eisenhower saw himself as a soldier with a job to do. and described himself as a man of the kansas plains. so now that man of destiny was pressing that man from the plains of kansas to move on paris. it's too early, eisenhower responded. thede gaulle said with a retort, why is it so early? if allied forces crossed the same river north of paris and allied forces have crossed the river south of paris, why can't they not cross the river at paris? he told eisenhower at this point paris was fundamental, it was essential to the governing of france at that point and in the very near future. eisenhower responded that he would do what he could, but at this point, he could make no promises of when he would cut loose part of the allied army to move into paris. the following day, de gaulle sent word to eisenhower by de gaulle's senior military commander. what he told eisenhower was information that the french were receiving from paris was that the city was on the verge of anarchy. there was no police presence. transportation had completely stopped.

was eisenhower said was, in essence,

mimi eisenhower, president eisenhower and their son, john, and daughter-in-law, barbara. sadly, the eisenhower's had a baby. he was nicknamed icky and he died in 1921 at age three of scarlet fever. later, president eisenhower said it was a tragedy from which we never recovered. eisenhower spent a lot of time in denver, colorado because mimi was from denver and her mother lived there. they would take base at larry air force base. eisenhower would head to the mountains, he loved the colorado mountains, he would love to hunt and grill. he's grilling a steak here. this is former president herbert hoover. this is actually one of dad's photos that came from one of dad's photo reels. he took the movies sometimes and my mother would complain that he used the movie film and he wasted the film. [laughter] and he also -- president loved to golf. the agents would dress as golf caddies and they would carry a set of dummy club heads in their bags and a high-powered rifle or submachine gun. here he is here. and then i read once that eisenhower was the former general who hated war. he di

and i was interested in the fact that eisenhower went along, because he was only 20 years old and he, later partially because of his inspiration from this trip was the driving force behind the interstate highway and so i just wanted to see the actual route that they followed that i was able to follow their exact route, this is west of links into nebraska, again these roads, obviously there is been rain and say are difficult to make their way through, yes you can see the track slipping and sliding and they had one artillery track and military that was able to pull them out in most places but sometimes he was really slow going,, if the broke down and they have they stopped and military bases to replenish those parts but they had to make do sometimes just the best they could, out of the 81 vehicles they started and media through so it's a pretty good track record considering the conditions, and in the state in the army at the time there were some civilians that were there for part of the way and there is a civilian who led the way in he had actually undermined that route several times be

in the new that if eisenhower the top of the ticket was win-win. his one to beat harryic truman d bring back republican in the white house for the first time since 1932. fdr so that was a very grave disappointment shall we say to bob taft and a conservative. clause we sick well, we've got to nominate a conservative. clause we think that that will

edward smith's biography, eisenhower in war and peace. and in that there are all sorts of little tidbits about nixon, and it doesn't seem like nixon was very well regarded by president eisenhower. i know that one question was asked about general eisenhower, what has vice president nixon done in tribute to your administration, and he said e give me a week, i'll think of something. there's the legacy of his dirty campaigning, the racial epithets that are caught on tape with, during the watergate scandals. it seems he's a very checkered, dark character. and you talk about his redemption. my question is what is the heart of nixon? what kind of a person was he really in what was he really aiming for? because i can't quite make out what his objective was in life. >> so let me -- before i answer that, let me tell you my favorite story about my eisenhower book, the story ofizenning hour -- of eisenhower or and civil rights. in 2009 after the bush administration is over, i went over to dallas to see my former boss, the former president, and i took

churchill pleaded with eisenhower. but i could not come. -- but eisenhower would not come in on the 24th of august, french general leclair disobeyed his immediate american superiors and is sent in a fast patrol of armored scouts that reach the city's outskirts. german general dietrich consulates had order from heckler, blow up paris. he hesitated he was in negotiations with resistance. his motive seems to be primarily to spare the lives of his own men. not the city. by all accounts except his own. by all accounts, he was prepared to carry out the destruction order. but he did not. in the end. the next day as don broke august 25, which we remember as the day of the liberation of paris, the main body of leclair's armor division second french second armored raced into the city's center. down the champs-elysees. when the french civilians first saw the sherman tanks they thought they were americans or british. then they saw the cross of lorain on the side and they went wild with joy. and what happened to leclair's division

