vetting eisenhower. he did not really that eisenhower. vete did not really eisenhower. everyone knew that he was the political gold. absolute political gold or it was getting him to say yesterday that took a long time. probably the most and port in figure two getting him to say yes was his good buddy who finally said, you have to do it and you have to do it or us the country will go to hell. you are the only person who can save the country. when enough people who admire you -- who you admire, he started saying, well maybe i am the only person who can save the country. he did. never looked back. ann: i have got to ask one last question on my own. there are such colorful moments. and the personalities from that era are just amazing frankly, will's book is so beautifully written. written with the art and elegance of a novel. give us, as your parting gift to us as a little description of eisenhower and crew stuff for the trip. william: what a comic scene. someone should do it -- do a one-act play. christoph arrives -- it is 1959, he arrives -- ann: this is the last year. wi

where's the real eisenhower? i'm a historian but i'm not interested in making ike to a -- into a saint orville lain. i wanted to find out what made him tick but what's the real meaning of thize be hour impact on the country, what impact did he have and why was he so popular? people said i like ike but why? what was it about him that they liked? 'm going to talk on on two big answers to that question. if you want to know why ike was popular, look at what he did, the accomplishments in his eight years. and i'll touch on a few of those but then i want to talk about his character and the man the who he was and the kind of man he was. let me talk about the substance of his presidency first and give you just a gist of what's in the book. eisenhower's proudest accomplishment as president was that the united states did not bo to war for eight years while he was in office. he said this again and again, it didn't just happen, i'll tell you that! he probably said it more heated and more colorfully than that. he worked hard

he came up with an idea about eisenhower answers america.would have different individuals asking eisenhower a question about his platform, his policies. what he would do as president. this is where eisenhower was really reluctant, because this required him to spend an entire day in a television studio, rehearsing these lines. they made him take off his glasses. he couldn't see, so they put really large cue cards so he could read the lines. they worked on the lighting. put makeup on him to make him look attractive. this is where robert montgomery again played a role in terms of how can we present actors and use all of those tools of the trade to present ike in a very effective way? eisenhower, again, was not happy with this, but he reluctantly agreed to do it because he saw the potential of reaching new audiences. he did grumble along the way. one of the most famous quotes in terms of a critique he offered was that he was exasperated after an entire day of filming all of these commercials and he said why don't you just hire an actor? it reall

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[laughter] dwight eisenhower -- dwight eisenhower was more popular by polling at the end of his presidency than he was at the beginning of his presidency. and he used to think, boy, i could have gotten a third term. bill clinton -- bill clinton was more popular in the year 2000 then he was the year 1993. he used to think if he could have run for a third run, they would have won. they fool themselves because by 1960, the democrats had no incentive to go after dwight eisenhower. they were focusing all their fire on the next one, richard nixon. the republicans in 2000 had no particular reason to go after bill clinton anymore. he got a free pass. they were aiming their guns at al gore. this question of popularity and how presidents look better in the rear-view mirror is due to this artifact that nobody is sniping at them anymore. while they're in office, everybody is and you learn all the bad stuff about them. but perhaps the clearest assertion of presidential decline was made by henry adams who was an observer of presidents -- where well, he was the grandson of john adams and the great-grands

. >> the war in the pacific, a cure for measles, and the life and legacy of dwight eisenhower. this weekend on american history tv at saturday 1:00 p.m. eastern, world war ii's first major ally defense, the battle of guadalcanal. >> for the american public, guadalcanal came to symbolize the first test of the manhood of the generation that had to fight. america," with a rash of outbreaks of measles this year, a look at the 1964 film on the history of measles and development of a vaccine. >> the results are evident. the monkeys not vaccinated developed measles. these given the experimental vaccine show no signs of measles, but have developed protective antibodies. these doctors now know they have developed for the first time a vaccine which will provide safe protection against measles. >> and sunday night at apricot eastern, -- at 8:00 eastern, william hitchcock on the age of eisenhower. >> dwight eisenhower was the most popular man, the most admired man of that period, 1945 to 1961. he served the country as president, having won landslide -- two landslide elections. his average

