that law was a consequence of congress's fear of the success of the soviet union's launch of sputnik. now, president obama has said that we're again in a sputnik moment, that we need to react the way that congress did and think about where are we headed and what the nature of our society is and what the real threats are. for example, the national defense education act, i think, needs to be updated today with something like a national defense education information and knowledge act, something that would provide subsidies to get more graduates of colleges and universities among ordinary people who are quite capable of succeeding in a knowledge-based global economy, because if we don't have a work force that's productive and creative, it's going to have, and is having, a negative impact in terms of our security. >> hinojosa: so what is it that yowanteople to do, professor bowie? >> well, know what you're consuming and why. try to use it to empower not only yourself and your communities. i was an advisor to the knight commission that studied the types of content needed in order to enable

in 2011 he used the term sputnik moment. in his state of the union special saying this country needed a challenge, and outside moment that would generate our interest in research and development and education as had the sputnik launch in 1957. to a younger generation, sputnik is probably not as big a thing as it is to an older generation but that was pretty clever but most of his slogans, most of his abilities have not really caught on. another one he came up with, he was in washington and he said it is a strange construct but in august, this is the time when washington, things are hard to get done. nobody knows what that means but somehow is applicable. on that low note, i think i will see if you have any questions. yes, ma'am? >> i am surprised you didn't mention the president's we popularly thing, the most eloquent like ronald reagan and john f. kennedy. were they just good at regular words? >> john f. kennedy had wonderful phrases, the new frontier was is that they were more eloquent in the sense of their ability to give

the spark was the defense department, something like sputnik was the real spark where it was the reason. the government needed to sort of have these devices that these individuals were about to create, these silicon transcripters that were smaller and lighter that they could put into rockets, missiles and planes. it was considered part of the national defense strategy and the government was willing to pay pretty much anything to get these devices. get the early companies like fairchild even off the ground. >> i was personally surprised there were no togo parties. i don't know if you've seen the slogan. >> you've read my mind. you're actually doing a public service after that. >> there would be a temptation. do a documentary about silicon valley. why not? why is it a black and white film about the early days of silicon valley and not one about, you know, the porsches that are handed out as option to new engineers. >> the goal for this is really sort of explore the roots of this place and i think, you know, people today, they know silicon valley and of course silicon valley is what people

this is our generation's sputnik moment. >> all right. 47 past the hour.of evil, remember that? >> how did your parents deal with that? >> they jumped out of their beds. they were in bed with their pajamas on. >> they got angry. >> they were very angry. my mother was infuriated. >> yeah. >> the new book, "words from the white house," looks at the words and phrases that are now part of our everyday vocabulary thanks to past presidents and their speechwriters and advisers. joining us on set, the book's author, paul dixon. i love this. i'm going to make my children read it. a great way of looking back in time. >> paul, let's talk about some of the more famous phrases. start with harry truman's "the buck stops here." where did that come from? when did truman put it on his desk? >> it was actually a sign that somebody bought at a prison. the buck that they're referring to is the buck used in poker. that was one that he picked up. some of the presidents -- with other famous trumanism is trocar, he wanted to use a trocar in congress. it was an instrument used in

the confluence of the brown versus board of education supreme court decision and the launch of the "sputniksatellite which created a fury of activity to improve science and math education in the public schools, to encourage students, particularly those with ability to go into it, and then along the way, there were a number of programs created such as the national defense education act that actually provided support for advanced education as well as ramping up assume through the national science foundation. and i in fact had support from that. but i also had support from a major aerospace company, martin marietta, and those companies responded, as well. and so i went to undergraduate school with support from martin mayrietta and then graduate support from them as well as from the national science foundation. >> and how important is continuing this trend and this kind of support for other especially women to get women into s.t.e.m. education, and minorities, to bring people into the mix and have a richer diverse class of students in engineering and technology? >> there are three points to be

this only months after the russians had beaten the pants off of america launching sputnik, the firstn to space. when he won the piano competition, it was a huge boost for american morale. ♪ he beat them at their own game, playing rush why's most famous composer and returned home, given a ticker tape parade up broadway. just think of it. and then three decades later, the reclusive pianist played at the white house for the last soviet leader and his wife. at their first state dinner at the white house. the summit had not been going well but he had an answer. he performed one of the famous folk songs. i was there covering it all for nbc news. and you could feel the ice of the cold war melting at that very moment. all orchestrated, of course, by nancy reagan and knew how to do these things. they responded and the rest as they say is history. van cliburn died after a long struggle with bone cancer. he was 78. i'm phyllis, and i have diabetic nerve pain. when i first felt the diabetic nerve pain, of course, i had no idea what it was. i felt like my feet were going to sleep. it progressed f

