mrs. eisenhower and myself for the warmth of your welcome.s both this is our first entry into a political convention and it is a most heartwarming one thank you very much. [cheers] and before i proceed with the thoughts that i should like to address briefly to you, may i have the temerity to congratulate this convention on the selection of their nominee for vice president. [cheers] a man who has shown statesmanlike qualities in many ways, but as a special talent an ability to ferret out any kind of subversive influence wherever it may be found and the strength and persistence to get rid of it. [cheers] ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade for freedom in america and freedom in the world. i know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade. i have led one. [cheers] i take up this task, therefore, in the spirit of the publication. mindful of its burdens and of its burdens -- decisive importance. i accept your summons. i will lead this crusade. [cheers] ou

mrs. eisenhower.my fellow republicans here assembled and americans across this great nation, from this moment united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. together -- together we will win. i accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. i accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it, and i seek your continued help and your continued guidance. my fellow republicans, our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it. our task would be too great for any man, did he not have with him the hearts and the hands of this great republican party. and i promise you tonight that every fiber of my being is concentrated to our cause that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by devotion and plain hard work. in this world, no person, no party can guarantee anything. but what we can do and what we shall do is to deserve victory and victory will be our, and victory will be ours. t

mr. eisenhower? >> we can and will if you help. , taxes have gone up steadily for 15 years. e democrats say they must go up still more. help me put the lid on crazy government spending. >> "eisenhower answers america." about government graft that they think everyone is crooked. >> i know. too many politicians have sold their ideals down the potomac. we must bring back integrity and thrift to washington. we're determined. comes, is, if war this country really ready? >> it is not. the administration spent many billions for national defense. yet today we haven't enough , planes for the fighting in korea. it's time for a change. clip] mr. mann: so notice what eisenhower is doing here. he's in the hands of this legendary advertising executive named roster reeves who worked for the ted baits advertising agency and he came up with something that's still a part of advertising. the unique selling proposition. selling proposition? what is it? student: it's distinguishing yourself from your competitor, possibility in a campaign tore other bar of soap what can you promise that no one els

. >> well you cited dwight eisenhower -- mr. trump, you cited dwight eisenhower on this program -- >> that was in 1952, who by the way, deported tremendous numbers of -- >> he rounded them up. he took them out. and so when you cited him as an example of someone that you -- >> no, i said -- >> -- the conclusion is. >> i said that it's something that has been done in a very strong manner. i don't agree with that. i'm not talking about detention centers. i have very, very good relationships with a lot of people, a lot of hispanic people, we're talking about it. we're going to get rid of the bad ones. the bad ones are going to be out of here fast. and you know there are plenty of bad ones. gang members, gang leaders. you look at los angeles, you see what's happening. they're going out fast. they're going to be out of here so fast your head will spin. as far as the rest we're going to go through the process like they are now, perhaps with a lot more energy, and we're going to do it only through the system of laws. >> okay. >> the trum

mr. eisenhower? >> we can and will if you help. taxes have gone up steadily for 15 years. must go up still more. help me put the lid on crazy government spending. >> eisenhower answers america. >> my children hear so much about government that they think >> i know, too many politicians have sold their ideals of honesty down the potomac. we must bring back integrity and thrift to washington. this we are determined to do. , is the country ready? >> the administration spent many billions for national defense yet today we haven't enough , planes for the fighting in korea. it's time for a change. noticeor mann: ok, so what he is doing here. he's in the hands of this legendary advertising executive named roster reeves who worked d baits ted of the -- te agency. anybody here of the unique selling proposition? >> distinguishing yourself from your competitors, or your opponent, what can you promise and that nobody else can. professor mann: that one thing about your product that distinguishes it from other products. and in eisenhower's case, what is the one unique thing that disting

mr. eisenhower before he got out of office? host: the military-industrial complex?r: for every one of those planes you are building, $100 million, you could build 10 class a school's. you could surface 10 miles of road. this is ridiculous. spending our future to build weapons. we've already got weapons way ahead of everybody else. this is just ridiculous. a way of taking up space and spending money. more people working in the pentagon than walmarts got in all of its stores. guest: actually this is a key reason why republicans and democrats cannot agree on a method or raising the defense budget. bothrats want -- republicans and democrats will say they want the defense budget to be raised but my credit also want nondefense programs to be raised to do those issues that brian pointed out. as long as you have a split congress -- a split white house and congress, which is expected to continue regardless of who is elected president. anniversary, august 2, of the budget control act. no matter who is elected president is probably going to be a split congress or one chamber w

