after he left the presidency he wanted to be called not president eisenhower but general eisenhower. and yet as president he cut the u.s. army by 1-third because he didn't think he was going to use it. didn't want to get into conventional wars. couldn't what the nuclear war. you wanted to build up rocket forces, missile forces and the air force suspended lot of money on that because that is where the technology was, spent a lot on intelligence. but he cut his own service heavily, infuriated his comrades in arms, his great airborne commanders of world war ii were so mad they could. one quick india denounced him. it took some guts to do that. >> luckily obama doesn't face any problem with treatment of women in the military. you know that maybe. >> what about it? hasn't the president of racine absent the immense increase in spending on national security and has he done anything like attempting to cut by 20%? >> he is trying to cut the budget and hasn't been able to do anything like that. i think it is true when eisenhower was president the budget represented something like 70% of total

next discussion of the similarities between president eisenhower and president obama. it starts now on booktv. >> much younger black guy. a president who seemed to be on the links. it would seem like eisenhower's happiest moments were playing poker with cronies, drinking lots of scotch and obama might have been more on the basketball court. we may have had a lot of similar problems that confront them during their times in office and it may be they converge more in their styles and temperaments for their two terms each. there are a lot of things for us to talk about about cia opportunities or activities during eisenhower's days and obama's days, with drones as a new weapon that came in obama's times versus you twos in eisenhower's time a crisis in crimea and one presidency and won in budapest and another, a lot of points of comparison. so we have evan thomas whose book "ike's bluff," president eisenhower's secret battle to save the world, begins with the premise that eisenhower showed a lot of style and character in the way he played poker which was superbly well. end t

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also the rich ranchers and nixon and eisenhower when eisenhower say? to more years of harry truman route would have had communism in america. actually thought that that there was this type of retrenchment so there are issues that presidents pullback from campaign rhetoric. the case of the president who beats up on china and then sees the of light that is a could one. but broadly speaking i am struck how often rhetoric in up dictating wealth. when he was running the famous'' is it's the economy stupid a very strong critique of the bush administration policy which she did i implement for two or three years by he repudiated the first bush passivity in the balkans no dog in that fight approach. and the need for a new direction. two examples there with their own instincts imagining himself to be teethirty then september 11 turned his head around. just one further thought, those presidents who do that who were taken by surprise are ones who don't have a lot of foreign policy experience or taken by surprise by a crisis that they have to cope with. that was tr

eisenhower said no, i want the cia to do it because it has to be done and secret and if you recall, eisenhower said he had ideas about the military-industrial con clicks. the air force with your resources, you support the cia. he said the third thing the plane will eventually be shut down. so let's start building satellite reconnaissance to replace the airplanes. again, the air force knew how to do that. they were working on missiles could be said now, it's got to be done in secret. i want the cia to do this. but i'll need your help so you support them. that was a side day, but allen dulles, head of the cia said we are not in the high-tech business. we don't build airplanes. we don't build satellites. eisenhower said you are in a big test now. and i can assure you they got in that business very quickly. it turns out that the lockheed corporation was given a contract to build the satellite and also the u2 aircraft. they had designed long before he was ready to go, but the air force had not won anything that could carry bombs and had no guns. but now they have a job and lockheed had the plane fl

they came out and advise to eisenhower, and eisenhower called a special meeting. he called in the head of the cia, the head of the military commander force, secretary of state, secretary of defense and someone. he read the orders. three things have to be done. the first is, he looked at allen dulles and said, get spies inside the soviet union. that's your job. yes, sir. then he said, we will do photoreconnaissance. we will go look, overfly the soviet union and see for ourselves what they have got, missiles, bombers, fighter planes. and he said that plan will have to fly high enough that it cannot be shot down by russian missiles were fired plans. but he added, the air force, we know how to do that. we are in the airplane business. eisenhower said, no, i want the cia to do it because it has to be done in secret. and if you recall, eisenhower had said he got ideas about the military-industrial complex. he said, you have to do it in secret. but the air force, you support the cra. he said that third thing, that plane will eventually be shut down, so let's start buildi