the very next day, not because --their meeting but because they told eisenhower about an eisenhower chewed kissinger out. how dare you let this stuff get out in the public. kissinger said, i am not sure i can control this. he said, young man, if you cannot control these things, you do not deserve it. >> from the very first weeks of the administration, plagued by leaks. before we get into talking about the book, i want to talk about you. when you are a high school early 1950's, what did you think you wanted to be when you grew up? ambassador lord: secretary of state. [laughter] ambassador lord: i did have an interest in foreign policy early on for two reasons. much intowas very national culture and voted for eisenhower, by the way. she was involved in lot of international and domestic issues. we sat around the dinner table and these issues would come up. i did all sorts of traveling when i was young. wasof my vacations uzbekistan, as a casual example. how. not quite sure yale.h major at scienceot of political and history courses and went to graduate school, where i met my wife. she took ext

eisenhower.'s in his , kansas.ter: president dwight d. eisenhower's bee named the hidden hands of presidency because of how effectively he operated behind the scenes. he proposed nasa. >> this is the first time they've been able to go -- >> reporter: was instrumental in the civil rights movement. >> it's a $50 billion construction project. >> reporter: and even created the interstate highway system. >> ike, ike did a lot of things you don't know about. >> reporter: dawn hammet, director of the library and museum, hopes to change that. >> here is the d-day planning table where the leadership sat around and -- >> reporter: this is the actual table? >> there is the actual table. >> reporter: as the supreme allied commander in europe during world war ii, eisenhower planned the invasion of normandy. this is general eisenhower speaking to the troops. >> soldiers, sailors, and airmen are the allied force, are you about to embark upon the great crusades to which we have driven for many months. >> reporter: that military se

about, and eisenhower chewed kissinger out, saying how dare you let this stuff get out in the public you just told me about, and kissinger said, well, i'm not sure i can control this, and he said, young man, if you can't control these kind of things, do a better job, due deserve, you don't deserve it, and he gained henry's great respect as a result of that. >> that was from the very first weeks of the administration, plagued by leaks and that was, i think they had briefed eisenhower on the most secret plan in the middle east and the next day it is on the front page of "the new york times." >> right. >> before we get into talking about the book, i want to talk a little bit about you. when you were a high school student, in the early '50s, what did you think you wanted to be when you grew up? >> secretary of state. [ laughter ] >> no, actually, i did have an interest in international relations, foreign policy, fairly early on, for two reasons. one, my mother was very much in the public service, national co-chairman for eisenhower by the way, but she took eleanor roosevelt's place as am

about how this has evolved over time but to give you an indication of how specific it is, president eisenhower calls his assassination capacity the health alteration committee. so i have located documents in the national archive that refer to innovation for the health alteration committee. president kennedy called the executive action. jumping forward to reagan he called it preemptive neutralization. bush called it lethal direct action and obama called it targeted killing. going back to after the vietnam war and president reagan developing a capacity for preemptive neutralization and this is because we sell the first rise in terrorism. what i also found very interesting, i interview a gentleman named lewis for this book and he was the 19th director of the secret service, he went on the record to expla explain, how the capacity to protect the president of the united states is the flipside of the coin of the executive action capacity or preempt neutralization capacity if you will. that comes from the fact that richard home so famously said if you have a capacity to take out someone else's leader

emerging from the long shadow of eisenhower, he became leader of the republican party.eme chance came in 1960. >> your first joint appearance. 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. she wanted a roommate to help with the cooking. but she wanted someone who loves cats. so, we got griswalda. dinner's almost ready. but one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with our renters insurance. yeah, switching and saving was really easy! drink it all up. good! could have used a little salt. visit geico.com and see how easy saving on renters insurance can be. wake up,¡diego!p! ¡diego! estoy ocupado. ¡déjame! !déjame! ma!! [ song: johnny cash, "these are my people." ] ♪ these are my people ♪ this is the land where my forefathers lie ♪ ♪ these are my people ♪ in brotherhood we're heirs ♪ of a creed to live by ♪ a creed that proclaims ♪ that by loved one's blood stains ♪ ♪ thi

that eisenhower also ordered assassinated.he was shocked by those commandos could be used but definitely secured his reputation as the prisoner in chief. later went on to spend seven years as part of the cia that makes the toys and the tools that the spies use and in 1973 when he and his patron and helms are forced out of the cia they decided to destroy all records of mk ultra and they left protecting themselves from embarrassment and much more since then it is possible to piece together. but my favorite sentence in the book is at the very end when i say everything in this book is true but not everything that is true is in this book. i'm painfully aware i've only discovered a small piece of who sydney gottlieb was. toward the end of his life gottlieb was very way down but what he had done. there's a section in my book and then felt burdened and said he was a broken man and riddled with guilt. he went to a monastery so in the end as a highly controversial one - - contradictory figure. and a destroyer a gentle hearted torturer.

