puffing but again the liberals figured a it's a done deal that's going to be that it's going to blow over a year or so live with it right wingers was the montra of the day but immediately after the decision conservative politicians started using opposition to the supreme court's decision and opposition to abor

at president eisenhower. i was called back to washington from augusta, georgia where you are after the election in 1960. i was called aside and said to come back and report to the chief. i thought i done something wrong. i went into his office. the deputy chief and assistant chief insurance that shares started to interview me and i didn't know why. they never did tell me they were interviewing me for that job. but after 90 minute they conferred after that question means, just off anonymous terrible. they came to me and said you're going to be eckstein to mrs. kennedy, which i had been hit in the gut because i didn't want that job. >> yes, over here, sir. >> was lyndon johnson sworn in on the plane just before it takes off back to washington. in that photo, mrs. kennedy is on the photo one point. the narrative was intentioned as a result of the. to have any idea how that came about, not so much whether there was or wasn't -- >> we were on the ground in dallas. the decision was made that then vice president joh

eisenhower just kind of sat there but kennedy and johnson were out there moving.said, eisenhower change the country more than anything kennedy and johnson did it together when he built the interstate highway system. it transformed the way americans live, transformed the way americans of americans traded, it transformed all industries. it created boom cities. if you were on the interstate, you had an entirely different situation than if you were -- he said eisenhower transformed us. alright, that was the 1950's. by the 1970s is when the air of oil embargo hits. it did and just cause some energy price changes. it hit at the core, the way america was structured in the way america performed. the fact that we are now beginning to get back on top of our energy supply and getting into position where we can indeed determine our own future, is an enormous game-changer in this period, some 40 or 50 years later. and we are seeing all of this calm and are we going to have an increased percentage of biofuels? i always voted against ethanol which proves that i never intended to