signed, general dwight d eisenhower.today, we mark with solemn gratitude the 70th anniversary of operation overlord, known as d-day, an event often called in western civilizations "longest day," the final, most critical assault on nazi germany. it was the largest amphibious assault in history. 570,000 tons of supplies. 12,000 aircraft and their paratroopers and support. 200,000 naval personnel. 156,000 troops crossing the channel from southern england to liberate europe from nazi domination. the surprise attack on enemy positions extended along a 50 mile coast. the variables were staggering. the allies needed optimal landing and beach conditions, a full moon, low tide, and moderate waves. the fate of occupied europe, the defeat of the enemy, and the survival of jews in concentration and death camps depended on the success. eisenhower's decision to go after a suspenseful delay was made while facing turbulent and uncertain weather conditions. this and the unprecedented scale of the operation prompted general eisenhower to

that's why eisenhower was so perfect.ies that he did or didn't do on the 10th by staying modest and reverend. it shows the grace of the man of why he did perform so well. >> let's go back to your grandfather. what's your favorite story of your grandfather from world war ii? >> he liked a crowd. he liked to fill a room. he liked to say things that were slightly off color or slightly profane, because it was good press. it got him in trouble many times. he was very much a believer in leadership. he talked about being frustrated as a young officer that he wanted to read about leadership and go to the library. he could find volumes on tactics or armaments but only pages and paragraphs on leadership. that fascinated him. just what we were talking about, comparing him with someone like eisenhower. patton's style was visible personality. he was leading with brashness and dressing up and bravado and the ivory-handled pistols. that was his style. it worked for him in the moment he was given by fate and history. >> eisenhower, a dif

but eisenhower said you can only coil the tail once.this had failed, there are all sorts of scenarios that the soviets could have marched across europe, the world could have been dominated after world war ii by the soviet union or nazi germany. we would be living in a very different world. many of us would not be here. >> you know andrea when you think about that fact and you think about the president's remarks where he's -- that was the only place where he injected -- i don't want to say he injected politics but he injected a little poke at sort of modern technology and modern media, what michael just brought up, if it didn't work look at the first day, it would have been called a debacle. >> i thought it was a little bit -- a little petty to make that comment about the way history is recorded in 140 characters nowadays. we all understand that but in the moment it didn't feel quite right. but look at president obama greeting these veterans. and the fact that the queen is here. this is probably her last overseas trip. she's 88 years old

signed, general dwight d eisenhower.today we mark the anniversary of operation overlord. it was the largest amphibious assault in history, a vast undertaking. more than 7000 ships and landing supplies,,000 tons of airmen, paratroopers, and support. 200 thousand naval personnel, 160,000 troops crossed the english channel from southern england to liberate europe from nazi domination. the surprise attack extended coast. 15-mile the variables were staggering. the allies needed full moon, low tide, moderate waves. the fate of occupied europe, the defeat of the enemy, and the survival of juice in concentration and death camps -- ews in concentration and mps.h ca this and the us a printed -- unprecedented scale the operation prompted eisenhower to raft a note you would release to the press if the invasion were to fail. troops. myhdrawn the decision to attack at this time in this place was based on the best information available. the troops, the air, the navy did all bravery and devotion to duty could do. if any blame or fault a

eisenhower's people said, ok, i guess we should have one. we will just call it the president's committee on government contracts. they left off compliance. that sounded what the heavy-handed government on business. it was a little friendlier. you were mentioning richard nixon, this is a group that eisenhower asked vice president nixon to get involved in any really jumped in with both feet. there is a parallel with him and lyndon johnson with the kennedys. this eisenhower committee became known as nixon's committee. >> what is your message to the historians here today? what have you been telling them about your research? >> politics matters. the actions of government officials have the potential to shape american society. government is not the only force that shape society and its impact is ambiguous, but nevertheless, the history of government remains central to american history and we need to keep in mind federal actors, that good history requires these individuals be given attention and we continue to explore their impact on american socie

