and that's von brown after the explorer one success with president eisenhower's eisenhower's office. go ahead to the next slide. so at this time the eisenhower's begins to understand the need to create an agency that would have oversight for space exploration. a lot of people felt that the october 4th 1957 launch of sputnik was what led the eisenhower's creating an agency, but in fact eisenhower and his administration had been contemplating that prior to the launch of sputnik. they knew that the soviets possessed the capability the technology to launch a satellite in space. they just didn't know when it was going to happen and eisenhower began to think about the merits of having an agency that oversaw the exploration of space. so in a joint address to congress, april 2nd of 1958 eisenhower's about the importance of space exploration and the need for an agency to oversee the development of our rockets and the program in general. next slide so in july of 29 1958. both the senate and the house passed the resolution creating a new federal entity. and on july 29th 1958 eisenhower's signs

>> 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

to welcome david eisenhower. he is going to talk to us a little bit about general eisenhower's military surveys and how it developed came into a leader. it eventually led to him being the president. i always allow our panelists and speakers to introduce themselves. they can tell us what they want us to know about them. i will turn it over to you, david. take it away. >> thank you very much. samantha, on, meredith, i hope you are there. mac, if he is around, mary jean, i think she is subscribed, that is my sister. mary, it is good to talk with you. i am used to looking into a screen on zoom. but i am talking to you in my classroom. we just did a three hour class on presidential speech. it broke up several minutes ago. thank you for accommodating me. there was a several minute overlap in this program. that meant that we were able to resolve it. okay, myself, i am the grandson of dwight eisenhower. i have spent a fair amount of time in abilene. mary is living there right now, for good reason. this is a town, more th

it started with eisenhower. there was a huge push for s. t. e. m. education. we again, coming out of the war there were a lot of technological advances. but i think eisenhower and his administration also understood the need to continue to push that envelope. so there was a huge emphasis on engineering. both from a military perspective, but also from a space exploration perspective. the cold war was raging, the space race was on, and so there was a huge push to continue to keep the u.s. at the forefront of technology. at some point, that was to emphasize. i am not sure at what point or wet period we as a country began to place less emphasis on stem, and on the same adjudication but that has since become a new point of emphasis. it is something we've remote here, and i'm sure you talk about it there at the eisenhower. we talk about the stem, science technology engineering and math, but we don't talk about, we don't care necessarily if a student has an interest in becoming an engineer, becoming a mathematician, bec

he called himself dwight david eisenhower rather than david dwight eisenhower. that is how he was baptized. he switched the first and second name. nobody could call him on that. there is no explanation to why he did not. he neglected to tell west point that he had actually played professional baseball in the kansas state lead 1909 and 1910. that could've cost him his amateur status. i reveal that my book, going home to glory. there was an episode where ed patterson asked general eisenhower at a 1947 giants game, but patterson was the director of public relations for the new york giants. he said, general, organized baseball is popular. there are all kinds of rumors ufc played pro baseball at one time. the story is that you played under the ailey of wilson in the kansas state began 1809 and 1910. a record show there are two wilsons italy, which one was you? >> dwight eisenhower said, the one that could hit. that's the story he told me. go online and look at kansas state lead. you will see that there were two wilsons not lead 1909 to 1910. one was a pitcher, one wa

eisenhower did. eisenhower came out his first time. he wouldn't shake the hand of the man who came and just -- bring me the peace treaty. he found a way to avoid that. >> since we are talking about his character, what about his humor? i have a letter of his in our stock right now, that is from sir roger tubby, a friend of his. this is in 53, and i just want to read it kind of quickly. i appreciate it very much, your first editorial was not enclosed. it instructed me to read it, but i didn't. i don't seem to have had an opportunity. tubby was taking over adirondack daily enterprises. he says, be sure to pay a lot of attention to local situations. parties, weddings, parents associations, the knights of columbus, the masons. be personal and accurate and pay attention to national issues. roger, this is an ignoramus talking to an expert. what was his humor like? it comes through in this. >> his humor was there, it was real. he was great at self deprecating himself. and here is one place where he talks about the people turning out to see the