in 1956, eisenhower petitioned for the tree's removal. not only was his suggestion dismissed without a vote, the landmark became known as the eisenhower tree. >> a couple times he told me. he said, arne, if i could hit that tree enough to bring it down, i'd do it. >> reporter: but this past february, an ice storm did something even a sitting president could not. >> the ice storm hitting the area left no one unharmed, including augusta national golf club. the his toreic eisenhower tree has ticken irreparable damage and has been removed from the grounds. >> reporter: arnold palmer doesn't think the president for whom the last president was named would exactly be mourning its demise. >> i'm sure it did not make him unhappy it was gone, but aye think it was sort of a love/hate relationship. i think he got a kick out of complaining about the tree, because it gave him a lot of trouble. >> augusta national's chairman billy payne says the club has not yet decided whether they'll replace the tree with another one going forward. like everything els

and you recall, eisenhower had -- if you recall, eisenhower had said he had ideas about the military in secret. but the air force with your resources, you support the cia. he said the third thing, that plane will eventually be shot down. so let's start building satellite reconnaissance to replace the airplanes. and, again, the our force knew how to do that. they were working on missiles. he said, no, it's got to be done in secret. i want the cia to do this. .. they had the design for the u-2 before it was ready to go, but a plane that couldn't carry bombs and had no guns but now the cia has the job. lockheed martin had that plane flying over the soviet union in less than nine months. not sure we could do that nowadays but that is how it was. now the plane lasted four years and it came back with the answer to the bomber and missile gap. there was no bomber and missile gap. u2 was able to count the missile sites, the bomber factories, airfields and so on and the u.s. now, understood they had military superiority over the soviet union. because of that, president kennedy during a thing c

in eisenhower's a case, they did a lot of -- they broke a lot of rules. the cia, people always think of the cia plot now long after the cia stopped doing those plots, everybody just assumes it was the cia. so that was a long-term harm x. some of those plots were stupid and wrong. on the other hand, the western alliance and europe, the seventh fleet in the pacific have kept a kind of international order to that has kept us from world war -- not little wars, but kept us from world war -- created a fairly free global trade zone and permitted the advance of democracy not everywhere by any means, but in many parts of the world. that is a great legacy. >> we have three minutes. >> i will take less than that for my question. >> good. >> can could you both place put this in the context of the times of what was going on when eisenhower was president following world war ii, it was basically the collapse of the major colonial empires who had conquered and divided the world. particularly, i guess, particularly the french and the british. and much of the world was sor

that was eisenhower's plan. because what eisenhower did in his eight years of office was to make nuclear weapons an alternative to conventional weapons, because we didn't have the size of the conventional weapons of the soviets, so we were ready to use nuclear. we were ready to go, and washington was in the sights. the whole world, i don't think -- i think, would have gone up. khrushchev and kennedy at the last second, through dobrynin and his brother robert, said, no, basically to their hardliners. dearly.ost both men the generals were furious with kennedy. lemay was raging at the meeting that was described by mcnamara and others. lost.said, we we lost. this was our moment. and khrushchev was criticized by his own people, but the soviets were inferior in strength. but they built up after that crisis. they built up significantly, so by the late 1970's, they were almost achieving parity. in other words, kennedy and khrushchev saved -- what were saying is kennedy and khrushchev saved the world at a very key moment

eisenhower was committed to covert action in iran, guatemala, elsewhere. the nixon and kissinger retrenchment after vietnam involved covert action that was a kind of downsizing. >> a lot of that was because of the country and its animosity towards the vietnam war. >> sure. >> there was no mandate for anything other than getting out. >> that is the mindset of presidents who come in who see themselves as hired by the american people to fix a problem of overcommitment. >> john kennedy was a maximalist. >> absolutely. maximalist in the sense that he convinced the american people that eisenhower was not doing enough, was not vigorous enough, was not an activist. kennedy said of eisenhower's tenure as president that it had been eight years of drugged and fitful sleep. you don't get nastier than that. >> that's pretty bad. >> there was a kind of commitment on thr part of the new frontier to get out there and position the united states in different ways. >> we are america. >> absolutely. kennedy was not crazy about it. he understood it was necessary and he wanted

