>> we are pleased to welcome david eisenhower who will talk to us a little bit about general eisenhower's military service and how he developed into a leader and eventually led to him being president. i always allow our speakers to introduce themselves and tell us what they want us to know about them. so i will turn this over to you, david. david: thank you very much. good to talk with you. i am use to looking into a screen but i'm talking to my classroom. we just had a three hour class on a presidential speech that broke up several minutes ago and i think for accommodating me. there was a several minute overlap in this program but we were able to resolve it. for myself, i am grandson of dwight eisenhower. i have spent a fair amount of time in abilene. mary is living there now. this is a town that probably more than any other place in america reminds me of the town i grew up in. gettysburg is on route 30 which turns into route 70 about a mile and a half north of where you all are. in the eisenhower's really shuttled between the two. they lived in gettysburg when i was growing up because o

and she and mimi eisenhower and dwight eisenhower. had a very good relationship and if you look at the letters between dwight eisenhower and richard nixon again, big surprise just about every one of them said say hello to pat. i really appreciate her help. doesn't sound like the eisenhower and his wife mamie did not get along with -- impact. the second misunderstanding or myth of the campaign is that nixon and lodge were sort of ill-suited together on the ticket and that lodge was the downfall for richard nixon that year. what do you say? on january 7th 1960 dwight eisenhower wrote a secret memo to his own file his presidential pick was richard nixon. his vice presidential pick was henry cabot lodge, jr. it wasn't so much nixon picking. large it was eisenhower were picking lodge. and at the time lodge was you and representative? for the united states and was the main person who talked about the russians being evil and made a tremendous amount of television time. he had the ability. he was a boston brahman. and by the way you may not k

and she and mamie eisenhower, and dwight eisenhower had a very good relationship. and, if you look at the letters between dwight eisenhower and richard nixon, again, big surprise, just about every one of them said say hello to pat, i really appreciate her help. does not sound like eisenhower and his wife did not get along with dick and pat. >> a second misunderstanding or myth of the campaign is that nixon and lodge were ill suited together on a ticket, and that lodge was the downfall for richard nixon that year. what do you say? >> on january 7th 1960 draw it as an hour wrote a secret memo to his own file. his presidential pick was richard nixon. his vice presidential pick was henry cabinet lodged junior. it was not so much nixon picking lodge, it was eisenhower picking lodge. and, at the time lodge was the representative for the united states. and was the main person who talked about the russians being evil, and made a tremendous amount of television time. he had the ability, he was a boston robin. by the way, you might not know the person who wrote the biography

nixon carried a message to president eisenhower.hich is at once so modern too. ♪♪ >> on the stunning mediterranean island of mallorca, the plane stopped briefly to refuel. vice president nixon was greeted by the u.s. ambassador to spain and by the spanish foreign minister. ♪♪ >> last refueling stop was bermuda in the mid atlantic. then, 11 days after they had left home, vice president and mrs. nixon returned to washington. a large crowd greeted them including senator nolan and the secretary of state. an historic tour was over. reassurances of east-west friendship had been made around the world, especially with six nations whom the united states is proud to call partner in the struggle for freedom. ♪ ♪ .. ' come to the nixon library. i'm executive vice president of the richard nixon foundation and the special hello to everyone watching on you tube this evening are the nixon foundation web site or all of those watching on c-span. i had the pleasure this evening of welcoming and introducing to the eminent scholars of richard nixon in t

they are all different, active both the eisenhower presidential library and the eisenhower foundation, which is our support arm. it is to have them as i've had two of them already, give educational programs this year and a third will sort of wrap up our year. so frankly, to be able to call them and ask for information, to have them stories and insight on different aspects of the presidential administration has been really amazing. and i'm honored that they're a part of the of of what we do. thank you. i think we have one over here. and my question is sort of a follow on to that actually you most of the sites the presidents were deceased or soon to be deceased and so you and while there is living family for for eisenhower and there is living family but much much more departure distant but we have a lot of living presidents now and what's the challenge going forward in trying to establish these kinds sites and preservation when you have maybe a conflict between what the family would like, what the president would like to be remembered for, and what history and what we want to start ques

so eisenhower went up five spots. we have looked back and why the historians choose to look at it again. i think in this day and age when we are in such a partisan divide and everything that we talk about with race looking back at all that he did to hold the country together are really at a pivotal bull -- pivotal time. >> do you think to this day he's known as one of the most if not the most brilliant of american generals. his reputation just overshadowed his presidency? >> yes in part because he wrote his memoirs about his time in really eloquent terms. at the end of his life he leaves the presidency without going chronologically in a different spot that when he leaves the presidency he is trusting a lot of people in his time in office and they burned him a couple of times and that's where some of the corruption comes from. after he leaves the presidency he trust someone else who's part of his family to invest and make some money but then invest more and loses everything. he is poor after the presidency and has to s

