eisenhower saw himself as a soldier with a job to do. and described himself as a man of the kansas plains. so now that man of destiny was pressing that man from the plains of kansas to move on paris. it's too early, eisenhower responded. de gaulle said with a retort, why is it so early? if allied forces crossed the same river north of paris and allied forces have crossed the river south of paris, why can they not cross the river at paris? he told eisenhower at this point paris was fundamental, it was essential to the governing of france at that point and in the very near future. eisenhower responded that he would do what he could, but at this point, he could make no promises of when he would cut loose part of the allied army to move into paris. the following day, de gaulle sent word to eisenhower by de gaulle's senior military commander. what he told eisenhower was information that the french were receiving from paris was that the city was on the verge of anarchy. there was no police presence. transportation had completely stopped. food

eisenhower attending west point. in world war i, their careers diverged to some degree. de gaulle was wounded three times and left for dead on the battlefields at verdun where he was taken prisoner. as most of you know, i think, eisenhower was ordered to stay stateside during world war i and train up troops who then got the good fortune to travel across the atlantic into the trenches of the western front. at this point both of them knew they were approaching this war from very different perspectives. eisenhower from the united states, which virtually all recognized was a world power ready to take the stage. eisenhower knew american history and knew that in the relatively short history of the united states, that the country had suffered really in only a minor way from foreign invaders. whereas de gaulle looked at france and saw them on the verge of disappearing from the world stage as an independent nation. and he looked at france's history over centuries far longer than the united states and recognized that france ha

eisenhower also told de gualle in that visit that he was going to establish, eisenhower was going to establish his military headquarters on the outskirts of paris, not in the middle of the city. another gesture in support of de gualle because if eisenhower had established supreme command there in the city, it likely would have overshadowed and distracted away from de gualle's efforts to reestablish a functioning french government, so another gesture by eisenhower that de gualle really appreciated, and the relationship that these two men built over the course of the war, and it wasn't all roses, did pay off even later after the war, because both of these men would become the elected leaders of their respective countries and have to work together through some very difficult times in the cold war that was not very far away. and so paris had been liberated. ernie pyle, the famed journalist, who wrote about the war from the gi's perspective, and painted for his readers a word picture of the filth and the degradation and the horrors of war, equally well captured the essence and the emotion

the eisenhower administration there was no surprise. but free access to space which eisenhower strongly endorsed with the free use of satellites in orbit the reason they were so important to eisenhower they would help avert a surprise attack. before they could be launched, he proposed for each country's territory to ensure there would not be a surprise nuclear attack. now with sputnik, the administration knew they would launch and didn't feel badly and actually encourage the soviets to go first behind the scenes without telling them anything but hoping the soviet union would go first so they would establish the president so not long after that the satellites we were working on with a corona project was launched so we could tell from space exactly or quite precisely what the soviet military buildup look like including the number of rockets they had. sputnik opened the way for the eisenhower administration and in preparation for the campaign and the democrats were accusing the administration of failing to keep up with what the soviet unio

[applause] general eisenhower: mr. chairman, my fellow republicans -- [applause] may i first thank you on behalf of mrs. eisenhower and myself for the warmth of your welcome? for us both, this is our first entry into a political convention, and it is a most heartwarming one. thank you very much. [applause] 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 and applause] a man who has shown statesmanlike qualities in many ways, but has 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 and applause] 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 and applause]

general eisenhower: mr. chairman, my fellow republicans -- [applause] may i first thank you on behalf of mrs. eisenhower and myself for the warmth of your welcome? for us both, this is our first entry into a political convention, and it is a most heartwarming one. thank you very much. [applause] and -- 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 and applause] a man who has shown statesmanlike qualities in many ways, but has 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. applause]d 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 and applause] i ta

eisenhower planned and supervised the invasion of normandy. after the war, in 1948, both parties asked him to run for president. general eisenhower was not aligned with any party at the time. four years later, he decided to accept the presidential nomination in chicago. ♪ >> may i first thank you on behalf of misses eisenhower and myself. for the warmth of your welcome. first entry into a political convention. it is a most heartwarming one. thank you very much. , i want tooceed congratulate this convention. a man who has shown qualities and is a special talent. 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 and applause] i take up this task, therefore, in a spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its burdens and of its decisive importance. i accept your summons. i will lead this crusade. [cheers and applause] our aims, the aims of this rep

this is courtesy of the dwight d eisenhower presidential library and museum. ♪ ♪ >> dwight eisenhower, the next president of the united states. >> mr. chairman, my fellow republicans, -- [applause] may i first thank you on behalf of misses eisenhower and myself for the warmth of your welcome. first both, this is our entry into a political convention and it is a most heartwarming one. thank you very much. [applause] and before i proceed with the thoughts 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? [applause] a man who has shown qualities in many ways but as a special --ent and inability and the strength to get rid of it. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of of millions-- behalf of of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade for freedom for americans and freedom in the world. i know something of the sound responsibility of leading a crusade. i have led one. [applause] i think of this task therefore in the spirit of deep obligation. burden, i accep