eisenhower. of all the other dads, who would you not like to have been the son of? mr. kendall: i think john quincy adams was really tough. brian: number one reason? mr. kendall: he had a son who is 30th in his class at harvard and he said don't come home for christmas. i will feel nothing but shame. there were 75 students in the class. brian: joshua kendall has been our guest. he is the author of "first dads." he lives in boston. we thank you very much for joining us. mr. kendall: it has been a pleasure. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q-and-a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> if you liked this program, here's some others you might enjoy. evan thomas, author of "being nixon." -- on his book about the lives of children of dictators. and fred kaplan who shares his , biography of john quincy adams. yo

mr. trump, you sited dwight eisenhower on this program -- >> that was in 1952. >> right. >> who by the way deported tremendous numbers, millions and millions. >> he rounded them up. he took them out. so when you sited him as an example of someone that you would emulate, that's what the conclusion is. >> yeah. i said that it's something that has been done in a very strong manner. i don't agree with that. about president eisenhower's deportation program in the 1950s -- >> dwight eisenhower, you don't get nicer, you don't get friendlier, they moved 1.5 million people out. we have no choice. lot of people like eich. >> he deported, as you rightly pointed out, about a million, maybe more back in the 1950s, but believe me when i tell you, mr. trump, that was brutal what them back. i mean, the stuff they did -- >> well -- >> was really brutal and could never happen today. >> i've heard it both ways. i've heard -- >> no, no. you know me -- >> good reports, bad report. we would do it in a very humane way. >> at a rally last night, trump attacked hillary clinton over the clinton foundation and her n

mr. trump you cited dwight eisenhower >> that was in 1952 who by the way deported millions of people. >> he rounded them up. he took them out and so when you cited him as an example of someone that you would emulate that's what the solution is. >> no i said it's something that has been done in a strong about president eisenhower's deportation program in the 1950s. >> dwight eisenhower. you don't get nicer, you don't get friendlier, they moved 1.5 people out. we have no choice. lot of people liked ike. >> he deported as you rightly pointed about 1 million back in the early '50s. believe me when i tell you, mr. trump, that was did to those people to kick them back. i mean the stuff they did -- >> well -- >> -- was really brutal. it could never happen today. >> i've heard it both ways. >> no, no, you know me -- >> we would do it in a humane way. >> at a rally trump attacked hillary clinton over the clinton foundation and her newly discovered emails. >>> the fbi investigation of hillary clinton's private servers uncovered nearly 15,000 more emails. those messages that clinton didn't turn ove

mr. trump, you cited dwight eisenhower on this program -- >> who, by the way, deported a tremendous number of people. >> he rounded them up. he took them out. so when you cited him as an example of someone you would emulate, that's what the conclusion is. >> yeah. i said it's something that has been done in a very strong manner. about president eisenhower's deportation program in the 1950s. >> dwight eisenhower, you don't get nicer. you don't get friendlier, they moved 1.5 million people out. we have no choice. >> a lot of people like that. >> okay. now, he deported as you rightly point out about 1 million, maybe a little more illegal aliens back in the early '50s. believe me when i tell mr. trump. that was brutal what they did to those people to kick them back. i mean, the stuff they did was really brutal. >> well -- well -- >> it could never happen today. >> i've heard it both ways. >> you know me -- >> we would do it in a very humane way. >> in a rally last night, trump attacked hillary clinton and the clinton foundation and the newly discovered e-mail. >> the investigation of hillary u

eisenhower is 55%. this speech is only 50 minutes of our coverage of nbc news. the introduction by president truman. [ applause ] mr. president, ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens. i accept your nomination and your program. [ applause ] i should have preferred to hear those words uttered by a stronger, wiser, a better man than myself. [ applause ] after this president's speech, i even feel better about myself. [ applause ] none of you, my friends, can appreciate what is in my heart. i can only hope that you understand my words. they will be few. i have not sought the honor of you have done me. i could not seek it because i aspire to another office which was the full measure of my ambitio ambiti ambition. one does not treat the highest office within the gifts of the people of illinois and as an alternative or a constellation prize. i would not seek your nomination or the presidency because the britain of that office staggers the imagination. it is potential for good or evil now and in the years of our lives. smothered expectations and converts famety to prayers. the father of us all to let th

