the other big issue is on the eisenhower.halfies bound like shut down between first and harlem as the work to get that cleaned up on the eye. efficacy a lot of water on the roads they are waiting to clear. you will be rerouted through the stretch this morning so think about the stevenson which is very light. >> coming up, see how the mayor of toledo, ohio approves the water is safe to drink. and marc trestman cut its practice short after a scuffle. sports is next. >> last week we told you about some ways to take better pictures with your smart phone. today we're talking about video. we have some apps the will edit your video for you will talk about all the gadgets that will help you take care of your shots. the morning. unfortunately for the bears they fall victim to a training camp injury on monday. no. 3 receiver diving for a ball in practice and breaks his collarbone. not the only casualty. briggs is out there but the wilson injury was tough. noncontact he was carried off the field and it takes awhile to heal the collarbon

the president met with eisenhower another three times in washington. when ike was ordered home to take a rest from his responsibilities before undertaking command of the d-day invasion forces. the president, ike found, was quite certain that d-day would be a success. and the president wanted to talk about the end of the war. unconditional surrender by the germans, and the best way to administer germany in the aftermath. as well as the french while the ar lasted. and also be setup for a united nations organization, using the nited states is one of the world's four policemen on the behalf of the u.n. to ensure that no third reich or empire of japan or madmen ever brought the world to destruction again. it was clear to eisenhower that the president was a man who thought always ahead, and perhaps it was the key to his genius of leadership, tempered by almost incredible patience and insurance unity of purpose. an invisible iron will that hid the president's strategy for the combat, the military conduct to world war ii, whilst following. these were qualities

my question is, how influential was that on eisenhower or was eisenhower calling the shots? it was not clear, from that book, at least. >> when you deal with eisenhower , it wastegic concerns eisenhower's policy. dulles,lars and allen they did not have great influence over eisenhower. sense on howanny to control the military. one of the best things he did not put in writing was on his way out of the white house in 1960-1961, when he was ruminating with close advisers and said, god help the united states when the person who sits in this chair does not know how to deal with the military. eisenhower did. all of the efforts to bail out , nixon was prepared to use nuclear weapons. getting involved in vietnam. billing out the british, french, stupid israelis in the attack to prevent the nationalization of the suez canal. look at eisenhower in hungry. -- hungary. eisenhower excepted a stalemate in korea and a lot of presidents would not have been willing to do that. it was his policy and the dulles brothers and nixon were not that influential. he relied on military officers, to a l

eisenhow eisenhower, montgomery. george patton, alan kirk. it's a very long list.itain preparing for normandy, they called themselves the mediterraneanites. eisenhower speaks for them when he say that is the mediterranean theater will always be in my blood. this is eisenhower on the eve of normandy, june 6th, 1944 with his senior subordinate commanders and every one of them except for the man standing behind him has come with his from the mediterranean. the guy behind him, air marshal lee trafford mallory is not a mediterraneanite and it's a problem for him. so calling world war ii the 20th century's century myth. a tail of troy whose angles are infin knit and central figures never ceases to amaze us with their size. there's theatricality. and the ep graph to the day of ba battle. it goes like this. launch your song. what kings were fired for war. what armys at their orders tlong the planes. even in those days long ago in italy's live-giving land. how did we end up in italy's life-giving land? why were we in italy? operation husky had in fact been decided seven mon

eisenhower did. all of the efforts to bail out the french, nixon was prepared to use nuclear weapons. getting involved in vietnam. bailing out the british, french, and the israelis in the stupid attack to prevent the nationalization of the suez canal. look at eisenhower in hungary. eisenhower accepted a stalemate in korea and a lot of presidents would not have been willing to do that. it was his policy and the dulles brothers and nixon were not that influential. he relied on military officers, to a large extent. particularly matthew ridgway. that was a close relationship. the one between eisenhower and ridgway. on covert action, for some reason, they did that cheaply and it was not noisy or visible. i ran a p a to be a success and -- iran appeared to be a success and he followed their lead on those issues. the way he controlled the defense budget, for example, and kept a lid on spending. covert operations were influential because he did not pay attention to them as he did to strategic matters. >> a t