[applause] >> general eisenhower, the next president of the united states. general eisenhower: mr. chairman, my fellow republicans, -- [applause] may i first thank you on behalf rs. eisenhower and myself for the warmth of your welcome. for us both, this is our first entry into a political convention and it is a most heartwarming one. thank you very much. [applause] and before i proceed with the thoughts 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? [applause] a man who has shown qualities in many ways but as a special talent and ability to search out any kind of serve versus -- any kind of subversive influence wherever it may be found and the strength to get rid of it. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of of millions -- behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade for freedom for americans and freedom in the world. i know something of the sound responsibility of leading a crusade. i have led one. [applause] i take up this task

but without the moderate group led by general eisenhower. in fact you might all the way back to 1912 and the split of the party, because we really have in the republican party as in the democratic, ideological differences that are often times under the surface but are still very real. and as of now we are looking at a contest which is really just very, very close. stephen: one other factor we can't overlook is ronald reagan spent his life as an actor and has been an effective campaigner and platform orator. when you put the two of them on -- when you remove the question on presidency and you put the two of them on equal footing and on common platforms, one is a far more dynamic campaigner. richard: and as you looked at these primaries, 30 primaries, more than we have ever held before, the majority of delegates chose the primaries. would you agree with me that this has at least turned out to be a pretty representative set of elections in terms of the rank and file opinion of republicans and democrats? stephen: i think while the votes have bee

>> there was some hindsight operate of general eisenhower, president eisenhower, and others after the bombings. after the true nature of the destruction and the radiation and the illness was beginning to be learned. people did back off. i don't remember whether or not ike was for it in the beginning or not, although i can't imagine given what -- given the projections for the invasion, i would have thought that he would have agreed with anything that would have stopped that or stalled that because they were -- i mean, the projections were -- they keep coming down on, i think, the one telling fact is that we minted this country, made half a million purple heart medals in advance of that planned invasion. medals that i believe we're still using today. i think we're still using that original cache of purple hearts, so they understood that it was going to be a blood bath on both sides. i don't know why -- that's what i think it is is just when you find out how horrible a weapon they are, people tend to back off. but i honestly don't know. i'm sort of spit balling here. >> i believe he wrot

>> there was some hindsight on the part of general eisenhower, president eisenhower, and others after the bombings, after the true nature of the destruction and the radiation and the illness was beginning to be learned, people did back off. i don't remember whether or not ike was for it in the beginning or not, although i can't imagine given what -- given the projections for the invasion, i would have thought that he would have agreed with anything that would have stopped that or stalled that because they were -- i mean, the projections were -- they keep coming down on, i think, the one telling fact is that we minted this country, made half a million purple heart medals in advance of that planned invasion. medals that i believe we're still using today. i think we're still using that original cache of purple hearts, so they understood that it was going to be a blood bath on both sides. i don't know why -- that's what i think it is is just when you find out how horrible a weapon they are, people tend to back off. but i honestly don't know. i'm sort of spit balling here. >> i believe he

president eisenhower -- nixon and lodge. president eisenhower poses with his vice president in chicago. one of those heart worming conventions on his arrival to address the gop convention. [cheers and applause] -- one of the most heartwarming. thank you mike day. spills over into the convention hall where i can maybe hold-- ike and mamie hold center stage. [cheers and applause] the partisan crowd receives an accounting of the republican administration to term stewardship at the headline making remarks of the president concerned the issue of whether people everywhere want to live under communism or a free system. he hurls dramatic plebiscite challenge at the soviet premier nikita khrushchev. him.challenge he agree to the holding of free elections, under the sponsorship of the united nations? to permit people everywhere in every nation on every continent, to vote on one single civil issue? that issue is, do you want to live under a communist regime or under a free system, such as that found in the united states? [cheers and ap

, and eisenhower's opinion. beginning with macarthur, do we know if he was informed or not? >> i have not heard that he was told ahead of time. they kept the bombing under wraps as much as they could. i will just say honestly, i don't know whether they told macarthur in advance or not. >> what about eisenhower's opinion on this? >> i don't know. i know his opinion on the bombing afterwards. >> was he informed before? >> i don't know if he was told before. i don't know how secure we thought our communications were to let them know far afield what was going on. you would think they would. eisenhower and macarthur were on the ground running the war. you would think they would let them know, planning an invasion. >> i would think that nimitz in the pacific was probably informed. because they had to transport bombs from the uss indianapolis and then the trigger mechanisms were flown into naval bases in the pacific, the indian islands. there was no way they could not have informed the naval supreme commanders out ther