we do have a number of spots with construction particularly both sides of the eisenhower. a bit of work on the dan ryan. more details coming up. >>there's more to come in our next half-hour. including a third arrest in the murder of a south side teenager. >> and how russia is now threatening american astronauts. >> why aldermen are taking issue with the mayor's plan to patch the city streets. >> the cast of the new star wars episode 7 movie is revealed.a ts morning in the shooting death of a 14-year-old girl. we'll have a *live update. a man tried to rob a mariano's in the south loop. we'll have details on his arrest. good morning, i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. hi, demetrius. >> today will be like yesterday and like the day before that and the day before that. >> your popular this week. >> this is a cool looking system but it keeps raining as showers. >> occasionally she can be funny. >> that's what really happens during commercials. we shall clean it up. but there you go. sublet radar will continue. finally so

kennedy thought eisenhower was on the wrong track.ronald reagan thought the last three presidents before him had been losing the cold war and this pattern has continued. to me, that makes the past much more like the present. we are able to see our controversies about syria and ukraine in a more meaningful historical context if we understand what a mess the past was. i should say that i wanted to make this argument with as much vividness as i could in the book with color and drama and lively stories. i am assured an audience last week in california there is plenty of presidential profanity in the book. a woman came up to me afterwards and said it was that presidential profanity of mine that made me want to buy this. [laughter] so there are many different tastes. i felt in the course of writing at that perhaps i had gone too far when my editor called me up and said, why is the prime minister of great britain always bursting into tears on the phone with the president? he. >> claimed this had happened six times. it wasn't that he was obje

general eisenhower empowered his men and women to go do their jobs.and we haven't had any leaders do not since world war ii on a public basis and that is what is happening today. so i submit and i agree with things that stewart said and nancy hess said and i think that museums can become easy scapegoats. i spoke to the american association of directors earlier this year. i made the comment that it's not okay to have a 40 or 50 million-dollar easy and budget and then not be able to afford everything oz. on the other hand it's easy to pick on museums and say why haven't you done it faster. the research work is very complicated and there are not millions of workers floating around. many are questions we'll have to debate today that becomes more complicated when you have statute of limitations in various countries that are going to need to be revisited. i submit that the best place to adjudicate this is the court of public opinion. and i can't unless the public opinion with you all know the story. and i am not a trained art historian or writer or anything

and it's a serious problem for hillary clinton. >> when eisenhower it that you were what, 20 years old back in 1960, i believe you? remember that but some other people don't and then it nixon was embarrassed because eisenhower couldn't do up with anything nixon did for eight years. hillary clinton, you said, all right, came back, not hillary clinton but the state department came back tonight with the robust defense. what was the headline of what she accomplished? >> well, i will tell you what, bill. in my reporting for fox news and also in an article that i published in washingtonian magazine in december, for which i interviewed both of hillary clinton's deputy secretaries of state and other top aides of hers. i have closely examined her legacy as america's top diplomat. when i would ask these people her own aids point blank to site her biggest accomplishments they invariably replied in think tanking terms. reshaping global perceptions of america or the pivot to asia. these are not accomplishments that will translate readily into 30 second ads. basically saying they don't have a headli

donna, who is eisenhower? >> ike. but i should say his name is on this -- >> that's cheating. >> okay. >> i know. >> that was dwight d. eisenhower. and i'm glad we gave you the signed portrait to look at. so the answer, obviously, is eisenhower who wrote to winston church hill, quote, "i have no instructions, no talent, and certainly no justification for covering up nice white canvas with the daubs that spring from my brushes. nonetheless, i like it tremendously." he was a painter just like george w. bush. and the latest front in the culture wars and ballet star misty copeland in just 60 seconds. wars and ballet star misty copeland in just 60 seconds. so i want you to know the facts. there are currently no credit score or income requirements to qualify. you can get tax-free money from the equity in your home. you can use the money to pay off your current mortgage if you have one. the remaining money can be used for anything. there's no monthly mortgage payments. and you still own your home! call today to get your free

