eisenhower society, which is a nonprofit friends group for the eisenhower national historic site here at gettysburg, and he's been researching and writing a book on the eisenhower experiences during the great war from his graduation in 1915 to his years here at camp colt. so welcome to paul, and he will talk about the early days of command for captain eisenhower. [applause] paul: thank you, tony, and good morning, everyone. the first two months of the new year of 1918 found captain captain dwight d. eisenhower at grant hall, the army service school at fort leavenworth, kansas, about 150 miles east of his parents' modest home in abilene. ike had managed to spend a quite -- quiet holiday at home with his mother, father, younger brothers and a new sister-in-law before returning to duty at fort leavenworth immediately after new year's day. since mid-december 1917, he had been detailed as an instructor of provisional second lieutenants, who had earned commissions in the army through examination, but now required three months of practical military training to prepare them to lead men in fra

the tank training program for the united states army was commanded by captain eisenhower. this was his first command. it's an all-weekend program, and

eisenhower's vice president, richard nixon, was privy to some of eisenhower's decision-making regarding the rosenbergs. when interviewed in 1983, nixon commented first eisenhower was influenced by the president experience in world war ii where he held military intelligence in regard. given his view on intelligence and the nature of crimes committed by the rosenbergs, it is doubtful eisenhower would grant clemency. furthermore, if the rosenbergs --eived full justice as nixon reflected on the events span from 1953 to 1983, he said no one in the administration -- on rosenberg. it was possible the case against her was painted. he went on to say "if i had known if president eisenhower, he might have taken a different view regarding her." events played out up until the hours the rosenbergs were executed. the eisenhower administration hoped to get a confession. ethel rosenberg died defiance -- defiant. top-secret intelligence collected by the u.s. government revealed a treasure trove of espionage activity. clandestine communication intercepted by the united states , starting in 1943, and these

at the eisenhower national historic site . we are here to commemorate world war i as well as to understand kim cold who was commanded by colonel eisenhower. here in gettysburg, pennsylvania. our next speaker is mark snell. he retired from the army in 1993. he has had several assignments as well as careers after that. he taught history at the united states military academy at west point and he was a lecturer at the royal academy at amherst in the uk. he was also at shepherd university. he also was the founding director of the george tyler moore center for the study of civil war. he also has written very extensively on world war i and the civil war, especially the civil war in west virginia. he wrote a book on camp cold and gettysburg during 1917 and 1918, the years that the united states was in the great war. so, mark, why don't you come on up. 3 freed that introduction, that is important, the when i sent you. >> hero a book about gettysburg, immediate meditations on the history of the place here at gettysburg. c the introducti

eisenhower, relying on presidential archives at the truman library and the eisenhower library, it is possible to partially used together a sense of circumstances involving the rosenbergs' pleas for executive clemency. in all, it is a fascinating look in all, it is a fascinating look at how two presidents made life in light ofisions the times of the early cold war. as my researched progressed, i could not figure out why the administration was so silent on the rosenberg. 1950 was a difficult year for the administration. as we know, alger hiss was convicted of her jury and then joseph mccarthy made a speech in west virginia, which started the intense criticism of the truman administration. also, senator joseph mccarthy was accused of of criticism. -- for the british was a spy for the soviet union. this implicated a man named gold. finally to julius rosenberg. headlines shocked the united states as war was revealed about atomic secrets. rosenberg was put on trial and was convicted and sentenced to 1951.in april of little is said about the rosenbergs outside of the federal prosecutor. the

eisenhower's inauguration was on january 20, not january 2. the union came to a close with a banquet at hotel gettysburg. and then they all went home. but how did the camp come to be located on the revered gettysburg battlefield in the first place? on april 6, 1917, congress declared war on imperial germany. emblazoned across the front page of "the gettysburg times" were the friday, april 6 addition, or the words "state of war , declared." the gettysburg compiler likewise announced the declaration on the front page of its weekly edition. it during the introduction, or as you were supposed to hear during the introduction, the legislation that created gettysburg national military park, also had an amendment year later, in 1986, that allowed it and other places such as chickamauga and chattanooga national military traininge used as grounds in cases of national emergency. these camps however, were of short duration. with the declaration of war against germany, the chance of had come for gettysburg national military park to host a long-term and per