, in eisenhower's opinion. do we know if mcarthur was informed or not? >> i have not heard that he was told ahead of time. they kept that bombing under wra wraps. >> eisenhower's opinion on the bombing afterwards? >> yes. was he informed before this took place? >> again, i don't know if eisenhower was told before. i don't know how secure that we thought our communications were to let them know far afield what was going on although, you would think they would. they were on the ground. you would think they would let him know. >> i think nimitz in the pacific was probably informed, of course, because they had to transport the bombs among the "uss indianapolis" and the trigger mechanisms were flown into the pacific. there's no way they could not have informed the naval supreme commanders out there. i would assume that nimitz probably knew about it, as leahy. >> and eisenhower was critical of the bombings. does that ring true with both of you, that it was an honest criticism? that if he had been consulted or been in

group led by general eisenhower. in fact you might all the way back to 1912 and the split of the party because we really have , in the republican party as in the democratic ideological , differences that are often times under the surface but are still very real. and as of now we are looking at a contest which is really just very very close. ,stephen: one other factor we can't overlook is ronald reagan spent his life as an actor and has been an effective campaigner and platform operator. -- platform orator. when you put the two of them on equal footing and on common platforms, one is a far more dynamic campaigner. richard: and as you looked at these primaries, 30 primaries, more than we have ever held before the majority of delegates , chose the primaries. would you agree with me that this has at least turned out to be a pretty representative set of elections in terms of the rank and file opinion of republicans and democrats? stephen: i think while the votes have been small, it will come out about where we sense the p

little contact with eisenhower. even though eisenhower is a supreme commander, most of the communication went through general marshal or admiral leahy. >> i'm paul i keep sounding like fdr didn't's telegram fathering was a crab valley. problem is just a different management styles. i'm not suggesting the fdr was intentionally holding things back. >> finally tom can't-ish of chicago asks was there ever a list compiled of whoever knew what? until stance and told truman? >> a list of who knew what about the? bombs about the manhattan project? they tried to keep that list as small as possible. just as an aside, years ago after we went to japan i visited oak, ridge tennessee toured the city to see the facilities where they refine the re-uranium. one of the sort of chilling facts that came out, of course there were scientists and the scientists said family. they brought to kids within. they had a high school and high school football team. a high school football team never played a home game and never had their names of th

eisenhower. [applause] nixon andes of -- this nation cannot afford. afford -- could after buchanan, this nation needed lincoln. after taft, we need wilson. after hoover, we need franklin roosevelt -- we needed franklin roosevelt. [applause] but we are not merely running against mr. nexen. our task -- mr. nixon. not one -- our task is of itemizing republican failures. nor is that wholly necessary. the family forced from their tell themt need us to of their plates. -- their plight. the families without a decent home. the parents of children without a decent school. they all know it is time for a change. [applause] we are not here to curse the darkness. we are here to light a candle. [applause] as winston churchill said, on taking office some 20 years ago, we shall be in danger of using the future. today, our concern must be with the future. the world is changing. the old era is ending. the old way on not do. the balance of power is shifting. new and more terrible weapons are coming into use. one third of the world may be free. one third is the victim of

an emergency white house, president eisenhower led the nation in operation alert. town, a model village in a nevada desert, against the power of nuclear energy. buildings of various materials went up, one billion dollars worth of equipment installed, including manikins and tons of food to measure the contamination caused by radiation. planks took part in the first atomic maneuvers, some less than a mile away, the closest in any test. 6000 persons dissipated, including troops. many cameras filmed the single blast. [explosion] ♪ the wreckage in the desert held information on how to survive an enemy attack. damage.assessed the a building was left a gaping rack. cinderblock houses whether the blast best. this was less than a mile away. towns had become a tangled mass. proved survival is possible, offering hope to all who lived in the shadow of the atomic age. ♪ skyscrapers are traditional landmarks of new york but there are other landmarks like the ribbon of steel, now being dismantled, that decorates manhattan's east side. it was a third avenue elevated railroad.