everyone remembered eisenhower.y. >> i'm going to give you the toughest job in the world. describe the moral behavior of the french starting in 1940 through 1945 as a country. their moral behavior? did their collaborate too easily with the nazis? did they join them, not just go along with them, but join them. the jewish people out of france. were they forced to do it or because they wanted to do it? >> both, and then some. you could make both arguments and both would be true. and rosevelt said, as you well know, the greatest cross he had to bear -- >> but he was the good guy. >> yes, he was the best of the group, but not easy either. and de gualle was so obsessed with, as he said, you know, picking up france and elevating it from this degraded position it was in under the nazis that 1966, when he kicked the americans out, lyndon johnson said to the secretary of state, asked him if he also wants to kick out the americans in the cemeteries who essentially saved him. >> let's just thank the world that charles de gualle

fell out of his chair, but eisenhower went onto explain that he built the famous higgins boats.ts that had a flatter bottom that you could run up onto a beach and unload men, supplies, tanks, you have it. >> reporter: and those are the fame you want boats in the photographs and movies. if you look at the show band of brothers or saving private ryan the boats that came up? >> exactly right. >> reporter: they were made here in new orleans. >> they were made here in new orleans. higgins made better than 20,000 landing craft and ships. higgins boats here. and basically,iz eisenhower's point was if you think about world war ii, the united states strategy for victory was am have i been justice landings around the world. we had to project our power to europe where we landed on the beaches in north africa, in sicily, italy twice, france was the big one. but also think about the pacific, where we did it hundreds of times, had we not had those higgins boats, our entire strategy for fighting the war would have had to have been changed. >> reporter: so the good men and women of new orleans

eisenhower didn't want this to be about him.e felt that for him to go to some white house ceremony or to go to normandy would look as if he was congratulating himself. that's what the greatest generation did not do. he was also a very emotional person. on one occasion in 1952, he was speaking during a presidential campaign to a veterans group, began talking about the casualties, the men who had died on d-day, and began to cry and put a handkerchief over his face. this is a guy who is known for -- there's the image of that -- known for anything but this. was usually a very steely character. so on d-day 1954, that tenth anniversary, he spent it not at a ceremony. he spent it at camp david in seclusion with his family and sent out a 300-word statement that was just magnificent in its breve ate and eloquence. >> that's amazing. we're going to find that and post it online tonight at our site along with your tweets about that, which i have to say have been remarkable. i just want to ask you, over time, between then, between 1954 and n

eisenhower with the d-day commanders and staff. this is from the national archives, providing context. our first call this afternoon is from mike in pennsylvania. go ahead, please. >> good morning. thank you for taking my call. a question, my brother is a world war ii veteran. he was shot in the battle of the bulge. the things that peaks my interest on world war ii. the question that i had about the battle of --about the d-day invasion. there are pictures of dirigibles. they are above the ships as they came in. i always wondered what those things were. what was their purpose. they are all over the place. i wondered if you could answer them for me. thank you. >> sure thing. those are called barrage balloons. they are tethered to the ships themselves. the idea is to create enter trafing for potential s by german aircraft. the allies gained overwhelming command of the air, which may d-day possible. an of the reasons invasion would have been very difficult -- we had not gained complete command of the air. by 1944, we had. nevertheless,

a lot about the commanders, dwight eisenhower, montgomery, bradley.but to that you point out in your book, alan kirk and bertram ramsay. who are they and why are they important? >> let me start by -- with bertram ramsay. of the alliedge operation. the reason he was such a good pic is because of his political sensitivity. we think of a general in command as being a warrior, and of course, he must be that. the political sensitivity also made him not a bad president. it allowed him to command not just british and american forces on the same side, but it generally allied command. the significance of that is demonstrated by the fact that all three of his support and -- subordinate commanders, ground, air, and naval troops, were british. british and american troops on both sides. leigh mallory, e mallory -- leigh mallory commanded forces on both sides. and bertram ramsay was the naval commander about which meant that he commanded not just the naval ships on d-day and in the months after, but allied forces, including american forces. which means that two ame

two years before he commanded the armies, eisenhower's troops tore through north africa. three times before d-day, our gi's stormed the beaches of sicily, salerno. enzio. divisions like the fighting 36 bawled their way through italy, fighting through the mud for months, marching through towns past waving children before opening the gates to rome. as the dog faces marched to victory in europe, the devil dogs, the marines clawed their way from island to island in the pacific in some of the war's fiercest fighting. back home, an army of women, including my grandmother, rolled up their sleeves to help build a mighty arsenal of democracy. it was here on these shores that the tide was turned in the common struggle for freedom. what more powerful manifestation of america's commitment to human freedom than the sight of wave after wave after wave of young men boarding those boats to liberate people they had never met. we say it now as if it could not be any other way, but in the annals of history, the world had never seen anything like it. when the war was won, we claimed no spoil