mr. kendall: ike is a tiger-dad. john eisenhower graduate from west point on june 6, 1944.hat was tough to turn down. i have a scene in the book where he graduates -- right after he graduates he visits ike at the front. he is a nervous wreck, he has no idea how d-day is going. tiger-dad mode. he criticizes john. he is all over john's bidding. john gets a speck of dust in his uniform and is horrified. forget -- we can to footage ike from 1950's -- but he is a great physical specimen. he once tackled jim thorpe in a game. never hitthat ike him, but if he had he would have killed him. john said he was born standing at attention. he was terrified of his father. at the same time, he admired him. that is kind of what tiger-dad stupid they push the kids really hard. brian: when do you remember your own father push you the hardest? mr. kendall: when i was in high school and he was telling me to be in the military. when i was 16, i was fighting for hitler. pushing me to get into college and study. -- john adams was very tough on john quincy. in a weird way, that was my inspiration t

he examines the myth that eisenhower and stevenson ran for president against their own wishes. mr. greene also talks about the introduction of political tv ads, and how they changed the presidential campaigns. the kansas city public library hosted this event. it is a little over an hour. >> so good evening. welcome to the kansas city public library. i'm henry fortunato, former director of public affairs, or perhaps befitting my new part time status as a visiting fellow at the hall center for the humanities at the university of kansas, maybe i should say director of public affairs emeritus. whatever you want to call me, i'm off the payroll here, but i can't stay away from this place, i'm afraid. i'm kind of addicted to it. as one of my former colleagues said just an hour ago, i can't go cold turkey. especially tonight when, for the fourth time in four years, we're hosting presidential historian extraordinaire, john robert greene from cazenovia college in cazenovia, new york, where he's taught for the past 36 years. he also serves as the college archivist. as i just suggested, since

he would have been the presumptive candidate for the gop presidency in 1952 had dwight eisenhower not run. he was mr. republican. simply concluded by noting the historical record clearly demonstrates world war ii was transformative. it is difficult to entirely free ourselves from heinz-this topic -- from the hindsight of this topic. it is hard to free ourselves from the knowledge of "what really happened" in world war ii . thinking of conservatives after the war, not only did roosevelt interventionalists kerry the day after world war ii and the arguments of people like taft and herbert hoover, they colonized our imaginations. as was argued, the combination of extravagant military expansionism and evil expanded my nazi germany and what it stood for had to be defeated militarily. we agree in hindsight with the interventionists. by reversing our thoughts of thisperiod we can develop more modes of analysis that neither begin or end with world war ii. looking to the 20's or 30's against the backdrop of lessons learned from military intervention and peacemaking in world war i, the largely filled with sony

eisenhower. of all the other dads, who would you not like to have been the son of? mr.endall: i think john quincy adams was really tough. brian: number one reason? mr. kendall: he had a son who is 30th in his class at harvard and he said don't come home for christmas. i will feel nothing but shame. there were 75 students in the class. brian: joshua kendall has been our guest. he is the author of "first dads." he lives in boston. we thank you very much for joining us. mr. kendall: it has been a pleasure. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q-and-a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. singapore's prime minister is here this week. atre will be a state dinner the white house tomorrow. today, he is giving keynote remarks to the u.s. chamber of commerce on u.s. trade. you can see it here starting at 6:30 eastern. n

mr. minow? >> certainly, kefauver didn't help. i don't know who would have helped given the fact that, again, president eisenhower was at the top ofto be at the convention and be seen as a vice presidential possibility introduced jack kennedy to the country, and i remember a few years later i saw him at a dinner, and i said, you know, we called him jack then. i said jack, if you're still interested, you could get the nomination for vice president next time. he looked at me and said vice president? vice president? i'm going to run for president. he was only 39 years old, but he had made up his mind. >> can i ask you -- the caller raises a point that i'm sure governor stevenson heard many times during his lifetime, this notion that he talked over the heads of people. what was his reaction to that, what's your reaction to that? >> i think he did not talk over the heads of the people. used to call him an egghead and they called his followers eggheads, and he used to make fun of that. he said eggheads of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your yolks. he joked. i think he reached people. he had a great sense of humor. one tim

father, because he liked the eisenhower's, you vote republican, you vote yourself unemployment and i have seen it happen so many times in my life. i want to say something about mrtrump and something about hillary. man.d trump is a show this is all about the show. that is why he does not talk policy that much. he knows after the election is national television will not touch him. for aeve he is going syndicated, cable and pay per view type of program. hannity and the guy from fox tv and so on. he's building a tv repertoire now. he knows he could not win and he does not want to. that would mean he would have to work 24/7. host: thanks for the call. we have heard the theory in the past. guest: it revived itself when donald trump hired stephen bannon from breitbart news. there has been a revival of this discussion that donald trump who really revamped the entire by doing the apprentice, the show, the program that was so popular, that he has continued to be interested in the idea of being into the media operation in some and one rogern ailes left fox news, there was discussion about how close these men are. they do talk. it is not as if roger ailes has an hired by t