even if eisenhower -- and there's no question eisenhower made happy noises about having an interstate colorado. i was not able to find any evidence in the eisenhower library. that meetingnce at you're talking about, between nicholson and johnson and eisenhower. but the outcomes of those, the notes taken by others of aides, he was instructing his aides to extricate him from any commitment to the coloradans. probablyhe author was making it to need a story is what i would say. i have an old map of the highways of colorado, and i have been puzzling over why u.s. 24 and u.s. 50, why neither of those routes was ever considered for the interstate. >> the biggest reason was denver, that they go through from the greatest political power in colorado, but also the greatest sort of engineering argument for a utilitarian argument for a interstate to colorado would be one that went through denver. that is the single against reason. >> what about dillon reservoir? did that have anything to do with the interstate project? >> yes, it did. biggest thing that had to do with the project was wherewith the

so, roy had been telling me what a great book this was on eisenhower. and then i happened to catch a lecture, on c-span, history on weekend, smith died in 2012 but they were replaying this lecture on generalship, and i was really intrigued by that. i thought my buddy has been trying to get me to read this book, and i just listened to this great lecture, and the other experience i had reading this guy's book was 20 years ago so i'm going read this eisenhower book. when you're my age you remember eisenhower so not quite the historical figure like lincoln or grant. i enjoy reading about presidents i feel luke i have some connection with other, their having lived through their presidency or on occasion met them. it's a fascinating thing. >> might be interested to know on your web site, you list what you're reading -- >> sometimes recommended. reading lists. sometimes we'll put together -- i think we'll do lincoln this month, and we're going to have three or four books that i think are particularly good on lincoln. i wish i could take credit for that idea. i

when you're my age you remember eisenhower so it's not the historical figure or a lincoln or grant would be and it's a real live person so i find reading about presidents i feel like just because my life experience has some connection with either having lived through the presidency or on occasion met them it's just a fascinating thing. >> our viewers would be interested to know that -- he. [inaudible] speeds sometimes it's the recommended reading list. i think we are going to do lincoln this month and we are going to have three or four looks that i think are particularly good on lincoln. i wish i could take credit for that idea. i have a communications director he came up with this nice that nobody's going to be interested in what i'm reading. surprisingly it's become a question i get in my district quite a bit. and they like it. interestingly i think they kind of like to know what you are thinking about and i hope it's not politics directly all the time. it's kind of refreshing or somebody will say hey i read that book too or a god that is an idea off of your book list so it brings a li

both nixon and eisenhower, you know, what did eisenhower's secretary of the treasury about truman? two more years of harry truman, we would have had communism in america. well, they actually thought that. they thought there was a need for a massive kind of retrenchment, and that was pursued. so there are issues on which presidents tend to pull back from their campaign rhetoric. the case of the president who beats up on china and then sees the light when he gets into office. that's a good one. but broadly speaking, i'm struck by how often relatic ends up dictating policy. take president clinton. he had, when he was running, two with -- he had, you know, the famous slogan, it's the economy, stupid. and a very strong critique of the bush administration's handling of balkan policy which he didn't implement for two of three years. but he did, ultimately, he repudiated the first bush passivity in the balkans, the no cog -- the no dog in that fight approach. sometimes presidents do fight against and are taken by surprise by the need for a new direction. and i, two examples there where pre

so even if eisenhower -- and there is no question that eisenhower made happy noises about how the interstateas through colorado. but i wasn't able to find any evidence of the staff. i got evidence at that meeting that you were talking about but the outcomes that were taken are basically eisenhower is instructing the aid to get him to extricate him from any sort of commitment. so i think that george kelly in that book was making a story i'd say. >> over here? >> i actually have an old map and i've been puzzling over why u.s. 24 and u.s. 50, why neither of those was ever considered for the interstate. >> the biggest single reason is denver and the sort of -- again from the greatest political power in colorado but also the greatest sort of engineering argument for the utilitarian argument for the state and statd colorado would be one that went through denver. so that is the single biggest reason that they go through colorado springs. >> what about the reservoir did that have anything to do with the interstate project? >> s. escape. >> the biggest thing is where would the interstate go. they wor

