dwight eisenhower did it. mike interested in the clandestine operation designed to wrap a gay lovers in the president's own party in an election year. that is about as big a step as politically ever happens. in the 1950s was a horrendously. just a rumor, not a fact that someone was gay could cost them their job. it was widely believed that were security risks because people thought the communists could lock meltdown. let's consider for a moment the traditional explanation for joe mccarthy's alcoholic did himself in. he was damaged by a legendary he announced that the television program. during the army mccarthy hearings, television is the lying demagogue he was. this conventional version come the final nail in the political coffin was that center road by the united states senate. those are all legitimate factors. until now, we have not known that dwight eisenhower masterminded a campaign to discredit mccarthy. we have wrongly assumed that his cowardly response to the senator refusing to use the bully pulpit ag

army chief of staff george marshall, the supreme commander in europe dwight eisenhower eisenhower, would make the alliance effective. among important civilian officials in the alliance to indent teamwork were a few officials. hopkins would become the defective national security counselor. an unlikely achievement for a former social worker from a small town in iowa. above all, hopkins would gain the trust of the prime minister. even that of the standoffish members. on his second trip to london in july 1941, harry hopkins would take a navy seaplane across the arctic to moscow where he met with joseph stalin. for three days he reported that stalin welcomed him with a few blunt russian words, "it was like talking to a perfectly coordinated machine." joseph stalin knew exactly what he wanted, new what russia needed, and he assumed that you knew too. stalin made the case to hopkins that russia would survive, an argument that would lead to the allies giving aid to russia. historians tend to emphasize that's churchill, roosevelt, and company won the war in the west and the pacific -- all true. b

and especially, one of eisenhower's ideas is eisenhower -- one of eisenhower's ids because eisenhower was a very capable man. and a very fiscal conservative, very -- and eager fiscal conservative. -- and a very fiscal conservative. one of his ideas was that europe should depend itself with its own nuclear weapons. and eisenhower thought that a nuclear germany might be the right answer. the u.s. would not have to have two is in europe. germany would be able to defend itself. from the soviet point of view, a nuclear germany was just not attractive in the immediate aftermath of the nazi era where the server unit had lost her people, and had more destruction, and had more tragedy, and the idea that having once was a war to end up even more vulnerable, was a profound point of distress. their view of the cold war was, what you doing? you are preventing the legitimate security needs of the soviet people. i find this very plausible, by the way, from everything that i have read. the u.s. was either not very ratherabout it, or flippant about it. kennedy came to appreciate those concerns. i will

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it is true that eisenhower had a very positive attitude towards the plan. i mean this was his very own plan that he delivered to general marshall. there was a confidence in the american military. you won't forget that in world war i, the arrival of one million american troops in the spring and fall of 1917 in europe turned the balance of the war. the americans, although suffering major casualties, acquitted themselves brilliantly, and it was armistice in november 1918. not a little bit the result of the american intervention. the american army was very confident that they could bring together the same kind of intervention force and cross the channel. it was churchill who believe that yes, it was possible, but that it was premature. churchill's strategy was collect all the american soldiers in great britain, primarily in northern england to train them , for two years and then to attempt to cross channel invasion, not to mention that in 1942 we didn't even have a landing craft. churchill and general sir alan brooke pointed that out. we didn't have the landing

now they get eisenhower. now, eisenhower was a very shred politician. weren't apparent at the time. everybody thought he was an mam tour but he was a lot shredder than his critics, and the let the party talk about roleback, rollback of what? of the welfare state at home. which republicans sported, and rollback of the stalinist encroachment abroads. buckley wasn't sure what to do about stalin. he didn't believe the nato argument and thought he would do better than stevenson on foreign stay. >> adlai stevenson. >> the reluctant candidate of 1921 whose bus is outside and checked -- we are not trying to remove stevenson's name from anything on campus. he is okay. okay. adlai can stay. but the thought that ike would be tougher on the cold war an -- but he had some doubts about the domestic agenda, and ike proved him correct. ike, i discovered a letter eisenhower wrote to his brother basically say we just can't come and here and dismantle social security and farm subsidies and federally subsidized mortgages and this other snuff one day or one d other stuff in one day or one administration