eisenhower. in the beginning, through the national progression of events, pres. truman would have the final word on the rosenberg appellate court appeal and executive clemency seem to be the last hope. it didn't happen that way. no action was taken and the issue inexplicably fell upon the newly inaugurated dwight eisenhower. he was relying on presidential archives and truman's library. this is a fascinating look at how two different presidents made life or death decisions during the early cold war. as my research progressed, i cannot figure out why truman and his administration were so silent on the rosenbergs. 1950 was a difficult year for the truman administration. in february 1950, justin mccarthy made his famous speech in west virginia which started the intense criticism of the truman administration. [ indiscernible - muffled audio ] atomic scientists [ indiscernible - muffled audio ] fuchs and turn implicated a man named harry gold and then finally to rosenberg. rosenberg was replaced -- pla

both of these men believed that the end of the second term of the eisenhower years, eisenhower had lost control of his own government. mcmillan believed the military had become far too powerful with the cia. kennedy would not come to that conclusion until something called the bay of pigs. they both share that concern, ultimately. they also believed that a leader had to reduce the threat of nuclear danger. both were deeply committed to finding ways to reducing the possibility of accidental war. they didn't always agree on everything around the world. when you look at their relationship, you should think about horse trading. they gave each other help in different ways. if some of you have seen the movie the queen, you may know of the episode involving queen elizabeth and the leader of ghana. it may be there is a sub story where jackie kennedy motivates this, but i can tell you that the british, particularly harold macmillan, wanted ghana and the commonwealth. mcmillan put pressure on kennedy to build a hydroelectric dam called the volta dam. kennedy -- kennedy did it largely for mcmillan,

eisenhower was behind this. eisenhower pushed it because he as well known on television, ambassador to the u.n., and the campaign would be run on foreign policy. both democrats and republicans knew that the democrats had the edge on domestic issues, but the republicans held the advantage in the minds of voters on foreign policy. nixon planned to run his campaign on experience. that was the one word he used often. what he really meant is that americans would feel safer than a new -- in a nuclear world with a republican administration, and one only had to look at the disaster of the korean war started under harry truman. this -- logic proved to be a disaster on the campaign trail. he seemed old and board, and did not understand television. he went badly off message more than once and was unable to deliver his home state of massachusetts, also kennedy's home state, proving to be a serious liability. in contrast with the republican side, once rockefeller bows out, the democratic side is much more complicated. after

eisenhower, through very subtle and devious methods, deployed a hidden hand, and eisenhower has become one of our most popular presidents despite at the time people not appreciating him a that much. and i've always been drawn to the period roughly between 1946-1961 which ended the eisenhower presidency. and i think we're going through a similar period in national environment and thinking about how do we handle that, how do we modernize our defenses, how do we bring men and women of good faith from both parties together to talk what is america's role e world. and we manage to do it many time, particularly in the '50s under eisenhower. that's why i think that period offers enduring lessons for the day. >> host: congressman, what resources do you use to figure out what you're going to read next? >> guest: my friends, who are constantly recommending books. i have concern my system is if i get a recommend or if i read something that suggests that a booking that's worth reading, and then in this job people send you books all the time which is crazy, but i welcome it. i'll sort of put it in a

eisenhower once it run by the cia. his rationale is that it is a military plane with a military pilot over a foreign hostile country, that would be an act of war. but if it is a civilian pilot in a civilian plane over a foreign, hostile country, it would be espionage. a slap on the wrist. so, cia has control of this program. they scour the air force to find fighter pilots that can do these missions. dad is selected. he starts to fly in 1956. to the left of the stage, you're right, we have to easels. on one is the photograph my father took from his first mission over the soviet union. this particular photo is the presidential palace. this was one of the targets of this mission on november 6, 1956. the other images his flight map. it details the route he took on this first mission that penetrated soviet airspace. my father is recruited by the cia in 1955. he is trained at area 51 in the nevada desert. he starts to serve in turkey. there, for the next 4 1/2 years he is flying these flights over the former soviet union and

eisenhower. mr. snell describes the impact on the battlefield and the community. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> we are at the eisenhower national historic site on camp colt weekend. we are here to commemorate world war i as well as the 100th anniversary of camp colt, which was commanded by colonel eisenhower, here in gettysburg, pennsylvania. our next speaker is mark snell. he retired from the u.s. army in 1993 and has had several assignments as well as careers after that. he taught history at the united states military academy at west point, and he was a lecturer at the royal academy at sandhurst, in the u.k. he was also a professor of