both the ramp from the eisenhower to the kennedy and back to the eisenhower both blocked with detourshe area. west bound at o'hare the stretch has been so problematic in terms of congestion. looks like it's ok no big volume out there. elaine will be blocked until 6:00. yesterday it lingered quite a bit longer. we will see what it does today. traffic is moving slowly not as congested as the early morning hours on thursday. keeping our tabs on that and the rest of your traffic hotspots another report coming up. >>a wrong-way driver caused a crash on lake shore drive that critically injured four people. nancy loo is live at lake shore and monroe with more. >> good morning. as we heard, the northbound lanes have just reopened on lake shore drive. the two vehicles involved in this crash were just toad away a few minutes ago. police wrapped up the investigation they have concluded a wrong way driver is to blame. the head on crash between an suv and a taxi happened just before 2:00 a.m. on the northbound lanes of lakeshore just north of monroe. the taxi was heading north in the northbound la

during reconstruction the process of reinterpreting bill greuel began, particularly in cases eisenhower the louisiana. they first fell of louisiana could not welsh on obligations. a few years later after there had been a change in administration and northern troops had been removed from the south, the court took the opposite view and cited a case which really is embarrassingly inconsistent with marshall's early ruling. i really think that it is not -- there is connection between the reconstruction of states' rights attitudes that developed over those years and the doctrine which later on became not only protective but developed over the years and now protect the states from having their agents be required to obey federal law. and it no longer relies -- welcome my anyway, the area where it is implicit in the plan , the convention, even though four of the five people did not understand. but then it develops to the point where it required stricter statements of federal and -- federal intent to impose liability of state officials. and in response to that rule congress adopted several statut

for example appling can say is, looking at the archives of president dwight eisenhower from where i went to independence, missouri to look at the archives of president truman. i started in on it with lbj and went back several times throughout the period of research because i found that. very critical in terms of relationships and changing attitudes in america between president and bankers, citizens and president and so forth. i really just dug in deep. i didn't know what i would find. some cases i had to submit freedom of information acts to unearth certain documents for the more recent president that had not been unearthed yet. in some cases, the reagan kind of took my project to heart and spent seven of her own time really trying to look for documents for me as i was sitting there going for the boxes that i've had to meet the research they bring out cards and boxes. it is almost like a raise. you're going through the boxes. what can i find? terry chernin, anything from letters about why did you drop the atomic bomb to letters from bankers saint thank you very much for your support. 10

instead general eisenhower arrived in paris in 1851 as the supreme allied commander fear. by 195311 u.s. air force ranks and five army divisions and 50 navy warships had followed. militaries of nato nations began working together. it began working to integrate north american in the european strategy. america did not make commitments in search of monsters to destroy instead president truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he said he was convinced that nato would serve as a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression and thereby let us get on with the real business of government and society. truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he was as he put it a simple document that if it had existed in 1914 and in 1939 would have prevented two world wars. america was committed to nato because nato would help protect vital american interests by reinforcing the unity of transatlantic security. nato would ultimately protect security and prosperity here at home with this alliance. a truth that i believe endures to this day. on the centennial of the start of worl

i was at abilene kansas at one hot august working with the archives of president wade eisenhower from where i went to independence missouri to look at the archives of the president truman. i started actually in austin with lbj. i find that period critical in changing the attitudes so i really just dug in deep and i didn't know. i have to submit the freedom of information act to unearth certain documents from the more recent but hadn't been unearthed it. it really took my projects too hard and spent some of her own time trying to look for documents going through the boxes that i had it's almost like a race. there could be anything in a box. it could be anything from letters about why did you drop the atomic bomb to the letters from bankers saying thank you very much for your support and writing back saying i couldn't have done it without you. there's all sorts of things you find and you get into this mold of being in the time with those people going through this and endends aroundends out for docun sort of typing everything up while you're there and then going on to the next location.

and in eisenhower's doctrine he basically states that america would stand ready to fight from a military perspective or an economic perspective or what he said was a trade perspective, in order to protect its allies effectively, this ones on the capitalist side of the equation. that helped the bankers because all of a sudden they had military support to expand their branches into the countries, and as a result of the beginning of the colored war they expanded into cuba before castro came in andage nationalized the banks. they expanded into beirut but a is would be a -- because it would be a stronghold into the rest of the middle east, and all of this was done with the protection of the u.s. military. so, the whole idea, the whole reason, the international aspect of banking happened, particularly with these major banks, was the connections they had into presidents and policies. and they also were on the pulpit to promote policies. winthrop aldridge win around the country talking be about the truman plan and open trade and free trade and an alignment amongst people who knew each other and

