isenhour is such a nature to encase because isenhour was someone who was not really interested in politics. he wasn't interested in politics and it really wasn't interested in celebrity. he had been a military man his entire life. in fact he refused to run for president in 1932 but he allowed his name to be entered and nominated so he spent most of the 1952 primary campaign overseas in paris where he was supreme commander of nato. this made for an adjusting story to me because he had a presidential candidate who is off site who wasn't dissipating in his campaign. they were supporting isenhour forbade republican nomination and they relied on people like clark gable or helen hayes to come out and speak on his the house and support him as a candidate. one of the interesting things about the 1952 campaign is that the democrats have been in power for 20 years. roosevelt had taken them through the depression and taken them through most of world war ii. truman had his own term and now many people in the country felt there needed to be a change in government. the republican front-runner was a man

no president since isenhour though all of them acknowledge that and wanted to undertake it because the political cost of doing it was too high. the political capital required to pull that off domestically, politically. >> he paid dearly for it. governor reagan when he was running against carter in the 80 elections said he gave it away. >> we bought it and we paid for it. >> there's the story that chris tells about jim baker and ronald reagan about saying know because the political cost, and he was driving, being driven someplace and i don't remember the example but that was one case that was a pretty dramatic case when jim baker was on his way, and a car on his way to lunch at the madison hotel in the got word that the president had somehow signed an order that would have everyone in the cabinet strapped up to a polygraph and they would have to take a lie detector test about a week. i said turn the car around. he drove straight back to the white house went thirsting into the oval office. reagan was having lunch with secretary of state george shultz and baker said mr. president you know

one may begin to think of a political economy point of view their reasons why we should worry like isenhour about the military-industrial complex. from political economy perspective you want to also worry about the political clout producers of those goods, consumers of those good and average tax. someone could argue taxpayers are the most centrist group and their reasons why we see programs like the f-35 in the f-22 continue despite massive cost overruns and quality controls. .. if the park could come from a place and the house services decided. that was known in the industry as a double-hitter. common pool problem, what the scientists call one over end. russ roberts has a wonderful analogy when we go out for 99 or 34 of our closest friends and agree to split the bill, you start getting unusual behavior. i lived for a while in l.a. and l.a. is one of the most challenged places because of the geographic spread to build the subway, but a subway was built. having looked more recently at the studies, but at the time more riders, 90% of the funding came from elsewhere, outside of l.a. 10% came f