. >> next, from the eisenhower institute, susan eisenhower talks about her grandfather, and dwight d. eisenhower, and his leadership skills. her remarks were part of an all-day symposium commemorating the 75 year anniversary of d-day. this is almost 20 minutes. >> we have a couple of special guests here today. we are fortunate to have general lessee. [applause] lessie's chairman of the eisenhower society board of trustees, and while at west point, a certain john eisenhower class of 1944 taught him how to roll and pack a field pack. we are privileged to have mr. guy whitten here. mr. whitten jumped into normandy on d-day as part of the 101st airborne. [applause] to both of these men and all veterans in our audience, thank you for coming and for your service to this country. our first speaker -- charlie scott who was on our board of trustees -- i said, i have a few remarks and he said, there is a high bar for that here in gettysburg. our first speaker today is susan eisenhower. has aappropriate that she unique relationship to dwight eisenhower as a family member and someone who has spen

eisenhower could not have known this. postponing it beyond june 6, if it does not happen on june 6 the 19t moon tide cycle is june -- remember that storm that wrecked the mulberry? that was june 19. if it had been postponed one more time, that would have been off as well and it would have been july, august before it even happened. captain stagg came into the room to report the weather was likely to moderate. that provoked cheers from the assembled officers. deputy wanted specifics. he wanted to know exactly what the weather would be like over the beaches on june 6. stagg was quiet for a long moment and said, to answer that would make me a guesser, not a meteorologist. the weather was likely to improve but there was a huge element of uncertainty and therefore risk. eisenhower surveyed opinion in the room. ramsey said he was willing to go, but i need to go within the next 30 minutes whether it is a go or not because it takes my ships that long to get ready. you have to decide now, also. the air commanders were both cautious

eisenhower was thoughtful. he was conscientious, a deliberate decision maker who worked long hours, maintained careful records, insured that everyone up and down the chain of command was kept well-informed, keys to success in any undertaking but absolutely essential in war and in war planning. not only that but throughout it all, despite bureaucratic snafus , logistical failures and petty squabbles among subordinates, he remained determinedly cheerful, encouraging, optimistic. the only visible evidence that he was roiling inside was the ubiquitous cigarette almost always to be found in his hand, where he smoked four packs of unfiltered camels a day. the assignment to command the --ay operation tested those his patience, his powers of equanimity -- at every step. it was evident from the start that the americans had a strikingly different command culture and organizational habits. here he is in between monty and bradley, and i think that is a significant relationship. his position in the middle mean s something.

of 1941 to 1961, eisenhower was at a pivotal point, the eisenhower era. in anis presented interesting way, and they have a teacher like me hanging around to answer specific questions, that it is very teachable. and a newt broken assistant editor maybe 30 years old. it in frontgetting of them and getting them to focus on it, they can easily identify the qualities in eisenhower. it is not difficult. know my older daughter called me about a year ago and she said joshua wants to study history integer fault. [laughter] both she and her husband are number crunchers. the whole idea of joshua going off somewhere to major in history is appalling to her. i use that as an example because success is my view. on the other hand, the granddaughter who lives in andon goes to normandy doesn't go to the beaches. she is there to study culture and cooking. which i thought was appalling. [laughter] i still go back to those textbooks and the messengers, the teachers in the classroom and so on. that takes you back to teacher education. i don't think we do a very good of making

with encouraging from president eisenhower. some of the early ideas explored by the cia were quite interesting. one was to place a drug in castro's food that would make him behave strangely in public. and make him appear to be truly insane as some people already thought that he was. the drug wasn't specified in cia documents but it was probably lsd which the cia had done quite a bit of work with in the 1950s. if that sounds like something inspired by james bond, it may have been. he was a big james bond fan as were many in the cia. that march, as the cia was casting about for ideas, fledge happened to be visiting washington. he had dinner at the home of jack kennedy and jacqueline kennedy and somebody asked him, sort of tongue and cheek, if he had any ideas for offering fidel castro and he came up with a crazy plot he would drop leaflets over havana advertising that radiation was in the air and it tended to cling to men's beards. the only way to get rid of the radiation would be to shave the beards so therefore all of castro's