and macarthur sent eisenhower to find her and secretive her away. and macarthur kind of a blocked on his personal, gave her $35,000, hush money for her to be quiet about the affair. he wasn't married yet. the admiral said he should just let it come. everyone is having an affair in washington. but macarthur, they speculated what his mother, what macarthur's mother, pinky, thought about it. that's why -- so macarthur is not without his personal blemishes but there's a suggestion that he launched the philippine invitation to impress a woman. >> or that he chose that area. >> yeah, or that he chose that area. it was the original thinking, his original thinking was he would go right into luzon. the joint chiefs of staff said you go into the southernmost island. it was chosen because you could launch bombers therefore the note campaign and as i said it was really the navy's idea. >> you mentioned that the u.s. was surprised by war with japan, but if you go to the pearl harbor museum exhibit and to go into the japanese and other your site and then they pre

some say eisenhower sought ways to communicate with aliens.wanted to make a deal. >> eisenhower made the agreement with the aliens that they would get dna from us, and then they would get to abduct a certain number of people. >> he showed up five days later saying he had been captured but not harmed by creatures from outer space. >> we would get technology. after that, we suddenly had fiber optics and night vision goggles and the computer chip. so we made this huge leap forward in the late '50s, early '60s. >> could this allegedly smuggled videotape be proof, as some believe, that project sigma is real and active in the 1980s? if so, we may never know because the video unfortunately or, perhaps, conveniently is silent. >> i can't allow the voices of the project personnel to be heard by the general public. there's a very good chance their family or friends on the outside might recognize them -- >> here is the alien interview in its entirety just as it appeared in broadstreet's documentary with victor's commentary as an audio guide. >> we're loo

it would be utterly foreign to leaders like roosevelt and truman, eisenhower and kennedy. i believe in american exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law. it's our willingness to affirm them through our actions. that's why i will continue to push to close gitmo, because american values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. that's why we put in place new restrictions on how america collects and uses intelligence, because we will have fewer partners and let perceptive if an effort takes hold we conduct surveillance against ordinary citizens. we stand for the more lasting peace that comes through opportunity and freedom for people everywhere. this brings me to the fourth and final element of american leadership, our willingness to act on behalf of human dignity. america's support for democracy and human rights goes beyond idealism. it's a matter of national security. democracies are our closest friends and are far less likely to

president since eisenhower. this was a man who was very clearly trying to put the hammer of american military might firmly in the toolbox. not to say they will never be opened again but i was struck by how dove issuish this was. what were your thoughts? >> this is the foreign policy the president, that candidate obama always wanted to pursue. this was the outlines of what he described and what he campaigned on for six years and for six years he was a reluctant wartime president because of this situation in afghanistan and frankly wrap there was always a little bit of a rorschach test when it came to obama in '07 and '08. one of the ways that that would sort of paper over this of the idea that he didn't want to be viewed as simply an antiwar guy since he was anti-iraq and he used to say he was anti-iraq. that was a dumb war. afghanistan was a right place. we have a bad strategy. he was caught with his own rhetoric and when he came in, he focused on figuring out how to clean up afghanistan, surge troops in. but i

they found out later, indirectly, after eisenhower went out of office, through one of his aides, thathad been discussed at cabinet meetings and with the us military, which was pressing for nuclear attack on china. and eisenhower, not many people know this, but i'm pretty sure it is true, it came out of -- had a jehovah's witness mother who was opposed to his military career. he turned to the cabinet meeting with a high command sitting there and said, how many of these bags of rice have come in? "the new york times" ran a big story and there are been a news follow up. he was told, i think 40 or 45,000 plus thousands of letters and he said, if the american people want reconciliation with china, this is no time to be bombing it. and that was the end of that threat. a very interesting little side light to history. but that is william worthy. we ran this on new year's day 1998. juan gonzalez and i interviewed him. to hear the whole our, you can go to democracynow.org. i want to read a quote that "the new york times taken from "the boston globe, talking about his life. his father was a prom

it would be utterly foreign to leaders like roosevelt and truman, eisenhower and kennedy.erican exceptionalism with every fiber of my being, but what makes us exceptional is not the ability to flout international norms and law, but it is the willingness to the affirm them through our actions. that's why i will continue to push to close gitmo, because american values and traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders and that is why we are putting in place new restrictions on how america collects and uses intelligence, because we will have few er partners and be less effective if a perception takes hold that we are conducting surveillance against ordinary citizens. america does not simply stand for stability or the absence of conflict, no matter what the cost, we stand for the more lasting peace that can only come through opportunity and freedom for people everywhere. which brings me to the fourth and the final element of american leadership, our willingness to act on the behalf of human dig nity. america's support for democracy and human rig