. >> it just goes back to when i was 17 years old and sputnik was launched and there was the beginningthe space race. and i enrolled in university for aeronautics and astronautics. so that's been my passion for life. and i made up my mind, you know, in my 20s, that i wanted to fly in space some day and it took me 40 years and i did it. >> pretty amazing. and this time around, he wants to send a couple, a couple, literally, man/woman, into space. according to tito, on january 5th, 2018, the planets will be perfectly aligned in such a way that a man and woman mission to mars is a real possibility. he told me it's like a boomerang, just go there and back. he plans to launch a mission to america, a two-person crew on an historic journey to the red planet. i remember watching the movie "contact" a few years ago, but i wanted to go and see another world. i fell in love with matthew mcconaughey and jodi foster, so when i heard about this mars trip, i was excited, but i had some questions, like, how long is it going to take? >> it's a total of 501 days. >> 501 days. that's a big commitment. bu

coming just six months after the soviets launched sputnik, amid a mounting arms race and heightened coldar tensions, the performance galvanized the nation and received worldwide attention. >> new york city adds its own bravo to the worldwide crescendo of applause for van cliburn. >> brown: on his return to the u.s., the 23-year-old cliburn was given a ticker-tape parade down broadway, the only classical musician ever so honored. >> i was amazed. and i said, "well, i think this may be-- not for me-- but this may be hopefully the grandest moment or a grand moment for classical music. >> brown: back in 1958, "time" magazine put cliburn on its cover, as "the texan who conquered russia." but that's clearly not the way he saw it. >> well, that's not possible, not in great art. if they appreciate what you did -- i am so grateful, because they were wonderful to me. there was such great audiences; i cannot begin to tell you. i didn't conquer anything. as a matter of fact, they conquered my heart. >> brown: indeed, the soviet audiences adored cliburn. and soon enough, so did audiences around the w

i grew out after that sputnik -- sputnik moment in that benefited enormously because all of a sudden i wanted to go into the space program. wanted to do this technology. and it motivated a whole generation of scientists and engineers and we're still reaping the benefits of that generation retiring now. it is more of the question i would put out there. i think it is a critical issue for this country. you know, i sat in conference rooms in china, only 7 million people. part of the industrial construction equipment industry. city officials, what do you say? meddler jeep. what did you study? metallurgy. what did you study? industrial engineering. i could not find a city in this country right to have that discussion. >> making manufacturing sexy again. >> that's right. >> the fact is it has always been sexy. >> you are our heroes? >> is also about making manufacturing begin. a number scientists and manufacturing shrank of the last decade even though a group nationwide by 250% for reasons, we lost one-third of all bodies in manufacturing. >> any of you out there who want to send your cards

it is a tradition starting with ronald reagan and lenny sputnik. >> bill: guest of honor. people you would be proud of and people we want to thank and respect. steve stockman tonight this congressman from texas has invited ted nugent to be his guest at the state of the union. here's ted nugent at a concert last year. talking about president obama. >> obama. suck on this. obama. he's a piece of [ bleep ] >> bill: he says obama you may want to suck on one of these, you bum and calls him a piece of crap. this guy is a guest at the state of the union? >> i think the best thing to do with him is never talk about him. to ignore him tonight. to ignore him on the show. to just -- it is outrageous. it is all of that. the guy -- more than meig, he wants attention. don't give it to him. >> bill: why would boehner let him in? >> i don't know. i don't get the far right and how filled with hate they are toward so much -- so many in this country. they hate government. they hate medicare. they say they like medicare and social security but we know they don't want