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from martha washington to miss eisenhower. is ms. eisenhower who had lived in europe and then the wife of a five-star general who thought of yourself as a neighbor and was neighborly. helps unwittingly to make pink the most popular color, according to the color institute at the time. in textiles, home goods, spatulastors, tiles, -- everything is being made in first lady pink. on firstn watch more lady ladies fashion on sunday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. you are watching american history tv, only on c-span3. >> geraldine brooks is our guest on in-depth fiction edition on sunday, october 7 at noon eastern with her most recent book, the secret board. -- ford. watch in-depth fiction edition with geraldine brooks live sunday, october 7 at noon-3 p.m. eastern on book tv. watch next month with jodey picot. on book tv on c-span2. >> each week, "american artifacts, takes you to museums and other historic places to learn about american history. we go to arlington, virginia, where women aided communities of really -- newly freed slaves.

and like many people who had fought under general eisenhower he an eisenhower republican so he moved to -- moved to abilene and then to dallas. because of the jobs -- people don't move to texas because of the scenery. but -- [laughter] it's a great job producer and it offered my father as his offer millions of other people a chance to succeed a chance to -- become the kind of person he always wanted to be. but he was an eisenhower republican and it was dallas, the city we moved to that became the first city in -- in texas to elect a republican congressman. the first since reconstruction after the civil war. so i remember the turn -- now, texas is already far more liberal or progressive than our lengted representatives would lead you to believe that demography and the politics are at odds with each other. there was a figure and people who really count in politics is the primary voters in the republican party. up until recently and may change but we'll see -- it is been republican votesser that has determined the -- outcome of the election now wendy davis who was a -- previous candidat

eisenhower's first command. paul chevshuk is former national park service ranger and historian. photos and describes how dwight eisenhower's time there shaped his military career. this program is 50 minutes. dennis: welcome, everyone, to the great war camp colt weekend at eisenhower national historic site in gettysburg. we have on-site re-enactors, as

the tank training program for the united states army was commanded by captain eisenhower. this was his first command. it's an all-weekend program, and we're going to have several speakers talking about world war i, as well as speaking on camp colt.

and like many people who had fought under general eisenhower he an eisenhower republican so he moved to -- moved to abilene and then to dallas. because of the jobs -- people don't move to texas because of the scenery. but -- [laughter] it's a great job producer and it offered my father as his offer millions of other people a chance to succeed a chance to -- become the kind of person he always wanted to be. but he was an eisenhower republican and it was dallas, the city we moved to that became the first city in -- in texas to elect a republican congressman. the first since reconstruction after the civil war. so i remember the turn -- now, texas is already far more liberal or progressive than our lengted representatives would lead you to believe that demography and the politics are at odds with each other. there was a figure and people who really count in politics is the primary voters in the republican party. up until recently and may change but we'll see -- it is been republican votesser that has determined the -- outcome of the election now wendy davis who was a -- previous candidat

and eisenhower said, really? where? [laughter] matthew: it was only then that frances identified herself as the former first lady. and eisenhower was quite embarrassed by that. but frances, to her credit, agreed with keane that there should be an account published of what happened on the oneida in 1893. so keane finally broke the embargo and published an account of the operation in, of all places, the saturday evening post. now, you think he would go to a medical journal to talk about this amazing achievement in american medicine and oncology, but instead he decided to publish it in the saturday evening post. i interviewed a couple of pathologists researching the book, and i asked one of them, "you know, why do you think keane did this article in the saturday evening post and not some journal of medicine?" the pathologists said, it's like all doctors, he had a big ego, and he wanted everybody to know. and "the saturday evening post" was the most popular periodical in the country, so that was the place to brag about your