of theld be a statue late eisenhower, and old-fashioned public servant. you also get a lot of motorcycle groups coming in recent years, veterans coming in washington, and take journeys together on vice, which garner a great deal of attention. d-day has become the time barack obama will want a great uplifting the. these things are interconnected. of memorial day gesture barack obama happened yesterday. and spoke dennis van with our troops. how exciting to them their and brad paisley performed and the president of and they got to meet him. they talked about the winding down of that long were in afghanistan. they will be leaving about 5000 troops there in the immediate future for counterintelligence and the like. it was a significant memorial day. if you follow the war in afghanistan and the resident's journey. on when they, in between the afghanistan memorial day and before d-day, he is going to less when, which will his ex limitation of obama foreign-policy right now, what is going on with the country in regards to serious, the you rain, russia, and the lo

finally when eisenhower gets in to abolish the reconstruction finance corp. and you set up the small business administration which is activated to give subsidies to small business republicans. it becomes a republican tool so both political parties from hoover to roosevelt to truman and eisenhower have a stake in this. a chapter would call the d.c. subsidy issue and the d.c. subsidy machine is set up massive subsidies go out in the function of purpose and the effects of the subsidies their effect is disastrous. >> host: i was particularly interested to know that the roosevelt administration tend to use the subsidized loans to bribe newspaper editors to write nice things about them. i'm sorry to say my career as a newspaper man i've never been offered such a thing. the other active i thought -- >> guest: the 30s and 40s. >> host: there is more scope for my particular talent but in the purchase of we have seems similarly enough last couple of years we have the tarp authority during the housing meltdown which was only supposed to last for a little while. we have

the highest gallup approval of any president since eisenhower. and if you go before be ray began, so he replaces a president who fails to get reelected, an incumbent who loses. that was jimmy carter. prior to carter was gerald ford who never won the presidential election. then prior to that you had richard nixon who, of course, resigned in disgrace. prior to that, lbj whose presidency went so bad that he declined to even pursue his party' renomination for -- pa party's renomination for president. lbj replaced a president who was killed in office. if you go back before eisenhower, harry truman talked about the presidency like the great white jail, a prisoner of the presidency. truman had the highest disapproval rating of any president, basically, until george w. bush. go back to the oh 20s -- to the '20s. woodrow wilson's two-term presidency ended in despair. he had two or three strokes in the final 18-24 months of his presidency. go after reagan. george h. west desw. bush got en 1988 largely because as anybody in here over 30 would remember, larg

for example in kansas and one half august working with the archives of president dwight eisenhower from where i went to independence missouri to look at the archives of president truman. i started actually in austin with obj and i went back several times throughout the period of research because i found that period very critical in terms of relationships into changing attitudes in america between the presidency and bankers and the citizens and so forth. and i really just dug in deep and i did as well but i would find in some cases i had to submit acts to unearth certain documents for the more recent presidents of it hasn't been unearthed yet and in some cases for example the ronald reagan library in california the archive really kind of took my projects to hard and spent some of her own time really trying to look for documents for me as i was sitting there going through the boxes i had you research they bring out the boxes and it is almost like a race. you know, you're going through the boxes what can i find. and there can be anything. so it could be anything from letters about, you kno

bridges built during the eisenhower era. so, they don't meet current >> american legion commander dan linger will discuss allegations of mismanagement. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine it talks about ukraine's elections and continued unrest. and an examination of obama management style. and we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. washington journal on c-span. >> in the weekly addresses, president obama paid tribute to those who have given their lives to this country. will schuster gave the republican -- bill shuster gave the republican address. >> hi, everybody. it's memorial day weekend. a chance for americans to get together with family and friends, break out the grill, and kick off the unofficial start of summer. more importantly, it's a time to remember the heroes whose sacrifices made these moments possible -- our men and women in uniform who gave their lives to keep our nation safe and free. from those shots fired at lexington and concord more than two centuries ago to our newe