kennedy said of eisenhower's tenure as president that it had drugged andears of fitful sleep. you don't get nastier than that. there was a kind of commitment on part of the new frontier to get out there and position the united states in different ways. >> we are america. >> absolutely. kennedy was not crazy about it. he understood it was necessary and he wanted to try to limit them. >> i was reading some stuff recently. he said, look, it's crazy that deal with part of the world. we have to recognize limits on american power. act that wayd not in every respect. >> he would say that occasionally. >> he was very nervous about what american power might do, what kinds of risks it might create, particularly in a nuclear rage at a time when soviet policy was becoming more activist. risk was a to limit check on his maximalist him but his overall outlook was that the united states represents forces for the future. we can reach out to almost everybody in the third world, europe, asia. there was a kind of confidence in that outlook. >> young and vigorous america. he presentsthe way himse

it will replace the eisenhower tree -- it won't the place the eisenhower tree. >> augusta officials announcednations to the masters tournament foundation. they fell 37% in 2012. what does the foundation do and why weren't benefactors as generous in 2012 as they were in 2011? didn't announce it. we looked through the tax records and found out that the numbers were down. happened was that 2011 was the first year they did it and most of the members gave up and donated to the foundation. second year rolls around, you couldn't go back to the well for the same members. the foundation started to grow the game lands -- grow the game plans. amateur tournaments, latin american amateur tournaments. they give well above what the law requires them to do. it is a generous foundation. mike, thanks so much. appreciate it. when we come back, breaking news on jm. -- gm. >> we have breaking news on the condition switch investigation. house committee has posted documents relating to the investigation. fred upton has released a statement reading "these initial documents reveal failures within the system. there is

set out and stuff from sears. >> the eisenhower's made made it worse in the german.i don't want to make personal judgments here, but -- >> so it was each president sort of like a residential room? been macinnes. usually what you see here what i saw this time. i don't how they do it today. i would assume it's an analogous arrangement is the news paper will run a story that the first lady is redecorating. what that means is they hire a decorator who comes in with drawing splotches and says pick what you'd like. and then they try to harmonize and they make it all fit in the first lady to credit. that happened with s. truman, although i did find one interesting theme. they have lived in an apartment building on connecticut avenue and i found some pictures of the night of their apartment and they had these garish floral curtains, the state bombastic flowers. and then i saw curtains in the white house admitted the same flowers. obviously that's his touch. so they are given a considerable degree of latitude. the important thing to do, first about, does truman -- her family

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but when jfk reduced the personal income tax, wasn't it enormously high under the eisenhower administration we reduced it down to well above what we have now, right? or am i wrong on that? >> it heptiond when jfk brought it down but it was dramatically brought down under ronald reagan camp raw. >> where was it under eisenhower, do you remember? >> there were some rates that were just outrageously high. but the difference was we had a lot of loopholes, and so people used shelters and loopholes. any time you have extraordinary high tax rates, we have had tax rates as high as 90 percent in this country, greta. when that's happened, there have been shelters and loopholes so people just shift their money around. the brilliance of the camp rock bill in '81 is taxes came down dra mat lick dramatically not just the rich. 18 years of solid growth, greta. we had only a very brief 18 month recession. when bill clinton cut the capital gain tax rate, we had extreme growth that was a very positive so it shows whether it's democrat or republican, if we can cut taxes, if we can have a solid dollar. if we c

in 1957 president eisenhower sent federal troops back into the american south. he sent them so they could stand guard over the integration of little rock central high school in arkansas. he sent soldiers to make that happen. the u.s. supreme court had made integration the law of the land, but it took federal troops to make it the law of arkansas. by that time old william potter gale, he was already preaching anti-federal government, white supremacist claptrap which he put under the banner of the christian identity movement. but that decision by president eisenhower to send in those troops to arkansas in 1957, that so enraged william potter gale that he decided he was going to start his own new branch of that movement and he was going to give it a new name. a writer named kevin kerry wrote a terrific act of this a while back in the "washington monthly." william potter gale called his new movement posse comitatus. he named it after that 1878 law that had forced union troops out of the reconstruction south. as mr. gale explained his idea, "county sheriffs were the