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. ♪ ♪ .. thank you all again for being here tonight for our first night of the conference and for joining us in exploring the complex movements and decisions that led soldiers on both sides through the battle of second manassas in the summer of 1862. our first speaker for the evening is historian jim burgess. jim has spent than 40 years dedi

this is president eisenhower's funeral train. this is the baggage car bob referencedarlier. in travel as any other service service man or woman would travel after they passed away. and his wish was granted. here they are notice the contrast between this and the way they handled president harding's remains when they saw that photo earlier. move pretty quickly through this to and here he is -- here she is with her associates ready to depart on a campaign special. here's president johnson of course with his wife. in this case and many other cases is that example they made a lot of giveaways, buttons, whistles, other items you could receive when you got on board and handed out to the media when they had a stop got to meet with the public. this is a little map of the route is a southern trip from washington d.c. down to new orleans is obviously not to scale and not exactly accurate. but she loved doing it. president johnson was very pleased with the results. i want to conclude today with president george h.w. bush is the namesake of our library here in college station texas. bob

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

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

as mail president eisenhower renamed after his grandson, camp david. that is how we know it today. >> you describe kempton for a lot of our viewers and listeners who i'm sure have never visited camp david in person. i'm probably will not visit camp david. when you paint a picture of what the camp is like? >> i will try. great partners of ours 1800 feet elevation, on the spring and summer months. a leafy canopy perfectly manicured yards, the road meanders to the camp. in these cabins we presidential walk-through all the cabins have this oak plank siding with the certain shade of green paint. all the roofs are cedar shake shingles. these very rustic, very leafy, very fresh. but at night i find it particularly surreal definitely quiet, no white except pathway light. no noise except for a squirrel in the tree no lights, no noises from below eerily quiet peaceful. inside the campus is called cedar just from the corner from aspen and the president's logic. >> how many cabins are in camp david, how big is the site? >> there are about four guest cabins preside

president eisenhower. bay of pigs, cia in u.s. government, others. passed off to the administration, you see a photo in the top right. he's pulled signed. and what is interesting about this, i think, from a human and political point is that president kennedy inherited the operation. it was launched and did not go well. hence the name, bay of pigs fiasco. he reaches across the political and personal aisle, invites president eisenhower to come to camp david and help him understand how to get through it. how would you fix the mess? what would you do? it's a poignant and significant moment. you have the new upstart democrat inviting the old guard five star retired general former republican president there to talk about what to do. it is a very humble and desperate measure. a very humble way to recognize leadership and recognize what a president passes on between administrations. and talk about what to do best for the country. >> you mention this already, mike, some presidents, when you talk about this new book, some presidents and first families visit ca

eisenhower. so that undecided vote was a difficult proposition for the pollsters in the sense that how do you allocate, the undecided vote, do you split it in half? do you give most to one candidate or the other? do you ignore it altogether? it's a conundrum. and it was a conundrum for pollsters in 1952. gallup, george, of the gallup poll decided to to allocate the undecided voters in a way that that resembled allocation of undecided voters in the two previous presidential elections, 1944 and 1948. in one scenario, he said those undecided are going to break 2 to 1 for the democrat adlai stevenson. in another scenario, he said it was going to be 3 to 1 for the democrat, adlai stevenson in latter scenario, you come up with a 5050 tie, a 5050 tie. why the undecided voters may have swung to dwight eisenhower later in the campaign was his pledge. in late october 1952 to go to korea. go to korea, then the scene of a long stalemate of a war between the united states, its south korean allies and the nort

or james birds, so he who he never sort of got over and then eisenhower would he let eisenhower have it in when it basically from the from the 52 campaign when i was now a last stevenson? and truman truman and truman who had always they'd always had a pretty well actually a very respectful relationship and then then it all changed truman. i didn't truman was partially more with deeply offended when when eisenhower didn't come to the defense of general marshall when mccarthy attacked him. and then when he code that he would call marshall. i forget the words he used but but the the the essence was morally morally bankrupt and they and they so after that there was no forgiveness possible and and he really let marsh truman have it. i mean as our have it in the memoirs and and and and actually so i actually didn't have it too. but which is a way and and eisenhower was i said, i wasn't they they were not fond of each other. that's it by that time. they it was a sort of a reconciliation not never a real one after that and so on. but anyway, that's the place that's what truman's real voice i