because eisenhower also had cattle and just there every day and poring through this information.i went to every single place, and i wanted the big six bankers of that time. these people were head of their banks for decades, and if they weren't, they were in the treasury department or the defense department or the state department or the national security department. there wasn't a place where there wasn't overlapping interaction, and it wasn't just because wall street was influencing washington, it was because washington and wall street were the same thing and two sides of the same coin of power. all of the stories that i found really just show that there was so much personal integration. there was personal integration in the families of power through, you know, you talk about -- well, you write about the new deal and fdr in your book. one of the most fascinating things when i went to the fdr library in hyde park, new york, was i was looking at documents that no one else had looked at because no one else had thought that maybe all the people running the banks were friends with fd

and in the eisenhower years combined 91% tax rate. maybe that's why we have some lunch program and not the fact that essentially are major investor a pattern clear from the world stage and predictably by 1973 the rest of the world has begun to recover. japan is a thriving economy of the squad. most of russia rebuild spirit u.s. is troubling because it is taking the wrong lessons from the war. we start to have this great economic stagnation in the 1970's. men's income in the united states in real terms peaked in 1973 which is rare on the thomas was born. yet we continue to try to 70 1870's from all of korea, where. the protection, particularly in the field of agriculture, but you have the other makers. can't possibly be expected to compete. a lot of the same rhetoric. today about china. porat collectivist and don't have our standard of living. of course that tokyo held much higher standards of living in detroit did. and yet we still say, well, the wave of the future, windmills and solar energy and green energy, but the market is just n

it goes back to the eisenhower administration. john mccain who is screaming outrage on this, if i will bet you anything that in his files, in his office, in arizona, there are veterans complaining about what happened in that va hospital and all of a sudden everybody is concerned when everybody fully well knew this was -- and every member of the house and senate can protect these va hospitals. those were the questions i would have asked if i was there but that was your business. >> you raise a fair point. we should point out that the va has been a massive bureaucracy that's been under fire for a long time. i don't know if it's all the way back to eisenhower, however, the bush administration has to answer why they didn't fix it either. there were two wars started in the bush administration, that certainly swelled the ranks and the logs of veterans who need benefits and we got to take care of the men and women who serve for us so you got to follow-up on that. but you right, that happened in the bush administration, but i got news for

when general eisenhower spoke those words our nation and its military were approaching a period of greatvictory had been achieved in europe, the war would end in the coming months. soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines were beginning to come home, get on with their lives and our country began to ask itself, where should we go from here? today as we conclude 13 years of war, the longest in our history, americans are approaching another period of transition. as always these times of change and uncertainty require exceptional leadership. they demand leaders who are strong in the face of challenges, who are wise in the face of complexity. who are prudent in the face of uncertainty and who are as humble as the courageous individuals they lead. our commander-in-chief is one of those exceptional leaders. the president was in afghanistan less than 24 hours ago. and on behalf of all of our military men and women and their families across the world, i want to thank him and his personal commitment to those deployed in harm's way. ladies and gentlemen, i'm honored to introduce to you now, the presid

eisenhower's days, using , is almostworkers impossible.one of the ironies is that president ronald reagan and the idea of shrinking government, he advocated for it, he asked congress to pass it, and he then funded into law a five cent asked -- five cent gas tax increase. some would argue he expanded government in the way that he increased the gas tax because he saw the value of it and saw the need for the transportation projects around the country. host: you were asked if the gas subways and trains. are those riding the subways and trains paying their fair share? guest: it depends on who you ask. that is definitely one of the political issues on the hill. that drivers are the ones paying into the trust fund, and a transit project does not affect the road that they see in front of them. but think of, especially in the d.c. region -- this is important -- think of the hundreds of thousands of people that take our subway system every day. many of those people would probably have to be driving otherwise. while you might not see it in front of y

instead general eisenhower arrived in paris in 1851 as the supreme allied commander fear. by 195311 u.s. air force ranks and five army divisions and 50 navy warships had followed. militaries of nato nations began working together. it began working to integrate north american in the european strategy. america did not make commitments in search of monsters to destroy instead president truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he said he was convinced that nato would serve as a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression and thereby let us get on with the real business of government and society. truman joined the north atlantic treaty because he was as he put it a simple document that if it had existed in 1914 and in 1939 would have prevented two world wars. america was committed to nato because nato would help protect vital american interests by reinforcing the unity of transatlantic security. nato would ultimately protect security and prosperity here at home with this alliance. a truth that i believe endures to this day. on the centennial of the start of worl