eisenhower. abileneht me here to many years ago in the 1980's to do research in the library's papers. in many other libraries and archives. in 1998, i thought i should move on. i did, becoming a presidential historian for it not only writing new biographies of john f. kennedy, and bill clinton, but also a good biography of the last 12 united states president from fdr through dwight eisenhower to george w. bush. that was published in 2010. can everybody hear? it was the writing of american caesar that alerted me to the fact that no one had ever chronicled resident roosevelt's life as united states commander-in-chief. commander-in-chief of the united in armed forces world war ii. from his perspective in his oval room, isis map which laterp became camp david. park, and hisyde travels across the nation and abroad. africa,undland, to tehran, the middle east, and guilyalta. and that seems to me, given the importance of president's role in world war ii, wrong. so i read the privilege of revisiting the l

eisenhower thinks it's a great idea. yet his job is not to be a field marshal, but to be the theater commander of a sprawling, ram bu bu r rambunctios responsible for retarding the scentrifugal forcs whether you're talking 1943 or afghanistan in 2014. he's not napoleon, but he likes to quote napoleon who he claims defined military genius as the man who can do the average thing when all of those around him are going crazy. he's pretty good at keeping his head when all of those around him are going crazy. he's capable, also, of turning the other cheek, as he does repeatedly in the face of insubordinate behavior by general montgomery, for example. he has a hail fellow affability that serves him well. and while some will come away soured by the experience of working with allies in a multi-national coalition, eisenhower's convictions strengthen. he pros prost latizes relentlessly. he knows in global war the best team wins. from the med titerranean, eisenhower will take the template to london. and he loves it. that's his headq

marshal and eisenhower for his compulsive self-promotion.even so he instructs photographers to snap what he considers his facially best left side. [ laughter ] his public relations staff grows to 00 men and each news release carrying his name three times on the first page and at least once on each subsequent page. reporters are encouraged to adopt the commanding general's preferred nomenclature. lieutenant general mark w. clark's 5th army. soldiers called him marcus awe re -- aurelious clarkus. by the time we get to anzio in early 1944, stress is taking a toll on clark. remember i told you 23,501 american soldiers killed in action in italy, most happens on clark's watch. not everyone was put on this earth to be able to take that kind of punishment. so patton writes with evident delight this, is well into the italian campaign, the left corner of clark's mouth is slightly drawn down as if he had been paralyzed. he's quite jumpy. clark asks his wife to send him some cremele hair tonic because as he tells her, i find by massaging my hair using t

eisenhower relieved his senior intelligence officer after casserine pass. eisenhower fired him.needed a scapegoat. but secondly he felt he was too enamored of ultra and not using other sources as fully as he could. sir? >> i'm howard. my wife and i have really enjoyed your speech this morning. i've read all three of your books. the thinig g i've often thought muchreading i it is how did we need those early battles in north africa and sicily and italy to learn how to fight the germans? >> that is a very good question. that is the essence of the campaign in the mediterranean. look, the mediterranean campaigns in general are a proving ground. and you are learning a lot of things. you are learning how, for example, to put a force onto a hostile shore. to do that, you realize you need various kinds of amphibious landing craft. so the biggest and the baddest of them was the lst, the landing ship tank, which can carry 20 tanks. it has clamshell doors. a shallow draft. it can land right on the beach. they are fundamentally critical to normandy. and they had been critical in their first

he said that about president eisenhower, quote, that's eisenhower. that's all he cared about. he only cared about christ. be sure he was clean. both in the fun thing and the other thing. i don't look at it that way. we're going to protect our people if we can. unquote. that is the saddest standard of conduct set forth in that entire page after page of transcripts that the president denigrates a standard of conduct that eisenhower set for his subordinates, we don't look at it that way and he doesn't look at it that way. he looks at it as necessary to cover up. when the president said in that same conversation i want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the fifth amendment, cover up or anything else if it will save the plan that's the whole point. and then he said, as my friends on the other side pointed out, on the other hand i prefer you do it the other way. leaving aside for the moment the argument as if, as to the fact that he probably was referring to "it" as being a plan for mitchell to come forth and take all the blame and there by get the president and his men off the