to his home shores, general eisenhower returned in triumph. but in the pacific, a war was still going on. a big and bitterly fought war with the end not yet in sight. okinawa was a bloody battleground as our tenth army was finding out. it took us 82 days of continuous fighting to take okinawa. kamikaze attacks on our navy took a heavy toll, but we fought back, never letting up. >> all the military might of the united states would now be concentrated on the japanese homeland. a tough job lay ahead. a job that would take man and equipment. our entire military strength was now aimed at the one remaining axis partner. our military planners estimated that in an all-out assault on japan itself, our invasion forces would probably suffer a million and a half casualties. but a new and terrifying force had come into the world which was to prevent those million and a half casualties, the atomic bomb. two of these awesome weapons dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki brought japan to her knees. on the second of september 1945, japanese officials signed the ar

the five david eisenhower is, you know, long before he was president eisenhower, dwight eisenhower was the man in charge, he's an administrator. that's a terrible description for someone who might otherwise see himself as a fighting general. he's not george patton comes he isn't in and out with income in fact he never leaves troops on the battlefield of her. but what he does is he unites the americans and british and eventually the french and he creates an army and he defeats the finest fighting army that this world has ever seen up until that time and that is hitler's germany and he wins. and how he wins is part of the story. this is an extraordinary honor toor be included in this. i appreciate this. i'm walking in the enormous footsteps because if michael shaara had left from his second heart attack -- he was only 59 -- had he lived, he would be writing these books. the audience he couldn't find theth killer angels is the audience that has found these books and he deserved it. thank you very much. [applause] >> host: jeff shaara, did you have a chance to meet the bush family after th

eisenhower. but would balk at electing his successor, for justice historians tell us that richard the was not fit to fill the first shoes of the bold henry the second and that richard cromwell was not fit to where the mantle of his uncle. they might add in future years that richard nixon did not measure up to the footsteps of dwight d. eisenhower. [applause] he could carry on the party policies, the policies of nixon and dirksen and will water -- and goldwater, but this nation cannot afford such a luxury. perhaps we could afford a -- a coolidgeing after harding, and a peers after buchanan,but after this nation needed lincoln. after taft, we but we are not merely running against mr. nixon. our task is not one of itemizing republican failures. nor is that wholly necessary. the family forced from their farm do not need us to tell them of their plight. the families without a decent home. the parents of children without a decent school. they all know it is time for a change. [applause] we are not here

and i wondered if the hidden hand of eisenhower was in that portrait. but eisenhower is much more engaged to his presidency than people thought. when he thought he gained power by not being seen all the time, his power came from that restraint and as i spent time thinking about eisenhower i became fascinated with the way he did things, the book is an exploration of why presidents do or don't do things. i found carter interesting. this is a challenge. carter had a lot of theories how to build an organization in the presidency and they didn't work out. he built a team for governing and went through the campaign so he would be ready on day one to hit the ground running in the governing team to get this done, a huge crackup, the campaign team, a challenge for the president and the way carter thought about the job is one of the arguments is we should think about the job, he has done that but that was all you need because it didn't work out. there are moments the presidency is pushing for herbert walker bush's restraint i became more familiar with following t

the moderate group led by general eisenhower. 1912ld be going back to because we really have in the republican party, ideological differences that are often times under the surface but are still very real. as of now we are looking at a contest that is very close. stephen: ronald reagan spent his life as an actor, he has been an effective campaigner. them on put the two of equal footing and on common platforms, one is a more dynamic campaigner. you look at these 30 primaries, the majority of delegates chose the primaries. would you agree with me that this has turned out to be a pretty representative set of elections in terms of the rank and file opinion? stephen: i think while the votes have been small it will come out about where the party is. platform apply to the as well as the candidates are making at this time. i guess you would have to include this as work. could they choose a representative leader for large umbrella organizations? they are each finding their center. looking for the middle. that you have the feeling that the changing in the finance law has had less impact? will

after eisenhower you had kennedy who did what you said, these folks on the wheel and he did not have a chief of staff, and then nixon very prominently hr haldeman as chief of staff who is a very kind of imperious fellow and in the subsequent administration had reacted against nixon and the imperial presidency and you had for two had a chief of staff, with don rumsfeld that he didn't want to call him people staff, he called him back coordinator and jimmy carter didn't want to have a chief of staff and that led to all kinds of challenges so the carter and ministration darts without a chief of staff and relatively comes around to bring bringing in jordan. that worked out well and you have jack lawson becomes a chief of staff and he was the guy who butted heads with hamilton jordan campaign of 1976 because lawson was in charge of the transition and all the campaign people like you see today in even the modern era, they were worried the transition people were going to take their jobs while they were working to get them elected so washington eventually becomes chief of staff and is good at