had taken caree of president eisenhower, and they had learned a lot. and so daddy survived and went full have a very good, life. but it has been hard. and yes, it is tragic that he was only 64 when he died. ugh] then he was now. [laughter] >> but it was just absolutely horrible. washe last moment, that january 22, and in december, in the middle of a snowstorm, daddy insisted on going to a civil rights meeting at the library, opening the civil rights papers. because he said, we have not finished this, we must continue , and he had a wonderful crowd of civil rights leaders and local people, and said, it is up to you now. you must finish this, you must make our country so we can all benefit, because we need you. you are going to make our country better. and so it is very important that you please do this. and of course he was active with the immigration law. and changed, all the jews that were not allowed to come, he opened up asia and africa, those people could not come to our country. he was doing it for the benefit of this country because we're richer

president eisenhower made a personal survey of the devastated region.e saw for himself the extent of .he loss and suffering shocked, the president declared the entire flood zone a disaster area. he called upon the federal civil defense administration to its administrator to bring relief to the people of the stricken region. administrative peterson not only set his own national organization to work, he also dedicated to the army's corps of engineers, the duty of carrying out the reconstruction phase of the presidents disaster order and operation noah was born. you can watch this and other american history programs on our website, where all of our videos are archived. that is c-span.org/history. announcer: up next, descendents of presidents ford, truman, mckinley, johnson, and theodore roosevelt show their family stories at the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts here in washington dc. the white house historical association hosted the conversation as part of their conference attended by representatives from presidential sites around the country

. >> in 1958, dwight eisenhower, president eisenhower signed into law a national defense education act. the idea was that we were not preparing our next generation of workers to meet the national security challenges that we were going to face. do we need another national defense education act? >> yes. one in the interest of national defense, for sure, but, really, it's to inoculate us against stupidity. so, there ought to be some way to put that in that acronym, a national education let's not be stupid anymore act. >> make america smart again? >> [ laughs ] i hate to sound that harsh. let me say it in a more positive way. curiosity and learning for many people are viewed as chores. we all know people who, when they graduated high school, ran down the steps on graduation day and threw their notes in the air and said, "no more school" and celebrated that. if you celebrated no more school, that school failed at something. half of what a school what should do should get you to be enchanted and excited about learning so that you can become a lifelong learner when you leave school. >> you do

we are at the eisenhower national historic site at gettysburg, pennsylvania. we have a complete program of world war i reenactors and soldiers, reenactment programs , as well as speakers. our next speaker is will englund. will is a veteran moscow correspondent for "the baltimore sun" and "the washington post." he is a winner of the pulitzer prize for investigative reporting as well. currently, he is a foreign desk editor at "the washington post." he will be taking leave this fall to teach at princeton. he lives in baltimore with his wife, who is also a journalist. while in moscow, he became interested in the year 1917, the year the united states entered the war and the year the russians left the war. and he wrote about the 1917 year and how it changed the world as well as how it changed world war i. he is going to talk about woodrow wilson and how he was going to make the world safe for democracy by leading the united states into world war i. will, i will turn it over to you and you can tell us all about it. >> thank you. thank you all for coming. [applause] >

and president eisenhower was the first to welcome broadway to the white house. but it was really president kennedy and mrs. kennedy who hosted so much. and whether it was individual artists or institutions, they were the ones that really turned it into a really living artistic place as well. it is that reason that this building became the living memorial to john f. kennedy. when congress asked mrs. kennedy what should we do to recognize your husband, she asked that they name the national cultural center in his honor. and, in fact, that inspired the contributions that made it possible to build this building that we're in today. the kennedy center really has three elements to its mission. obviously, world class art. but also powerful education and programs that reach across the country. and we're really well known almost in all 50 states and puerto rico and d.c. for our education program. it is the programs that happen here all the time that really support and sustain the memorial to john f. kennedy. our work as we near the 50th anniversary is to strengthen that m