eisenhower was an incessant golfer. he really loved it. and because of him, thousands of americans took up the game. outkennedy kept that game sight, even though those who knew him say he wasn't able go -- was an albble golfer. he played, both as candidate and as president-elect, but photographers were barred from the course. and few outsiders knew about it. as president, he played, also, but a bad back curtail his play. >> in looking at the video, the film of the kennedy vacation on hyannisport with the kennedy compound, it seemed like a summer camp. compared to what other presidents have done on their vacations, what sort of activities did john f. kennedy do? in august,agazine 1962, said that not since the days of theodore roosevelt had the nation witnessed what the magazine called such a hard pounding, msucuscle-aching round of activities. and hyannisport, which was hesieged by tourists, t president, his children, his nephews, his nieces scrambled on the lawn, splashed in the water. at times, when i read about it, i thought it resembled

eisenhower is another hot problem this morning. we'll keep you posted on all the closures coming up. >> your i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me zero heartburn... annc: prilosec otc the number one doctor recommend frequent heartburn medicine for nine straight years. one pill each morning 24 hours zero heartburn. was still have some spotty showers. not so much in the way of thunder. most of the rain has moved off. we still have some heavy downpours. the rain is heavy south and west. if you troublespots this morning, heavy downpours just south and west over towards lamont. a high today near 90 degrees. the rain will come to an end this morning deadly a partly sunny skies in the afternoon. >> traffic is a mess. we're focusing on the expressway closures with high standing water. also, side roots are very messy. dealing with high standing water at the intersection of 75 and western in the shutdown. same thing at summit. these are a few spots with high water this morning. >> to keep track of fl

eisenhower was an innes incident golfer. e really, really loved it. and because of him, thousands of americans took up the game, but kennedy kept that game out of public sight, even though those who knew him knew he was a quite able golfer with a natural swing and a powerful, ut somewhat erratic drive. and he plays both as candidate and president-elect, but photographers are mosted guarded from the course. as president he played also, but a bad back curtailed his play. >> in looking at the video, the film of the kennedy vacation on hyannis port with the kennedy compound there at hyannis port, you see moments like a summer camp, compared to what other presidents have done on their vacations, what sort of activities did john f. kennedy j.f.k. do? >> "time" magazine said not since the days of theodore roosevelt has the nation witnessed what the magazine called such a heart-pounding, muscle-aching, round of vacation activities. and in hyannis port, which was besieged by hordes of curious tourists, the president, his children, his nephews, his nieces, scra

we have the eisenhower memorial controversy now. that has been going on for years and we have no idea when the eisenhower memorial is being built. we have several other memorials but not a world war i memorial, and therefore there is much excitement about this project. just a few words about our speaker, edwin fountain, the grandson of not one, but two world war i veterans. he cofounded the world war i memorial foundation. this led to the advocacy of a national world war i memorial on the mall in july, 2013. mr. fountain was appointed by senate majority leader harry reid to the u.s. world war i centennial commission. he was elected vice-chairman of the commission in july, 2014. mr. fountain is a graduate of the university of north carolina, and the university of virginia law school. [applause] >> thank you, tony. and good morning. my name is edwin fountain. i am vice-chairman of the u.s. world war i centennial commission. the commission was formed by congress in january, 2013 and given a mission of ensuring suitable observation in t

and if we had a president anywhere close to dwighti eisenhow eisenhower's capabilities, it wouldn't bother me. we should focus on what the real problem is, which is a commander in chief who is not competent to do the job. >> you say he's not competent. maybe he's speaking to prime minister cameron six times a day, maybe he's doing these things and speaking to secretary hag hagel, general dempsey. >> that would not be the pattern of the last five and a half years. at some point, you have to produce a strategy. i think there is a strategy to defeat the islamic state as they now call themselves and i think it's important to do it sooner rather than later before they consolidate territory, before they become a magnet for other terrorists. there are estimates, for example, that 500 of the terrorists they now there's a gap out there. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe the gap will close when healthcare changes. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when healthcare becomes simpler. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between peo