[applause] and, that great american, and his wife, general and misses eisenhower. [applause] to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow republicans and americans across this great nation. from this moment, united and determines, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. willher -- together we win. [applause] i accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. [cheering] accept the responsibility that goes with it, and i think -- i seek your continued help and guidance. causelow republicans, are is too great for any -- our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it. our task would be to great for any man if he did not have the heart and hands of this great republican party. tonight, that every fiber of my being is concentrated to our cause that nothing shall be lacking but the struggle that can be brought to devotion, andsm, plain hard work. [applause] in this world, no person, no party can guarantee anything, but what we can do, and what we victory is to deserve and victory will be ours. [

eisenhower except his party's nomination at the convention in chicago. he defeated democratic nominee adlai stevenson in the 1952 general election. this is courtesy of the dwight d eisenhower presidential library and museum. ♪

in how i led eisenhower examines her grandfather dwight eisenhower's leadership style and the important decisions he made during his presidency. journalist linda lopez and it's a collection of essays looked at the politics and congressional tenure of alexandria ocasio-cortez and madeleine mister house explains why she lost her job and what she learned from that experience and off the record. also being published this week in making sense, best-selling author sam harris chairs conversations on politics and philosophy from his popular podcast. investigative journalist jean guerrero reports on stephen miller's political career and his influence in the trump administration and the hatemonger. and los angeles times business columnist michael hill sick chronicles creation of a transcontinental railroad and the impact it had on thefinancial world and iron empires . find these titles this coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on c-span2. >> hello and welcome to the atlanta history center ritual author talk series, i've posted on seco

legacy isg like my going to live on through eisenhower. so there is those strings of the republican party that we still see today being played out that vandenberg was just immersed in and helped define. his greatest legacy is the notion of bipartisanship. when the first gulf war comes about, and you have a republican president and democrats in control of congress, the cry goes up, where is there a democrats,among the among the opposing party? when, a few years later, when clinton is contemplating -- i think it was a response to bosnia, and you have got republicans in control of congress, the cry goes up, where is there a vandenberg? that rule of the leader of the opposition who is going to work with the president and these very tough foreign-policy moments, that is when we most miss vandenberg and when he is the most iconic, the best in american government. vandenbergas arthur 's time was ending, fulbright's was just beginning. 1974,ved from 1945 until and his papers at the university of arkansas in fayetteville tell the story. >> a longti

in 1956, he supported eisenhower prayed is a republican of course. and fellow democrats hated adam clayton powell for that. any challenged him. i went after him i got other democrats in harlem to try to beat him. and powell's thinking was, my party is dominated by district rats. by southern democrats . what are they doing tell me my people out prayed on the thing. so when eisenhower sent troops into little rock, 1957 after much pressure adam clayton powell had a moment to say, i told you so. what he did then it is hardly thinkable now that somebody with how seniority 1956 would break ranks with his party. and of course he somehow the winds were shifting pretty when kennedy one, he got back into camp. that was an amazing gamble on his part. in the end he won. >> i remember him. could you talk about that pretty. wil: is actually the theme of his college tour in 1970. he was a michigan uc berkeley, san francisco state, was howard. and a big part of his speaking tour was to have the troops come home and have the vietnam war and. [inaudible]. wil: he real

time i support you. >> yes he tried twice to get eisenhower to run as a democrat. according to one account he even offered to run 1940 as the vice presidential candidate if eisenhower would agree. imagine that. so when they had the breakup , it was very painful to truman because he admired eisenhower and then the breakup came because eisenhower refused to repudiate senator joe mccarthy when he attacked general marshall and called him a traitor truman thought the world of him and that he was the greatest man of the 20th century and that marshall made eisenhower and elevated him to that position. so for eisenhower to sit on the same platform and not include a paragraph that was in the prepared speech to repudiate these charges gave truman a moment of betrayal and almost never got over but eventually did. >>cspan2: offer your book you write many times about harry truman being surrounded by book books. >> he was a lifelong reader i asked margaret one day what is your father's idea of heaven she said that's easy a good comfortable armchair a good reading lamp and a stac

eisenhower saying we have a fight to continue. it is a horrible fight, but it must go on, because the consequences of not doing so or losing it are almost too horrific to even take it into comprehension. much like slavery needed to be destroyed, fascism and in the form of slavery that came with it was something that needed to be defeated. his men took this message to heart. eisenhower developed a really strong esprit de corps with american soldiers. he cared about them and they knew. that was one reason why they fought so hard and so diligently on his behalf. of course, as well, the hearted they fight the war, the sooner the war will be over. another element that i would like to show you is a weapon that we have over here. this is an 81 millimeter mortar. i mentioned this a little bit in our top prior to this. my good friend mike and andy are going to tell us a little bit about that. >> hello everybody. i'm here to talk to you about the 81 millimeter mortar. this was actually designed by the french in the thirties. the u.s. army g