and it was also what eisenhower, the supreme commander, called a great crusade. and we sometimes forget that in our cynicism about history and the past. this was a crusade as the president was saying, to liberate europe, and that's a powerful idea that i think we should also reflect on. >> the president also got personal when he talked about his own grandmother, who helped the war effort at home. we talk about these boys who became men and then there were the women, the women who were part of the massive war effort to build the material. >> that's why i say we today are very much removed from war, very different situation. no family practically was untouched by war at that time, whether it was a son or a husband in service or the mom who was going off to work in factory, the rosie the riveters changed america forever. >> let's listen for a second here. they're playing "taps" there, the tribute to what happened 70 years ago. that just ended, i should say. but you can see, again, president barack obama, french leader francois hollandee, standing amongst the veteran

one of the great contributions of eisenhower was his political savvy. eisenhower knew from day one that he had to command a truly allied army, not an associated army of some british and some canadians and some americans. none of this stuff. he was ferocious in defending that. he says i don't mind if a soldier calls another soldier a son of a bitch. soldiers will do that. if you call them a british son of a bitch, you are going home. that attitude that he brought with him was crucial. if you look at the diagram in the command structure, all of his subordinate commanders were all british officers. it is an america in overall command but all british officers in the middle echelon. within one of the british units, the canadian third division as well. i think what happened was in the year prior to the invasion, eisenhower was successful in creating this notion of "we are one army." that did not mean there were not difficulties back and forth but he hammered out a lot of that stuff before he could ever get there. ok? anybody else? tim? >> just a quick questio

didn't want his successor, president eisenhower, uninformed as he felt he was. remember truman didn't even know manhattan project. so truman establishes the c.i.a. briefings, but on his watch it takes a newer urgency. 15 years ago this month we the coming pound the george bush center for intelligence. and we've sent an artifact out to the 41 library at college theion, texas, it is original legislation signed by president clinton, renaming the after george herbert walker bush. >> when you say the compound mean?oes that >> that means 258 acres here at langley, virginia. site that has an intelligence history that goes back to the civil war, reconnaisance balloons were launched from here. it's a high plateau over the potomac and washington. twoe are the remnants of civil war camps on the property and over the years as we built those new buildings the haveruction projects turned up civil war era relics that we have in our collection. eisenhower laid the corner stone for this original haryz building on the 3rd of november, 1959. the george washington parkway of theend

how is it that we have these massive commemorations now but eisenhower did donn't do that. >> eisenhoweredles to say ten years later, almost everyone alive remembered this with huge excitement. eisenhower didn't want this to be about him. he felt that for him to go to some white hauser moneyy, to go to normandy would look like he was congratulating himself. that's what the greatest generation did not do. he was also a very emotional person. on one occasion, 1952, he was speaking during the presidential campaign to a veterans group, began talking about the casualties, the men who had died on d-day and began to cry and put a hank kerchief over his face. this is a guy who's known for -- there's the image of that. he was known for anything but this. he was usually a very steely character. he spent it not at a ceremony, he sent it at camp david with his family. he sent out a 300 word statement that was magnificent in its brevity and eloquence. >> that's amazing. we'll find that and post that online tonight at our site along with your tweets about that which i have to say have been remarkable.