eisenhower, interestingly -- there have been a slew of new books on eisenhower within the last couple of years, and people are now looking at him anew. the feeling has always been he was vague, unconnected, didn't understand what he was doing, and now people are looking at him and taking another look at that. that's one of the interesting things that happens with presidential hoyt there never is an ending to it. but you look back at eisenhower's time and there's not a lot to complain about in terms of how the economy was going and many of the things going on. and of course, much of it deals with him as commander-in-chief. thank you, starbucks, when i did my trip i was staying in tents a lot of the time, and visiting the libraries. so, wherever i was i was able to get a coffee and able to plug in and i was able to write my blog. i don't think i would have made it without starbucks. now, nixon, as he always does, pushes things to the level where you start to have some problems, and when i was at the nixon library, tim was the director there, and there was an absolute civil war going on

he said about president eisenhow eisenhower. that's all he claired about. he only cared about christ. be sure he was clean both in the fun thing and the adam thing. i don't look at it that way. we're going to protect our people if we can, unquote. that is the saddest standard of conduct set forth in that entire page are arena. they say he doesn't look at it that way. he looks at it as necessary to cover up. in that same conversation say i want you to stone wall it. i let prefer you do it the other way. leave an aside for a mom t moment. leave that aside. examine his words to determine what they did do and what he did do from march 22nd. did they come fore. did they describe? did they tell all or did they stone wall is it is it did they cover up or did they do anything to save the plan from march 22nd to this very day they are doing everything to save the plan including the last page of evident when mr. had gone through the tapes and came up with evidence that bore

. >> a baby was born on the eisenhower. and we're pretty sure it's not one of our employees this time. a little bit of overnight roadwork to watch out for as a head in bound on the eisenhower, the ramp is blocked with work scheduled to be picked up at 5:00. >> breaking news overnight in some louis missouri. another police involved shooting. the man was critically wounded by police officers-- after he reportedly pointed a gun at officers who were chasing him. >>there's no word on whether this stems from any of the protests that have been going on since last weekend, when an unarmed teenager was shot and killed by police in ferguson. karen kaifa has more on the protests there. >> protestors and police line the streets once again tuesday night. the protesters seeking justice for the teenager shot and killed by police. >> they have to bury a boy whose dreams ... whose hopes ... who everything they may not have made they could make through him. >> the rev. al sharpton joined the parents on tuesday night at one community forum. t

it is my distinct honor to read my grandfather, dwight eisenhow eisenhower's order of the day, d-day. some veterans may remember this brief noet. the order of the day, d-day, june 6th, 1944. soldier, sailors, airmen of the allied expedition their force. you're about to embark upon a great krusz said for which we have strifen these many months. the eyes of the world are upon you. in the company of our brave allies and brothers and arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the german war machine, the elimination of nazi tyranny over the oppressed people of europe and security of ourselves in the free world. your task will not be abeasy one. your enemy is well-trained, battle hard ped and he will fight savagely. bum this is the year in 1944. much has happened since the nazi triumphs. the united nations have inflicted upon the germans great defeat in open battle. man-to-man. the tide is turned. i have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty in skill and battle. we will accept nothing less than full victory. good luck. and let us all besiege the blessings of a

. >> why do you think more women will vote for general eisenhower?> because women have a better instinct about character. concerned at a mental level with the issues, but they are very concerned with what kind of a man, what kind of character he has. i know that women instinctively feel enormous trust in eisenhower's capacity to lead them and their nation and their families to a better america. >> she is talking about character. storiesk is full of dalliances with men and her husband, to the point where it is a bit exhausting. [laughter] when we talk about this 17 years ago about the first book, where did those folks get off thinking that they were full of moral character when they were constantly fooling around? >> it is a dichotomy, isn't it? people really want to be faithful i think in their relationships, but the sexual urge i suppose is very great. the opportunities arise if you are traveling and you are away from home as she was. also, she was so beautiful and so smart and so witty. she was always irresistible to men. richardher old age, cohen