it's not about eisenhower. it's about trump. it is not about underlying principles, values or ideals. it's about what donald trump feels. it's not even anchored in an

general eisenhower returned to his own shores in triumph. but in the pacific a war was still going on. you okinawa was a bloody battleground as our 10th army was finding out. it took is 82 days of continuous fighting to take okinawa. kamikaze attacks on our navy took a heavy toll. but we fought back, never letting up. >>> all the military might of the united states would now be concentrated on the japanese homeland. a tough job lay ahead, a job that would take men and equipment. our entire military strength was now aimed at the one remaining axis partner. our military planners estimated that in an all-out assault on japan itself, our invasion forces would probably suffer 1.5 million casualties. but a new and terrifying force had come into the world, which was to prevent those million and a half casualties -- the atomic bomb. two of these awesome weapons dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki brought japan to her knees. on the 2nd of september, 1945, japanese officials signed the articles of formal surrender on the battleship of "uss missouri" in

eisenhower saying, we have a fight to continue. it is a horrible fight, but it must go on because the consequences of not doing so or losing it are almost too horrific event to take into comprehension. much like how slavery it needed to be destroyed, fascism and the form of slavery that came with it was also something that needed to be defeated. his men took this message to heart. eisenhower developed a very strong spirit with common american soldiers. he cared about them and they knew it. that was one reason why they fought so hard and so diligently on his behalf. of course, the harder they fight the war, the sooner the war will be over. another element i would like to show you is a weapon that we have over here. this is a 81 millimeter mortar. i mention this a little bit earlier. our friends mike and and it will tell you a little bit about it. >> hello everybody. i'm here to talk to you about the 81 millimeter mortar. this was actually designed by the french in the thirties. the u.s. army got a hold of it. they liked the idea bec

in eisenhower's rival for the republican in 1952 was taft. so eisenhower would later say the vandenberg was one of the people he most admired. in vandenberg in his last months of his life, weeks of his life talked about hearing a radio broadcast of eisenhower dealing with my legacies would live on through eisenhower. so there is those strings of the republican party that we still see today. being played out that vandenberg was just immersed in and helped define. his greatest legacy as the of bipartisanship. when the first gulf war comes about any of a republican president and democrats in control of congress. the cry goes where is there a vandenberg among the democrats. among the opposing party. when a few years later, when clinton is contemplating, i think a response to bosnia and republicans in control of congress on the cry goes up, where is there a vandenberg. that rule of the leader of the royal opposition is not quite a separate sacrificed her principles that will work with the president is really tough for policy moment. literally most

. >> president eisenhower came up a few times, i noticed because i wrote a book about eisenhower but mike pompeo delivering that speech about foreign policy, the state department, he was on his own time, traveling for the us, it's going to get a lot of blowback from capitol hill, but he gave an impassioned defense of foreign-policy. >> the eisenhower book is excellent, one of my husband's favorites. let's talk about the keynote star of the night, the first lady harkens back to where she was four years ago. we were at those conventions when they were still held in person and i remember thinking, not sure she knew or thought she would be first lady is what it would be like, she touched on that. >> her husband deserves another four years, defendant what he has done but also addressed covid-19, talked about racial unrest, touched a lot of bases but most importantly saying she has more important things to do is first lady. >> incredible people, on the businessman who never worked in politics. we know it was you who elected him to be commander-in-chief and you will carry us again. i want y

the first two presidents i look at are truman and eisenhower. these guys are the first two presidents to start with the white house staff. they had to think about how they wanted to create their white house staff, how they wanted it to be structured. and both of them, for the most part, were believers in cabinet government. the idea of cabinet government is that the cabinet officers are in charge of the respective areas, and the white house staff can help the president, can help guide, but really it's the cabinet officers who are setting policy. and, in fact, eisenhower was known to tell cabinet officers who came to him with problems, he'd say this is your area, you handle it, you work it out. that said, i do highlight a couple of instances where you did have cabinet secretaries kind of butting heads with white house staffers or people who seemed to be delegated by the president in a way that's different from what the cabinet government would seem to entail. in the truman administration, he was faced with the issue of whether to recognize -- [in

general eisenhower was about to unleash the most massive amphibious invasion in history. during the big build-up england had become a vast staging area for stoops and ttroops and the war. thousands of vehicles and ready to be assembled combat type aircraft, 20,000 railroad cars and 1,000 locomotives, 20 million square feet of coveraed storage space, 44 million of open storage space to hold the growing volumes of supplies -- wire, tires, bombs, shells and other explosive devices. awaiting email bar indication were thousands of trucks and support vehicles. row upon row of tanks and a wide range of arrive until rtillery . 170 miles of new railroad had been constructed to haul more than 2 million tons of supplies and combat hardware to the invasion forces. the united states army had constructed 163 airfields in england for the allied planes that were systematically bombing germany day and night. the invasion directed by the chiefs of staff was concise. general eisenhower had his orders. >> you'll enter the continent of europe and in conjunction with other allied nations under