nixon and tricia, special guests included julie eisenhower, mamie eisenhower, mrs.rianne. among her many gifts, tricia received her china, the blue tree pattern by lyness, her silver, eloquence from greenfield massachusetts, and her crystal, a cut glass pattern. prior to mrs. agnes party and informal shar was held on may 26. tricia wasn't the first white house bride-to-be to have a shower given in her honor by a member of the washington women's press corps. helen thomas was hostess of the party at which mrs. nixon, julie, and ed's mother were honored yet. other guests included members of mrs. nixon staff and women reporters. one of tricia is gifts from a lady of the press. to be an expression of sympathy for tricia and ed's desire for anonymity. to the movement of all, tricia donned her disguise. on friday evening june 4 at washington's beautiful anderson house, mrs. william rogers, wife of the secretary of state, hosted a reception for the diplomatic corps in honor of tricia and it. dean of the diplomatic corps led the way through the receiving line. the secretary

nixon and tricia, special guests included julie eisenhower, mamie eisenhower, mrs.rianne. among her many gifts, tricia received her china, the blue tree pattern by lyness, her silver, eloquence from greenfield massachusetts, and her crystal, a cut glass pattern. prior to mrs. agnes party and informal shar was held on may 26. tricia wasn't the first white house bride-to-be to have a shower given in her honor by a member of the washington women's press corps. helen thomas was hostess of the party at which mrs. nixon, julie, and ed's mother were honored yet. other guests included members of mrs. nixon staff and women reporters. one of tricia is gifts from a lady of the press. to be an expression of sympathy for tricia and ed's desire for anonymity. to the movement of all, tricia donned her disguise. on friday evening june 4 at washington's beautiful anderson house, mrs. william rogers, wife of the secretary of state, hosted a reception for the diplomatic corps in honor of tricia and it. dean of the diplomatic corps led the way through the receiving line. the secretary

eisenhower and the library said this is your best person. we met and we talked and she said to me listen i just want you to know something, i watch your show and they said that's great. >> she set i like your show and i said that's better but she said but i am a true blue kansas democrat and i said well that's great. i'm a news anchor who likes a straight so we are getting to get along and we did. with sydney and catherine whitney the co-author we formed this team where we kind of just bounced these nuggets around until we got a blueprint and then we are stitching pieces of the quilt together until we get the book that we get. it takes a while. i write at night usually with a glass of wine. i'm a night owl and my wife amy holds down the fort and allows me to do that. >> talk about grants relationship with robert e. lee and how well they knew each other and their mutual respect. >> they are up as they fought together in the mexican-american war. they communicated during the war by telegram and he had -- appomattox was a moment and by the way

but i realized i didn't know about president eisenhower, i knew about general eisenhower. so for me, i talked about that process, i had this team, a researcher going to the national archives. and found literally, treasure troves of historical nuggets. and those, that book, focusing on the three days -- between the opened my eyes to eisenhower and canned the inauguration. moments in there were history that are moments in history either that overlooked or not are overlooked or not focused on enough focused on and so, enough. and then, the so the second book is about second book is about reagan reagan and the and the final summits with -- final summits with and the speech he gorbachev and the speech he gives that moscow gives that moscow state university, which, in the big span state university. of history is an amazing speech and -- if you think about it wasn't focused on the lot of the time. at the brink, it is fdr, churchill and stalin lanning d day at their conference, which gets overshadowed by yalta. something i didn't think was focused on. so one step further, the begi

first of all, eisenhower should be praised. eisenhower made the vice presidency significant. he sent my parents to 53 nations around the world as goodwill investors. they were in vietnam in 1953. they were in africa and asia and all of the world, 53 nations, because he believed in person-to-person diplomacy. he used his vice president and my father liked that. let's say, eisenhower led the way on that relationship, with making the vice presidency more than what it was, a warm bowl of spit? who said that? [laughter] >> to add to what julie was saying, and is covered in mr. smith's book, the fact they got along in spite of their circumstances and abilities, the alternative would be eisenhower and macarthur. when you see pictures of eisenhower and macarthur together in this cozy situation in manila, you had the general and the staff aide. they are leaning over slightly in providing the general with the draft of the message he is to approve. it is all humble and that kind of thing. but this relationship is going to blow up and you say, of course it was going to blow up. the perso