his fast opponent was eisenhower. and eisenhower of course says i will not run for president, i will endorse you, i have no problem with this program but i did run nato for four years and you will endorse nato, i will not run and they will not support nato and buckley writes an editorial and says maybe he will change his mind, he still the best man in america and all that. then who else could you have? you have the southern segregationists. they call themselves conservatives because they didn't like federal intervention in the economy, they were very anti-labor union, number one and as that part of the new deal, the right to work state if you want, most of them didn't. or midwestern's and they work segregationists, that was not , how do you get the coalition out of this group? it's very difficult. >> and it ended it's important to remember this is the time long before you have the polarization of the political parties. so we now think of republicans and conservatives and democrats and progressives or the liberals but

this is happening in the 46700 block ofizen -- 4600 block of eisenhower avenue. alison: abc7 has been following the developing story since it broke in the morning rush. the northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg with more on the video and the arrest. jeff? jeff: we will get to that in a moment but breaking news. alexandria police announcing 58-year-old earn inest stickal, of mechanicsville, maryland, taken into custody and charged with the road rage shooting. we don't know where he was picked up yet but it was by the m.d. state police. -- the maryland state police. we know the victim is 33-year-old, woman from bladensburg, maryland, she remains in stable condition. the surveillance video we were referencing. this is from a local business at 8:00 at the clairmont and eisenhower and it shows the black chevy s.u.v. makes the turn from clairmont to eisenhower and petering out before rolling to the corner and up on the curb. the shooting victim, female driving got out of the car. they heard hour shots. the authorities searched for the suspect for hours and a wit

eisenhower is going out of office. when johnson leaves office in '69, going to eisenhower's vice president nixon. what was the impact -- here is the phrase, the military industrial complex on prolonging the war. some may remember this was a phrase used by dwight david eisenhower, beware at the military industrial complex. people were amazed that general president eisenhower was saying this. >> you mentioned eisenhower and that does give me a chance to get back to the question of laos. there is a very important link between that and our hmong minnesotans. the other thing which is traumatic for the man and for us was what i call his abdication in '68. he steps down. and i have a feeling based on sort of my own feeling at the time that this is a major watershed in the way -- if johnson -- he is sending us all to vietnam and if he doesn't believe in it, and if he is stepping down why should i go? but take it to the people. that communicated something that i thought was it set up this notion that we can't win. we are not go

as the vehicle speeds off, the black suv with the wounded driver turns on to eisenhower avenue before coming to a stop the road and stopping on the g - other side of the street. a witness who declined to go on camera said the female driver was able to get out of the car and appeared to be holding her neck. emergency radio broadcasts indicated the woman was hit in the neck and back. the suspect vehicle was last seen heading towards cameron run, and was described as a white sprinter v tags and the shooter as a white male in his 50's. sources say that suspect vehicle was later found in st. mary's county. we've also learned there was a passenger in the vehicle with the woman who i was shot, that passenger was a male, he was not injured. we've looked up maryland case search records and have found that mr. stick el has been arrested a couple of times for assault. we're continuing to dig into the details and we should have more later on tonight. live in alexandria, paul wagner, fox 5 local news ♪ ♪. >>> new tonight. police officers in baltimore planting drugs at a crime scene? that's what th

the shooting aned at -- happened at eisenhower and claremont avenue and the victim is in the hospital in stable condition. the surveillance video from local business shows aftermath of the shooting before 8:00 a.m. the shooting victim turns her suffer to eisenhower avenue where it slows in the middle of the road before coming to a stop on the curb. >> we believe this is road rage between two vehicles. >> i was in office and i heard four shots from outside. >> stephen who works at a nearby tire shop says the man on the bike saw the woman struggling. >> he hopped off and helped her. >> the argume on the beltway and escalated when the vehicles got to the stoplight at eisenhower in claremont. >> hopped out of the car and tried to confront the guy. didn't say anything. opened up the door and he started shooting at her. >> the male summit fled the scene as two other men reportedly ran after him to get a license plate number. police in virginia and maryland searched for hours until this afternoon. when 58-year-old ernest stickell turned himself in at the maryland state police headquarters in