eisenhower relieved his senior intelligence officer after castoring pass, he was a brit, and eisenhower fired him. first of all, you need a scape goat. second, he felt that he was too enamored of ultra and not using other sources as fully as he could. sir? >> i'm howard crook. my wife and i have really enjoyed your speech this morning. and i've read all three of your books on the war. the thing that i've often thought from reading it, actually, is that we -- how much did we need those early battles in north africa and sitly and italy to learn how to fight the germans? >> well, that's a very good question. and that is -- that's kind of the essence of the campaign in the mediterranean. look, the mediterranean campaigns in general are a proving ground. and you are learn iing a lot of things. you're learning how, for example, to put a force onto a hostile shore. and to do that, you realize that you need various kinds of amphibious landing craft. so the biggest and the baddest of them was the lst, the landing ship tank, which can carry 20 tanks on it, it has clamshell doors, it has a shallow

eisenhower said elect me and i will go korea.he said elect me and i will find a way out of the war that had turned unpopular. sure enough eisenhower is elected six months later and we're out of korea. nixon had that korea in 69 or 70 or 70 71. he did not think it was winnable. the papers showed the malfeasance of johnson, he could have said this war was a mess. blame it on kennedy or johnson. instead he got more and more mired in trying to control the southeast asia situation and famously expanding the war into cambodia and laos. doug brinkley is our guest. ravel in minoa new york, democrat line. ralph you're on the air. >> caller: what an honor to talk to douglas brinkley. i just have a question. the focus looking at the blue collar worker. did mr. brinkley find anything in the tapes to vote for nixon if we focus on the blue collar working class worker to get the worker to think of their cultural values or their material needs in order to break them away from the new deal coalition. i thank you very much. bye. >> it's a good que

want hisdn't successor, president eisenhower, to be as uninformed as he felt he was. remember, truman didn't even know about the manhattan project. truman establishes the cia briefings, but on his watch, it takes on new urgency. 15 years ago, we renamed the compound the george bush center for intelligence. to the an artifact out library at college station, texas. it is the original legislation signed by president clinton renaming the compound after george herbert walker bush. >> when you say, the compound, what does that mean? >> that means 258 acres here at langley, virginia, a site that has an intelligence history that goes back to the civil war. werenaissance balloons launched from here. there are the remnants of two civil war camps on the property. over the years, as we've built new buildings, the construction projects have turned up civil war-era relics that we have in our collection. president eisenhower laid the cornerstone for this original headquarters building on the third of november 1959. the george washington parkway was extended as part of the original c

i like showing off the holdings at the eisenhower library and museum. i was very excited to show mr. lambert the journal from june 6, 1944. and asked him if he had read it. he said he read it and let it. -- lived it. to mr. lambert's right, we have dr. guy stern who many of us were fortunate enough to see yesterday. he was born in germany in 1922 and was the only member of his family to have escaped and come to the united states in 1937. he was drafted into the u.s. army where he became one of the richy boys. they were largely european jewish refugees who returned to europe and work in psychological warfare and other intelligence aspects during the war. there was a recent documentary which we are fortunate enough to exhibit yesterday, that i hope you all have the chance to see at another time. following the war, dr. stern became a professor of literature state university in detroit. i would like to start with the same question we did a few minutes ago with her home front panel. -- our home front panel. that is to start with december 7, 1941. where were

guest: nixon was vice president for eisenhower for eight years. he knew when ike ran in 1952 for president, the korean war was raging. eisenhower said, elect me and gill to korea. that meant that if -- and i will go to korea. that meant that if you left me, the commander, i'll find a way out of the war that turned unpopular, and sure enough, eisenhower is elected six months later we're out of korea. nixon had that opportunity in 1969 or 1970 or 1971 to just get out of there. he did not think the vietnam war was winnable, yet he -- so in the pentagon papers, it was showing the malfeasance of mcnamara and johnson. second said, look, these guys were a mess, this war was a mess, blame it on kennedy and johnson, blame it on the democrats, grabbed the high ground and moved policy in a different direction. instead, he got more and more mired in trying to control the southeast asia situation and famously expanding the war into cambodia and laos. host: doug brinkley is our guest. topic, the 40th anniversary of the resignation of president nixon. in new yor