. >> dwight eisenhower was the most popular, respected, admired man of that period, 1945 to 1961. he garnered massive approval from the public, winning two landslide elections. his average approval rating when he was president for eight years, 65%. average. and the next closest to that was afterlinton, at 55%, and that ronald reagan at 53%, way in the rearview mirror. >> watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> now a look at recent debates in australia's parliament, including discussions about china's foreign policy, australian military operations in the south pacific, and climate change. this runs 35 minutes. >> thanks for your company.

so then the eisenhower administration turned to j.p.l. and the army and von braun, who had been working together all that time and said can you do it? we did it in about 60 days. we had a satellite basically already on the shelf. what was interesting about that to me is that the foresight to put in that satellite an actual science instrument. it was basically a geiger counter. that geiger counter found out, discovered that there surrounds the earth these radiation belts that protect us from the sun and particles from the sun that essentially we wouldn't be, that would kill us. we would not be able, our molecular structure would break down. the first time there was a space discovery was here at j.p.l., what is called the the von allen radiation belts. it was about life, how precious life is here because of the way our earth and the radiation belts are arranged. the interesting thing also is this is january of 1958 and there isn't even a nasa yet. nasa was formed later that year by the eisenhower administration. what j.p.l. wished to do is

and eisenhower gave truman this globe that was one that eisenhower had used throughout the war.he irony about this is truman brought the globe back, put it in his oval office. and of course he was succeeded in 1953 by former general, now president dwight eisenhower. so truman left the globe in the office for eisenhower when he got there. >> harry s. truman took the momentous oath of office as president of the united states. with a world at war, he accepted the gravest responsibility in world history. a new commander in chief to lead our nation to ultimate victory. hours before he'd been summoned to the white house and notified that president roosevelt had died, and this photo behind me is a scene of truman being sworn in as president. you can sort of see the shock on the people's faces. the bible you see in the photograph is also on display behind me. he obviously was not prepared to be sworn in as president. so they just searched around and found a bible in the usher's office at the white house and used it. truman subsequently used the same bible to be sworn in when he was re-e

boom, he's right in behind eisenhower and a strong wind from eisenhower's sail pulling him forward.cratic presidents, war hero dwight eisenhower's republicans enjoy a landslide victory. alongside a new young senator, john f. kennedy, prescott bush is sworn in to the senate. >> both prescott and dottie bush take to washington like fish to water. dorothy moves into the social scene. she loves to give tours of the capitol for diplomatic figures. prescott bush said it's a great life. >> president eisenhower's impressed by prescott bush. because he has a kind of rectitude, a moderate republican politics that eisenhower likes, and he thinks is the future of the party. >> it was prescott bush's belief in the importance of persuasion and civility in politics that made him very uncomfortable with joseph mccarthy. >> are you a member of the communist conspiracy as of this moment? >> joe mccarthy embodied the anti-communist paranoia that gripped american society early in the 1950s. he was a person who lied, who had no difficulty whatsoever smearing another person's reputation without any fact

of that was took a while and argued bys american political leaders on the democratic side wasuse eisenhower president as something that had gottencans behind the russians on this and they needed to catch up used every opportunity to embarrass the other political side over issue. >> so during the time period especially 1956 through 1960, how much pressure was president eisenhower under? >> there was periodic pressure in a variety of fronts, but in terms of space, he didn't feel much thesure at all until sputnik 1 launch in 1957. of 1957. the reality was he had spent a fair amount of money on space activities. all done in the context of ballistic missiles building and rockets. that's a technology that has a variety of uses. you can use it to kill people and break things, but can also use it to orbit satellites into and ultimately, people. the other area he spent a lot of money was reconnaissance satellites and in 1960 the americans launched their first spy satellites that were able to pictures over the soviet union and eisenhower's motivated on we never want to have another harbor. we're not