stretch at the circle interchange at the eisenhower this looks like it's in bound. one plane moving slow. it has bought into that circle. at the county line they're doing 15 minutes. the clean closures. work on 57 as well. all those details and more coming up. >> the blackhawks are perfect at home in the playoffs, heading into a re-match against the kings in the western conference final. butl-a tied the game shortly after a hawks' goal was disallowed. so it's one- all in the second... duncan keith fires a long shot that defects off a defenseman and in for the go- ahead goal... his third of playoffs. still up late in the final period... hawks with a three- on- one breakaway and jonathan toews buries the one- timer for his sixth goal. corey crawford made 25 saves, and the hawks win 3-1. game two is wednesday night. we'll have more coming up in sports. a 3-year-old girl is found dead inside a home on chicago's northwest side. erik runge joins us *live with more. >> good morning. this is still a developing story. police are still out there at the scene the street is clo

as we commemorate the fallen, i think of the wisdom and humility of general dwight david eisenhower.how accomplished or celebrated he might be, would sadly face the fact that his honors cannot hide in his memories the crosses marking the resting places of the dead. they cannot soothe the anguish of the widow or the orphan whose husband or father or son or daughter will not return. when general eisenhower spoke those words, our nation and its military were approaching a period of great transition. victory had been achieved in europe. the war would end in the coming months. soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines were beginning to come home, get on with their lives. our country began to ask itself, where should we go from here? today as we conclude 13 years of war, the longest in our history, america is approaching another period of transition. as always, these times of change and uncertainty require exceptional leadership. they demand leaders who are strong in the face of challenges. who are wise in the face of complexity. who are prudent in the face of uncertainty. and who are as humbl

in 1957, eisenhower returns to paris.t thein his address first nato summit, he connected the transatlantic commitments to the vitality of our factories and mills. our trading centers on farms and businesses. to our right at home. home.our rights at our rights to think freely and pray freely. those who doubt our commitment to a broad should consider that freedom. we must remember it is always perishable. e liked to say, it takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice by people to bring about the inevitable. without engagement, america would face more conflict, not less. on the terms of our adversaries, not on our own terms. that is why the commitment to our allies in europe and around the world is not a burden. not a luxury. it is a necessity. and it must be unwavering. thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, secretary hagel, for a -- remarks that would inspire the cornhuskers and the entire world. few questionske a from the audience. please suggest you -- identify yourself and i would suggest you sta

but eisenhower had won the war in europe, accepted the nazi surrender.nse education act, which is the reason i got through college and a lot of us did, it was because of sputnik. we said we're losing the war of technology to the russians. i think perhaps when china passes us in gdp, whenever that happens, it may have already happened in certain counts, we're going to wake up and say we are not doing what we as american to do. and the tragedy today, joe, is it's politics. the people that want to go out and spend the money are the democrats but the public doesn't trust the democrats to spend money because they blow it away, they pee it away in many cases, look at the stimulus package. republicans are trusted more in efficiency but they don't want to do it. so you have the people who want to do it who aren't trusted and the people who are trusted don't want to do it. we have got to get together on efficiency and ambition for our country. joe, i think you're at the center on this and that's -- the things you talk about are so right. get it together and they

army war college up at carlisle, pennsylvania, and holds the eisenhower chair of national security. i think that is all of the groundwork we need to cover, and with that, i would like please for jan to begin our program. >> thank you. at first glance the story of uss kirk, the lucky few, book that i'm speaking about, seems a little storied. it seems almost insignificant. the 35 years, this story remained unknown and untold. and that may be for a very simple reason. it's a vietnam story. when our most traumatic and divisive conflict since the civil war ended in chaos, and some say shame, americans wanted nothing more to do with vietnam. it was a nightmare best forgotten. a little story and insignificant one? on the contrary. this is the vietnam story i think is very much worth telling. in the next few minutes allow me to let you sample just a little piece of it. lieutenant bob lenke wandered into the uss kirk communication center. there was a large radar repeater that consolidated information from other displays. one look at the repeater screen put everything into perspective. each g

fallen, iemorate the think of the wisdom and the humility of our allied commander, dwight david eisenhowerface that his honors cannot last in his memory. they cannot soothe the anguish whose sonow or orphan or daughter will not return. approaching a. of great transition. the three had been achieved in europe. the war would end in the coming months. soldiers were beginning to come home and get on with their lives. itself,try began to ask where should we go from here? conclude 13 years of war, we are approaching another. of transition. these times of change and uncertainty require exceptional leadership. they demand leaders who are strong in the face of challenges. who are wise in the face of complexity. who are prudent in the face of uncertainty. as the is humble courageous individuals they lead. our commander-in-chief is one of those exceptional leaders. he was in afghanistan less than 24 hours ago. military of all of our men and women and their families, i want to thank him and his personal commitment to those deployed in harm's way. ladies and gentlemen i am now,ed to introduce to you th