eisenhower, lyndon johnson, bill clinton, and ulysses s. grant.hat's from the fact checker in today's "washington post." this ism the national review, it trump's boom, not obama's. at first, they tried to deny the existence, then they said it was a fool's gold and now they want someone else to get credit for it. that's the short history of the ofnstream media's coverage the good economic news we have had ever since donald trump one in the november 2016 presidential election. knowing covered it with certainty how long the positive trends will last, but it is absurd to claim the democrats were shy about claiming credit for every kernel of good news they could claim during the anemic at your recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. the reluctance to give trump credit for the current boom is also absurd. financial markets took off the moment he was elected, despite some corrections, haven't really looked back. the economic optimism that is fueling both growth and the other strong indicators about employment and wages is the direct result of two factor

number two is that president eisenhower and this goes way back, president eisenhower said that the worst mistake he ever made was nominating had earl warren for supreme court. that's on record. and a third is, the lady that talked about george soros, there is all kinds of dark money in our political system now. and a lot of this goes back to the citizens united and mccutchen decisions which opened the floodgates to anybody being able to contribute as much money as they wanted to and to whomever they wanted to to fix elections. there is fault on both sides. >> well, rob, can you go to your first point again? and explain that a little bit. >> okay. if you go back, if you look at the dred scott decision, for example, the kruk shank decision in 17 i believe it was 1777, or excuse me, 1877, excuse me and citizens united votes, and i could name any number of nominations. frankly i don't think clarence thomas should be sitting on the court right now for what he did when he was on the eeoc. that kind of got glossed over because the concentration on the anita hill controversy. and i would point o

people from 1954 with general mccarthy the minority leader lyndon johnson and others kennedy and eisenhower and is a lot of fun to learn about these a people to figure out how to write a dialogue by reading up on them. and and with that democratic senator nobody has ever heard of him today. [laughter] maybe this audience but a lot of people out there have never heard of l him in 1952 he ran for president and one all the primaries because back then literally it was rigged. the back room guys nominated someone else instead and he was frustrated so what would lbj say? i shouldn't make that mistake. so you start writing this on the obama administration? so why the mccarthy era washington? >> i started in the 1700s so i tried many, many times but i cannot write for john adams. and it is also naÏve. and that brought things home for me because then i could talk about washington as the modern era it would be weird. with american popular culture and it was horribly racist and beyond that with the red scare and segregation to be ruled unconstitutionall so if you write about the 50s but at popularity

names in the war, the people who would make the most significant contributions including dwight eisenhower were stationed here. even very famously the person who tell legends about, general patton. the troops were divided into two forces. there was a red army and a blue army. they were divided by states. one army was arkansas, louisiana, texas, alabama, mississippi. they went to war against the red army. planes dropped sacks of flour from the air. where the flour covered showed the damage. men remember the number of who were here, soldiers camped out everywhere here. they had tents in backyards. the men who were trained in the region became the first fighting force deployed into your. they had real-world experience. the leaders like hatton and kruger and bradley became the officers they relied on for the development. this is the scrapbook that maude reid put together of her life. ed about her life until she passed away in 1978. i think this shows you the connection she had to the community and the impact. and make visit schools presentations. here is a letter from a student written to her.

we have the eisenhower memorial that is being constructed here in d.c. i'm curious about your thoughts about the opportunities and maybe more important the danger of memorializing a president as it pertains to preserving the authenticity of the president's story, of their legacy. and maybe most importantly their humanity. >> who would you like to have respond to that? >> how about cokie. >> well, first, i want to say what a great job the park service does. it really is -- what you have online historically is really valuable for those of us who are -- who write history. and it is not all, you know, rosy glasses. it's truth. and it's -- and you keep doing that more and the education of your rangers and other people is just phenomenally good. so thank you. and the part service has been under tremendous financial pressure over the last several years so that is really, you know, you're doing it under difficult circumstances. >> one other panelists has a comment? >> memorializing presidents, we're going to do it so let's do it right. >> let's be open to recogn