concerns about eisenhower. mainly that he was a communist but many found him to be quite charming and certainly charismatic. washington days in castro took a train to new york city. rom the moment he arrived at penn station, where he was greeted by 20,000 people, he had time.nd ole he went to the top of the empire state building. he shook hands with jackie robinson. he went down to city hall. went up to columbia university. the policemen in new york city because to protect him, there were all these assassination plots surrounding astro, and these were reported in the press every day, none of these turned out to be real but he police didn't know that and castro was completely impossible to protect. he would throw himself into crowds hugging and kissing with no concern for his safety and one afternoon on a to go to the ed bronx zoo. the press followed, federal followed, the new york city police followed. nd castro did what everybody does at the zoo. he ate a hot dog. elephants. to the rode an electric train and b

eisenhower, and his leadership skills. her remarks were part of an all-day symposium commemorating the 75 year anniversary of d-day. this is almost 20 minutes. >> we have a couple of special guests here today. we are fortunate to have general lessee. [applause] lessie's chairman of the eisenhower society board of trustees, and while at west point, a certain john eisenhower class of 1944 taught him how to roll and pack a field pack.

missus eisenhower -- mrs. eisenhower came into this fdr-truman military government issue and this would not do. the camp quickly became colored in eisenhower green and yellow and pink. she brought in a navy reserve decorator from california. she transforms the place. that is where the cabins got their names after the trees. the aspen lodge was named after mrs. eisenhower's favorite tree in colorado. nixon wason -- mrs. unheralded in the work and her legacy there. she transformed some of the french influence to the great american influence. she did quite a bit at camp david as well. they grew the facilities, and large the swimming pool. the other amenities have been added. eisenhower did the three hole golf course there. mrs. next and did quite a bit. i love the things that mrs. bush did in bringing for the first time the directors of the presidential libraries to camp david. all their bosses had spent time at this important place, but none of them had seen it. they were having lunch and understanding the place

eisenhower knew this was the army war college. he knew we had to change. he single handedly went to the congress and said he was going to take the appropriations building and he was going to take the central position of this building and create a new institution. he named it the national war college. his vision from the beginning was to make it a different type of institution and that it would have all four services, navy, army, the new air force at the time, and that he would include in it a sizable component of foreign service officers, the state department and the intelligence community. as he set up a time, we would have to face for the advent of the cold war, we would have to find a different way of preparing our officers. foreign service officers as well as military officers. what i always like to look back at is looking at the charter we had in the era in which we were founded, historian at the time said this college would be concerned with range strategy and the utilization of natural resources necessary to implement the strategy. it said at the ti

eisenhower had khrushchev to camp david. eisenhower was the first american president to make use of helicopters for presidential travel. spontaneously, the soviets did not want khrushchev on the helicopter, so i can asked directly in person, can i give you a tour? he said at the american president would get on, i can get onto. they did a tour of washington and then went to camp david and enjoyed a great time up there. khrushchev liked that american-made helicopter so much, he told eisenman -- talked eisenhower into letting him by two that he took back with him to the soviet union. another story is in. breast of -- bereschnev did not know much about camp david. he went anyway. had thehe party guy, he typical navy blue blazer fior b ereschnev, with the presidential seal. he had the keys to a brand-new navy blue lincoln continental car. zhnev love cars. he told the passenger seat. driving curvy to roads around camp david in a golf cart. side,s in the passenger brezhnev is behind the wheel. they could on his curvy roads. he hits

eisenhower had that highway system.ennedy is thinking what is my administration's big public work thing. he picked the right number -- technology. the computer chip, we think of it today, gets developed in the late 1950's. modern aviation starts kicking in. when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he is killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel. people are flying more and more. hub airports are being developed across the country. it was the jet age and the space age and kennedy grabbed onto it and made it the cornerstone of the new frontier. brian: did he vastly during -- vacillate during the time up until his death about whether or not they should go to the moon? doug: to a degree. this is expensive and he is putting everything on it. the new frontier is suddenly going to the moon. decade, i of the won't be president when we get to the moon. in 1961 in 1962 the budgets flowed. james webb