dwight eisenhower, a friend to wildcatters in 1952. he continues to nurture this relationship with major oil. this will take on real importance in the late 1950's in the aftermath of the suez canal crisis, which will come up in our discussion wednesday. i need to bring saudi arabia into partnership with the united states. and it to frame this not simply as political or economic interest, although those two interests are front and center, but to create a sense of community and belonging between the two nations. how to do that? by emphasizing shared faith. monotheism becomes a glue. when we talk about the 1950's, historians often talk about the effort made by eisenhower and religious leaders to frame americans from the protestant, catholic, jews coming together to create the new american way. this is how we will fight communism, by being united in our faith in one god. what we often forget, islam itself was included, at least by some, in that formula. dwight eisenhower wants to frame this. in this effort, he reaches out to the saudi king

- deep state and the cia from 1951, long before the eisenhower.they were pushing for real action in iran before eisenhower came in. they were working closely with the british before the eisenhower administration. amy: and they try to get coming roosevelt to do the same thing in 1954 in guatemala. he refused, but they did it anyway and overthrew the democratically elected leadership. i think it's important for people to understand u.s. history. the new york times naming the so-called dark prince to run the iran operations. saying -- your thoughts when you heard this and the trump administration of revealing his name? >> i don't know the politics of that. they're very confused about what to do with iran. this is a reflection of that. juan: i'm wondering, and the documents, you can across the name donald wilhelm, cia guy who would you ran after the overthrow of mohammad mosaddegh, who was mayor bill de blasio's uncle. >> it would be interesting to i don't think -- a review much political discussions between this part of the family and that part. the

jeff: eisenhower avenue shut down for hours as the search continues. authorities search for the suspect vehicle for hours until ernest stickell turned himself into authorities this afternoon. a male passenger was riding inside the black s.u.v. but he was unharmed in the shooting. live in alexandria, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. larry: thank you. meanwhile police in fredericksburg are looking for a moped driver who stabbed a man in another road rage incident. alison: investigators say the men got into an argument at road. the moped driver followed the car and when the car stopped he pulled out a knife. he stabbed the driver and then ran off. the man who was stabbed should be okay but the suspect is still on the run. police describe him as a man in his mid-50's with short gray hair, scruffy gray beard and a dark tattoo on the left forearm. nancy: we are following breaking news for purple line. a federal appeals court ruled that construction can start on the purple line while a lawsuit against the project is still ongoing. millions in the federal funding nee

president eisenhower said because the strength of our nation is in its people, theiror good health is a proper national concern. healthy americans live more rewarding, more productive and happier lives. he continued, fortunately the mission continues its advance in bettering the health of all its people. but today on the floor of the senate we have a different philosophy. now the eisenhower strategy ofle advancing the bettering of health of all of our people but in fact, the trump policy echoed by so many of my colleagues that's about destroying the health care for millions of people. taking us back in time to a place where peace of mind was missing for millions of americans because it couldn't either afford health care or because their policies didn't cover anything jerk other presidents over time have weighed in with very similar sentiments to that that president eisenhower put forward. but let's hear from the citizens back home. katharine from springfield who has battled cancer three times over the last 12 years. katharine says during her last two bouts with cancer in 2010 and 2011

tom: a witness said the shooting happened on the short road connecting eisenhower to the beltway. the woman driving the suv block the van in. she and a man got out of the and began screaming and cursing and telling the van driver to come out. the police say that driver was 58-year-old ernest the color of mechanicsville. >> she tried to confront the guy, and he did not say anything. he opened the door and started shooting. tom: in surveillance video coming you see the shooting victim's suv, then the shooter's . the police have not released the name of the woman who was shot, but say she is 33 from bladensburg. the man turned himself in in frederick county and faces two charges, including malicious wounding. tom roussey, abc 7 news. --cy: new at 11:00 tonight >> i had to make it to see my child. nancy: a father's desperation after a day care group abandoned his child at the mall. alison: investigation, but as anna-lysa gayle reports, it is a cleaning crew he wants to thank. >> you have to trust the academy to care for our child. anna-lysa: when marvin johnson left his child at the e