he was what we would call a classic eisenhower republican. he was one of dwight eisenhower's favorite golfing buddies. eisenhower said, i like to wish -- to play with bush as he is one of the people who will not let me when. when you are president, you get a few mulligans. he was the kind of person who was willing to reach across the aisle. we have little legislation that was offered by prescott bush. but an extraordinary wealth of tales of him going behind the scenes getting the sides to come together in a way that is difficult to conceive of today. brian: why did george herbert walker bush moved texas? -- moved to texas? dr. engel: texas was part of the adventure. at the end of 1940 eight, having just graduated from yale, he has the opportunity to go to new york, to work in his father's investment house. he instead decided, i need to go and make my life on my own. make my own way. he drives across country and winds up in texas. he had a friend of the family who had an oil company there. he begins work as a salesman for the oil company. barb

what you just said reminded me of the eisenhower farewell address in 1961. and if you reread that you have that per mount --dash my profound sense of thinking about the future and people beyond yourself. in the very same year that they publish the image with that event. it talks about unreality. there is an event. the whole thing is a pseudo- event now. i will read the article about trump and been elected. i feel like i have a tin hat on. what if there's an election. we are under a cyber attack. even more permissions than we can imagine. what happens if he is elected and there's a shrug not a civil war but a shrug. you are describing something awful. i don't know what you do then. i have a place in paris that i'm going. i keep thinking of the andrew breitbart. i wrote it right after he died. he was a more interesting guy than he seems. but he used to always call for a kind of a civil civil war against the liberals. because he thought conservatives were victimized a group and they were always the victims of everything. they cry the hot tears are for themselve

we also have the eisenhower memorial, that is currently being constructed here in dc.i am curious about your thoughts about the opportunities, and maybe more importantly, the dangers inherent, in memorializing a president, as it pertains to preserving the authenticity of the presidents story, of their legacy, and maybe most importantly, their humanity. >> i am going to ask you, to pick a panelist, because, who would you like to respond to that? >> how about -- >> at first, i want to say what a great -- it really is -- and what you have online, historically, is really valuable, to those of us who write history. and, it is not all, you know, rosie -- is truth, and, you keep doing that more. and, the education of your rangers, and other people, is just phenomenally good. so thank you., the park service has been under trying -- tremendous financial pressure the last several years. so, that is really, you are doing it under difficult circumstance. >> does one other panelist have a comment for the question, and i will move on to the next one else? >> memorializing presidents

he was secretary of agriculture under eisenhower. also the president has made church and also my former chief was not his degree and then. so there is a personal reason why i want to go through this one. enjoy the philosophy she has as he talks about this nation in the future politics in the united states. i'm looking forward to that one. the final one is willing i really recommended by my staff. where nobody knows your name by john feinstein. the cool part of this is it's going to be all about minor-league ace ballplayers and those who made a name for themselves in the minors. this is about those who labored for the pay is not great in the month of the game is magnificent. obviously in utah in my district we have to minor-league teams. once a rookie team, when it's aaa. a season-ticket in salt lake city silos minor-league baseball in those kinds of stories and am looking forward to go through this book. >> at evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to bind a noble upper west side. louis hyman at the industrial labor relations scho

he spoke at the eisenhower national historic site in gettysburg pennsylvania. this is 40 minutes. >> welcome, everyone, we are at the eisenhower national historic site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. it is great war camp cole weekend. we're having a complete program of programs as well as speakers here. our next speaker is will englund. he's a veteran correspondent for the baltimore sun and the washington post. he's a winner of the pulitzer prize for investigative reporting as well and presently he is a foreign desk editor at the washington post. he will be taking leave this fall to teach at princeton journalism. he lives in baltimore with his wife who is also a journalist. well in moscow he became interested in the year 1917 the year that the united states entered the war and the russians left the war. he wrote about the 1917 year and how it changed the world as well as how it changed world war i. he's going to talk about woodrow wilson and how he was going to make the world safe for democracy by leading the united states into world war i. i'll turn it over to yo