eisenhower when we were rolling back communism in eastern europe, which is to say we're not going toy force, by the way neither did reagan and neither did george w. bush nor president eisenhower, but they are trying to inflict i think a rather aggressive policy to try to stop putin from further aggression in ukraine. >> i believe that had this been george w. bush taking these actions, the left would be paying them a lot more attention because i think the left would be very worried that they were too aggressive and the right would be praising him as reagan but because it's president obama doing it, its right is defining it essentially as weakness. >> george w. bush faced russian intervention into georgia. not a single russian government official was sanctioned by the republicans. >> yeah, but he swaggered when he didn't do it. michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia, it's helpful to have you to talk to about these things. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back. oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits

nobody has ever gotten a free pass in presidential elections going back to eisenhower.ho is the most likely democrat to run against her? >> someone will. i do not know. governor o'malley is talking about it. she was almost unbeatable then. she started with 40% of the democratic primary. now she is up around 60% or 70%. nobody in either party is confident. it does not mean somebody will not run or get 30% somehow. i think if somebody runs, they are trying to set themselves up for the future and get their name out. >> you granite state people do not like to coronate people. >> people who don't care, i put bernie sanders in that category. you might get a few hard progressives from the left. and governor o'malley in that category. and do not suggest that a coronation is a good thing for a candidate. look at successful presidential candidates like george h.w. bush who came through a very tough primary and bill clinton and obama. it is something about being a challenge and developing a message and finding out how to connect with the different constituents. >> we will have mor

general eisenhower empowered his men and women to go do their jobs.and we haven't had any leaders do not since world war ii on a public basis and that is what is happening today. so i submit and i agree with things that stewart said and nancy hess said and i think that museums can become easy scapegoats. i spoke to the american association of directors earlier this year. i made the comment that it's not okay to have a 40 or 50 million-dollar easy and budget and then not be able to afford everything oz. on the other hand it's easy to pick on museums and say why haven't you done it faster. the research work is very complicated and there are not millions of workers floating around. many are questions we'll have to debate today that becomes more complicated when you have statute of limitations in various countries that are going to need to be revisited. i submit that the best place to adjudicate this is the court of public opinion. and i can't unless the public opinion with you all know the story. and i am not a trained art historian or writer or anything

i hope this resident can do what lincoln did as emancipation and eisenhower did (inaudible), our president has been here 19 times. he needs to come here and find out what is going on. this housing thing is transferring across the nation. whatever san francisco do, it will affect our nation. he needs to bring back housing for humanity. something that jimmy carter started. he's in the paper with the five presidents. it's time for america's greatest terror is no housing, and that's the war on us, and we must stop this. and i hope mrs. breed that it can start here today, thank you. >> thank you. mr. washington, you are cutting in line? i am just messing with you. come on, ace on your case. >> okay, let me say now, i only have two minutes, should i save the last minute for the sock -- song. all of this talking we are doing, it doesn't make any difference, hud is responsible. hud knew 20 years, when i was involved with hud and the housing authority, 20 years, before they built hayes valley, and i was with the supervisor and niller and (inaudible) started with san francisco and now we got rad. ev

to the jewish people the program was changed at the last minute instead of the original true and eisenhower the audience to listen to any of the best car full of boys from auschwitz you know eighty six year old holocaust survivor described life in losses as a teacher in a concentration camp that was one story the other was how do they have posted above ground from the states with the help of hunky mac the new year of the county of east and to top this with the intent was how much he apologized to the. the notice which considers to be a serious mistake he took action after being one of my second lead at the american representative of this enterprise and town center. i have to really think. but you know this. nice and the organization because the d word generous enough to accept our opponent jason and move forward. nineteen dead ducks making a come from seriously state between a dream. we ended up with it as so. listening to. yes like anything dead ducks. they will lay his grandchildren the following educational careers has been here to let the holocaust survivors to spread their boys. we thi