inner loop at eisenhower. chopper on the way. right slide is blocked because of anus earlier small fire. we just got off the phone, just ther was on the small bus. doesn't sound like injuries, but a quarry situation. 4 should be there, afternoon after river road. right side blocked. inner loop and outer loop have problems clearing the shoulder and mld at arlington and glebe, a and-new crash. cheverly,roblem, southbound bw parkway near 202. hearing inner loop has cleared out of the way. aaron? >> thank you. >>> 6:02. as you head out, keep in mind as melissano the roads are rough, slick from the rain. this is market street. you can see how soaked that was. continuing on our team coverage now, let's head out to see how things are looking on the>>road. ental health is live for us in prince george's county. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are seeing some improvement here over the last hour, hour and a half or so. that's good news here. we're on 0 in the oxon hill area headed to the report of standing water on wa0 ne

society, eisenhower institute. thank you all of you for making time today to listen to me and these brilliant scholars that preceded me. tough act to follow. what struck me when dr. simons was talking so movingly about eisenhower's weather-related decision, what always struck me about that moment, before he made that decision, you could argue he is the most powerful man on the planet, or one of them. at hisall this airpower disposal, naval power, technological power, the ground power of the soldiers, this prodigious military might, this coiled spring. he makes that decision, and then it is out of his hands. it is out of his hands and in the hands of not just the generals who rank below him or the admirals or lieutenant captains,or majors or but it is in the hands of the average soldier, sailor, airman, and a few marines. what i want to give you a sense of today is the d-day combat experience for the average allied soldier by looking at the first infantry division at omaha beach. i would not try to argue this is in

and eisenhower gave truman this globe that was one that eisenhower had used throughout the war. the irony about this is truman wrought the globe back, put it in his oval office, and of course he was succeeded in 1953 by former general, now president, dwight eisenhower. 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 the world at war, he accepted the gravest responsibility in world history a new commander in chief to lead our nation to ultimate victory. >> just a few hours before he had been notified and 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 that you see in the photograph is also on display behind me. he obviously was not prepared to be sworn in as president. and so they just searched around and found a bible in the usher's office at the white house. truman used the same bible to be sworn in when

guest: eisenhower has moved up. he was always around eight or 10, now he has moved into the top five. why is he having a moment? part of it is that people are looking at his record. it was called the hidden handed presidency, when documents were opened in kansas, people seeing that eisenhower really was engaged in the hands-on. he had one or two terms. he was a fiscal conservative. he did many innovative things, like the eisenhower interstate highway system, which we'll benefit from. nasa,. lawrence seaway, and having earl warren on the supreme court, for assuring in the beginning of the death of jim crow. the sending of federal troops to little rock. he got, the fact that out of the korean war and didn't get us into a major war. 1961 he gave the farewell address where he warned about the industrial military complex in america. like bigat don't government, libertarians, and people on the left, they loved his farewell address. we pulled together a coalition to make the top five and on the top of your list is abraham

eisenhower said you can't do that. cut to october of 1962, kennedy is shown photographic evidence of the deployment of nuclear weapons in cuba. put it 15 minutes away from washington, 90 miles away from florida. estimates of an exchange of nuclear weapons in the fall of 1962 range between 70 million and 100 million americans. 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 the national security council, which lasted for 13 days in the fall of 1962. we came through the missile crisis, not least because kennedy was willing to learn on the job. one of the many tragedies of dallas, as of ford's theater, is that in lincoln and kennedy we had two presidents who were clearly

. >> but former first lady maybe eisenhower -- maybe eisenhower lecture. --enhower lived here. mark: she was here because her buyer was working as a for the sinclair packinghouse, which was the focus of the bohemian neighborhood down here. she spent the first 11 years of her life in cedar rapids. one of the homes is still standing here. it is one of the secrets, even to residents. it is the second home on the right. 1235 3rd avenue, the childhood eisenhower.e dowd >> why do you think it is important for people to know about midwest history and specifically about cedar rapids? mark: 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. connections to major developments all over the united states. all the industry people and stories we have developed here have relevant links to the rest of the united states and the rest of the world. you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org cities tour. this is american history tv, on

