>> what role did charles lindbergh have? very little. charles lindbergh was the guiding spirit of the, of the america first committee, the isolationist committee that tried to keep us out of the war until pearl harbor destroyed the reason for existence of the america first committee. roosevelt would not let him have his commission back. he had been an air force kohl them. roosevelt wouldn't let him back. he felt that this was a gross mistake to do. however, henry ford who was also an isolationist before world war ii began and had been an isolationist in world world wari wanted to put lindbergh to work, and he quietly put lindbergh to work as a civilian, a civilian engineer with his detroit plants. and later on lindbergh actually flew out to the pacific and was a test pilot on some of our new war planes in the pacific. not as an officer, but quietly as a civilian. so he got back in the war somehow, but roosevelt did not want him in publicly. yes. >> somewhere in my recollection the american intelligence agencies had an idea that pearl har

and their chief spokesperson was this guy, charles lindbergh. who is he, and why did americans care about him? yeah. >> first person to fly across the atlantic solo. >> and that made him? >> famous. >> yeah, he was the great american hero. he was famous. maybe except for roosevelt, the most famous of all americans. more people knew lindbergh probably than anyone else. people listened to him. he became the public voice of the isolationist movement, and his arguments were very, very racial. anybody know how lindbergh was making a racial argument about america's non-involvement in world war ii? he made several of them. yeah? >> that the danger is not germans. >> correct. >> the danger is asia. >> exactly. look, this is a quarrel among the white civilized people of europe. it's really unfortunate that the white civilized people of europe should be fighting one another. we certainly do not want to get involved in that and have more white civilized, christian people slaughtered. what a horrible thing. when we face -- and he called them the asiatic who

it was a slow news week in 1927, and "time" was smarting because they had failed to put charles lindbergh on their cover. when he flew across the atlantic. and so they had to do something, and so they decided, oh, let's have a man of the year and made charles lindbergh the first. it was so popular that they've had others, one each year and changed it to person. interestingly enough there are no historians have made this team. unless -- unless -- we count gabor borat. in 1956 "time" had the hungarian freedom fighters, and gabor, i don't know how much freedom fighting he did, but i know he fled hungary in 1956. that's the closest we get to an historian making person of the year. they're not many rebels of consequence or the ones that e are are of great consequence, gandhi, ayatollah khomeini made the team and generated krrable criticism and "time" had to jump up and down and say influence, influence, influence in defending their choice. martin luther king. not many american southerners who were not presidents of the united states, lindbehin lyndon and jimmy carter, except martin luther king

more people knew lindbergh. he became the public voice of the isolationist movement. his arguments were very, very racial. anybody know how lindbergh was making a racial involvement about america's involvement in world war ii? he made several of them. >> the danger is not germans. the danger is asia. >> exactly. this is a quarrel among the white civilized people of europe. it's really unfortunate that the white civilized people of europe should be fighting one another. we do not want to get involved in that and have more white civilized christian people slaughtered. what a horrible thing. that's really where civilization is going to stand and that was represented by japan and russia. russia was considered the menace of communism. he made a racial argument as to why america should stay out of the war and a religious argument. what was his religion argument? who america to war? >> he believed that the jews was pushing a boil that wasn't good. >> he even said that. it was the jews that were pushing the united states into involvement in these european quarrels. the republ

and of those in aviation and space first think of the wright brothers, charles lindbergh, dr.obert godard, the father of modern rocketry, and now, today's honorees. and i dare say that in future years, we will be giving this same ceremony and gold medal to the first crew that will land on the planet mars. ladies and gentlemen, the dream is alive. as a matter of fact, it's a part of us. it's our character as the american people to be adventurers and explorers. and we won't ever give that dream up. indeed, in the honoring of these astronauts, we foretell the future, the greatness, the discovery, the expressing of ourselves as a people. pioneers, adventurers and explorers. ladies and gentlemen, the dream is alive. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the ranking member of the united states senate committee on commerce, science and transportation and the senior senator from the state of texas, the honorable kay bailey hutchison. >> we are honoring four brave, determined, resilient men. they and the astronauts who followed took enormous personal risks for our country to venture be

remember that lindbergh flew to paris by himself for clinton but thousand dollars. there was a prize. -- for $25,000. there was a prize. >> we are looking at recordtheyn higher. starting with keystone is a great place to try to change policy. what other steps we take to lower prices? >> -- would you take to lower prices? >> there would be a series of executive orders, one is the keystone pipeline. one would that all restrictions in the gulf of mexico and would enable people to start developing the gulf of mexico. there is an interest in lag here. you win the election in november. you want to know when the economy is born to start recovering? 9:00 at night on election day -- when the economy is going to start recovering? 9:00 at night on election day when people realize he is gone. [applause] the mood is going to become a obama is gone, i think i'm going to hide -- going to be, obama is gone, i think i am going to hire somebody. i will ask congress to stay in session on january 3 to repeal the three bills. i want them to repeal obamacare. [applause] i want them to re