> dwight eisenhower was the most respected man, the most admired man of that period. he served the country as president and his average approval rating while president with was 65 years average. the next president who comes closest to that was bill clnten at 55% and after that ronald reagan 53. >> watch american history tv his weekend on c-span 3. >> up next, on american artifacts we go behind the scenes at the u.s. army in itage and education center carlisle, pennsylvania to see a section of world war i objects in their storage facility. we will see how they prepare,

eisenhower drove over from gettysburg, where he had retired. they meet at camp david. wonderful political pictures from this. two men walking up the path to the cabin. eisenhower walks him through. he said did you have a meeting? able to do the pros and cons? kennedy said no. he had run it in a disorganized way so the stakeholders were able to spin him without being fact check and counterbalanced by the other voices in the room. eisenhower said you can't do that. 1962, kennedy is shown photographic evidence of the deployment of nuclear weapons in cuba. 90 miles away from florida. of an exchange of nuclear weapons in the fall of 1962 range between 70 million americans.lion my view is that it would have been hard to have a hemispheric exchange and not have it escalate immediately into an intercontinental one. the whole order of life could be gone. he remembered what ike had told him. i know there are many people here who believe they have been part of the world's longest committee meeting, but in fact the longest committee meeting i know of was the executive committee of

a cure for measles and the life and legacy of dwight eisenhower. this weekend on american history tv, saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern, pacific war scholars on the first page pacific ally defensive. >> for the american public, the canal came to symbolize the manhood of the generation that have to fight the war. >> then on 10:00 p.m., with a rash of outbreaks of measles this year, we'll look back at the 1964 film of the history of measles and the development of a vaccine. >> the results are evident. the monkeys that were not vaccinated developed measles. the ones like this, show know sign of measles but they have developed protective anti-bodies. they now know that they have developed for the first time a vaccine which will provide safe protection against measles. >> and sunday night at 8 eastern, university of virginia professor and author on the age offiz of eisenhower. >> he served the country as president and he garnered massive approval from the public. his average approval rating, ladies and gentlemen, while he was president, for eight years, was

that is where the eisenhower and administrations are important. there are no laws related to the protection of defense administration before 1970. acquiresd states territories and sets up military installations in the caribbean. you have a great diplomatic corps as well. so how this information is protected. why is it that the u.s. has such a -- come to national security so late? it is the democratic tradition of open government. the u.s. constitution precluding the kind of rules you have in the vast majority of countries, u.k., where there is an official secrets act. the official secrets act protects state secrets and information. but an official secrets act is precluded by the u.s. constitution because it impedes on first amendment rights. particularly the press. you have an interesting tension at play. mr. sexton: the united states is a little late to the game in protecting state secrets. there is a legitimate need, a national security apparatus classifying and protecting information particularly in a period of wartime. when do we see this chan

. >> and former first lady may -- first lady eisenhower lived here. she left before she was a year old. then she went on to live 10 years here in cedar rapids, iowa. she was here because her father was working as a buyer for the sinclair packet house, which was the focus of the new bohemian neighborhood. she spent the first 10 or 11 years of her life in cedar rapids. one of the two homes she lived in is still standing. it is one of the great secrets. her home is on the right. it is the second home on the right. this is the childhood home of mamie eisenhower. >> why do you think it is important for people to know about the midwest's history and about iowa in cedar rapids? >> the midwest and cedar rapids is at the crossroads of the entire national development movement. we established railroad connections to the east and west coast. we have historic connections to major developments around the night states. all the industry people in stories we have developed here have relevant links to the rest of the united states. >> i am outside the grant wood studio

and to be considered for vice-president, particularly running with general eisenhower for whom i had was to me something you on the antti dreamed about. only dreamed about. >> the headline in the new york post newspaper said secret rich men's trust fund keeps nixon style far beyond his salary. >> a revelation of senator nixon, the vice-presidential candidate, was receiving to what amounted to a private salary, from private persons in california, is becoming a major political story. some republicans are demanding that nixon withdraw from the race. >> in my judgment, men dishonest in government should be put out. >> everybody who thought that i could not survive on the ticket -- but, you know something about miracles and politics. miracles don't happen. they don't happen unless you make them happen. cooking class? art festival. climbing. getting a new volkswagen can be easier than you think. what will you do with the extra time? hot yoga. yeah. no, like yoga... but hotter. i love it. with practically just your signature, you can get a 2019 volkswagen jetta for zero down, zero deposit,

this is where the truman and eisenhower administration are important. jay sexton: did that problem not get sorted out? national state and security being defined and powers being protected from various types of whistleblowing activities. prof. mistry: essentially, the creation of the modern secrecy revised a little bit by the eisenhower administration. it essentially fills a gap that was unresolved by the espionage act. it introduces the formal modern classification system. you have three tiers. confidential, secret, top secret. significantly, standardized handling practices. handling,ed unauthorized sharing of information will be prosecuted through the espionage act. noncompliance for disclosure. this system, every had an administration will revive -- every administration will revise it in some way. forcrucial issue i think who we are talking about, this classification system emerges out of executive orders. it is not rooted in statutes. congress does not past -- does not pass laws on this. the secrecy regime is essentially an executive project. that ra