. >> and he invested in mathematicians after sputnik, and these are tings that i talk about every singleke kir of the long-term debt and make the country sound again fiscally while making the short term investments that don't pay off in the long run. >> is the process so crippled, so paralyzed and polarized that if the president tomorrow night were to propose a new intranet national highway system, and we will hook up this country, that we were going the become comparable to south korea or hong kong or the philippines in terms of being able to get on line and place likes that that are far edadvanced from us, butt is going to cost some money, what would the response be from the opposition? >> well, it depends mark halper halperin, because the republicans are willing to give the president some latitude, because we heard from tom cole saying that we don't want to cut discretionary spending anymore, but the president is saying what i have been saying forever, he has to get serious about the medicare and serious about medicaid, and serious about social security and not cutting it now, not cut

i grew up out that sputnik moment and i benefited enormously because of a sudden, i wanted to go into the space program. it motivated a whole generation of scientists and engineers and we are still reaping the benefit of that generation, but they are now retiring. that is more the question i would put out there. it's a critical issue for this country. i sat in conference rooms. what did you study? metallurgy? engineering? >> i could not find a city with that. >> it is about remaking the manufacturing sector again. >> it is also about manufacturing big again. the number of manufacturers shrank over the last decade. but we lost a lot of bodies in manufacturing. >> any of you, i am looking to place as many students as possible. "you have to write the description and emphasize certain things but you're giving them an opportunity to go out and make things. when young people are given that opportunity, they love it. there's a tremendous explosion in small startups all around the country. you see this in different communities where creativity is happening. your ideas not a bad one at all. >>

quote -- "president obama likes to talk about those sputnik moments when a nation rises to difficult challenges like the ones proposed by the soviet space program in the 1950's. on monday, the day this budget was releaseed -- quote on monday, he had a chance to turn his budget proposal into his own such moment. he whiffed." close quote. the title of that editorial -- "obama's budget duff ducks tough choices." what about the "financial times"? president obama has unveiled a hugely disappointing budget, cutting only a few percentage points in the projected u.s. federal deficits over the remainder of this century. if mr. obama will not make his case, who will? the title of that budget -- that editorial -- "obama's budget shows failure of leadership." that is absolutely true, it was a failure of leadership. what about "the washington post" writing on a little further -- quote -- "white house budget director jacob j. lew has told advocates of reform that the white house thinks any significant plan offered by the president would simply become a target for a partisan attack." then he goes o

you may, some of you were alive here for sputnik, 1957, the soviets launched the first sat little, andhere was all kinds of hysteria in the united states. people were afraid the russians would lob bombs on us from outer space, and the country was just in a bad way. there was tremendous pressure, particularly interesting from liberal democrats to spend more on defense, build up defense, more rockets and planes. ike resisted. this is before he gave his famous speech about the military industrial complex, but he already knew. he'd been in the pentagon. he said, i know those boys in the pentagon, and he knew they hyped the threat, that if they wanted weapon systems they didn't necessarily need, they would find an excuse to get them, and he knew enough to resist, and this is a very hard thing to do in the winter of 1958 when everybody is banging on him to build more weapons and build up our forces. .. >> he was a very smart guy. but in his press conferences, he often would speak in a kind of rambling, slightly incoherent way. it was intentional. once before a press conference in 1955 and ai

i grew up after that sputnik moment and i benefitted enorm s enormously because all of a sudden i wanted to go into the space program. i wanted to do technology, right? and it motivated a whole generation of scientists and engineers and we are still reaping benefits of that, that generation is retiring now. okay? so that is -- that's more of the question i would put out there. i think this is a critical issue for this country. i've sat in conference rooms in china. 7 million people, heart of the industrial equipment industry. i is ask, what did you study? energy. >> what did you study? energy. >> what did you study? manufacturing. >> it is hard it make manufacturing sexy again. the fact is, it has always been sexy. >> it is about making manufacturing big again. they shrank over the last decade. even though it grew. but we lost a third of bodies in manufacturing. >> any of you that want to send your card so i could send student to you, i'm looking to place as many as possible. >> what i said what will sooe doing at harvard business school, i mean that. you have to write a description and