mrs. eisenhower, you indicated that you have add a meeting with mr. gary and you were looking forward to another meeting. from the witnesses it appears as though there is an ongoing process to reach a final design and that a final design is not yet been developed. is that correct? i guess, the commission executive officer? >> the submission of a final design proposal has not been made. that is correct. >> so, there is still a process under way to develop that final design and then the -- the engineering drawings, construction and so forth beyond that. so i'm -- some have suggested starting all over. it seems to me that's not like low to be the path taken. but rather a path that would, using the existing gary design or concepts, modify to address the concerns that may exist would be a more productive path. and once again, if any of you would loike to comment on that. i would be happy to hear from you. including the eisenhower family if they would care to. it seems that we ought to be working toward a refining of where we are rather than starting all ov

mr. chairman. miss eisenhower, if i may, and thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> in your statement, you reported, you stated that the family is committed to playing its role in assure that the process and the design reflect an open and transparent process. for the edification of myself and the committee, could you please identify where the process was not open or transparent? >> well, i think -- i mean this would take an exhaustive review of the documents, but i think that the situation that has appeared in the paper has not been completely accurate. members of the eisenhower family from the outset have expressed concern about the scope and scale of this memorial. the original idea was actually to put a simple statue at the eisenhower executive office building. this was our family preference in the beginning. and so this has evolved a great deal. to say that the eisenhower family had gone along with every aspect of this process would not be correct. and we found it important to correct the record. i

meetings at the white house, raburn often joked with president eisenhower about raburn being eisenhower's congressman. mr. sam, who was eight years older than eisenhower also called eisenhower catten when they had private meetings. that a habit picked up from cactus joe who referred to him as captain. more significantly raburn and eisenhower had middle of the road philosophies and a strict sense of national duty. and both understood the necessity of legislative compromise. often as the congress had adjourned for the day. raburn and senate majority leader lyndon johnson would slip out of the capitol and be driven to the white house where out of sight of the news media they would enter the secluded southwest entrance and be escorted to the president's family quarters on the second floor. there over drinks the two democratic leaders and president eisenhower would discuss current issues and they would work out informal bipartisan strategies for furthering public policy. sam raburn, lyndon johnson and dwight eisenhower were political partisans from two different parties, but they always put country first and

mr. frank gehry who has graciously interacted with members of the eisenhower family. the public debate has demonstrated that the american people overwhelmingly endorse a memorial, but they are saying it's time to go back to the drawing board and we agree. aside from all the things that have been said in the press and in the internet, we've been inmin -- inundated as family members about the letters of the unmet challenge of creating a fitting memorial. given this, mr. chairman, the eisenhower family sees no alternative to suggest two remedies, to redesign the eisenhower memorial or call upon the commission to review its staff management and stakeholder policies. first let me address myself to the design. great monuments in our country make simple statements that encapsulate the reason the memorial has been erected in the first place. george washington is remembered as the father of our country. the lincoln memorial declares that he saved the union. the monument to christopher columbus at union station says he gave to mankind a new world. one of the main flaws of the c

hipsters and annihilists everywhere and and it's a total rejection and everything that eisenhower himself stood for. >> hi. mr. gehry, thanks for coming to speak with us today. i just want -- a certain analogy popped in my head as we were watching this and watching your explanation. i don't know if you're familiar with the story "the emperor has no clothes," but they're weaving together a suit of invisible clothes until a little barefoot boy says the emperor has no clothes, and i just think -- you said it's not necessarily post-modern what you're doing, but it just seems to strike me as post modern. i don't know if you're familiar with c.s. lewis and the space trilogy, but in that age, they have metal trees. they no longer have real trees, metal birds, and a place where there is a huge amount of space, and can you use real trees and you do use real trees, why do you think of making metal trees so ridiculous? it seems to me like the emperor has no clothes, and how is this a memorial reflecting his great deeds and great works? i think as you said, the lincoln memorial, the washington monument, things that are s

although eisenhower wrote his biography was the first mr for saving europe in theory could have paid him that although he worked at a deal that my fellow panelists will appreciate. as far as i know, no other book author has gotten. he got the irs to sign up on the notion that if you find the book to his publisher that is her six-month study claimed it as a capital gain rather than income. [laughter] >> again -- >> is there a website? >> it helped in world war ii. >> to put on one of your modern times. is the new deal over? should it be over? is there too much? >> who said it is still the framework? i've been wrong about this in the past. i thought after the reagan years the country would -- i wrote a small book called the reagan detour, which i would like to destroy, but the country would snap back to accepting the welfare state, the new deal welfare state, a democrat welfare state and i underrated the power of american business and of the republican party and this desire, which we see today and laughable -- what are the republicans running against? they are running against either se

eisenhower replied any time you need me, mr. president, aisle be there. lbj showed nixon where he

mr. bush's two terms was the worst since eisenhower, despite the tax cuts.shington post"/abc news poll suggest most people disapprove of obama's handling of the economy. yet, the same poll puts him ahead of alum rock. the campaign thinks the buffett rule is helping. likewise, polls suggest rolling back the bush administration upper income tax cut is popular proposal that the republicans oppose. republican thinks there is leftover resentment in that. >> they are less likely to be raised. >> rolling back the upper income bush tax cut would cut the deficit ten times as much as the buffett rule. democrats say it's a fairness issue. republicans say it's another way to kill job growth. >> bret: wendell goler live on the north lawn. thank you. ugly day on wall street. the dow lost 214. the s&p 500 gave back 24. the nasdaq closed 56 behind. fox business network senior washington correspondent peter barnes is here to tell us what is going on. good evening. >> good evening. it was the biggest decline of the year for the dow. and the third triple digit loss in four day