her father was a purple heart or world war ii an eisenhower republican. her mother was a complete lefty who love the fact that her vote canceled out her husbands every single time. they both believed in education. sally was lucky because of the emphasis on science that the country adopted after the sputnik. sally was a little girl in 1957 when sputnik went up and she benefited from all that. i was in high school and perhaps some of you did the same thing. i remember going outside in my backyard on a cold november night in looking up and seeing this thing going around, this thing that started the space race in the space age and turned on the radio and it went beep, beep. it was really scary. sally benefited from the push of science after that she benefited from the women's movement. she did not plan her life for an advance in when opportunity knocks he was ready to open the door and sail right through it. i used to tell her this, there was she given at stanford union that day when she read the article nasa was looking for one of the fact that she could cha

general eisenhower still had a general eisenhower still had a lot of questions about what hitler's atlantic wall consisted of. he needed to know about manpower, logistics, weapons, et cetera. and baron oshima went on a tour of installations early in the year. he sent back a long detailed report, and low and behold much of the information in that report helped to answer the questions that general eisenhower had been seeking to finally find a solution to. so the bottom line is, while purple fails us at pearl harbor, it does help us to win the war in many other ways. and the dispatches from oshima, like i mentioned, were gold in helping the allies to know that they were on the right track. finally, at the end of the conflict, and after germany had of course surrendered, a couple of intelligence officers were sent over to the japanese embassy in berlin to comb through the wreckage -- like many of the buildings in berlin, it had been bombed to smithereens -- to see if they could fine anything worthwhile. and low and behold, they were able to recover a piece of a purple machine, and we have it on

whether it was the eisenhower executive old office building. the patent office was almost torn down, and fortunately many of them were saved but not all of them. just, i think it was yesterday, we have an example of the old post office, which was considered a very ungainly building. most of washington government architecture is this kind of -- i'm going to blank on it, classic style, and here you have the old post office pavilion which is romanesque and it sticks out like a sore thumb. now it is becoming a luxury hotel. it will be preserved but maybe it would be nice if it could have been preserved as the post office. another example of that, although i think a good outcome occurred is the very important franklin school. washington, in the late 19th century, was considered a place of great learning and scientific discovery. alexander graham bell conducted many experiments here and was one of the founders of the national geographic society. but the franklin school was a very advanced school recognized internationally, and it has just been -- it

and robin williams was a flawless, amazing icon as eisenhower. he is an amazing person on and offscreen. it's a real tragedy. my heart goes out to his family, his children in particular. >> a shocker for sure. >> particularly given the beautiful life on and offscreen that we've come to know, and even beyond that when i worked on the set with him. so we have some icons in this movie. >> up that what you took away from working with him was his incredible talent. he could bounce in and out of character. >> he went from being eisenhower to imitating precious. lee daniels directed precious so things would go a little slow. and he would go, precious, precious, and we would be on alert and then he would go back into eisenhower. a remarkable talent, an amazing generous person on and offscreen. the pleasure was all mine to work with him. and even at the end i said it was an honor to work with you. no, it was an how soon to work with you. >> some stars here but a lot of other folks here. quickly, these are the regular folks. this is christopher. he brought

and i always consider myself an eisenhower republican. >> guest: right. >> caller: eisenhower was fornions. eisenhower was for a lot of things, strong government, and a large government because he felt that our government was -- with everything we are happening now, as big as we are, we need to have -- not one person can handle all this. anyway, my point is, i'm for abortions, i don't think they should be taken lightly or be done easily and i believe the husband of, if a woman is married, should be notified that she had one. >> guest: well, doug, i appreciate your being a veteran. i am an army va. i have three sons in the marine corps. i don't know how to explain that. anyway, i think at what i heard you say was that you're basically a moderate republican. i tend to be more like ronald reagan, i think. and that is i believe in a strong defense but i also brief that a lot of problems we have are created by too much government. i i think reagan famously said we have more government than can afford, and i would suggest to you, with the common sense that you sound that you have, if you to