, very close to eisenhower.ce considered as a possible running mate for eisenhower in 1952. after retiring became what he called a missionary for freedom, doing, by the way, a radio program which was sponsored by the american security council and was a daily three minute commentary which wound up in 1000 radio station. he was one of the best heard americans from the 60s, 70s into the 80s. and then finally slowed down and gave an opportunity to say doctor judd, because of your insight, particularly into china, which remains such a major issue right now, let me write your book. which i did. but not before he went over every line of my book, of my manuscript. we got together sitting on two chairs in the kitchen and he went through every single line. it did not change that much, i'm happy to say. he was a scientist, he was a surgeon, and he wanted things to be just so. it was my second biography. >> to tie this into what patricia was asking about, would he have been one of those people that should've been president

then you go on to quote eisenhower saying i hate the war as only a soldier that lived it can. as we try to guide the policy here away from the forever war try to have a realistic view rather than the neocon view. >> guest: talk to the veterans. we have big pieces in my state and when you talk to than some of the most thoughtful people are those that have served the five or six involved in combat and they are not knee-jerk that it should go on and on. we were okay after 9/11 to go get the enemy. mention the word nationbuilding and they will recoil. they don't see themselves as policemen building roads into doing all this kind of stuff and ultimately i make the analogy of welfare you give people welfare for everything and they will never step up and take the world in their hands. the same with afghanistan. we have $50 million a year they will never step up out if we fight the taliban for them so ultimately i think there is a chance that military and those who can speak out the polls show 60% of them think we should end the afghan war over 60% now say the iraq war may not have be

eisenhower of the united states. between nine kids who wanted to go to school but had to be accompanied by 1200 soldiers to escort them inside the school. hat really became the second argest headline in 1957. he first being sputnik and then president eisenhower's biggest domestic crisis that took place during his presidency. and what i'd like to do is a little bit different. and maybe not. but i want to just read to you a couple of pages in my book. i took something from the prologue, and i also took a piece from classifying the groups of kids that i encountered at little rock central high school once i got inside. and then finally, a few pages that will introduce the most horrific night of my life, the night my home was bombed in my senior year. and according to the local daily arkansas gazette, i was the first integrating student in the country to have her home bombed. few people my age will have more than one good friend from high school. i'm grateful to have at least eight. ernie, melba, minnie jean, elizabeth, g

test and the point is that the first year i was not in the front office, so sitting across the eisenhower office and one of the things in the system we would send kissinger memos and looking ahead playing devils advocate in challenging and i wrote several memos our critical, at least raising questions that kissinger nixon's were doing, he hired me as a special assistant not despite that but because of that he did not like this, he wanted to bait now he would be brutal if you gave such a mental advocacy for an issue, but iran has you argued it intelligently he respected that so this is a good example of someone who encourage debate. >> he was and i suspect is, he goes to the office every day legendary difficult boss, let's take some of his stories have to be where there's smoke there's some fire, let's take the larry story, true, untrue, apocryphal? >> he goes one of his top assistants and they were in the role of some crisis and he fainted in the office and kissinger essentially, i was and there are so i'm not entirely sure this is true but it's a good story, he stepped over the guys body

you were criticizing a particular journalist and you say i respected eisenhower's warning that small wars could lead to big ones. i never understood how one could be caught lying about his current opinion post fact check the belief that somehow eisenhower belongs to the craft then you go on to quote eisenhower saying i hate the war even as only a soldier that lived at telisted ten and one tn its brutality and utility. as we try to guide the foreign policy and our government away from the forever war what advice would you give us to try to have a realistic view of the policy lacks >> guest: talk to the veterans you say you have a lo lock that have entered the district. we have to basis in my state and when you talk to some of them some of the most thoughtful people are those that have actually served to give early and combat. we have five or six that have been involved in the combat, they are not knee-jerk they should go on and on and some of them we were okay after 9/11 to go to the enemy but when you told us to plant a flag and become policemen and nationbuilding just mention the wo