eisenhower says we are not going to do that. they're basically settled on the idea that we will give them threat. if they going to another country, we will bomb them. we will develop and defend south vietnam in southeast asia. oft was the initial genesis u.s. direct involvement in south vietnam. eisenhower sums a small handful of people over there. vietnamp the south premier get a whole power entertainment. it becomes a militarized operation completely by the time lyndon johnson is in there. china is the big thing. the joint chiefs of staff of view was that they are going to develop this country. it's who is going to rule the world really -- the u.s. or china? that is what vietnam was about for them. mcnamara himself wrote a sayingto lbj basically this is the reason we got involved in the first place. his national security adviser was george bundy and he wrote the famous memo telling lbj he needed to intervene in south vietnam war aggressively. he has china as the main reason. he said in his memo that he do not think we had a be

the one person that would balance this perfectly is dwight eisenhower. notident eisenhower was supremely egotistical. conquer europeo without being proud. but he learned to control it and discuss it. and his cultural norms were don't boast. he was political in a good sense. he let other people take the credit and world war ii. stalin, churchill, de gaulle, pretty prideful people. yet a way of laying low and letting himself be underestimated and he did this again and again. as president of the united states, he poses a genial, goofy, golf laying president. we know now from the historical record, that's not what he was at all. behind these swings -- behind the scenes, he was pulling all of the strings. eisenhower have this ability -- he did not have to be the smartest guy in the room. , that he confident could be humble, and that made him a very effective leader. to give a plug and push here, --amea's sales the name of the book here -- i could go on for hours, but one more question. the event of -- taking place at a certain palm beach resort, and that is t

he had to be present at eisenhower's farewell address, were eisenhower, ironically, who had been in charge of these ousted, tells the american people, "by the way, i want to warn you about something, and that is this new way of life we have here, that the military-industrial complex constitutes a grave threat to the democraticd process, something the people of guatemala had already discovered and the people of chile would discover, but kennedy comes into office pretty much your standard cold warrior. he embodies all the "communists are coming to get us" like all americans. communism is a dangerous siren song of a philosophy. pretty much your standard cold warrior. not completely. but immediately, the cia presents him with a plan that had been brought up under eisenhower with the cia has gone to eisenhower and said we had two successes under our belt. we've got iran, guatemala, so we can do this. we can do it again. eisenhower says go for it, but they had not finished in time, and they really thought nixon was going to win, so there would just be this continuity, but nixon did not win, and

when eisenhower sent there are four key qualities to measure a leader by, character, ability, responsibility, and experience.

televisedould say press conferences were introduced by eisenhower. juste old days they would heard them into the oval office. they would stand around the president's desk and it was all off the record and informal. president kennedy initiated the idea of regular televised press conferences. the press room where they all sit there and spar with sean spicer, and in the future sarah huckabee sanders, that was built over frank members vote'-- franklin roosevelt's old and/or swimming pool during the nixon administration. reporters basically wandered around the white house. televisedf daily briefings -- i know there was much distress when sean spicer would occasionally turn off the cameras, but they did not exist up until less than a generation ago. i'm not saying they shouldn't exist. i'm not suggesting it's a privilege that journalists should be grateful for, there is nothing in the constitution about any of this. they are all of very recent vintage. host: we have a video of sean spicer talking about that very thing. he considers it to be a bit of perfor

it would certainly include evan's recent book about president eisenhower. i will save more discussion about this issues for our interactions. emma sky and i have known each other since 2003. we met in the most unlikely place, which was in iraq. emma was the representative of the u.s. led coalition provisional administration. whatever it was called. i never forget emma's clarity as we arrived -- i was traveling with senior moroccan official -- and explaining just how complicated and messy kirkuk was in terms of its ethnic divisions. people have said that emma is the modern day gertrude bell, the great middle east expert. i think it is apt. emma has written a brilliant book about iraq called "the unraveling." the subtitle, i think, it is "high hopes and missed opportunities." one of the things i really distinguishes emma's work is she is both fair to what the idea was, the ambition was, and absolutely merciless in talking about the failures. so i commend that book. just a word of introduction about our subject. this has been a day in which we have had a beaut