general eisenhower was about to unleash the most massive amphibious invasion in history. during the big buildup, england have become a vast staging area for troops and the material of war. ♪ ♪ thousands of vehicles and ready to be assembled combat type aircraft. 20,000 railroad cars in 1000 low good locomotives. 20 million square feet of storage and space. 44 million square feet of open storage space to hold a growing volume of supplies isis, tiles tires, bombs, shells and other explosive devices. awaiting invasion for embarkation were thousands of trucks and support vehicles. row upon row of tanks. new and a wide range of artillery weapons. 170 miles of new railroad had been constructed to haul more than 2 million tons of supplies in combat hardware to the invasion forces. the united states army had constructed 163 airfields in england for the allied planes that would six demonically bombing germany day and night. the invasion direct issued by the combined chiefs of staff was concise. general eisenhower had his orders. >> you will enter the continent of europe and in

even someone like eisenhower. under eisenhower's presidency, america's nuclear arsenal increases almost 30 fold. eisenhower when he takes office, they have about 1000 bombs. when his budgeting cycle finishes, they have 30,000 bombs. eisenhower said that stinson told them at potsdam they were going to drop the bomb. he says, i was getting more and more depressed thinking about it. he asked for my opinion. i said i was against it on two counts. first, the japanese were ready for this -- surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them without awful thing. second, i hated to see our country to be the first to use such a weapon. mcarthur says in an exchange with former president hoover who had written to truman urging him to change his -- surrender terms and may. mcarthur said that if truman had followed your wise advice, the japanese would've surrendered and happily. mcarthur in place it would have been as early as may. the possibility if we had told the japanese they would be able to keep the emperor, which we let them

eisenhower has no political party and soon after that very calculated photo with dooey. and that's when he commits himself to the republican party. back good will finish up with one comment from one of our listeners, john jones at the statement not a question. he says he thanks it's because truman had an unshakable faith in great integrity he could not have anything to corruption and never did and that's why he is considered a great president statement there is me speak to that really quickly. he had a miserable approval rating. why is it today that democrats love truman? why is it today republicans love truman? will hear donald trump, nancy pelosi quote truman, why today holding to the standard? to me the story of the election really answers that question. here is a man whose of patriot who is a courageous man, honor, decency most of all hiding from what he believed to do the right thing for the country. >> they didn't seem to be a disconnect from what he said and what he did, which is rare and a politician. so thanks for writing another great book on truman, thanks for

eisenhower. [applause] that he could carry on the party policies, the policies of nixon and benson and dirksen and goldwater, but the nation cannot afford such a luxury. we could afford a coolidge following harding, and perhaps we could afford a pierce following fillmore, but after buchanan, this nation needed lincoln. after taft, we needed wilson. and after hoover, we needed franklin roosevelt. [applause] but we are not merely running against mr. nixon. our task is not merely one of itemizing republican failures, nor is that only necessary, for the families forced from the farm do not need to tell them for the plight. the unemployed miners and textile workers know that the decision is before them. the families without a decent home, the parents of children without a decent school, they all know that it is time for a change. [applause] we are not here to curse the darkness, we are here to light a candle. [applause] as winston churchill said on taking office some 20 years ago, "if we open a quarre

eisenhower. [applause] mr. nixon: eight years ago, i had the highest honor of accepting your nomination for president of the united states. [applause] mr. nixon: tonight, i again proudly accept the nomination for president of the united states. [applause] mr. nixon: i have news for you. this time, there is a difference. this time, we are going to win. [applause] mr. nixon: we're going to win for a number of reasons. first, a personal one. as you know, critical in the walter reed hospital tonight. i have talked with mrs. eisenhower on the telephone. she says his heart is with us. she says there is nothing that he lives more for, and it was nothing that would lift him more than for us to win in november, and i say let us win this one for ike. [applause] mr. nixon: we are going to win because this great convention has demonstrated as a nation that the republican party has the leadership, the platform, and the purpose that america needs. we are going to win because you have nominated as my running mate a statesman