20 years he served as a secret service agent during the administrations of harry truman, dwight eisenhower, john f. kennedy, lyndon b. johnson and richard nixon. among the stories she tells is her father's actions on november 22, 1963 when he was protecting vice president johnson and jfk's dallas motorcade. the jimmy carter presidential library and museum hosted this event. >> good evening. i'm tony clark from the carter library. re

vice president to secede eisenhower, eisenhower said give me a week and let me think of one.n contrast, barack obama could give you a whole list -- be what does barack obama have contempt for joe biden for democratic reasons? he had to -- he was badly treated by the obama people. nobody ever talked about it, but that's real. ask around. why is he not endorsing some of my question is why did biden saying when that's so not obviously not true? >> i think that bromance was real. look at all the picture of the hugs. this was a real friendship. i would defy you to show one picture of donald trump and mike pence -- b would let me just say, some of the family members were close. that's absolutely true. but biden himself was told on by a lot of the obama people. that's also true. i'm not going to force you a question you aren't going to answer. he's lying to us for the whole campaign is sad. what does that mean for you? what does that mean for basically moderate democrats, the biden thing is not working for you? are you going to support elizabeth warren? >> pardon me, but joe biden w

in response to the request of the government of south vietnam, president eisenhower sent economic aid and military equipment to assist the people in their efforts to prevent a communist take over seven years ago, president kennedy sent 16,000 military personnel to vietnam as combat advisors. , presidentago johnson sent combat forces to south vietnam. believe the johnson's decision to send american combat forces to south vietnam was wrong. many others, i among them had been strongly critical of the way a war has been conducted. but the question facing us today ,s now that we are in the war what is the best way to end it? i can only conclude that the precipitous withdrawal of forces from vietnam would be a disaster not only for south vietnam before the united states and the cause of peace. for the south vietnamese, our precipitous withdrawal would inevitably allow the commonest to repeat the masters father takeover. murdered more than 50,000 people and hundreds of thousands more who died in slave labor camps. we saw a prelude and south vietnam when the communists entered the city last y

20 years he served as a secret service agent during the administrations of harry truman, dwight eisenhower f. kennedy, lyndon b. johnson and richard nixon. among the stories she tells is her father's actions on november 22, 1963 when he was protecting vice president johnson and jfk's dallas motorcade. the jimmy carter presidential library and museum hosted this event. evening. i'm tony clark from the carter library. we are really glad you all are here. i have really been looking forward to this talk tonight rufus youngblood, i've known the name, i've known who long time. very and i'm just delighted that we can

so when the magazine endorsed eisenhower's election the official slogan of the reelection campaign was i like ike. >> now we go to the white house for a few moments the president spoke to reporters as he left for his campaign rally in minneapolis. here are the president's remarks. >> [inaudible conversations] we just completed a negotiation with china and we are having another tomorrow i mean with the vice premier. think it's going really well i will say. i think it's going really well so to be speaking later but basically they are wrapping it up and we will see them tomorrow right here it is going very very well. >> [inaudible conversations] >> what happened? who took 900,000? i hope is not true that joe biden took $900,000. i hope that's not true. for the sake of the country i hope that's not true. but i don't know anything about it. >> [inaudible conversations] >> i don't know but the whistleblower has been inaccurate because when we release the transcript of the conversation i had with the president of ukraine who frankly today gave a news conference on unrelated things was asked a

in response to the request of the government of south vietnam, president eisenhower sent economic aid and military equipment to assist the people of south vietnam in their efforts to prevent a communist take over. seven years ago, president kennedy sent 16,000 military personnel to vietnam as combat advisors. four years ago, president johnson sent american combat forces to south vietnam. many believe that president johnson's decision to send american combat forces to south vietnam was wrong. many others had been strongly critical of the way the war has been conducted. is question facing us today now that we are in the war, what is the best way to end it? in january i could only conclude that the withdrawal of all american forces from vietnam for south disaster vietnam but for the united states and for the cause of peace. for the south vietnamese, our withdrawal would inevitably allow the communists to review the massacres that followed their takeover in the north 15 years before. they then murdered more than 50,000 people and hundreds of thousands more died in slave labor camp's. we s