eisenhower did. i can't see the camps of the jews and the holocaust slaughtered. -- id, film it,izen hare, it,ize hen yaur, so people don't become deniers of what the germans did. eisenhower never liked von braun. jack kennedy did. i write about kennedy's visits to huntsville and cape canaveral. if he saw warner von braun he would say, fly with me. they became that tight. brian: how did werner von braun and the other germans get to the united states? what year was it? doug: 1945, in the spring of 1945 the third reich was crumbling. by the time adolf hitler committed suicide, the gig was up. that was in march of who was going to get the german war spoils. the number one most precious thing that nazi germany had was werner von braun and the german rocket science. if you could take that technology, you could be the world's superpower. warner von braun fought for a minute and said, i will not go to russia, who wants to live in russia? it is a horrible lifestyle. britain is broke. all of my v-2 bombs have

dwight eisenhower changed the name to camp david, and my brother, marvin, lobbied for a while to get me to change it to camp marvin. [ laughter ] thankfully i didn't. we've got a lot of fond memories of camp david, a lot. and, you know, again, it's a place where laura and i invited a lot of world leaders. tony blair's first visit to the united states, we took him to camp david. laura decided to have a movie there. they've got a nice movie theater, and it's called "meet the family" -- oh, "meet the parents." i was asleep. [ laughter ] if you like to exercise, it's a fabulous place to get outdoors and exercise. we had mountain bike trails, a wonderful gym. i think the thing that i remember most about camp david was christmases. it's big enough for our big family each to have their own cabin, and so mother and dad would come. jeb and his family, neal and his family, camp marvin and his family, and doro, and it was spectacular. a spectacular time. and the reason i emphasize the family aspect is because during the presidency, you know, sometimes it's kind of hard to count on certain peopl

dwight eisenhower, he made it from number nine spot into the top five.l clinton, i told you that he was in the number 15th edition but when he first came into the survey he was in 21st, that was in 1999 right after the impeachment process and he moved to 15th by the second time we did it and there he stays in our 2017 service. finally, us grant, and edna, you have a specialist on this you have to help me understand this one, grant is the person the president who changed the most going up 11 points over the course of our surveys. i love to hear your perspectives on what historians are looking more favorably. that's a bit of an overview of how presidents rated by 100 historians now you have three fabulous historians so much a part of c-span programming over the years we are going to add some context to that. thanks for your attention [applause] this book is what it is because of susan's fabulous editing capability and thank you susan for this presentation. [applause] pa richard norton smith comes to us today from grand rapids. brinkley from austin texas an

emerging from the long shadow of eisenhower, he became leader of the republican party. came in 1960. >> your first joint appearance. the two leading candidates for 1960. brap >>> declares that vice president richard m. nixon has been unanimously nominated to be the candidate of the republican party for the office of president of the united states. >> he's been downtown in his suite at the sheraton blackstone watching on television looking at us looking at him looking at us. >> could we have a word from mrs. nixon, please? >> i still feel it's all a dream. when i was teaching school 20 years ago, i never knew that this event would happen tonight. >> mr. vice president, why do you want to be president of the united states? >> these lights are a little warm. i think this nation has a destiny. i think every individual has a destiny. >> richard nixon. >> and i am convinced that if america does not give the world, the free world, the leadership that it needs that the clouds of freedom will die forever. >> you're going to have dick nixon. >> with faith in america and in her pe

eisenhower never liked von braun. jack kennedy did. write about kennedy's visits to huntsville and cape canaveral. if he saw warner von braun he would say, fly with me. they became that tight. braun how did werner von and the other germans get to the united states? ofg: 1945, in the spring 1945 the third reich was, ling -- was crumbling. by the time it off it will are committed suicide -- adolf hi tler committed suicide, the gig was up. the number one most precious thing that nazi germany had was werner von braun and the german rocket science. if you could take that technology, you could be the world's superpower. warner von braun fought for a minute and said, i will not go to russia, who wants to live in russia? it is a horrible lifestyle. britain is broke. all of my v-2 bombs have been raining on them. he sent his younger brother. he took all of the blueprints, all of his war materials, forged a document, he would have to von the book, but he moved braun from the rocket base and hid all of this in a mine shaft. all of his essential b