the book susan eisenhower examines the leadership style of her grandfather, president dwight eisenhower and important decisions he made. watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. >>> hi, everyone. my name is sde 11 and i'm an adjunct fellow at the manhattan institute. your host for the young leaders circle. i thank you all for taking the time to tune in to this event today, both the general membership. i am so sorry that we cannot all be together in person although i very much hope that it will be sometime soon. but in the meantime, it is nice to connect this way. in the state and the manhattan institute is putting together a ton of virtual content that will be going out over the next few months. so, look in your inbox for some information about the events coming to you shortly. in the interim i am so pleased to welcome douglas murray to the event this afternoon. also in author most recently the 2019 books demint mess of crowds and he was with us in person at the manhattan institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book the strange death of europe. doug

but even someone like eisenhower, under eisenhower's presidency, america's nuclear arsenal increases almost 30 fold. -- a little more than 1000 bombs, president cyclist finished, we have almost 30,000 bombs. eisenhower says, that it potsdam -- we were gonna drop the bomb, eisenhower said, somebody told me they were gonna drop the bomb of the japanese. -- because after all my war was over in europe, and it wasn't up to me. i was getting more and more depressed just thinking about it. any asked for my opinion, so i told him i'm against it on two counts. first, the japanese are ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit him with that awful thing. second, i hate to see our country be the first to use such a weapon. mcarthur says, in exchange with former president hoover, who had written to truman urging him to change the surrender terms it may, what causes it out of truman had followed your wise advice, the japanese would've said rendered and happily. mcarthur -- as early as may. the possibility, if we had told the japanese they had be able to keep the emperor, which we let them

but even somebody like eisenhower, under eisenhower's presidency america's nuclear arsenal increases almost 30 fold. has 30 bombs, his budget cycle was finish any has a most 30,000 bombs. eisenhower says that stinson told him we were going to drop the bomb. eisenhower said, they told me they would drop it on the japanese. i did not volunteer anything so my war was over in europe and it was not up to me. he asked for my opinion so i told him, i was against it on two counts. first the japanese are ready to surrender and it was not necessary to hit them with that awful thing. i hated to see us using a horrible weapon. in the exchange with former president hoover, and had written to truman, urging him to change the surrender terms in may, mcarthur said that if truman had followed your wise advice, the japanese would have happily.ed, and and mcarthur implies that would have been as early as may. we told them if they could keep the emperor, which we let them do. we told them we have a horrible new weapon. we could have ended the war, possibly a month or two earlier, and save more lives. am

and eisenhower's rival was taft. thathower would later say vandenberg was one of the people he most admired, and vandenberg in his last months of his life, weeks of his life, talked about hearing a radio broadcast of eisenhower and feeling like my legacy is going to live on through eisenhower. and so, there was a strain in the republican party that we still see today being played out that vandenberg was just immersed in and helped define. his greatest legacy is the notion of bipartisanship. when the first gulf war comes about and you have a republican president, and democrats in control of congress, the cry goes out, where is there a vandenberg among the democrats? among the opposing party? when a few years later when -- ion is contemplating think it was a response to bosnia, and you have republicans in control of congress, the cry goes out, where is there a vandenberg? that role of a leader in opposition, who is going to work with the president in these really tough foreign-policy moments, that is when we most miss

and then vandenberg was an early advocate of dwight eisenhower. vandenberg and robert taft were friends and rivals for the republican party throughout the 1940's. vandenberg does foreign policy . taft does domestic policy. protectors more isolationist so joyce chipping away at vandenberg. while vandenberg supports a lot of that domestic policy, sometimes taft takes a harder line. so in 1950, vandenberg is back here, ill, but eisenhower is his hope for the future of the country. and eisenhower's rival for the republican nomination in 1952 was taft. so eisenhower would later say that vandenberg was one of the people he most admired. and vandenberg, in his last months of his life, weeks of his life, talked about hearing a radio broadcast of eisenhower and feeling like my legacies would live on through eisenhower. so, there is those strings of the republican party that we still see today being played out that vandenberg was just immersed in and helped define. his greatest legacy is the notion of bipartisanship. when the first gulf war comes out and yo

let's get eisenhower. no, he doesn't belong to any party. let's get them to run as a democrat. he refuses and everybody is wondering eisenhower has no political party and soon after that he appears and is very calculated photolab with the dewey and that's when he commits himself to the republican party. >> the timing. i will finish up with one comment from one of our listeners, john jones. it's a a statement, not a question. he said he thinks it's because truman had an unshakable faith and great integrity and he couldn't have had anything to with corruption and never did and that's what he eventually is considered a great president. >> let me just speak to that really quickly. when truman left office eib miserable approval rating. why is it today that democrats love truman? why is today republicans love truman? you will hear donald trump and nancy pelosi quote truman. you will hear judge roy moore quote truman. why does it all hold him to the standard? i think for me the story of the 1940 election -- 48 election answers that question because here was a man who was such an absol