shows eisenhower, coats and gloves, french beaches drop from the sky. and they don't know the number. allied soldiers transported in 1 1rs 590 landing craft and 6939 other naval vessels. goings down the rabbit hole in my geek way. bear with me. it's smaller handing zone, omaha, utah, sword, gold and juneau. paratroopers go in first and invasion by air the biggest in history, reads a subtitle accompanying a photo of 100 parachutes over the countryside in the a practice jump. how to treat the disabled of the war when they return to civilian life. hitler is well aware that allied forces will soon attempt to land in france, but the fuhrer does not know the date. d-day in military parlance. and the only man who knows that is general eisenhower and even he is uncertain right now. at 10:00, mp's close and lock the doors. montgomery is famous for giving an audience two minutes to cough, sneeze, blow your nose, and after that no interruptions. the room is quiet as eisenhower rises to begin the proceedings. supreme commander of the force. the audience is to hear

no cameras or press eisenhower. eisenhower will later joke that nazi german dictator adolf hitler could have killed every tough american and british with a single, well-placed. but the invasion of hitler's festering europa fortress is hardly a surprise. the whole world knows hundreds of thousands of allied troops been assembling in great britain for months, training each day for the singular of wrenching control of europe from hitler's grasp. sometime in the summer, coincidentally, on this very day, general montgomery graces cover of life magazine, a vivid portrait of monty's character runs inside cromwellian, in churchill's words, austere, accomplished, tireless while also playing off the journals esthetically, style, quote. he lives in complete simplicity. it's the plainest food has no recreation, except that of writing novels and detective stories. he is often impatient of human frailty, but an equally large feature runs under the headline american invaders mass in england. a dozen photographs show montgomery and

eisenhower remained silent. he could order the doors opened or even have the perpetrators sent away but this is his show. the favorite of general isn't backing down and must make the final call. more pounding, louder, inpatient. reality setser in. the carefully scripted presentation remains a slide show so long as the hammering continues. whoever stands on the other side of the door is a fool or force of nature so determined to walk through the doors when he's unafraid of offending anyone inside the lecture hall supreme commander prime minister and king of england among them. bernard orders the doors flung open. to no one's surprise a six-foot 6-foot toamerican general wearir of ivory handled revivals, riding boots and immaculate overcoat l tailored strives into the whole unrepentant smilet on his face. winston churchill recognizes the officer immediately and willl order him a whiskeyto over lunch to celebrate this bold maneuver. so doess georges patton makes hs entrance. so the thing is that is now the prologue

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

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 again, eisenhower played in the kansas state league under the name wilson. the eastern carolina league where thorpe played for the rocky mountain railroads had so many college players under aliases it was nicknamed the pocahontas league because everybody was named john smith. jim thorpe played as jim thorpe and his name was in the papers in the league in those two summers and the 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 shall his coach, who had been sending carlisle indian athletes to play baseball for years, whose close associate in pennsylvania was who brought jim and his associates. and jim was away from school playing baseball, 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, massachusetts in the worcester telegram in january of 1913. it had been in the papers i

macomb, it prepared him to go and talk eisenhower but all the options in the hope that eisenhower would come to conclude they chose in the right one. and he does, so, eisenhower's role is very important. so is macomb's. had eisenhower thought the decision was wrong, i'm not sure how things would've played out, but it would've been a real complication for president kennedy. the management of eisenhower was a part of the cuban missile crisis that matters. >> it's something we've lost over the years, these two men really understand their roles. when you listen to the tape, it is so wonderful, this guy is old enough, he's old enough to be jfk's dad, basically. as you say, he's a figure, or hero, former president., when they're talking, jack kennedy was jack, says, well, mister president, here's what i think, kennedy says, well, general, what do you think, they go back, i mean in that moment, they are, jack kennedy as the president, eisenhower gets to keep the title of general, he was a general, it just struck me that we don't do that as well anymore, really moved listening to his old man sa

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eisenhower did not try to roll back communism. buckley, it wasn't enough to simply contain the soviet union. you had to roll back communism, defeat it. >> my reading of the history, based on, yo banheu ,kn is that conservatives didn't feel that eisenhower was a conservative. and so they sided with mccarthy, who was -- who was challenging the status quo. >> yes, i mean, that's right. and, you know, mccarthy was a huge force in the republican party and in national politics.onis c and thns they believed that even if he was wrong about a lot of the details, even if he overreached in a lot of his investigations, he still had the grasp of the central idea of the time, which was that communism posed a threat both externally and internally, inside the federal government. and buckley was defending mccarthy pretty much right up until the end, when mccarthy was censured by the u.s. senate in the end of 1954. the issue of national review that's published after mccarthy's death is filled with articles praising him, talking about his virtues, a

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

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eisenhower in one of his teammates, before the game, football is always been a violent sport, it wasn more violent then. eisenhower would acknowledge that he and teammate were plotting and how to knock jim thorpe out of the game because he was the greatest player in america. they had one play where they hit him high and low, but he got up and capped playing -- and kept playing. kevin: that came just a few months after stockholm. david: yes. kevin: how did jim thorpe end up in stockholm? david: first of all the greatest all-around athlete so not only playing football but also the trakstar in the carlisle track team was also dominant to compete in events so the model of the olympics from jumping and running and throwing weights when he could do all of those in him and his teammates who was a long-distance runner could take the entire track team by themselves so both competed to go to stockholm and they were selected and they went over withth their coach and jim thorpe dominated so imagine competing because that's what he did because the decathlon was that pentathlon which was a shorter

eisenhower remains silent. the order the doors open for you the incident perpetrator away but this is monkeys show the general is not backing down i'll call. more accounting louder. reality sets in n rent montgomery's carefully presentation remains a sideshow so long as the hammering continues d. where stands on the other side of that door is a fool or a force of nature walk through he is afraid of offending a lot inside the lecture hall. prime minister, king of england on rent bernard montgomery andray orders the door swung open . to no one's surprise the six foot to suffer hair general where i had a offers, the over strides into the lecture hall unrepentant smile on his face. winston churchill recognizes the officer immediately will order a ski to celebrate this boldmaneuver . so does general george s patton makes his entrance. so that's now the prologue. it's always tough to find a way into the book. you have to start the storyat the beginning but where is the beginning ? my beginning originally it was off a

eisenhower. general and former president of the united states.ore than a century, standing in this location, has been a kansas statesman john angles, probably representing our state as our second statute. today we have a new cans and to represent our state in the u.s. capital. someone recognized for her historic renown as an aviator. also someone who broke barriers, created opportunities for others, in captivated the attention of the world with her adventuresome spirit. kansas amelia earhart. with dwight d. eisenhower, and now amelia earhart, kansas officially has two of the most iconic and recognizable american heroes, representing any states and the united states capitol. i think just a few people in the room who made this happen. jackie, predawn, karen seabird, and read burger with the acheson a millionaire heart foundation. thank you for never giving up. [applause] thank you for never giving, perhaps amelia was your role model. amelia's ambition and spirit of adventure, the truck around the world, was built on a foundational upbringing and ac

host: you brought up eisenhower.s have you studied of eisenhower that make you think he is the standardbearer for this ideal you have? guest: the first thing he did is, he made his peace with the new deal, just what was the americans wanted at that point, right? making your peace with the new deal today would involve saying, look, have made progress in a whole bunch of areas. we are not going to try to roll it back. most americans would not want that in any event. eisenhower also had a pretty good record, really, a much better-than-average record on things like civil rights. he was really ahead of his time on those kinds of issues. harry truman said, poor ike, he's going to say this and nothing will happen. ike was a guy who, during his administration, desegregated the military and d.c. schools. on a bunch of cultural issues at the time he was decidedly very much a liberal. when the sit ins started in north carolina he said, they should be served. if they can shop there they should be able to have lunch there. he jus

that is exactly right would put him, in a latter part of the near great category with eisenhower and harry truman in your roosevelt and jack kennedy. i think that is where lbj -- ronald reagan probably belongs there, too, for a variety of reasons. every president has a mixed legacy. vietnam is clearly the darker side of the lyndon johnson legacy, but again, if you look at the loss of the great society, absolutely transformational. >> at what point in vietnam become the overwhelming definition of president johnson rather than civil rights, voting rights, etc.? mark: i think the tide turned around 1967. the american people really started doubting our presence in vietnam, and the offensive that happened in the first quarter of 1968 really turn things irrevocably. shortly after that where a series of battles throughout vietnam, the u.s. military won resoundingly in all of them. that is what we fail to remember at this point. but the fact is, the american people realized that no matter what we did, the opposition in vietnam was going to keep on coming. they were absolutely relentless. at

so president kennedy believed, as eisenhower did, you had to hold the line on communism in vietnam or it would do adverse things to that region of the world. in terms of civil rights, i think kennedy moved very, very cautiously on civil rights throughd the bulk of his presidency here at in 1863 when martin luther king brought the civil rights campaign to birmingham and went to jail and pinned his famous letter from the birmingham jail, consciousness around civil rights was beginning to be raised. so vitally kennedy made a speech that elevated civil rights to a moral issue. it can never been put in those terms before, but the american people hearing that civil rights was a a moral issue was an incredibly important victory for those on the front lines of the civil rights movement. but you can fault kennedy for not pushing aggressively the civil rights act that he had proposed in 1963 but failed to put into law by the time he was assassinated. lyndon johnson as you suggested took that bill that was languishing in congress and used kennedy's martyrdom to push it through. his advisers warn

i think that was because it was eisenhower's vision and we get it quick and we did it shallow. or not build a steep as a german autobahn for example, won't last as long we knew that. but we cut a few cities and we routed a lot of interstate highways in ways we wouldn't do today. what effects racing network you expect to see in terms of -- now that the system is old, 86 is a long time ago. what are you seeing in terms of and what will we see in terms of fixing some of that, if we would read -- rebuild the interstate highway today? >> one of the incredible things about ourf country is we are constantlyag reimagining ourselves, constantly adapting to new challenges and new opportunities. we always have a a chance to course correct which is great. it's a process of constant and total renewal. i don't want to get in the entire system. it was a beautiful speed i'm not condemning it either. >> no, no,o, no. and it waso. built fast and in some large measure it was absolutely necessary. however, i think in looking back all of us can agree we ran through the neighborhoods that we shouldn

and this is national force which has been protected since the eisenhower administration from mining. so national forest means it belong to you and i and it was, i feel it was stolen from us. well, in this resolution copper project area covers a lot more than just or flat. it's much bigger than that. it's nearly 40 miles long from one end to the other when you include all the pipelines detailing storage area in addition to the mine site itself. and so oak flat itself is considered one very large archaeological site, because there's so much here. this flat smooth surface here would have been used to grind food or could have been corn, could have been acorns. so mesquite means so the forest service actually declared at one very large archaeological site. and it's also been declared a traditional cultural property, which is a federal designation. that means the government is recognizing it as a place of great significance and importance to the native americans who still live in the sanity, most notably in the apaches. but altogether within this resolution copper project area, there are a

i was trying to research and find out how, why eisenhower did protect this in how he got wind of what was going on. but he did protect it from mining, and that was since the fifty's. ah john mccain it back in 2014 senator john mccain . i snuck it into a in the 11th hour and a must pass defense bill. and of course it passed and they try to get their hands on it. resolution copper parent company, real tinto. tried to get their hands on it. they voted on it like 12 different times and congress and it never passed through so that they finally got their hands on it when mccain slipped it into that defense bill. and this is national force which has been protected since the eisenhower administration from mining. so national forest means it belong to you and i and it was, i feel it was stolen from well, in this resolution copper project area covers a lot more than just oak flat. it's much bigger than that. it's nearly 40 miles long from one end to the other when you include all the pipelines detailing storage area in addition to the mine site itself. and so oak flat itself is considered one v

in modern times, you find the eisenhower administration use in the muslim brotherhood to attack the secular government. so i don't master it. so the whole idea about, well, i guess yes, has been fine. and it's privatization has been find you, which is actually the russian line. what is the increase in africa? so you know, it, those both sides. you mentioned native being involved in always well in african conflict in theory as well indirectly. but it has always denied that its purpose. is it sort of new times purpose is to be aggressive towards russia, and do you take this refusal to, to dismantle, later after the cold war? as a case of, i don't know institutional inertia and vested interest with bureaucrats and weapons manufacturers wanting to keep the pay check's or that profit is coming on. do you think it was in fact strategic at that point, that is native continuing to sort of serving the exact purpose that it was created for? i'll be in the plaza of with plausible deniability. well 1st thing is the, the rule of a is, is, is easily overwritten. because you can point to position papers,

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