he was appointed by president eisenhower who was a republican. brian: and earl warren was a republican in california. joan: yes, he was a governor. 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. because now, a president basically knows what he is getting. president eisenhower appointed william brennan who was also a liberal. and chief justice earl warren. and those two defied the politics of the president who appointed them. just as in many ways justice john paul stevens did for president gerald ford who appointed him. or more recently, david souter, who george h.w. bush put on. and that was the older 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. there are nine of them. justice gi

was said to president eisenhower in a letter. they said look, if you create a tax system whereby those of us that is and he was rich.the people who have less money can keep more of their money and the people who had more money have to pay a little bit more into the system. ultimately, you have a stronger economy. he was a millionaire working one of the major banks in the country. this was a letter he wrote to eisenhower where he advocated this kind of a more proportionate tax system because he believed the more money that was in people's pockets throughout the country, the better ultimately, the entire economy will be it will lift those people and the wealthy people at the top of that. that was one of the things inside the philosophy for the highway program. it wasn't the only thing. but what eisenhower did was listen. a lot of people communicated a lot of letters. he took people's opinions very seriously. so this was something that worked for the benefit of the country and something that was postulated by its wealthiest members.

for the first time, 15 chiefs of government gather around one table, eisenhower, mcmillan, menderas,rad adenauer. these men and their countries have sometimes been at war against one another. often they have been united against a common enemy, but it -- but here in nato for the first time they are united in peace and for peace. >> their inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [delegates murmuring] ♪ mr. murrow: peace is built of hope and faith, dreams and hard work, of paper as well as of steel, and of an infinite capacity for details and organization. and that is the job of the permanent secretariat of nato. ♪ high-ranking ministers meet only rarely, but nato's work for peace goes on daily and the -- in the permanent council. the leaders of nato are chosen for their own ability, and not for the size and power of their countries. belgium, one of the smallest nato nations, has provided the secretary-general. these men represent more than 400 million people. ♪ people as diverse in their background as in their way of life. ♪ brussels, the capital of belgium, has

dwight eisenhower, he made from number nine spot into the top five. bill clinton, i told you that he was in the number 15 position but when he first came into the survey, he was 21st. that was in 1999 right after the impeachment process. he moved to 15th by the second time we did it and there he stays in the 2017 survey. finally, u.s. grant, your specials on this you have to help me understand this one. grant is the person the president to change the most going up 11 points over the course of our three surveys. i would love to hear your perspective on what historians are looking more favorably upon him.>> it is a bit of an overview of how presidents are rated by 100 historians. now you have three fibers historians have been so much a part of c-span 's programming over the year and will and context to that. thank you for your attention. [applause] >> this book is what it is because of susan by bliss editing capability. thank you, susan, for this presentation. [applause] we have douglas brinkley from austin texas and edna greene medford from howard univ

here is what has changed since eisenhower.hey have very strong outside advisement will handle a lot of vetting. brett kavanaugh and neil gorsuch were heavily vetted. more so than john roberts. john roberts was vetted by the federalist society. and samuel alito. you and i both remember the nomination of harriet miers. remember how that one went? brian: withdrawn. joan: she was one person who had not been vetted by the federalist society. robert bork, who also was a nominee at one point in his life, he went on the air after she was nominated and said something like she is a nightmare in every way. he meant it from the point of view, not that she was a woman, not that she had not had an extensive background in constitutional law, but they cannot trust her ideology. that is what is at stake. we know from the polls from 2016 that many people who voted for 2016 did it because scalia's seat was vacant and they put a lot of stock for a republican to name the individual. brian: how much anger was there behind-the-scenes over obamacare?

i was once director of the eisenhower center. we always thought ike was going to go up, up, up because the fiscal conservatives like him, and the liberals like him because the industrial military complex speech, and brown decision, and the fact of his general bowl josh his general amiable -- and the fact of his general amiable like. he is fifth. it was almost -- always true model gone -- it was always true in holding that spot. part of it also is because we have a new or appreciation of ike being the commander in world war ii. d-day. just as grant was president. susan: while we were talking about lincoln, i would like to hear your thoughts on why it is that abraham lincoln at number one's book ended by the two worst? is that circumstance of history? character? what contributed to that distinction between those three men? edna: i think that we tend to judge these presidents based on how they dealt with adversity. there has to be something extraordinary that is happening during their administration. with lincoln, it does not get an