this great fight to repeat the expression of general eisenhower records a simple reality, truth, which must always be born in mind in all circumstances. the freedom is a struggle, it's not something obvious as some may believe within our nations who believe that freedom is like the air that we breath. it comes naturally, and that we don't even need to give it a second thought. yet freedom is always a struggle. it is never acquired. there are always men and women who must rise up to defend it, 70 years after d-day. the freedom is still threatened in too many countries throughout the world. here on 6 june, on the popes of normandy, 70 years ago the democracies had united to defend a just cause, and the cause is our own today. it is no longer the allies who must rise to take it back from those who threaten us it is the united nations who have the responsibility of peace, but the u.n., united nations must face up to the mission that was given to them after the end of the war, and to ensure selective security. i have talked about courage. the courage of the combatants of the fighters, the r

we have the trowel that president eisenhower and alan dulles used that day to lay the mud. two years later the building is ready to occupy. and in his remarks at the dedication of the building, alan dulles includes a bible quote. that bible quote says, ye shall know the truth and the truth have make you free. then dulles asked that that be carved into the fabric of our building, because for mr. dulles truth and freedom are the pillars upon which c.i.a.'s work is built. so 1961 is when we begin occupying the building, the same year the we are lynn wall went up. president reagan broke ground for the new building in 1984, that building was ready to occupy in '88. we during the cold war different options for collection platforms were explored including those that the animal kingdom might present. so behind us is the case of our animal spies. and the largest object in the case is aquiline, this was a u.a.v. developed in the late 60's, meant look look like an eagle that could be folded into migration flocks that might fly over a hard target area to provide oblique imagery or elec

eventually, president eisenhower names him as ambassador to thailand, but by then, donovan is alreadyrting to show the ravages of arterial sclerosis of the brain, each eventually claims him on february 9, 1959. arlington to rest in cemetery, up on the hill with some of the major military leaders from our countries history. and you would go there expecting to see a monumental headstone to the father ofn, central intelligence, the military hero, this highly decorated american officer of world war i. but instead, you will see the ordinary soldiers' headstone. but it will say medal of honor on it. you remember young lieutenant commander richard helms. we met earlier in the gallery. it seemsd of the war, he may have been one of the first american intelligence officers to get into hitler's bunker in bavaria, where he very well could have picked up this piece of hitler's letterhead. the historical record does not indicate exactly where he may have picked it up. day,on victory in europe he writes this note to his three-year-old son. dear dennis, the man some might have written on this card on

you were mentioning richard nixon, this is a group that eisenhower asked vice president nixon to get involved in any really jumped in with both feet. there is a parallel with him and lyndon johnson with the kennedys. this eisenhower committee became known as nixon's committee. >> what is your message to the historians here today? what have you been telling them about your research? >> [inaudible] politics matters. the actions of government officials have the potential to shape american society. government is not the only force that shape society and its , butt is ambiguous nevertheless, the history of government remains central to american history and we need to actors,mind federal that good history requires these individuals be given attention and we continue to explore their impact on american society. >> a professor at virginia commonwealth diversity -- university. thank you for being with us. >> you are watching american history tv on c-span 3. coming up next, brian greg miller -- brian craig miller. >> he teaches a variety of courses in the 19th century u.s. he is the author of

army signal corps under the leadership of general eisenhower, who was responsible for the historic invasion on d-day 70 years ago this year. where was george stevens during that time in june of 1944? >> stevens was right there at d-day, overseeing the shooting -- just as john ford was there overseeing the shooting of the navy. stevens was there overseeing the shooting done by the army. of all of the major battles and turning points in the war, d-day was the one that allies filmmakers had the longest and best opportunity to prepare for. this was a filming effort that involved hundreds of cameras, both stationary and manned, and dozens of cameramen. as the work progressed, often war progressed, often his function was to coordinate an effort with the allies, british or canadian, and that was one of the things he did at d-day. ford asked if stevens would not mind working with the british to help shore up their filmmaking effort, and i believe the ships that stevens arrived on the ship that stevens arrived on was a british ship. >> he was kind. his greatest blunder was this. he thought he could

a big closure in the eisenhower. going to be blocked as well.f you're planning on coming in from the eisenhower looking to get up north what you can do is take it off at western take that as an alternate all if a line 90. >> coming in from the south side. think about exiting. continue to arrive 55 or take licks her drive to get downtown. as always the biggest tip public transportation. if you're just passing through not having to downtown get on to the trusty and avoided altogether. it all starts friday at 10:00. >> thanks a lot. check for updates. the redevelopment of the old post office on the near west side may soon be under way. sterling bay is joining forces with the british developer. >> including fire damage. best known for transforming spaces into gleaming offices. including the storage building in st. roseville. >> food trucks may be a safer place to eat and eating in an actual arrest the. according to the institute of justice which analyzed with a 250,000 inspections over the around the country. at about half as many average violations