reporters found out about her and was about to publish the facts of this liaison and macarthur cent eisenhower to find her and got her a way. it was up lot on his personal life paid her 15,000 that is considerable amount in 1935. for her to be quiet and. he was not married at the time he shows athletic about bill is having an affair. [laughter] but he was worried about what his mother would say. and that is why. he is not without personal blemishes but no suggestion he launched the philippine innovation to impress a woman. >> or that he chose that area. >> his original thinking with the joint chiefs of staff said they would go to the southernmost island but leahy was chosen as the from the vanilla campaign -- the manila campaign. >> you mention the u.s. was surprised by war with japan but if you go to pearl harbor a museum exhibit and in tuz said japanese exhibits on the west side then the japanese side, but the japanese were competing for resources and the u.s. was a impediment to diplomatic relations breaking down, japanese were making war against regional areas including china where the u.s

did you mention this has been an issue well before obama was ever heard of, just back to the eisenhower administration and did anybody mention the fact that veterans are angry, they send in letters, constituent letters. john mccann who is screaming t outrage. i will bet you anything that in his files and office in arizona there are veterans complaining about what happened in the va hospital and all of a sudden everybody is concerned. every member of the house and the senate can protect these va hospitals. >> those are questions i would have asked if i were there but that's your business. >> you raise a fair point. we should point out that the va has been a bureaucracy that has been under fire for a long time. i don't know if it's all the way back to the eisenhower administration but certainly the bush administration rappelled with this and they have to answer for why they didn't fix it either. in terms of iraq and afghanistan, jay carney made that point at the podium. it bares repeating. there were two wars started in the bush administration. that certainly swelled the ranks and the log

dwight eisenhower is at the center of another naming controversy here in d.c.l to the president but eisenhower's grandchildren have denounced the resign, calling it insufficiently respectful. and now a bill was introduced to rename washington union station as truman station. the station is owned by the federal government. congress does have the power to change the name if it chooses. d.c.'s mayor said he wants the city council to have input into the naming as well. and present presided in the renaming of a state department building in 2000. others have voiced concern naming the station after the first president to order the use of the atomic bomb. harry truman once wrote "when i was presiding judge of the jackson county court, people wanted to name every road in the county for me and i wouldn't allow it. i have no desire to have road, bridges or buildings name after me." joining me now is senator mccaskill. why not abide by harry truman's words? what's the motivation? >> there's no question that harry truman might be a little cranky about this but i think he's

but, you know, as i say, eisenhower warned by the industrial complex. ou see the enormous waste and enormous giveaway contracts to k.b.r. and la salle burton and -- and haliburton and look and martin and boeing raytheon. people think there is waste. they have no idea what is going tax dollars. own there is a great convergence of eft-right on that which has to emerge. host: has this president done anything about this? talk i have heard him about -- it is now a lip service issue. the pentagon. the government accountability g.a.o., they have been told by the pentagon that they by have data for an audit 2017. we have heard that song before. hey don't even know where billions of spare parts are sometimes. they have to buy new spare parts. all over the f world. barney by ron paul and frank formed a caucus in 2010, ibertarian and massachusetts liberal democrat to cut the bloated pentagon budget. host: why has not the big media covered things like this? they?ve guest: they have covered it very little. walter pincus a little. foreignrage of military policy other

republican, dwight eisenhower, who built the system.te highway it was ronald reagan who said that rebuildingur investmenture is an in tomorrow that we must make today. since when are the republicans against ronald reagan? problem.s part of the we've gotten so partisan, everything's becoming political. they're more interested in saying no because they're they'd have maybe to be at a bill signing with me at actually doing a job that they know would be good for america. to stope for folks running around saying what's wrong with america. sleeves and let's get to work and help america rebuild. [cheers and applause] what we should be doing. we don't need a can't do spirit. can do spirit. that's what governor cuomo has. it sounds like the state legislature was willing to work with him on this. we need congress to work with us issues. it doesn't mean they're going to agree with us on everything. i guarantee you they will have disagree enough to with me about. but let's not fight on something makes sense. after all, we're the people who the depressionf lifted a great bridge in california and laid a g

his media consultant, his adviser mary eisenhower did a great job and blew this race open.ce open. >> mary eisenhower, an inside pro if there ever was one. thank you all. governor, we only have time for that thought. now you made your prediction, a 20-point spread. >> at least. >> we'll be right back with chuck todd and our political roundtable. you're watching ""hardball," the place for politics. jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. i began losing my sight to an eye disease when i was 10. but i learned to live with my blindness a long time ago. so i don't let my blindness get in the way of doing the things i love. but sometimes it feels like my body doesn't know the difference between day and night. i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day.