dwight eisenhower was pretty straight away and the best i could come up with is eisenhower definition of an atheist. his definition of an atheist is he said it is somebody who goes to a football game where notre dame plays fmu and he does not care who wins. i'm running out of time so i'm going to tell you a story about linda johnson. i have a couple more reagan stories i can tell you but i'll tell you about linda johnson. this is one, linda johnson is not all clear that linda johnson had much of a sense of humor. so stories were told about johnson rather than told by johnson but here's the one that captures the essence. it is told of the 1968 democratic campaign for the nomination for president, linda johnson has thrown his hat in the ring and the other two principal candidates are stuart simonton, a senator from missouri and john kennedy. a junior senator from massachusetts. the three men are sitting in the green room, ahead of this debate. why the green rooms are called the green rooms i don't know not one of them has been green but nonetheless there are sitting there and making sma

british admiral cunningham, united states and general eisenhower and supreme command. italian members of the armistice commission who met the same fate as the germans at casablanca, leave the hotel carefully guarded by american soldiers.. they get a fond farewell from the good people of algiers. now, into algiers in a steady stream of troops ready for the big push east, fighting men are britain's first army, eager for return engagement with the nazis , on to join forces with montgomery, their goal is to route every [ null ] from the soil of africa . >> >>> across the mediterranean the french harbor became the center of worldwide speculation, here was the home for and what would they do. 75 vessels, their guns silencer tuna half years, you might rest the balance of naval power in the mediterranean suddenly became more the nazis is speeding to take over and from the flagship of john della board , nearly the entire fleet was put out of commission and only a few undamaged units fell into [ null ] hand , they braved the harbor and in one dramatic stroke, crews struck out to

the british admiral, united states general clark, general eisenhower, in supreme command.rs of the axis armistice commission are carefully guarded by american soldiers. they get a fond farewell from the good people of algiers. [jeers] ♪ now into algiers pours a steady stream of troops ready for the big push east, fighting men of british's first army. veterans of dunkirk, eager for a return engagement with the nazis. on to join forces with montgomery, there are gold -- goal, to route every nazi from the soil of africa. ♪ across the mediterranean, the french harbor of tousland became the center of -- their guns silenced for two and half years. in them lies the balance of allied military power in the mediterranean. suddenly came word, the nazis speeding to take over. from the flagship flashed the order, scuttle the fleet. nearly the entire fleet was put out of commission. only a few undamaged missions fell into nazi hands. four submarines braved the harbor and escaped. in one dramatic stroke, patriotic crews went out to avenge. -- to eventually honor of france. ♪ announcer: y

it was christened by milt eisenhower, general eisenhower resident eisenhower's brother 1955. 57 the price anderson act and we will get back to 79 because it limited what utilities will be liable for in the event of a meltdown. shipping port, first commercial nuclear power plant was 52 megawatts. it was shipped out the ohio river actually pennsylvania river mississippi gulf of mexico pacific up to washington state. a very inappropriate way to decommission a plant especially a large one. just to give you some sense this was the site. this was the place where this was taking route. 1970s not so good if you lived through them and some of us actually do remember them. there was gas lines and two receptions. what i am saying is atomic was viewed robustly and favorably. those of us opposed were marginalized or on the margin. it was a minority view. there is nothing like a meltdown to move you from breathing being a parietal society overnight. let's get to the economics. that is where we will make the convincing argument. 1.1 million dollars 60s technology two and half times over budget five year

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

nixon didn't have the support of eisenhower. the job and what nixon decided to do was to go on television and give what we know now as the checkers speech because he talked about his dog that his kids received, and he uses television magnificently and it drives real people to send real telegrams to say keep him on. what happens to richard nixon and that's what is so extraordinary about this film, which is a film without talking heads, it's a film just of nixon talking and you see nixon change on screen. it stops -- the tv stops being his best friend. he not only ages visibly but his control begins to fall apart. he's no longer projecting the image of the presidency that he had in his own mind and by the end of the fourth episode, by the end of his administration, the tv makes him look guilty in a way that was not true in the beginning. >> what was nixon's relationship with the press like and how did that change overtime? >> he's right. he started seeing himself as a victim of the press and go back to what he said when he lost, y