eisenhower replied any time you need me, mr. president, aisle be there. where he kept the tape recorders, something i'm sure nixon later regretted. when clinton met with george w. bush at the end of 2000, bush asked for advice on how to give a good speech. jimmy carter, famously seen as an outsider, even in the innermost circle, look at the gap there, in his latest book, "white house diary" he complained about being kempt at arm's length. i kept both ford and nixon sthor rowley informed and after i left the white house i rarely had such briefings, when i told reagan that i planned to inform the media that never et he -- all he gave me were a few items of information that had already been published in the news media. but the bontds of a fraternity have a way of overcoming personal and political rivalries. president h.w. bush was -- in 2010, president obama saw i don't think political differences with his predecessors and enlisted presidents clinton and bush 43 to help with fund rasing for haiti. we get the rare opportunity to see presidents through the eye

eisenhower administration. that's pretty significant spending cuts. he has $300 billion in -- >> mr. sperling, how tough -- >> and we have this component, which you just said, paul ryan and others saying, well, it's only 47 billion or if you do it off of current laws, 160 billion. well, this is not -- it's about getting trust and fairness in the tax system and being part of an overall reduction plan that has shared sacrifice asks everybody to contribute. >> how tough has it been operating without a budget? why is it that the president puts forth the budget and not even one democrat bought into it? was it so reckless that your party couldn't buy into it? >> there is about zero truth to anything in the question you just asked. >> okay. where's the budget? >> if you look at the president's budget -- >> what budget? >> maria, the president of the united states puts out a budget. it's the most detailed thing in the united states right now. >> how come no democrat wanted to buy into it? >> maria, the president put out the only budget out there that is detailed and line by line. that is a f

mr. president, we also have an eight-minute film that we would like to show at the end of this, if you wish to see it. and eisenhower nodded to him. in other words, you have all of the time you want, general. just go right ahead and brief me and tell me what is going on. and ford noticed that eisenhower had moved forward and he was sitting on the edge of the chair. he was no longer sitting back in the, back in the easy chair, but he was on the edge of it, sitting like this as shriever was briefing him on what to do to get it started. >> and he says, most impressive. most impressive and no question that this weapon will have an impact on all mew man life, and not onpolitical and social. was that true? >> yes, but what it did was to keep the peace. >> and the next page you bring in the vice president of the united states then, richard nixon, and what you have quoted here is that he is him saying, why haven't we started this sooner after eisenhower started the room, what has been the hold up, the vice president said, tapping the palm of the right hand and the gesture of the emphasis that was peculiar to nixon. >> yes,

eisenhowers were interested in the history of the white house. and that exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the white house historical association founded during the kennedy administration. mrs. kennedy began her renovation to make the white house look like something, look historical, and in so doing found that the historical society has gone on and has a tremendous educational program. and i might say, a journal which i added, which you can sign up for anytime you want to. it's the only subscription the association has. thank you for bringing that up. that's a very important, very select exhibit there at the renwing. >> thank you for your presentation. my question is, since the white house is made out of a sandstone, permeable sandstone, i don't understand how that could burn? >> well, very good question. because i can tell you, it was -- what burned was the very thing that president -- the corps of engineers warned president truman of. the wooden lath -- see, there's wooden framing inside, timber framing between the floors and acres of wooden lath behind the plaster. it was just a tinder box. and that's what burned. but the white house stone is only about that thick. it's

mr. president, i just finished reading a book about president eisenhower and general eisenhower.there are many pertinent things today in that book, but one was when general eisenhower and others came back from world war ii, the top tax rate was 90%. in fact, the top tax rate from about 1934, 1933-1934 until 1981 was always at least 70%. but two points to be made there: one, nobody paid it if they could figure out how to avoid it, and almost everybody figured out how to avoid it. lots of passive investment instead of active investment. it had to be a good time for municipal bonds because there was no tax on municipal bonds. why not put your money there rather than in a place where if you made money, 70% would go to the federal government. or in 1946, 90% would go to the federal government. in the capital gains rate, which happened to be the rate that world war ii memoirs were taxed at, which is why it was in this book, was 25%. even when the top rate in the country was 90%, nobody thought that the capital gains rate should be even a third of that, because they knew that people wou

mr. speaker. i rise today for the observance of the national day of prayer which will take place next thursday, may 3. this tradition begun under president eisenhower and continued through peacetime and wartime, through times of prosperity and times of uncertainty demonstrates our commitment as a nation maintaining a foundation of wear. through wear we acknowledge gd gives us peace in the mitts of our circumstances and we seek wisdom to know and act upon god's purpose and we feel the power of god to those of us who call on his name. mr. mcintyre: we know the true source of power cannot be found here in the house of congress or the oval office in the west wing or chambers of the supreme court but only on our knees before the one who is the true source of power. may we pray not only next thursday on the national day of prayer and join communities across this nation which are joining in prayer for our country, but may we do so also in honor and in recognition of our national motto, in god we trust. indeed, may god bless this great nation. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlelady f