so he knew exactly where eisenhower was coming from and eisenhower was his protege. hook line and sink are top to bottom. so he said by all means they went to the various universities throughout america pulled out outstanding history historians and military historians and put them to work people like martin bloominson forest poe kent roberts greenfield who turned out the 80 volume green series known as the army green books on world war two. now the only shortcomings those green books have and it's not their fault. they didn't know about it couldn't help it. they don't include anything on ultra. because it was all classified. and it wasn't let loose until around. let's see. i left the archives in '79 so sometime after that 80 81 82 because the british let loose on it. otherwise, it's probably still be classified. so those historians martin blumenson was with patton's third army. and so i knew him very well. he wrote anything you can find that he wrote in a military or history journal any book that he did is going to be a plus. kent roberts greenfield was a plus force

is that both eisenhower and kennedy really resented it? they really shied from calling it a race for from frankly admitting that it was a race because they felt that to to adopt that terminology was to get backed into a competition with the soviet union that we might lose. in fact that we were losing from the very beginning from the moment when the soviets sent that first satellite's sputnik into orbit around the earth in october of '57 and there was a whole series of firsts that followed that where this soviet domination of the of the heavens was was well established within the first from the first moments of the space race, so eisenhower's that if he sort of talked it down a little bit that he might take the edge off the competition because frankly eisenhower's really he wasn't invested in it literally or figuratively he wasn't emotionally invested in and he wasn't politically invested in it and he really refused as long as he could to invest federal dollars in some kind of competition with the soviet union for what purpose. he didn't re

ronald reagan goes to visit president eisenhower in palm springs and eisenhower tells him, listen, you ought to think running for governor of california. you know, i like your ideas, but i even think you may have potential to be president. and so let's talk about foreign policy, talk about what i learned as general eisenhower during world war two. and over the next years, they start meeting regularly for these series of discussions, sessions, seminars if you if you if you will. but, you know, fast to president reagan's strategy to actually win cold war. he absolutely wanted to win it. he wanted to defeat communism. as i mentioned earlier, but he wanted to keep the cold war, cold. he did not want it to turn hot because would have meant the death of all of us. and so that's why there's this much more surface dictated understanding we now have of his defense buildup, that it was designed win without fighting to the soviets, to have to negotiate from a posture of weakness rather than strength. and this is why during his eight years in office, even with presiding over, you know, a massive m

the night before operation overlord, general eisenhower met with u.s. troops from the 101st airborne. some thought that he looked nervous. but one soldier called out, “now quit worrying, general. we'll take care of this thing for you.” and they did. young men from the united states, britain, australia, canada, france, and other countries rallied together, as president roosevelt said, “to set free a suffering humanity.” the largest armada in history carried tens of thousands of allied troops to the gate of nazi-occupied france. the allied pilots flew low, under relentless german fire. the paratroopers jumped into cloudy skies and improvised when many of them landed miles from their drop zones. soldiers weighed down by gear waded off the boats and were raked by nazi guns. and the medics dove in to care for the wounded as the cold waters turned red. it's easy to forget how desperate the battle was, how loud the clash was, how many things could have gone wrong, and how many things did go wrong. but on d-day, courage won out over terror, daring over cruelty,

eisenhower immediately ordered other allied soldiers to witness the camps. but he did much more. worried that we'll would not believe the truth -- people would not believe the truth, he urged journalists and members of congress to visit the camps and to be witnesses. he hoped that an abundance of firsthand accounts of the atrocities would prevent anyone from ever disbelieving them or attributing them to propaganda. sadly e wrong. very wrong -- sadly, he was wrong. very wrong. today we witness that very charge of propaganda from those who would deny or minimize the holocaust. this amidst rising anti-semitism and racism. those soldiers who fought for our freedom would be shocked to see our world. those soldiers who liberated some of the few surviving jews, including my own parents, would never be forgotten. so today as we honor them, we recognize they played many roles. they also cared for survivors, resettled displaced persons, and supported the pursuit of justice. and they played one more role of enormous significance, they were wins witnesses -- witnesses. dell better cooper wit

but eisenhower knew that americans were being drugged without their knowledge. and he to use the cia as a force of shadow american power, he didn't want a direct military confrontation with the soviets. so he thought he would use it to subvert, you know, keep the status quo in favor of the western powers, europe and the united states. he used it to stage coups in nine in iran in 1953, guatemala, 1954, congo, 1960, and kind of sought to replace european colonialism with american hegemony and helping him with this were the brothers allen dulles as director of cia and john foster dulles as secretary of state. and neither of these men particularly suited for their jobs. they were and elitist both their uncle and their grandfather had been secretary of state. how elitist they were and were pretty arrogant and had this foreign policy where there was zero room for even negotiate with communists and that like i said, overcorrecting know communism is bad, but they overcorrected and eisenhower was there with him. he thought that the end of colonial was a destructive hurri

but eisenhower knew that americans were being drugged without their knowledge. and he to use the cia as a force of shadow american power, he didn't want a direct military confrontation with the soviets. so he thought he would use it to subvert, you know, keep the status quo in favor of the western powers, europe and the united states. he used it to stage coups in nine in iran in 1953, guatemala, 1954, congo, 1960, and kind of sought to replace european colonialism with american hegemony and helping him with this were the brothers allen dulles as director of cia and john foster dulles as secretary of state. and neither of these men particularly suited for their jobs. they were and elitist both their uncle and their grandfather had been secretary of state. how elitist they were and were pretty arrogant and had this foreign policy where there was zero room for even negotiate with communists and that like i said, overcorrecting know communism is bad, but they overcorrected and eisenhower was there with him. he thought that the end of colonial was a destructive hurri

as we got on board, we heard eisenhower's message.rance, there comes the voice of the supreme commander, general eisenhower.�* great battles lie ahead. i call upon all who love freedom to stand with us now. _ keep your faith staunch. 0ur arms are resolute. together we shall achieve victory. alan mcquillan celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday. he was an armourer with the raf servicing commandos. 0n the 6th ofjune, his boat left gosport in hampshire and headed towards france. �*heading out to sea after a 2k hour delay because of the weather.�* along with thousands of others. i mean, the sea was full of boats. and all these aircraft going over as well. oh, it was absolutely packed. you could almost touch the boat in front of you. or the boat on that side of you. and that was why it was so slow. the fishies are the wonderful time, because everybody was seasick. the next day, his landing craft was finally able to off—load its passengers, but did so on the wrong beach, one designated for canadian troops. he came ashore onjuno and he shou

but eisenhower knew that americans were being drugged without their knowledge. and he to use the cia as a force of shadow american power, he didn't want a direct military confrontation with the soviets. so he thought he would use it to subvert, you know, keep the status quo in favor of the western powers, europe and the united states. he used it to stage coups in nine in iran in 1953, guatemala, 1954, congo, 1960, and kind of sought to replace european colonialism with american hegemony and helping him with this were the brothers allen dulles as director of cia and john foster dulles as secretary of state. and neither of these men particularly suited for their jobs. they were and elitist both their uncle and their grandfather had been secretary of state. how elitist they were and were pretty arrogant and had this foreign policy where there was zero room for even negotiate with communists and that like i said, overcorrecting know communism is bad, but they overcorrected and eisenhower was there with him. he thought that the end of colonial was a destructive hurri

years ago general eisenhower told soldiers,s, sailors, airmen and marines of the allied expeditionary force, quote, the eyes of the world are upon you. people everywhere march with you. the eyes of the world are still upon the heroes of d-day. they are upon us as well and if we will not let the torch of freedom go out. every time d-day is gathered to his maker in the fullest time after all the life of lived and freedom, victory. the veterans of world war ii, we salute you. you saved the world. we must merely defend it. the american allied troops that fought 79 years ago, may god bless the united state

and i recognised in the middle of this group, winston churchill and general eisenhower, and they were and you were supposed to salute people of that rank, but as i had been on duty all night and was just informally dressed, all i could do was wave and say "good morning!" and so they all waved back and said "good morning", and they went on their way to the edge of our cliff. and in fact much later on, i heard that churchill wanted it to be reported back that he and eisenhower had been down on the kent coast, to deceive the germans into thinking that landings were going to be in kent, into the calais area, whereas of course we were going to land much further west in normandy. that ploy worked. i went in in early �*41. i went to devizes, to learn gunnery as it was called. i was a height finder, plotter. when the german aircraft came across, now the height finder was nine foot long, about that fat round, and it was on a plinth. which, you moved it around. you followed the aircraft. and i had, one like that, very similar. that had... cutouts for my four fingers. and i looked into two stron

for the principles that drove the allied armies forward. 69 79 years ago -- 79 years ago, general eisenhowersoldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines of the allied expeditionary force, “the eyes of the world are upon you. the hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” the eyes of the world are still upon the heroes of d-day. they are upon us as well. and we will not let the torch of freedom go out. every time a veteran of d-day is gathered to his maker in the fullness of time, after a long life lived in freedom, he wins a final victory over hitler.

and so adlai stevenson and general eisenhower were for election. he gave them access to the daily summary so that they could know what he was seeing and help them prepare and when the candidate becomes the president elect, they get the full president's daily brief, no different than the president. so robert byer as we continue our tour of cia museum, the cold war is in full swing. a lot of spy gadgets come out of that, don't they? there really was an iron curtain over the soviet bloc. and it was incredibly to get in there, get what we call is our assets, our sources of information to help us understand what was going on behind that soviet iron curtain. and so we needed disguises. we needed equipment that would help our assets get the information needed. things like, the microdot camera that would basically take a picture of a document and shrink it down to the size of a dot. these are the types of things that we would give to our assets in order to collect that information and you've got on display here a can and a miniature book. what are we looki

and i recognised in the middle of this group, winston churchill and general eisenhower, and they wereupposed to salute people of that rank, as i had been on duty all night and was just informally dressed, all i could do was wave and say good morning! and so they all waved back and said good morning, and they went on their way to the edge of our cliff. and in fact much later on, i heard that churchill wanted to be reported back that he and eisenhower had been down on the kent coast, to deceive the germans into thinking that landings were going to be in kent, into the calais area, whereas of course we were going to land much further west in normandy. that ploy works. i went iwent in i went in in early a1. i went to devices, to learn gunnery as it was called. i was a finder, plotter. when the german aircraft came across, the height finder was nine foot long, about that fat round, and it was on a plinth. which, you moved it around. you followed the aircraft. and i had, like that, very similar. that had... cutouts for my four fingers. and i looked into two strong scopes. metal around there

so president eisenhower came to cia and said, we need to know, and so, what did the cia do? if 18 months go from the drawing board to operational status of the u2 airplane. it flies at 70,000 feet and it flies so high that neither missiles more airplanes from the soviet union can get to it. and on its very first pass over the soviet union it collects information on their military air bases and dispells the bomber gap. in fact, we had many, many more bombers than they did. and so, president eisenhower refers to the photograph from the u2, it's a million dollar photograph because every photograph that showed one less bomber than we thought meant that he didn't have to build another bomber here. so, worth a million dollars at least. because of the u2 program and how important it was, we recognized that eventually the soviet union would figure out a way to get to an airplane at 70,000 feet. and so, we came up with two different overhead reconnaissance platforms. the first was going to be a follow on aircraft. it's called the a-12 and it's a technological marvel. in the late 50's

you had mentioned eisenhower, there were multiple small pieces of small legislation under eisenhower. by the time kennedy got it, there was both a feeling civil rights had been around as an issue for a long time and also a certain wariness on all sides. was this an issue that was ever going to be solved? it wasn't going to be one of those contractile problems politicians flopped off and try to pay lip service to and try to pass a small piece of incremental adulation, but never do anything about. host: remind us, what was the bill introduced in congress after the speech? when, and what was the role of everett dirksen? guest: the bill came a few weeks after kennedy's speech. it focused on the issue that had been raised by martin luther king in the birminghamrosts, which was equal access to public facilities. here, we mean retail stores, lunch counters, public accommodations. this was an issue that focused directly on the jim crow south. there were other items in the bill. the bill expanded greatly. one of the things that made that happen was that it had early support from everett dirkse

you had mentioned eisenhower, there were multiple small pieces of small legislation under eisenhower. by the time kennedy got it, there was both a feeling civil rights had been around as an issue for a long time and also a certain wariness on all sides. was this an issue that was ever going to be solved? it wasn't going to be one of those contractile problems politicians flopped off and try to pay lip service to and try to pass a small piece of incremental adulation, but never do anything about. host: remind us, what was the bill introduced in congress after the speech? when, and what was the role of everett dirksen? guest: the bill came a few weeks after kennedy's speech. it focused on the issue that had been raised by martin luther king in the birmingham protes, which was equal access to public facilities. here, we mean retail stores, lunch counters, public accommodations. this was an issue that focused directly on the jim crow south. there were other items in the bill. the bill expanded greatly. one of the things that made that happen was that it had early support from everett dirk