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cadet eisenhower, i want you to report to my quarters in one hour in full dress code. so time goes by, there's a knock at the door, the upper classman goes and opens the door, and there's cadet eisenhower in his full dress coat and nothing else. wanted to depict john f. kennedy, they realized when he was happiest was when he was with his children. he had, between his health issues and the mood of the cup at that time, he was -- when he had time with his children. is so they decided they wanted to do one with john kennedy and his son john jr. john jr. truly had a favorite toy which was a little airplane. the statue shows president kennedy bending over and handing this little toy airplane to his son john. we didn't know as history evolved how prophetic that really was. in those days the politicians controlled the press. they were told what they could and couldn't do. use the example of fdr, president roosevelt. as you know, he became so disabled, he was -- he had to be in a wheelchair or use leg braces and cane. they had an agreement with the press that they would never

>> one dwight eisenhower -- when he was running as the vice president to succeed eisenhower, as you knoweisenhower famously said give me a week and i will see if i can thinkiv of one. in contrast, barack obama like that could give you a whole list of everything that joe biden -- >> tucker: barack obama has contempt for joe biden because -- for demographic reasons. he had contempt for him in the white house, ask anyone around biden, he was badly treated byba the obama people. no one ever talked about it but that's real, ask around. my question is not why is he not endorsing, my question is why is biden telling us that he asked obama not to endorse them when that's obviously not true. >> look at all the pictures of the hogs, the fact that their kids and grandchildren had sleepovers together. this was a real friendship. i would defy you to show one picture of donald trump and mike pence in that same kind of -- >> tucker: it let me just say because i actually know this, some of the family members were close, that is absolutely true, but biden himself was treated like a factotum by a lot of t

you mentioned the russian or soviet science advisor who interestingly married susan eisenhower and i thought it was interesting because in the book you said we are going to use these quotes from eisenhower ticket at reagan's was interesting the kind of closeness nature of the personalities, but then you also have people like george shultz, edward on the other side, robert mcfarland, also the guy by the name of richard perle, who at least in my small arms control community is held like this nicely, doesn't have a big fan base. but the way you characterize the meetings happening and it seemed very mission oriented. there seemed to be a clear eye on what could be so is there something in the book about those characters, with their more of a mass shift then i gleamed? >> i could talk to some of them and obviously 30 years later they were keen and happy to talk about it without any pressure so that was really nice. buchanan, the head of communications and poindexter, for example. for them, it's good memories which was nice to have them talk about. the feeling i have reading the notes they

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eisenhower and president johnson expressed the same conclusion during their terms of office. for the future of peace, precipitous withdrawal would be a disaster of immense magnitude. a nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allies and lets down its friends. our defeat and humiliation in question,nam, without would promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world this would spark violence wherever our commitments helps maintain peace. in the middle east, in berlin, eventually, in the western hemisphere. ultimately, this would cost more lives. >> the silent majority. >> these are americans from us -- from all segments of the population, including people of all ages, occupations, and religion. -- every levelle of the community and region. the silent majority. many prefer to make their views town by writing a letter legislature rather than by taking part in public demonstrations either for or .gainst a particular issue the silent majority. they do have opinions. but many of these people have been making their views k

the upperclassman go and then there is the dance cadet eisenhower. and nothing else. when the artist wanted to depict john f. kennedy they realized that when he was happier when he was with his children. between his health issues in the state of the country at that time so much weight upon him. they decided they wanted to do one. they truly have a favorite color. the statute shows president kennedy bending over and handing this little toy airplane to his son john. as history involves how pathetic that really was. the politicians control that. they were told what they could and couldn't do. he here is an example of fdr. he became so disabled he have to be in a wheelchair. >> they have an agreement with the press. never take a picture of president roosevelt when he is being assisted in either way. they wanted to keep that from the people the statute here they just warmed up to the podium. this is the date he gave the speech. and he have to show his strength for the country. he was wheeled up to the dance. you can see his cane. does the artist was so subtle in showing th