possible road rage incident with injuries here on eisenhower avenue in alexandria. guys?all right. bob, look for more details as soon as we it them. five past the hour. the other big story at 9:00 following this morning in the morning briefing first up prem's last ditch evident overhaul obama care. republicans headed to the white house. over lunch they'll discuss the way forward on health care after it became clear they did not have the votes to pass plan to replace obamacare. so will the repeal continue? senate margo are the mitch mcconnell said the senate will move ahead on a straight u it's a plan the president endorsed it doesn't have enough republican support to pass that either. that will be the topic over lunch. >> president trump's voter commission set to meet for the first time panel of 12 was put in mace laughter president trump and claimed illegal voting cost him the popular vote against hillary clinton in the 2016 election. the commission will be led by vice-president mike pence. last month, the panel requested voting data from states but that request was met

it happened within the last hour in the 4600 block of eisenhower avenue.r of eisenhower and the connector road to the beltway just don the street big fed ex facility. the victim apparently has serious injuries. bob barnard is almost there. we'll check in with him in a few minutes when he gets there. >>> 8:48. tuck had to tell the folks about that little breaking news. what do you have? >> unfortunately just hot and humid. code orange aerial which is now in effect and that's unhealthy for sensitive groups the elderly and the young if you have respiratory issues you might want to limit your time outdoors the air is stagnant only today but the next couple of days. another heat wave setting up and starting today temperatures well above normal. 95 to 100 right through the weekend with heat index 100 to 105. so make sure you are properly prepared and properly hydrated particularly if you've got to be one of the people that are working outdoors here over the next couple of days. make sure you have plenty of water and as possible. 81 in washington. 76 quantico. 79

eisenhower didn't go into vietnam. kennedy's sense of history was very profound. of course, he wrote a very good book or three good books. american history. and harry truman who never went to college probably read as much history as anybody we have ever had in the white house. he loved it. >> truman always had a great line the only thing new in this world is history you haven't read yet. >> that's right. >> he understood the lessons. >> that's right. the other thing he said that's so important, i tried never to forget who i was. >> yep. >> where i came from and where i would go back to. in other words, he never wanted it to go to his head. and that's an important quality. one of my favorite, most favorite scenes of all is when he was about to appoint george marshall secretary of state, one of his young white house staff people, clark clifford said, mr. president you might want to think twice about that, pointing to general marshall. truman said, why is that? he said, if you appoint him secretary of state, in about two or three months, people will start saying that

happened yesterday on the short road connecting eisenhower avenue to the beltway. a witness tell us, the woman was driving an s-u-v, and blocked the man's van in.. then she and a man with her got out and started screaming at the van's driver. police say the woman who was shot is 33, and from bladensburg. they have not relased her name. the shooting suspect, ernest stickell of mechanicsville, maryland, turned himself in. he faces two charges, including malicious wounding. happening today - the parole hearing everyone will be watching. in just hours - we'll find out if o-j simpson will soon go free. simpson's high-stakes review is this afternoon in nevada. the parole board- could let him go- after 9 years in prison. he was sentenced to more than 3 decades behind bars for a casino heist. there are 6 that board. simpson needs 4 of them to vote in his favor to be granted freedom- and he's expected to get it. he's 70 years old and even the victim in the case is slated to speak in support of simpson's release. if it all goes his way- simpson won't actually walk free until

