our first speaker today is susan eisenhower. i think it is appropriate our first speaker has a unique relationship to dwight eisenhower as both a family member and someone who has bent her entire lifetime studying issues of national security, energy policy and leadership development. she has authored and co- authored several books and is currently working on a book on her grandfather's military and political career. she has a long track record of paying forward the lasting legacy of dwight eisenhower through her involvement with the eisenhower college and world affairs and the two. we've been fortunate to have her here as part of the institute here at gettysburg college. she has carry the torch for dwight d. eisenhower's legacy while building a legacy of her own. she has been a journalist, strategist, consultant and prolific author and speaker on topics ranging from energy policy to the former soviet union. she is a voice of integrity engagement and pragmatism. i cannot do justice and a brief introduction of all of her accomplish

let's reflect on susan eisenhower's comments. there are three big takeaways from overlord that really apply today. first is the value of strategic thinking. had a multiplicity of choices ahead of them. to forget we tend this, the big flick was opening a second front while stalin was pressing from the east. this was really the big muscle. it was great to liberated paris, these landings were crucial. this was a strategic move to put germany in a two front war. that is important to remember opened therd strategic gateway. second, and you will permit me this latitude as a naval officer. the ocean matters. the sea matters. it is the maritime that gives you that flexibility to operate, to choose, am i going here or there? to move forces. all of that falls out from the command of the sea. that is a crucial theme we see again and again in world history. overlord was a maritime operation. the gate.f opening we talk about overlord. neptune that was the landing itself. all of the heroics that came afterward are crucial, but without the sea,

susan eisenhower, george colburn, craig symonds, and john mcmanus. you heard earlier from each of these esteemed people in depth upon their own research on eisenhower, the second world war, and d-day specifically. as this is our last academic session of the symposium, my role here is to put each of our guests in conversation with one another and to see if we can flush out some of the broader themes which we've seen over the course of the day. now, as the chair, i have the opportunity to ask a few questions at first. but as i'm doing so, if you would like to ask your own questions, we have a procedure that we'd like to use for this session that inside of your bags that you've received from e.i., there's a notepad, and there's a pen inside of them. so if you'd like to ask your own question of the panel, simply write it down on your notepad and hold your hand up, and someone will collect that from you and then bring them up to me so that i can then ask your question. so if you'd like to ask something of the panel, if something came up in a previous sessi

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we ran into susan eisenhower and i said, your grandfather really had some pride in montgomery. she said they were great friends after the war. they really respected each other. after world war ii was over, and backat you said about tubing fund of the english, he was fond of montgomery. rick: not during the war. montgomery was a difficult subordinates. it was fraught relationship. bygones be got by guns after the war. the relationship got more and more intense. montgomery is more more insubordinate as we get into that last 11 month period of the war. if eisenhower had had any hair left, he would have torn it out. tim: montgomery was important for the planning of d-day. someid we need to do things. from a strategy standpoint, he was not going to -- he thought he was going to. looking at the strategy, he had a big impact. rick: he did. combat leader.t somebody who has the respect of not only the british army but the entire british nation and that is very important for morale reasons. he sees in eisenhower, despite their frictions, he talks about how eisenhower has a quality that i

. >> martha: i spoke with susan eisenhower his grand daughter earlier ted.nd he knew better than anybody that there was a chance that it might fail reread the letter last night. he said we basically made out best decision that we he could. if we fail, it is on me. and the other thing that strikes me as you are talking about this, brian, thought that the attack was going to come maybe through grief potentially. they didn't necessarily think that it was going to come here. they thought this might be souter of a decoy attack when they first got wind of it coming best place was to land pot declay a different point. get to keep this plan under wraps and to keep the germans guessing. and that was definitely an enormous undertaking that they pulled off. steve: that's right. and, in fact, the men involved in the invasion weren't told about it until the day before. the historian who is giving them a primmer on what happened 75 years ago right now, the story he is telling is that a little before 10:00 what would have been last night, 75 years ago, the path finders set

this year is the helicopter because president eisenhower was the first president to ride in a helicopter. susan: you came to the association with a relatively new president. tommy the story of how you came associated with one another previously. i would like to hear that story. matthew: i first met stuart many years ago when i was at mount vernon doing research. my dissertation was on george washington's tomb and the memory of george washington in the 19th century. i started researching there in 2012. 2011. it was before they had the fly very. at that point, the staff and materials were crammed into the administration building. it was tight quarters. we inevitably crossed paths. i asked if he wanted to grab coffee sometime. we kept in contact. then i continued in my graduate studies. he left mount vernon, and then he ended up landing at the white house historical association and then two years later, i defended my dissertation on washington. about five months later, i got a phone call, and he said there is a history in position open. would you consider applying? i said, absolutely. before i kne

. >> susan glasser, in terms of america's place in the world, i keep re-reading the famous letter dwight eisenhower sent on june 6. it's filled with the idea of collective security and internationalism in company with the brave allies and brothers and sisters in arms, eisenhower wrote. he refers to the united nations before the actual founding of the united nations as we know it today. it's just interesting to think back 75 years ago and the message of internationalism. and to put it in contrast to ideas we are hearing today. >> it's striking how that's been the message you heard from the queen, from the prime minister. the president will hear something similar from president macron. the signature of donald trump's foreign policy has been a systematic assault on the idea of america as a partner, america as an ally. perhaps first among partners. but the leader of a multilateral alliance. this is really, more than anything else, i would say, the signature of the trump administration when it comes to its position about the united states and the world. it is the biggest contrast. you could argue that o

. >> susan i only have one coral with you and that's about eisenhower. [laughter] lbj and fdr are still modern. this book would not be here today without her editing which has been tremendous. so please just start off telling us about why you even got into writing the history. >> well i am a journalist working here at channel three but i was always interested and bought me a book of facts about presidents and then how their mother dies but then and then to be involved with that. and then a contrary and and then to write about the worst president was much more fun than the best. . >> still trying to figure out the answer but as a constitutional lawyer to be involved with the supreme court. i am fascinated by other institutions that are intertwined.