the eisenhower opened up early this morning, after flooding brought traffic to a halt. details in a *live report. three firefighters are hurt battling a fire overnight at a south suburban car shop. and george lucas picks chicago for the future home of his "star wars" museum. good morning. i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy. thanks for joining us on the wgn morning news at *4 a-m. demetrius ivory has a check of our weather. good morning, demetrius. we have some fault with this morning. >> that's a brand of that saturation from the rain. 2 in. more than normal, the month. we still have a week ago. we are expecting more showers but it will be more widespread. not everyone is going to see that heavy rain. temperatures are going to drop we have been above 80 for the last week. today we think those high temperatures will struggle to reach 80. tens of greedense fog out there righ it's 3 mi. at midway. at this moment we are dry. you have to take these moments as they have been short-lived. 75 degrees by 5:00 p.m.. typical high is 83. we have isolated showers and storms late to

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, but what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law, it is to affirm them through our actions. [applause] 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. [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 costs, 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 f

now a little bit later we're covering this on c-span, susan eisenhower, the granddaughter of dwight eisenhower will be speaking down here at the memorial. you'll be able to see that tonight along with president obama's speech from this morning at normandy on the 70th anniversary. it was presidential reagan who spoke on the 40th anniversary of d-day. >> we stand on a lonely point on the northern shore of france. the air is soft but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men and the air was filled with a crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. at dawn and the morning of the 6th of june 1944, 225 rangers jumped off the craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. to climb these cliffs, and take out the enemy guns. the allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here. they would be trained on the beaches to stop the allies. they saw the enemy soldiers shooting down with machine guns and throwing grenades. the american rangers began to climb. they shot rope ladders over the peace of -- face of these cliffs and began to fall. they climbe

eisenhower agreed to push the invasion to the following day, june 6th.rces prepared for the historic operation while the general met with the 101st airborne ddition just three hours before their departure for the normandy shores. captain stagg's advice proved to be sound. the weather on june 6th was not perfect but it allowed the operation to proceed without further delay. and that is what is so extraordinary extraordinary, the elements of the unknown. as i send it back to you in normandy, mike, we talked about the weather, but you talk about as we heard one veteran say, going to a commercial break, you didn't know what lay ahead, but you prepared two years for this one day. i have to wonder if they knew what was ahead, what would they have thought, what would they have felt? how would they have approached this day, because so many made the ultimate sacrifice. there was no way around that. >> well i think the key probably was that they didn't think about it. they just knew that they were going, that the orders were to go and no one, no one could comprehe

you know a lot more than any of us about eisenhower.things that's so striking is that he could have had any opportunity to come back, certainly 1954, tenth anniversary, he was president and chose to go to camp david. this was not wanting to brag about the achievement. is that the right context? >> he was the epitome of tom brokaw has rightly come to call the greatest generation. among other things about the heroism, they didn't like to talk about it. and especially the supreme commander, you have the first big anniversary of d-day with a round number and he's president of the united states, all sorts of pressure, let's have a ceremony, maybe you should fly to france. i said i won't do any of that and spent the weekend with his family at camp david. didn't let himself be seen and issued one little 300 word statement, he didn't want it to be about him. >> and then lbj did not want to travel ten years later because it was within the year of the assassination of jfk. >> indeed. >> he didn't want to leave the country. then watergate consumed

eisenhower at a different time once said that morale is the single most important factor in successful wars. morale was what united the allies powers, not a desire to conquer real estate but the desire to defeat the tyrants of europe, to liberate the prisoners of war and those in concentration camps and forever to defeat the evil ideology that motivated adolf hitler and his ilk. we know the world we live in is always filled with great uncertainty and unfortunately with evil men and those who would smash democracy and self-government under the boot heel of dictators and tyrants. so while we fervently pray for peace always, we must always be ready to defeat those tyrants, dictators and those who would crush democracy under their boot heel. d-day reminds us that the united states can and should always stand with our friends against terror and tyranny. back home in texas, we have another reminder of this day. for the first time since the war, the battle flag that was raised above the u.s.s. texas as it entered the waters off point dehawk on june 6, 1944, is now on public display at the hou