. ♪ a war in the pacific, a cure for measles, and dwight eisenhower.ar scholars on world war ii's first major pacific ally defenses, the battle of suwann canal. >> for the american public, this came to symbolize the first test of the manhunt of the generation to fight the war. america,: then on rrel with a rash of outbreaks of measles, a look back at the 1964 film on the history of measles and the development of a vaccine. >> in a few weeks, the results are evident. the monkeys that were not vaccinated developed measles. the ones like this one that were given the experimental vaccine show no signs of measles, as they have developed protective antibodies. we now know that they have developed for the first time a vaccine which will provide safe protection against measles. announcer: in sunday night at 8:00 eastern, the university of virginia professor and author william hitchcock on "the age of eisenhower." >> he was the most popular man, the most respected man, the most admired man of that period, 1945 to 1961. he served the country as president and gar

emerging from the long shadow of eisenhower, he became leader of the republican party.ppearance. the two leading candidates for 1960. >> i will say this, that at the present time senator kennedy is campaigning very effectively. >> i've got to return that compliment. >> things are starting to pop, as this vital campaign of 1960. oooh. premium entertainment on the infinity screen! people have seven different premium entertainment options to choose from. 'cause people are different. like how you cut the crust off of your sandwiches, and i eat them. and i'm pretty laid back and casual, and you... iron your jeans. i'm actually very happy you noticed that. cool... that's cool. at&t has the only unlimited plan that gives you your choice of top-tier entertainment. buy a new galaxy s10 e, and get one free. more for your thing. that's our thing. whooo! want to take your next vacation to new heights? tripadvisor now lets you book over a hundred thousand tours, attractions, and experiences in destinations around the world! like new york! from bus tours, to breathtaking adventures,

so, in one of my favorite statistics on this, is, president eisenhower had a 50% approval rating for his eight years among democrats. president obama had something like an 8% approval rating among republicans. and, i think the income is probably below the margin of error among democrats. so, that is a real thing. and, if you are, like you, and like me, you want to say, will you, but fort sumter was put to bed, what about the copperhead? it makes us very, annoying, to most people to do that, but i do believe that, if we do not look back, we cannot look ahead , and that sounds like a coffee mug remark, but, i fundamentally believe it. i talked in historical terms, i try and speak in historical terms, because, i think, it has the biggest chance, of bringing both sides of this great divide into a conversation. conservatives love tradition, right, they want to talk about original intent, they love the idea that we might wear powdered wigs again. okay, so let's talk about the past. progressives love data. they love science, they are children of the enlightenment, where reason has a capacit

. >> dad got that nomination, boom, he's right in behind eisenhower. >> after 20 years of democraticero dwight eisenhoweren joys a landslide victory. alongside a new young senator, john f. kennedy, prescott bush is sworn into the senate. >> both prescott and dotty bush take to washington like fish to water. dorothy moves into the social scene. she loves to give tours of the capital for diplomatic figures. prescott bush said it's a great life. >> president eisenhower is is impressed by bush because he has a kind of rectitude, moderate politics that eisenhower likes and thinks is the future of the party. >> it was prescott bush's belief in the importance of persuasion and politics that made him uncomfortable with mccarthy. >> are you a member as of this moment? >> he embodied the paranoia that gripped society. he was a person who lied. you had no difficulty whatsoever smearing another person's reputation without any fact or basis of evidence. and prescott found mccarthy despicable. >> press bush stands up to him. and says this guy is not playing fair. he's a demagogue and a liar. that