eisenhower pulled off the counteroffensive that no one thought could succeed. failed the map of europe would look very different. and stands on another historic counteroffensive, set to begin in ukraine to push back the russians. again, the map of europe is at stake. today secretary alston and joint chief chairman marked d.j. at the american cemetery in normandie above omaha beach. >> the eyes of the world are still upon the heroes of the d day. they are upon us as well, and we will not select the torch of freedom go out. >> new science at the counteroffensive is quietly underway. this video released in recent days tells ukrainians and western allies in essence that loose lips sink ships. the president responded to a shouted question from the press corps about whether ukraine's counteroffensive would work with crossed fingers. news of the novo cook coca on the river has caused alarm and finger-pointing, it could affect ukraine's crops, and threatening the issue in crimea, and the plant which is europe's largest is not in immediate danger. and would make it more

so these are the years of truman and eisenhower. these are the years of the red scare and of macarthur theism. and while joe mccarthy is, i think, still are kind of remembered icon of that period and of the anti-communist surge of those years in many ways. hoover i think, was truly the more important. first of all, he was there long before joseph mccarthy. this is the cover of newsweek from 1947 at a moment where no one has ever heard of joseph mccarthy. he is just entering national politics. he doesn't really become famous until several years later. and hoover is also much more effective during those years, a taking his own vision of anti-communism. the need to contain it both at home and abroad, at institute, analyzing it. in contrast to someone like mccarthy. mccarthy he was good at making speeches and getting headlines. but throughout forties and fifties, hoover is working very hard in a wide variety of ways to, not only promote his own vision in public, but to build new sets of relationships and new forms of institutional power

a young officer, eisenhower, is given command of this. funny, it's almost like a mad max movie where all these are in tanks and they get down and stuck and but they make it almost didn't make it out of utah. they did make it. and it's interesting, because, of course, eisenhower is, the president during the interstate system. so that's that's a good one. but the journey a great device. i didn't even know what a good device it would be project sort of fell into my lap because of disunion but now i am thinking about others. the wartime journeys of franklin roosevelt are fascinating and. an old man in a wheelchair is going farther than any american president has gone. he goes to casablanca, goes to cairo, he goes to tehran. he goes to yalta and yalta, very close to the fighting in ukraine, to today. and so those are good. and i think john f kennedy many journeys. he wasn't president for very long but he he used presidential travel to his advantage and there's one trip he gives the famous speech in berlin. you know i am i am a berliner which w

okay eisenhower in inherits a thousand atom bombs.the h-bomb comes in basically and is conceived in 5251, rather is tested pretty much in 52. but the first probable h-bomb is in 54. under eisenhower, i let me as fast. how many people here? very honestly, frankly, feel you know the difference between in a bomb in an h-bomb. i see. maybe 15 hands. how many do not you okay, here, you're tracking here and some are not sure whether you know a lot or do not know. but very to the bottom to make it easy to to a bomb, to destroy hiroshima and a plutonium a-bomb on nagasaki a thousand times more than the blockbuster. a fusion bomb works by splitting heavy elements and releasing the h-bomb called is hydrogen bomb because its fuel is basically hydrogen lithium to the right and hydrogen and works by fuzing together the lightest element. so the instead of splitting and releases more energy than the heavier and the fastest way to describe the difference that i was asking for is this way, every h-bomb, of which nearly of our bombs are h-bomb and have

on the evening, d-day, general matthew ridgway, who had been tasked by general eisenhower planning and leading the assault on hitler's fortress europe, which meant he commanded the all american of the 82nd airborne division, the screaming eagles of 101st airborne division, and the red devils of the british first airborne division. general ridgway was so restless, he actually fell out of his cot and he reached the old testament and he reached for the book of, joshua, and he pulled down the lord's promise to the great general on the eve of the battle, jericho, where he said, i shall not forsake the nor forget thee. in 1987, ronald presented general ridgway with the medal of freedom that. heroes come when they are needed, but americans step forward with courage seems in short supply. the memorial these grounds is about you, the great americans who step forward and never failed us. you never failed that way. case on the yacht trang valley in cambodia. i'll leave with the words of reverend dr. billy graham. reverend graham of president nixon that a tree is best measured when it is laid down