all the aircraft carriers, eisenhower i'm standing on right now was built in 1977. a lot of technology has changed. a lot of has gone into this ship to try and get the most out of that 12.9 billion dollars. as the chief of naval operations told us earlier, the final commanding officer of this ship has not even been born yet. they expect that it will last some 50 years in service. so it's been designed to be able to receive technological upgrades as they happen. you think about the uss eisenhower when it was designed in 77 and went to sea, the internet didn't even exist. so imagine the technology that will be put on to the gerald ford in the next 50 or so years. the navy facing a lot of criticism on the cost and a lot of questions about will all this new technology work? they had the new destroyer, that cost 3 billion dollars. it's put to sea a couple of years ago and has since had innumerable problems with some of the new technology and that's something the navy has worked hard on here with the gerald ford to try to make sure they don't have those same problems goin

and onto eisenhower avenue. right around 7:50 a.m. people we spoke to said it was a complete traffic nightmare. >> i have been redirected three times. every exit is blocked off. it took me about 45 minutes to get here. i have a long drive from my home. now add an extra 45 minutes and it takes away from my day. >> the suspect is no longer believed to be in the area. in alexandria, hillary lane, wusa9. >>> it is a gop only lunch invitation. at this hour, president trump is sitting down with republican senators at a working lunch to discuss a way forward on healthcare after the latest attempt to repeal and replace obamacare failed. not on the menu, more questions about the administration and russia after the white house confirmed a previously undisclosed hour-long meeting between president trump and vladimir putin at the g20 summit. >> the trumpet minutes ration is downplaying a second conversation between trump and vladimir putin. hours after there was a meeting at the g20 summit. the second conversation happened during a dinner attende

eisenhower really did not have to grapple. truman desegregated the military. it was not an issue until this time. >> being a old hack journalist i -- myself, i rely a little bit on oversimplification. i think the trick with kennedy and civil rights, the and would be martin luther king jr., riverside church, the fierce urgency of now. it takes a little more effort to have respect for president kennedy's approach, which i would say is fierce urgency of how. it is a different challenge. watching him change, and he did change, as time wore on and the campaign, there is a moment in the spring of 1959 politically pretty realizes he will not get much help in the south. that will be all lyndon johnson. on the other hand, the movement has been heating up and things up and happening. we found a guy who was working for walter reuther and united auto workers who was reporting about what particular meeting when all of a sudden kennedy stood up and said if i have the " damn it, the negroes are right." then he see a different approach to the issue. he was still straddling, h

captain eisenhower was also involved in the use of tanks during world war i. the 37 millimeter gun that's on this tank was used in attacking boxes and fortification and machine gun nests. they had a machine gun and they had the actual .37 millimeter gun that's in our tank here in the museum. this tank is one of three known french ft-17 tanks known to exist that were battle damaged. this tank was hit by a german .77 millimeter shell, and luckily for us to have it still here, it was a shrapnel shell that hit against the tank and not a high explosive shell which would have destroyed the tanks. we don't know what happened to the crew, but we know three of the men that work on this tank trying to repair it, and one of them was from kansas city. they signed their names actually on the inside of the driver's patches on the tank. and the ft-17 tank also played an important role in one of the most famous heroes of world war i that we're going to look at. next to his name was john lewis barkley, one of 120 americans awarded the medal of honor for their actions in world

he opened fire into err suv off the eisenhower connector on wednesday before 8:00 a.m.er that woman driver and her male passenger left her suv to approach stickel's van. after that shooting, sticke lerks fled the scene. aaa found 80% of drivers feeling road rage of some kind in the past some even saying that rage did turn physical with other drivers. there are ways to calm that rage before it comes. aaa said try to avoid angry actions or gestures. also, don't engage and stay -- try staying calm. if you find yourself in trouble, call 911. maybe the problem is you. how about adjusting your attitude. try putting yourself in the other driver's shoes and determine if your actions are really worth it. no matter what, aaa says if you find yourself in a sense of feeling danger, your best bet is to not take it into your hands but instead call police. we have more tips on road rage on our nbc washington apps and ways to negotiate that and get around that when you see it coming your way. we're live here in zandrya i'm justin finch, news 4. back to you. >>> justin x thank you. 6:47