. >> the whole nixon family considers it a great privilege to work for the presidency of eisenhower.they are too young for active campaigning,s will nixon will travel throughout the country. and i think you'll find she's one of the best campaigners on record. >> i certainly will do all i can. >> after all, i was only 39 years old. and to even be considered for vice president, particularly running with general eisenhower for whom i had enormous respect was, to me, something you only dreamed about. >> the head line in the "new york post" says trust fund keeps nixon in style far beyond his salary. >> the revelation of senator nixon, the vice presidential candidate was what amounted to a private salary from private persons in california is becoming a major political story. some republicans are and of course, they are demanding that nixon withdraw from the race. >> in my judgment and in government that are dishonest should be punished. >> to demand his resignation as vice presidential candidate. >> everybody thought i could not survive in the ticket. but you know something about miracles

of virginia professor and author william hitchcock on the age of eisenhower. >> dwight eisenhower was the most respected man, the most admired man of that period. he served the country as president and his average approval rating while president with was 65 years average. the next president who comes closest to that was bill clnten at 55% and after that ronald reagan 53. >> watch american history tv his weekend on c-span 3. >> up next, on american artifacts we go behind the scenes at the u.s. army in itage and education center carlisle, pennsylvania to see a section of world war i objects in their storage facility. we will see how they prepare, conserve and store a selection of fragile artifacts. >> i am the curator at the education center. the center is the armies unofficial depository for history. we collect artifacts and two-dimensional materials like letters, diaries, photographs, audio and visual materials and we are the largest collection -- library collection as well. what we try to do here is focused on the army's history through individual soldier's stories that we collect. w

. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on the presidency, william hitchcock on the age of eisenhow eisenhower he was the most popular man, most respected man, most admired man of that period. he served the country as president. he garnered massive approval from the public having won two landslide elections. his average approval rating, ladies and gentlemen, while he was president for eight years was 65%. average. the next president who comes close to that was bill clinton at 55%. after that, ronald reagan at 53%. they are in the rearview mirror. >> watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> the senate armed services committee held a hearing with the secretaries of the army, navy and air force as well as the military branch service chiefs about housing conditions on military bases. members asked the officials about reported cases of lead paint, mold and vermin in housing for service members and their families across the country. this hearing is 2 1/2 hours. >> are you ready?

since way back then, back in the eisenhower years, the maximum marginal tax rate was 91%. now, i'm not sure what it is. it's around 20 or 30%. somebody else can tell me. but to equate money with speech is a very strange thing. if money were speech, i would be able to go down to the store and talk my way to whatever i wanted. money is not speech. and when you equate money and speech, you're basically handing your democracy over to the people with money. and whether that is corrected at the supreme court or whether it is corrected through legislation, i hope it is corrected. it is going to be hard to correct because that same money that people talk about buying congress, well, it's not totally like that but it is significant significantly like that. money does rule a lot of congress people. their opinions follow the money. and so if you're going to have a democracy, you really have to have one person, one vote. not $1.01. i think it is a central issue and i think we need to elect a congress that will overturn it if the supreme court is self will not overturn a. >> in the fin

everyone from eisenhower to george h w bush, that means is a world war ii veteran. how much larger world war ii looms of the country. the truman is a reader of history. he studied the outcome of the war. he says we have to come up with a different way. so, again, we had to rely very to get on our allies most of our munitions and heavy equipment during the war. was we started the war in 1914, the u.s. army was largely a raid wasor the last war, which against the american indians on the frontier. we were so not prepared to go fight a war of attrition. world war i was a giant siege, with all the trenches and artillery and poison gas and the front lines would rarely move -- barely move. we were already. --t is astonishing know astonishing though, even though involved in the war but for 19 months, we draft 2 million young men to fight in france. it's an incredible achievement. of course, they were only halfway trained. we did not get into the fight seriously until may 1919. but we drove the germans back. a spot atat earned us table.ce it's traumatic going from no army to

." >> dwight eisenhower was the most respected man in that period, 1945 to 1961. he garnered massive approval from the public. his average approval rating while he was president, for eight years, was 65%. average. the next president who comes closest to that was bill clinton at 55%, and after that, ronald reagan at 53%. they are way in the rearview mirror. >> watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. ♪ ♪ >> guadalcanal airport. the tiny patch of land for which japan has sacrificed a fleet of warships and thousands are fighting men still wrestles with united states bombers. while the forces that control guadalcanal -- for the forces that control guadalcanal control access to australia. today, these land-based bombers are leading the way as the combined united states land, sea, and air defenses begin the task of sweeping the japs from the south pacific. ♪ no armchair commander, the admiral comes all the way from hawaii to decorate the major general, whose fighting marines captured the airfield and held it against all odds. highest honors are awarded to off