. >> eisenhower had said, no, that didn't happen, et cetera, et cetera.been drawn into a trap. by >> the soviet later able to show not only shot down the plane but they had the pilot. >> gary powers, ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances and in a way magnified by them. >> i realize that i have committed a grave crime and i realize that i must be punished for it. >> the evidence of espionage, currency, presumably for the spy to buy his way to freedom. and the spy's last resort, a poison needle with which to kill himself instantly if captured and threatened with torture. >> no one wants another pearl harbor. this means that we must have knowledge of military forces and preparations around the world. the safety of the whole free world demands this. >> our government was in effect admitting we had previously lied and that we had committed espionage. admissions no nation had ever made before. >> how will this mission affect the united states do you think? >> i feel it gives the americans a black eye all over europe. >> i think we thought to sin

going in one nine hundred fifty two you had a republican to eisenhower who was elected on a message of expanding so security expanding unionization expand increasing the minimum wage increasing workers' rights cutting the work week work keeping to forty hours protecting workers all these kinds of things and conservatives like russell kirk in fifty one fifty two he wrote this book called the good sort of mind which created the modern conservative movement they looked at this and they said you know if these people get rich enough these working class people if they move into the middle class middle class traditionally where the small business owners the doctors the lawyers but if a guy who works in a factory could actually buy a house and his kids can go to college without being terrified that they're going to get you know they're going to get kicked out or go broke. if that happens if the working class becomes the middle class then you're going to see riots in the streets you're going to see social upheaval in america russell kirk predicted this in one thousand nine hundred fifty one. an

her father was a purple heart in world war ii, world war ii, an eisenhower republican.her was a complete lefty who loved the fact that her vote canceled out her husbands every single time. they both believed in education. sally was an emphasis after sputnik and she was a little grove and sputnik went up in she benefited from all of that. i was in high school. i remember going outside in my backyard on a cold november night and looking up and see this thing going around, the thing that started the space race in the space age. you turn on the radio and it was really scary. sally benefited from the push from the christian science after that. she benefited from the women's movement. she did not plan her life far in the van and when opportunity knocks, she was ready to open the doors celebrate through a period i used to tell her this coming summer she said in the stanford union that day when she read the article that said nasa was looking for women, the fact she could change your career plans like that, that she could just move on it i thought was a great lesson. sally took

going back to lbj were eisenhower, not even a party thing.there are those who had the idea of accountability and made it stick with the financial institutions. in 1956, eisenhower, republican president, wanted to make sure that banks cannot continue to concentrate because they were getting too much power, even though he golfed with them. it can be done. scratched thee surface. it is a dense text, but it is a good one, and if you ever wanted to know the history about these hidden alliances that drive american power, you will want to read the latest from nomi prins. it is called "all the presidents' bankers: the hidden alliances that drive american power." >> thank you. tavis: coming up, actor noah wyle. stay with us. for many of us, noah wyle will be, at least, in part, the doctor, a role he played over 11 seasons in the long-running series "er," where he earned five emmy's, and he is now in another series, "falling skies," about americans battling an alien invasion. it is about to start its fourth season. let's take a look at a clip from the

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 look

this morning, susan eisenhower the granddaughter of dwight eisenhower. will be speaking.u will be able to see that on c-span along with the president's speech from normandy. thank you all for being with us and enjoy your day.

among the speakers, the granddaughter of general dwight eisenhower and the great-grandson of franklinevelt. bruce you spent your morning at a local d-day remembrance with very very special guests. >> reporter: that's right, dawn. men who were part of the american fighting force that hit the beach, if i was the inland battle that followed and, yeah, lived to tell about all of it. >> the eyes of the world are upon you. >> reporter: 90 year old russell deck we are watches historic of the d-day invasion and listens to the inspiration words of general eisenhower with a bit more interest than most. >> good luck and let us seek the blessing of almighty god among this great and noble undertake. >> deck we are was there landing with his army cam rods and utah beach three days after the initial assault. he remembers the carnage. >> barricades in the water and barbed wire and shell holes and it was -- everything was in diss i was rash. >> reporter: d-day was the beginning of a massive allied push into and through france, belgium and finally nazi germa germany. decker was involved in four major b