>> arthur burns had no nixon from eisenhower white house. he thought moynihan was an academic and he chewed on the pipes them all the time. >> even in this picture. >> arthur was a very decent good human being and he went on to a real estate career and as an ambassador. he was conservative and nixon as a political matter realized two professors from harvard in the top national security adviser and daniel patrick moynihan of urban affairs he thought i have to take care of my concerns so they reached out to arthur and he said i know you want to be chairman of the fed but in the meantime i want you to oversee broad policies so he came in and put it late counter pointed the moynihan appointment. they were intellectual sparring partners because they would fight each other with great decorum and quite articulately that went on for the next almost 12 months. >> i think if we move forward past that we have a photograph. this is the urban affairs counsel and this tells a lot about that moynahan sense of humor so can you describe what's going on there

dwight eisenhower played in the kansas stately under the name wilson. the eastern carolina league where thorpe played for the rocky mountain railroaders and the highlanders, has so many playing with aliens because -- that it was called the pocahontas league. jim thorpe played as jim for and he never tried to hide it. there are several key factors. one is that all of the powerful white figures who were involved in jim losing his medals, knew exactly what he was doing, starting with pop warner, who had been sending indian athletes to play baseball for years, whose close associate in pennsylvania was the scout who brought jim and his teammates and matt with thorpe at least twice -- and met with thorpe at least twice while playing baseball. once they went hunting in oklahoma. after the story broke that jim thorpe had played baseball, the story broke in worcester, massachusetts in the "worcester telegram." a reporter in worcester heard one of jim's former managers was in town and talked about how he managed jim thorpe. he wrote the story and it became a big

eisenhower. where are the women patterns?the women pershing arms, the generals that we all want to see quoted in big, bold letters across the top of any chapter. i am proud to say those individuals are coming. most of those young people, as a matter of fact, for the last ten years, we've only recently had women integrated into the combat arms. this is important to know because those individuals that will become the future patterns in eisenhower's that we quote so prolifically, they're in their platoon commands or they're in their platoon leadership positions right now. they're in their company in battery commands. they are learning how to employ forces and they're developing experiences to a certain extent, even the battalion and brigade commanders, my counterpart is in aviation, air defense, sustainment, communications. those individuals are in those commands right now, and they are developing the experiences that will become crucial to them as they become division corps commanders of the future. the people that will actuall

that was with president dwight eisenhower and first lady mamie eisenhower in nineteen fifty seven . her last visit, trace, was then in twenty seven , the one we just talked about, where she visited president bush. >> mm . >> nicely done, gillian. good stuff. thank you . you well, king charles the third is old enough to remember when queen elizabeth , the second was still a princess. the seventy three year old firstborn son of the queen and prince philip now succeeding his mother as the head of the commonwealth. >> born in nineteen forty eight , he is the oldest person to assume the british throne. but charles will be king without a crown, at least for now. >> here to explain why, dr. markham is the author of prince harry the inside story. >> of the former royal editor of the sun. duncan , great to have you on. i mean, i was kind of reading where, you know, when queen elizabeth took the crown in nineteen fifty two in february of that year, the coronation wasn't until june another four plus months later, it could be even longer for king charles . explain how that how that is . >> yes.

president was with dwightwithight eisenhower. >> dwight eisenhower, whom sheow had known during the war>> she came into 57 america is having a collective a meltdown because of >>. and eisenhower said how nice it was to be able to share his concerns with the queen. and she waeen.s young. >> throughout her reign queen elizabeth met 13 u.s. presidents. the face of britain help fortif the bond between the two nat nations. wasnizespecially poignant whe queeabn elizabethan prince philn visiteced the landmarks of president ford were our nationti struggle for independencone beg. >> wheat cu, as our strong andd trusted friend. and we believe that you intern a will find us as ready as ever tu bear our full share in defending the values in which we bothev e.believe. >> even though she did not have political power, she used her influence to guide the political leaders arounde to her. >> it is a figurehead role it is a head of state. think the powe.r in that is that it is a soft power produced on a harsher power. and again at the level of both politics by. >> queen elizabeth the second remained stea