dambuilt the grand coulee and eisenhower had the highway system. what i admire is he picked technology. the computer chip as we think of it today developed in the late 1950's. modern aviation starts kicking and -- in. is elected, there are no computer science classes, but by the time he was assassinated, they were everywhere. more, are flying more and hub airports developed across the country. the space age ends kennedy grabbed onto it and made that the cornerstone of his new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. on wednesday members of the house judiciary committee voted along party lines to author rise a subpoena of robert mueller's report on russian interference during the 2016 election. the move was in response to

eisenhower had the highway system.hinking, what is my administrations big public works think -- what is my ministry in's big public works thing? modern aviation starts kicking jack kennedye renzi 1960. there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time there -- by the time he is killed in dallas there are computer classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. people are flying more and more, hub airports are being developed across the country, so it was the jet age, the space-age. kennedy grabbed onto it and made that the cornerstone of the new frontier. 8:00 easternht at on c-span's q and a. house economic advisor larry kudlow. he sat down with her reporters to discuss china, brexit, and humanitarian aid for venezuela. he also talked about president trump's threat to close the u.s. southern border and steps the u.s. government might take to ease any economic strain. the christian science monitor hosted this event. let me guess, we are on the record?

towards the end of the war should became part of the personal staffer general eisenhower. indicative kind of of women who served during that time. it is wonderful to hear the stories of the families that come in, where they had a teacher, or whomever who served during world war ii. those women changed america. they came home from the war, they had the g.i. bill. for the first time they could go to college on their own or get some training on their own. and they did. they became our teachers. they were business leaders. they were involved in their communities in different ways because of the things they learned in the military. they were parachute rigorgers. they taught men to fly. they served in various places here in washington, d.c.. many of them served in intelligence areas. part of the team that broke the japanese code. [video clip] >> x-ray technicians, teachers schooling our soldiers. expert,e classification assignment interviewers. -- of every man's sort of army vehicle, doing every motor transport vehicle job. testing radio tubes. those are just few of the jobs the

and generalsends, marshall and eisenhower found that women's service was so valuable to the nation's defense that they partnered with a congresswoman from massachusetts and maine in putting forward legislation that gave women a permanent place in the military so we didn't have to start all over again with what uniforms these people are going to serve. we had a core of qualified women , and that was called the women's arm services integration act, which was passed in 1948. women could only be 2% of the force. they could not serve -- they could not achieve a grade higher than lieutenant colonel or commander in the navy. you can see, women just wanted to serve. also, some critical point was that women would not survey combat ship, women would not serve in combat aircraft and their other pieces in the legislation that dealt with pregnancy, marriage, benefits, all kinds of things that prohibited women's service to an extent, but nevertheless, it was a foot in the door for us to serve on a permanent basis. in 1967, that provision of the law that prohibited women from serving above the grad

eisenhower had the highway system. he picked theis right number, technology. the computer chip gets developed 1950's. modern aviation starts kick in and. when he runs the 1960's, there are no computer science classes. travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways, people are flying more and more, airports being developed across the country, so it is the jet age, the space age. kennedy grabbed onto it and made a day cornerstone of the new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q and day. 1940 years ago, april 4, nine, the north atlantic treaty was founded -- was signed in washington by the 12 founding members of what came to be known nato. a decadereel america," of nato, hosted by edward r.

conway with the eisenhower executive office building in the background, speaking with reporters. the president leaving later today with mar-a-lago. we joined that a moment or two late. what we will try and do is show you that from the start in the next moment or two. philip coloring -- covering the event saying that "kellyanne conway bends the big lie you let fly for two years. post"rom "the washington with "one takeaway, trump holds deny, toust, install, take actions to obstruct the investigation. nadler has not heard from the department of justice about receiving a less redacted mueller report because congress requires this material in order to purport -- perform are constitutionally mandated responsibilities. i will issue a subpoena for the full report and underlying materials. craig kaplan seeing the release from jerry matt -- nadler in a little bit. even in its incomplete form, the mueller report outlines disturbing evidence that president trump engaged in obstruction of justice and other misconduct. that statement coming within the last 15 minutes or so, ahead of his news c