general eisenhower, someone with hard-earned knowledge on this subject, said at this remony in 1947, is mankinds most tragic and stupid folly. to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. like eisenhower, this generation of men and women in uniform know all too well the wages of war, and that includes those of you here at west point. four of the service members who stood in the audience when i announced the surge of our forces in afghanistan gave heir lives in that effort. a lot more were wounded. i believe that america's security demanded those deployments, but i am haunted by those deaths. i am haunted by those wounds. and i would betray my duty to you and to the country we love if i ever sent you into harm's way simply because i saw a problem somewhere in the world that needed to be fixed. or because i was worried about critics who think military intervention is the only way for america to avoid looking eak. here's my bottom line. america must always lead on the world stage. .f we don't, no one else will the military that you have joined is and al

because he is part of the cia apparatus that links up with the national security council in the eisenhower presidency he becomes he says a frustrated policymaker and he spends his time working on foreign-policy issues for the eisenhower administration and the cia. in 1961 john f. kennedy is elected. komer believes as he says my crockery, might pottery was smashed and i had to return to the cia but he doesn't. it turns out that george bundy the national security adviser asks him to stay on and he will stay on for the next five years on the kennedy and johnson, lyndon baines johnson's staff on the national security staff working on a number of issues. until a fateful day in march of 1966 when lyndon johnson calls into the oval office. you can imagine the texas drawl area to men alone in a room and he answers bob i wanted to do something about the war in vietnam. congress's reply is mr. president what is the war in vietnam? he says it's not that the war is destroying anything that i want part of that war to build up south vietnam. i want to develop economic way, politically and socially. i do

. >> and it might be a republican for the first time since the eisenhower administration. i know you want the democrat, but my broader question is has west virginia turned republican? >> west virginia has always been what i call fiscally responsible. fiscally conservative. we have never had the luxury of having money we could just throw at things. every individual that runs their house shod about the same scenario. with that being said, the social values that we are who we are, we are a god-loving, god-fearing, and -- >> republican state? >> well, i don't know if you -- why they always determine that to be -- it >> well, i mean if you like the a republican president and if for the first time since eisenhower, you get a republican senator that would tell you something. >> i respectfully disagree. the energy policy that the president has or the lack of an energy policy as far as i'm concerned, because tough use everything, all the above energy to be energy independent, to be more secured as a nation, not to be fighting words we shouldn't be in for far too long. rebuilding am

of lee and grant that is very famous and so he had been telling me what a great book this was on eisenhower and i happened to catch a lecture on c-span. i thought while my buddy has been inviting me to read this book and one other experience i had it was 20 years ago but it was great stuff so i'm going to read this book. when you're my age you remember eisenhower said h so he has this historical figure that lincoln as a real person so i find i feel like just because my life experience i have some connection with either having lived through the presidency or on occasion metadata and it's a fascinating thing. it's typically sometimes recommended to them and put together. i think that we are going to do lincoln this month and we are going to have three or four that are particularly good. but i wish i could take credit for that idea. i said nobody is going to be interested in what i'm reading and surprisingly it's become a question i get in my district quite a bit. they like to know what you're thinking about and they hope it's not just politics all the time. it's kind of refreshing. it actuall

it would be utterly foreign to leaders like roosevelt and truman, eisenhower and kennedy.ptionalism with every fiber of my being but what makes us exceptional is not flouting international norms and the rule of law, it's our willingness to affirm them through our actions. [ applause ] that's why i will continue to push to close gitmo because american values do not permit indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. [ applause ] that's why we're putting in place new restrictions on how america collects and uses intelligence because we will have fewer partners and be less effective if a perception takes hold that we're conducting surveillance against ordinary citizens. [ applause ] america does not simply stand for stability or the absence of conflict no matter what the cost. we stand for the more lasting peace that can only come through opportunity and freedom for people everywhere. which brings me to the fourth and final element of american leadership. our willingness to act on behalf of human dignity. america's support for democracy and human rights goes beyond idea