eis eisenhower didn't go into vietnam. kenied, of course he wrote a very good book, wrote three good books about american history. and harry truman who never went to college, probably wrote more than any president we've ever had in the white house and he loved it. >> truman understood the lessons. >> that's right. and the other thing he said i think so important. he said i tried never forget who i was, where i came from and where i would go back to. in other words, he never wanted it to go to his head. and that's an important quality. one of my favoritest, most favorite scenes of all is when he was about to appoint john marshall, secretaryf state, one of his staff people, clark clifford, said mr. president you might want to think twice about that. and truman said why is that? and he said if you appoint him secretary of state about two or three months people will start saying general marshall will make a better president than you are. and he said general marshall would make a better president than i am, but i'm the presiden

patrol officers responded to a shooting at the intersection of eisenhower and claremont avenue. we believe the shooting is a road rage incident between two vehicles. >> reporter: seconds after the shooting, a camera on a nearby business records what may have been the suspect's vehicle entering the intersection of ice hour and clare months avenues. as the vehicle speeds off, the black suv with the wounded driver turns on to eisenhower avenue before coming to a stop and crossing the road. a witness declined to go on camera said the female driver was able to get out of the and appeared to be holding her neck. emergency radio broadcasts indicated the woman was hit in the neck and back. suspect vehicle was last seen heading towards cameron run and described as a white sprinter vans with maryland tags and the shooter as a white male in his 50's. the suspect vehicle was later found in st. mary's county. the alexandria police are saying pvery little on the record tonight. so a we understand from our sources is that alexandria police may have gotten lucky here and that someone got a tag

his father comes right into it, he has this notion that eisenhower may not run again. what should happen is despite these heart attacks that he will bankroll it and his son would be the running mate. a preposterous idea, of course. johnson dismissed it out of hand. that is the moment when you see kennedy reacting to politics. there is this look at the vice presidential nomination. it starts there. from that moment in the fall of 1955 every time he was faced with some issue that makes it impossible to know if you are going to go forward or backwards always forward. >> one of my favorites moments from the fall of 1955, one of the things we used to do is in a presidential election year. we would speculate about the running mate. in the spring of 1955 there was a item in newsweek where they had a lot of gossip. there was a list and mention on that list were running mates for stevenson. kennedy's name was on that list. this intrigued in the hell out of him. he called the editor at newsweek -- a reporter many of us knew and asked who is doing the mentioning. the reporter sai

president eisenhower said because the strength of our nation is in its people their good health is a concern. healthy americans live more rewarding and productive and happier lives and he continues fortunately the nation continues to advance in bettering the health of all its people. but today on the floor of the senate we have a different philosophy. the trump policy echoed by colleagues that is about destroying the health care for millions of people. taking us back in time to a place where peace of mind was missing for millions of americans because they cannot afford health care or because their policies didn't cover anything. other presidents over time have weighed in with similar sentiments to that come president eisenhower put forward. let's hear from the citizens back home. kathryn from springfield who has battled cancer three times over the last 12 years and says during the last two bouts of cancer in 2010 and 2011 she was quote blessed enough to have qualified for the oregon health plan and without it she would not be here today. and dean, health care coverage has been a bles

eisenhower was a great reader of history. truman, as we have said. kennedy.arack obama, great reader of history. charlie: do you consider yourself a man of massachusetts? david: no, i'm a man of massachusetts, pennsylvania, connecticut. we live in massachusetts. i grew up in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. which had a great influence on me. charlie: how so? david: for one thing, it was a city full of history. there was a lot of history talked about. it was during the second world war when i was in grad school, we were very much involved -- in grade school. we were very much involved in spirit and attitude in the reality of the war. we in pittsburgh were helping to win the war. we were the arsenal of democracy and so forth and so on. and the conversations at the dinner table were about so much that happened in pittsburgh. the fires and the floods and the strikes and all of -- things like that. history of our own family. i think that what your parents and your grandparents talk about has great influence on one's interest in history. i think one of the best things tha