dave and eisenhower and his wife, julie eisenhower, all kinds of problems popped up. this is supposed to be a secret move, people were not supposed to know what's route the train would take. and a certain reporter, a smart, young, reporter, -- found out what's the route was. i won't call's name, but you're looking at him right now. and all sorts of travel, after they made a stop, all the people spilling up in the plaza next to the railroad platform. they saw that the word was out, and then they came out, the military people came out and thanked the crowd for showing up. and then it was no longer a secret. the funniest story happened -- one of the officials riding the train told me that they had not realized that when the casket when it was moved on to that baggage car had to be turned around to be unloaded from the other side of the car when they got to abilene. they didn't realize that until they were passed pika. they got into that car and turned it around real quick. when they got to is okay. >> we are gonna move there is some slides here pretty quick, bob, we are

why would general eisenhower make it a military necessity? what is the operational value of cultural property protection to the military? well it is quite simple. it is because we value our partners cultures, and we are committed to protecting it. monuments are rich sources of history and culture. they are central and how societies interpret and remember their own past. heritage is a human right. protecting cultural property is a military necessity. and as such, you are charged to advise military commanders and civil authorities on how cultural heritage offers the means and ways to identify catalysts of instability and conflict to develop an operational approach and how it serves as a foundational piece for reconciliation. that is what you are charged to do. considering the recent conflicts in iraq, afghanistan, and now ukraine, this graduation is timely. the value of our partnership and the partnerships that you have built here in this training class, is not only in the training that you have had in the past in these. but also represented in

it was dwight eisenhower and dwight eisenhower wasn't actually just a beloved republicans, a beloved american. he had enormous prestige. so many americans had fought under him. world war two, all american of a certain age, remember him as of the great victors of that terrible. john kennedy needed dwight eisenhower to be on his side. and john kennedy's to to eisenhower is a is a beautiful story because involves his brother and his brother's relationship with john mccone republican the second director of central intelligence for, the kennedy administration, who was also republican. and it was important the for john kennedy to know that mckone was board with the decision to go with a quarantine and it was important for mckone to be the representative of the administration to, old man eisenhower, so that eisenhower would approve. and so the kennedy brothers president bobby friendship with mckone prepared mckone to go and talk to eisenhower. all the options in the hope that eisenhower would come to conclude they'd chosen the right one. and he does so eisenhower's is very important. and so

so dwight eisenhower, he played in the kansas city state league under the name wilson. the eastern carolina league where thorpe played for the rocky mountain railroaders and fayetteville islanders, had so many college players played was called the pocahontas league because so many were called john smith. jim thorpe played and never tried to hide it. and his names were in the papers for those two summer and several key factors here, 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, his coach, who had been sending carlisle indian athletes to play baseball for years, whose close associate in pennsylvania was the scout who brought jim and his teammates down to rocky mount, who met with thorpe two times while jim was away from school playing baseball. and once they went huntening oklahoma together. you'd think that warner didn't ask him, why aren't you at school right now? anyway, after the story broke that jim thorpe had played baseball, the story broke in worcester, massachuset

eisenhower president eisenhower accepting the donation there in the top photo. so a lot of the a lot of the stage was set for mrs. kennedy. that's a perfect transition in elaine into a question for you you of course are the co-author of the book designing camelot which talks about the efforts of jacqueline kennedy and the restoration of the white house. can you tell us? how for our audience so everybody understands some people may know the story but others may not tell us what were some of the institutions that mrs. kennedy put in place that are that are still operational today. and also tell us why was she so interested in restoration in the white house? it wasn't necessarily just to like pretty things or make things look nice. there was a larger purpose that really supported the kennedy administration if you can tell us a little bit about that, i think that would be very illuminating for our audience. thank you colleen. i'm so happy to be here and i'm so happy to get to follow melissa because so much of what i do in starting to talk about mrs. kennedy. it's as