he was appointed by president eisenhower who was a republican.rian: and earl warren was a republican in california. joan: and he became so effective as a liberal icon. in that era, in that era, you could say there are no eisenhower judges. there are no truman judges. there are no roosevelt judges. you could say that in terms of trying to deny the politics. i don't think you could say that today. a president basically knows what he is getting. president eisenhower appointed william brennan who was also a liberal. chief justice earl warren as well. those two defied the politics of the president who appointed them. just as justice john paul stevens did for president gerald ford who appointed him. or more recently, david sluder who george h.w. bush put on. that was the way. a president of one party could end up with an appointee who did not adopt all his ideology or policies. now, you really don't have that. brian: these are the ages of all the justices. justice ginsburg, 86. justice roberts, 64. justice sotomayor, 64. clarence thomas, 70. its 51.uch

dwight eisenhower continued to support south vietnam. after the geneva accords, he continued to agree to put a small amount of advisors in vietnam. john kennedy continued to increase the number of advisors. he increased military aid to south vietnam. we learned in a prior class that kennedy would not have had the united states remain in the vietnam. in fact, he had specific plans for a withdrawal of the advisors. after john kennedy's assassination, lyndon johnson rescinded the jfk order of withdraw. in the case of kennedy, johnson was concerned about the upcoming election to guide his options in vietnam. even after winning the election of 1964, lyndon b. johnson was not clear about what to do with what he called the little shit country in asia. the tapes and documents of the time indicate he knew he could not win in vietnam. he nonetheless chose war. when nixon was elected in 1968, he ordered the strong-armed technique of massive bombing, to bring the north vietnamese to the peace table. from the statistics we reviewed in class, we learn

there is a small amount of taping in eisenhower and roosevelt and fdr. for our purposes these are incredible historical sources because they bring us inside the oval office. there are no presidents who tape after nixon because they understand they could be subpoenaed but you can imagine other technology, email in the late '80s and early '90s, apparently the bush administration did a lot with email because it was a new technology and they did not realize they were creating a personal record. text messages in the clinton administration, the idea of creating permanent records but we have no other tapes. >> would you argue nixon was -- first and a president second? he was trying to find out how can i get elected? >> nixon is a foreign policy president. his goal is to deal with foreign policy issues and so in his mind domestic matters, the goal was to get him reelected and so he would not have done deals with domestic actors on china and soviet union, he cares about that. who is on the supreme court he does not care as long as it serves his political sources.

in part, because the two men run library is truman down the road from the eisenhower library. two administrations that played a role in the post-1945 international order, and also the nature of the modern u.s. national security state, including the regimes of secrecy and classification of information. these are terms used quite frequently, but these are very modern developments. we talking that the early 1950's. as jay said, we have been working on this project for the last couple of years. genealogy oft the national security whistleblowing , but also secrecy itself there have risen to power in the 20th the incidents that have developed at some of the way it has been in that bureaucracy. thing about origins, evolution, and some of the contested labels. national security whistleblowing. pick up the newspapers, turn on the tv, there are daily headlines. i think we often take these terms for granted. a universalere is understanding about what they mean and where they come from. one of our objectives is to trace this, because they do not emerge ineffective -- in a vacuum. they hav

eastern, night at 8:00 william hitchcock on the age of eisenhower. >> he was the most popular, the most respected, admired man of that. 1945-1961. he garnered massive approval from the public. his average approval rating while president for eight years was 65%, average. the next president who comes closest to that was bill clinton at 55%, after that, ronald reagan. >> watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. 1979, c-span was created by american public cable companies. we bring you coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. the homeland security secretary talked about border security yesterday. members questioned her about the president's use of an emergency declaration to fund a border construction.