but totally rejected by the eisenhower administration. and -- well, the rest is history, but i appreciate your putting that on the table because it's important. i mean a lot of people think that way. one more question. >> before they shoot them at seoul? >> there's no way that can happen, because we don't know where they all are. if you're going to drop a 10, 20 mega tongue hydrogen bomb on north korea, it's 25 miles. i've been to the dmz, it took me about 1:25 by bus to get there. nuclear weapons just cannot be used on that continent to bring about any kind of result. i think we've been cut off. >>> interested in american history tv? visit our website, c-span.org for our schedule. watch museum tours, archival films and more c-span tv at c-span.org/history. >>> tonight on the communicators. >> i haven't changed. the things that i care about in terms of consumers being first and foremost in our minds when it comes to policy and my interests, when it comes to serving them. that has not changed. >> the longest serving fcc commissioner and th

franklin roosevelt was a reader of history, eisenhower, truman, kennedy. barack obama, great reader of history. >> rose: do you consider yourself a man of massachusetts? >> no, i'm a man of pennsylvania, massachusetts, connecticut. >> rose: you live in -- we will you have in massachusetts. i grew up in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, which had a great influence on me. >> rose: how so? well, for one thing, it was a city full of history and there was a lot of histare you talked about and it was during the second world war when i was in grade school and we were very much involved in spirit and attitude and the reality of the war, and we in pittsburgh were helping to win the war. we were the arsenal of at the -- we were the arsenal of democracy and so on. the conversations at the dinner table were about the fires, the floods, the strikes, the history of our own family. i think what your parents and grandparents talk about has great influence on one's interest in history. i think one of the best things that parents can do for their children or their grandchildren to

first up, a good morning to jim eisenhower. >> good morning, tamala. >> good morning to jeff jubelirercommunications executive. >> thank you, tamala. good morning. >> good morning, nonprofit exec sharmain matlock turner... >> good morning, tamala. >> ...and law-school professor jan ting. >> hey, tam. >> we're gonna need your expertise perhaps on this one, starting with the voter-roll data. the federal government has said, "we have a list of things to the states that we would like you to give to us." a lot of states have said -- about 22 -- "no, we're not giving this data," including pennsylvania and delaware. some have said, "we'll give you part." some have said, "you can have what is public." now, many of the things are pretty normal. you and i could walk in and get that information. but let's say -- this is what pennsylvania said they weren't gonna give -- criminal data and the last four of your social. how to look at this request to begin with? >> i think a lot of people are questioning the purpose of this commission. do we really have a problem? it's hard enough getting americans t

eisenhower redux? no, we wish we did. eisenhower spent the highway 50,000 miles of roadway.n from that. it was the peak of the past 100 years in terms of the amount of vestment by government directly in the economy. we need more of that, and we're simply not seeing it. nd so as i said, the three sources of productivity, the main weaknesses in that area of investment, we're not seeing t. and this is why there's hope that donald trump's will invest in infrastructure. but they'll talk about $1 headline over 10 years, but it will probably be indirect money, only about 20 billion per year, and hoping for multipliers and involvement by the private ector. guy: tony, i've got so much we? haven't anthony: we do globally, and is is why our star, our real interest rates, are the amounts of how high the fed can put its has gone down over time, so it is difficult. so it's a big quagmire in terms get out of this. the way to do, it people think, is to have more debt, but too difficult. tom: i'm going to steal that crescenzi. we're going to steal it. that's what we do best on a charts. teal

lillian rogers park, the white house made, declared after tasting at that president eisenhower made inkitchen was very strong but the one roosevelt had was very strong. you see a lot of strong eggnog not only from the roosevelt administration but to the present day. i don't know about the trump white house but the ones the obamas served and president clinton, would knock you out. that is the tradition. i think president roosevelt is most known for the martini. that is where he gets his identity. lillian rogers park, fdr claimed he didn't know the formula of martini because they were worked out by a family committee. his son jimmy, like a mile martini but not mild bananas and franklin got old enough to speak for stronger martini, johnny demanded to be heard, a martini so dry it could be mistaken for sand. a formula of 7-1. all this time the president was mysteriously mixing vermouth and gin so no one could see what his formula was. when he was finished he would say as chairman of the committee he had the power to decide the ultimate taste of a martini and to his concoction, at this poin