president was with dwight eisenhower.hower, who she had known during the war when he was supreme allied commander and served in britain. the was a confidant of her father's. ♪ when she came into 57 america's having a collective meltdown because of >>. eisenhower said how nice it was to be able to share those concerns with the queen. and she was young. >> throughout her reign queen elizabeth met 13 u.s. presidents. the face of britain help fortify the bond between the two nations. it was especially poignant when queen elizabeth met prince philip visited the land marks of president ford were nations struggle for independence began. >> we see you as our strong and trusted friend. we believe that you in turn will find us as ready as ever to bear our full share in defending the values in which we both believe. >> even though she did not have political power, she used her influence to guide the political leaders around her. >> it is a figurehead role. it is a head of state. i think the power in that as it is a soft power. it's

was shared by wilson who said it put oxygen into his heart by hearting by nixon by trump and by eisenhower, there's a story that i said howard was so serious about golf that he asked the augusta national to remove a tall pine tree on the 17th hole because it thwarted his own long drives they refused his request but ever since the tree has been known as the eisenhower pine tree and one can see it on the augusta national course. but then there's another story about golf that my husband tells my late husband was working for john kennedy in the campaign in 18 19 in 1860 in 1960, and he they won the election. he became a young white house aide to john kennedy and not long after the inauguration. kennedy called him into the office and he said look at this --. there's a series of small indentations on the floor here of the oval office. what do you think? they are and my husband said, could it be some security devices? could it be some microphones implanted by jay edgar hoover? no kennedy grind. it's from ike's golf shoes. you see he would put them on at his desk and then he would walk outside to

dwight eisenhower. general eisenhower, as president eisenhower, having to confront mccarthyism and the appeal of joe mccarthy at home in wisconsin where he was an incredibly towering figure and also in terms of the way he tapped into some real dangerous energy on the far right. and i feel like this you busted a bunch of myths in terms of these sort of self-serving histories where we have sort of told ourselves that the republican party, the mainstream republican party has policed those extremes and kept them at bay until now. and in fact i think, tell me if i'm wrong, what i took from your book is there are multiple instances in which the guys we think are the good guys, mainstream people, chose deliberately to keep cultivating the extremes, the qanon moments of their time alive and agitating for the republican cause. >> the pattern is obvious when you look. there is not a single major republican president or presidential candidate who did not embrace extremism to some degree. it waxes and wanes and som

bipartisan infrastructure law, the biggest infrastructure package since the eisenhower administration, with help from our friends on the others of the aisle. the chips a act, the lock to spur investment in microchips. which i may point out were invented here in the united states of america. the chips act is a gigantic investment and is going to create a number of jobs and technologies for the future. the inflation reduction act law brings down the cost of prescription drugs, health care premiums, and invests in made in america, clean energy future. along with other steps we have taken like the american rescue plan, student debt relief, it is proof that democracy can deliver for the people. there is a foundation of a strong, forward-looking economy that we want to build. the economy of lower prices, more breathing room for middle-class families, and an economy for good paying jobs you can raise a family on, and have a little breathing room. whether you went to college or not. an economy that leads the world in clean energy and ends our dependence on foreign sources across the entire su

with dwight eisenhower and now amelia earhart. kansas officially has two of the most iconic and recognizable american and heroes representing any state in the united states capitol. i thank just a few people in the room who made this happen. jackie pridgen and karen sieberg and reid berger with the atchison and amelia earhart foundation. thank you for never giving up. thank you for never giving up. perhaps amelia was your role model. amelia's ambition and spirit of adventure that took her around the world was built on a foundational upbringing in atchison. it is fitting today that the foundation on which she stands is from limestone, from the flint hills of kansas, between two and 3 million people from around the world will visit the u.s. capital every year. and it's our hope that with this statue of amelia earhart, it will encourage other girls and boys from small towns across the country to dream to dream big and to work hard, to achieve those dreams. as for those who can't travel to the u.s. capitol, they can visit the amelia e

with dwight eisenhower and now amelia earhart. kansas officially has two of the most iconic and recognizable american and heroes representing any state in the united states capitol. i thank just a few people in the room who made this happen. jackie pridgen and karen sieberg and reid berger with the atchison and amelia earhart foundation. thank you for never giving up. thank you for never giving up. perhaps amelia was your role model. amelia's ambition and spirit of adventure that took her around the world was built on a foundational upbringing in atchison. it is fitting today that the foundation on which she stands is from limestone, from the flint hills of kansas, between two and 3 million people from around the world will visit the u.s. capital every year. and it's our hope that with this statue of amelia earhart, it will encourage other girls and boys from small towns across the country to dream to dream big and to work hard, to achieve those dreams. as for those who can't travel to the u.s. capitol, they can visit the amelia e