they get the details of an argument he had with eisenhower wrong. the point is that the results of this movie is that d-day becomes an entirely american tale, where the british seem completely and utterly opposed to the event. what does all this tell us? in the end, how we show the story has changed somewhat. i would like us to think about that for a second. the shift in the upper left-hand fromr from illusion -- by private ryan, we are very visibly and very graphically showing you what this cost. remained largely stable. the reason we went to war and the reason it was significant remains stable. that is that the americans led the way on the beaches in order to preserve democracy and decency in the world. accurate much. [applause] -- thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. that is a pretty good look at the mythic framework of americans. now dr. on third bischoff -- dr. bischoff will give us a different point of view. i appreciate that you are here instead of the tomato festival. [laughter] what i will be talking about this afternoon is the ger

(laughter) in 1952, while campaigning as dwight eisenhower's runningmate, nixon wins gulfed in scandalhen the media reported he received improper gifts from wealthy donors. so nixon took to the air waves and saved his reputation with what became known as the checkers speech ." >> we did get something, a gift after the election. you know what it was? it was a little cocker spaniel dog, and our little girl, tricia, the 6-year-old, named it checkers. and you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog, and i just want to say this right now that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it. (laughter) >> stephen: this speech was the most skillful political deflection since stalin's infamous "yes, i have work camps, but they're filled with kittens." (laughter) a tender message. nixon's lost the 1960 election to john f. kennedy. in part due to a poor performance in the first televised presidential debate. kennedy chose to wear makeup, while nixon chose to be in black and white. (laughter) a rookie mistake. but eight years later, nixon pulled off the greatest political comeback i

airborne whichd president eisenhower sent in to years rock, arkansas, after brown v. board of education. is not marshall's job, it is not the supreme court's job to enforce the law. the branches of government, you have the legislative, you have judiciary and you have the executive branch. the executive branch, the laws,ent executes the puts them into force and makes sure that people follow them and eisenhower was forced to act. he did not want to. he did not want to act. the brown happy about decision at all. and in fact the white house refused totary comment on the brown v. board of education decision. the only other major official refused to comment was the governor of mississippi. those were the two people who on brown v.omment board. the president was not happy about it but as the years went he realized there was a great deal of resistance, rebellion in some places and he had to execute the laws so he did send in the military. it was very sad. one was happy that that had to happen. but, yes, he had to use the military on united states soil law.force the when what

an eisenhower republican.as a complete lefty who love the fact that her left cancel the her has been servicing the time. they both believe in education. sally was lucky because of the emphasis on science that this country adopted after this but make. allegro and 1957. and she'd been unfazed from all of that. i was in high school. perhaps some of you did the same thing. i remember going outside in my backyard and looking out and seeing this thing going around. and was released gary. she benefited from the push to science. an auburn saturday night she was raised to open the door. when she read the article the fact that she could change her career plans like that, she could just move on it, it was a great lesson. sally took a different moral from that moment and would deadpanned to student audiences. i guess the messages reach your college newspaper. she did it all with a smile. when she returned from that first flight she flew twice. in june of 83 after all the work she had done she said from the tarmac the thin

eisenhower had a dream: he called it "atoms for peace." >> so my country's purpose is to help us move out of the dark chamber of horrors into the light, to find a way by which the minds of men, the hopes of men, the souls of men everywhere can move forward toward peace and happiness and well-being. it is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. it must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace. >> nuclear power was to benefit mankind, but the free-market insurance industry was unwilling to cover nuclear accident risk because it was immeasurable, and potential economic damages were incalculable. so to encourage and protect investment in nuclear power, congress passed the price anderson act in 1957, which created an insurance pool and capped the amount of liability a commercial nuclear power plant would face should a disaster occur. >> well, the thinking that went into the creation of the price anderson act back in the fifties was that in the event of a catastrophic accident, no single utility