it was written by her granddaughter, jenny nixon eisenhower. it's the definitive book about mrs. nexen. i was lucky. 41 years ago i was asked by david eisenhower the drive across the country to go to work for him. after three or four months i , want to work for president nixon at the western white house. retirement, there were not a lot of people around. i got to know mrs. nixon. 22 years old. don't know anyone in california. thanksgiving rolls around and she invites me to dinner on thanksgiving at casa pacifica. it was that first dinner when i was 22-years-old and i don't know what i'm doing. i'm surrounded by the president of the united states the former , first lady and their children. she was a motion credit leave gracias person to me. the youngster with no idea what they were doing. it was only five years later when my wife and i moved to d.c. to work for president reagan. her grandmother was living in the dresden. helen smith lived in the dresden. i got to know helen very well. helen will explain to me that my graciousness from mrs. nixon was not unique to me. she was graci

buckley saw that the magazine endorsed eisenhower's reelection, the official slogan was "i like ike." the national review's version of that was "i prefer ike." that was an attitude that many conservatives today would recognize. they have warmed to the example of president trump. preferable to the alternative to trump which was a continuation of you might say the age of bush. the bush era of conservatism and republicanism. that stretched from george h.w. .ush through george w. bush it would have included jeb bush. they could have included jeb bush if donald trump had not famously come down that escalator in trump tower. there was a sense widespread theg conservatives that mainstream movement of the republican party had become interested in just running the machinery of government as it was. anlacked a sense of accelerating moral crisis, the moral dissolution of american society and of a certain kind of constitutional decay. the constitution is not very healthy right now. one of the things conservatism has to do is come to the rescue of our own constitution, i think. that is why one of

crusades and its origins from 1955 over the next half decade was a concentrated attack on dwight eisenhower the new republicanism that drove his administration as president. bill buckley attacked what they called the age of modulation meaning the age of moderation and then to accept the new deal and as a nonemergent garden-variety but they were worried there was no sense of crisis on the standard republican right and there was substance of the faith of the country and the world morally and politically was intimately involved in what would happen in the next couple of yearsas. so when the

and then to quote eisenhower as only a soldier who lives it can. so as we tried to die for policy and those of us that have a realistic view. >> you talk about veterans i have two big bases in my state. and those that have served in combat if guys are women who have been in combat with the afghan war to go on and on. we are okay to go get the enemy but to build roads and nationbuilding just mention the word nationbuilding most will recoil. they don't want to be over there policing streets in building roads. ultimately i make the analogy like welfare to take the world into their hands like afghanistan we give them $50 billion a year we will not refight them for them so we will have to the military those that can speak out 60 percent say we should end the afghan war over 60 percent with the iraq war may not have been interest. and also to make it difficult and those antiquated and the response to that it is nearly unanimous when attacked on deceh or december 8th the same as 9/11 but it was virtually unanimous. so i think congress can come together an

i started with eisenhower, i just stumbled across this topic and realized that that formula, lookingee days, this was the final speech, the farewell address for eisenhower, and then bouncing back and look at how he gets there, was a formula that worked. i said let me find another three days. then i found reagan and three days in moscow with gorbachev and bouncing back and show that. both of those leaders talk about fdr and how they are and obviously general eisenhower was chosen by fdr to command d-day. reagan said he voted for fdr four times. so i said why not go back to the beginning. neil: which i didn't know reading your book that he was of mixed mind, even trying for a fourth term. >> he was. he convinced himself that war was going to be the thing that propelled him to continue to go. neil: even harry truman's selection, that was just sort of by the seat of his pants. >> truman was out of the loop. he was not in the inner circle. he didn't even know about the manhattan project and the atomic bomb. neil: even as a senator he complained about the fact that he couldn't get the pres

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of course i would say it had to be suez and the eisenhower basically the eisenhower threatening to kickisrael out of the united nations, go on national television. it's stuff you could not imagine today. they did a withdraw. he extracted some commitment and unlike. he was at the hamilton hotel for ten weeks and somehow had faith in the american people and this goes back to the question about communication. he said i believe with america if we could only explain the justice of the cause, we will win the hearts of americans. he didn't have 1939 in britain that was his anger. that relationship is complicated. we don't have time for that now that we write about it in the book. there's already the stature he had louis brandeis that he was 83-years-old and then 1939 they said we have to start all over again that we can talk to americans and make our case, said he had thisince he had thit there was a lot of low point of. he didn't witness the honeymoon in his lifetime but he still had faith in the american public. >> there was a brief moment where carter thinks that the economy idea was fantas