bush said to her, lady bird, i want you to see and eisenhower is in there too. i'm sorry, thank you. for the eisenhower descendants in the room, i apologize. but i'm talking about mrs. johnson's visit, i'm sorry. but laura bush said to her, lady bird, i want you to know i have this room repainted in the color that would match your beautiful dress. and took her upstairs in the elevator and brought her by her husband's portrait on the state floor and the ground foyer. and mrs. johnson, i'll never forget it, just in her wheelchair, went up just as to embrace her husband. it's one of those things as a staffer in the white house, you realize you are staff, you are not a principal, you work there, but it's one of those incredible opportunities that you get to see firsthand that really reminds you what a blessing it is to have the opportunity to be there and to witness the history. bob: you mentioned this, talking about, stewart, the way in which johnsons took office was through tragedy. and we kind of forgotten until you recited it yesterday. mrs. johnson described th

the eisenhower archetype. he invited both presidents to speak at his funeral.ith brain cancer, and john mccain got exactly what he wanted, a total, complete rejection of trump and trumpism that was broadcast live on national television for all to see. what we saw today was former presidents, you mention obama and george w. bush speaking today, obama speaking eloquently, you saw senator leadership, all of washington, d.c. essentially coming together to reject donald trump. i think anyone would find it hard pressed to see a more public, more ceremonial rebuke of a sitting president. i have never seen anything like this. it was incredibly powerful what we saw today. >> done by your fellow navy man, malcolm nance. just a lit of pallbearers, joe biden, former vice president, pointedly included, choice of a russian dissident as a final dig as putin and trump. and he was an avowed enemy of putinism to the end. that inclusion of vladimir, what did you make of that as pallbearer? >> in the homily made to john mccain, he reject all forms of totalitarianism. while fightin

though he made this poster board bragging about his sales in one thousand nine hundred sixty one eisenhower warned against a military industrial complex and a spoiler alert it's worse than he predicted the bush administration used the first gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one as a showcase for the destructive power of u.s. weapons and the mainstream news media became the home shopping network for u.s. missiles out of the haze of a pilgrim through my third marine airwing for an approaching time to pull this. call now and get your hole in the ground four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a.r.u. industrial. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need remember is one show you know for the mid one and only but. it's become an international norm. i'm to say women's rights are human rights but in a world where women make up the majority of university graduates this may not be true how much more women's empowerment needs to happen before gender based policies become redu

eisenhower left yesterday.hey'll go to parts of the atlantic where they're better able to weather the storm. >> the on shore flow is a huge deal. it's a category 4 right now and for us locally the bpact may later. end of the weekend and early next week. >> but it will have some impact? >> lots of rain. >> weec e it but most of the rain will stay south of here. dealing morning we're with a lot of fog. visibility is very low out there: take a look. this is almost zero mile visibility in the district. so you may note be a to see more than about 30 feet in front of you in some areas. be very careful. looking at less than a mile visibility. and dulles less than a mile visibility. so very dense fog this morning. be very careful if you're passing there too. weave a couple trying to move in from the south but we're still looking dry. it's 72 degrees in washington. 70 in clinton right now. so mild to start off your rning and as the kids head back to school, maybe a raincoat because wehaave thee for showers. the fog out

president eisenhower saw himself the loss and suffering. the president declared the entire zone a disaster area, calling upon federal civil defense administration to bring relief to the people of the stricken region. and operation moaa was born. >> you can watch this and other programs on our website. all video is archived. c-span.or dpchlt/history.

bush said to her, lady bird, i want you to -- and mamie eisenhower is in there too. i'm sorry for the eisenhower center in the room. i'm talking about mrs. johnson's visit. i'm sorry. but laura bush said to her, now, lady bird, i want you to know i had this room repainted in a color that would match your beautiful dress, and then she took her upstairs in the elevator and brought her by her husband's portrait on the state floor in the grand foyer, and mrs. johnson, i'll never forget it, just in her wheelchair, you know, leapt up as if to embrace her husband, and it's just one of those things that, you know, as a staffer in the white house, you realize you're staff, you're not a principal, you don't live there. you work there. but it's one of those incredible privileges and opportunities that you get to see firsthand. >> talk about, stuart, the way in which the johnsons took office, which was through tragedy, and you mentioned a quote, which i had forgotten until you recited it yesterday. mrs. johnson described that period after president kennedy's assassination as ame