eisenhower negotiated that one. thank you for that question. we have two questions back here. >> referring to the armistice again, i believe it was signed in two days before the official time to stop shooting, something like that, that is why we have the 11th hour and the 11th day. there was a time of a couple of days where all the top generals knew we have agreed to stop fighting. my question is, what was the mentality, if we know we are stopping in two days, why do we keep going and have that many more people wounded and died? because everybody who has heard of it knows it is coming? >> this is a little bit of misinformation. even at that moment, november 7, there was and edition of fake news that got published there was an armistice signed and everyone went ballistic. everyone celebrated on the streets. there was, in fact, no armistice. the german delegation was already negotiating with the french. but they had to go back and forth several times across the lines. it was not until the middle of the night, early morning november 11, that they

university of virginia professor and more william hitchcock on the age of eisenhower. >> dwight eisenhower was the most popular man, most respected man, most admired man of the period. '45-'61. he served as president and garnered massive approval from the public having one won two elections miss his average approval rating lehman while president for eight years was 65%. average. and the next president who comes closest to that was bill clinton at 55%. and that ronald reagan at 53. they're way in the rear view mirror. >> watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> and while we wait for the freedom of information day conference to resume, we'll show you this morning's discussion on how the press uses freedom of information requests inside and outside the u.s. >> roberto, you're not a resident of the washington, d.c. >> no. >> can you describe a little bit about why you're here. >> i was here 25 years ago. >> you were. >> yeah. >> but this is not your day job. so what brings you to washington? >> well, i had prepared a text if you don't mind. >> absolutely. >> so i would like to ap

which is why when these two men conceded, eisenhower was happy. he was elated when the malayan visitor visited -- malayan leader visited the u.s.. partner they valued in the cold war. theaid malaya should pursue anti-communist grouping that would be indigenous. malaya could exert terrific force to combat influence in asia. with his encouragement, he managed to do this by 1961. called the association of south east asia. forould lay the foundation the southeast asian nations. it would include malaysia, thailand and the philippines. all of these countries were ruled by conservative economist elites. would fully support intervention in vietnam. in the 60's and 70's, they would intimate ties with the ascendant superpowers. a wider pro-u.s. trajectory across south east asia. what my book suggests is that this story of the wider region focuses tightly on the fate of china. scholars suggest retreating from vietnam is the short lived american empire. it transformed into u.s. predominance into the region. this became an informal empire for america. strategi

eisenhower. the federal government did not make that decision, we would not have an interstate highway system that every american can benefit from. so we need to make those investments at the federal level. it's a partnership. it is not all federal government. it is state and local and we believe we would encourage more private sector investment. but the lawmakers and those on the previous panel, the facetious argument that folks will lose their jobs because of doing the right thing, the american business community says we will stand out for those leaders. ply ceo the other day said the chamber of commerce will go to any district in america where a member of congress is primaried or someone is running against him, for supporting more investment in infrastructure. so we are really ready to put our money where our mouth. is we have a coalition of business and labor, the americans for transportation mobility that is out there doing a grass roots advocacy campaign, that story i mentioned in lake char

the conference was first established in the 1950s, due to strong pressure from the eisenhower administrationovide a central address, a consensus voice for the jewish community. in the ensuing years and especially in the last three decades under the visionary leadership of our ceo, malcolm honeline -- [applause] -- that's right. the conference has become the big tent for the leader of more than 50 major american jewish organizations. we represent the broad spectrum of the american jewish community. collectively pursuing one mission. to ensure the well-being of israel and the jewish people. our motto is strength through unity. however, unity does not suggest unanimity. rather, it is a recognition that we have far more in common than we have differences. aipac plays a unique and important role in the conference of presidents as it has in washington, ensuring that leaders in both parties understand and support the strategic value of the u.s./israel alliance. for two decades, i've been a staunch supporter of aipac and now a member of aipac's board. as chairman, i have gained an even greater appre

macare eisenhower is the man in charge of berlin state museums. quite a lot of his time but even he is getting quite a few serve about this latest. does it mean these three paintings by maintaining incredibly influential in the history of arts to me it is also the first time that these three paintings have been together from the queen's collection they were exhibited once in one. bed that they might be luncheons germany to berlin that was really unthinkable until perhaps two or three years ago. the unique selling point of the exhibition is the direct comparison of the two nice ones painters giovanni perini and andrea montagne who painted himself into the picture here. historians still argue about that. undisputed. and maintaining the unlikely dream team in italian history to suit copied and sought to emulate each other one was more interested in mood the other in detail both created works with extraordinary stories to tell and curated. knows most of them on the left leaning from the louvre on the rights. on loan from washington. this i'm making th