the eisenhowers -- eisenhower learned the bible from his father. it was in his mind and heart, but he didn't practice publicly his faith until he was elected president. well, he had not been baptized as a child, but he decided a few weeks after his inauguration that he would join the presbyterian church here in washington, and in a private ceremony on february 1, 1953, president eisenhower was baptized by the reverend edward elson. and he remains the only president to have been baptized while in office. eisenhower made every effort while he was president to place religious faith in the public eye at the heart of his presidency. now, the '50s was an era of religious revival in the country. there was a significant increase in churchgoing numbers across the country, and eisenhower was fine with that and he encouraged it. he started the national prayer breakfast. he was the first president to bring the young evangelical billy graham to the white house, and he became close friends with him as spiritual adviser. billy graham would go on to serve many pre

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eisenhower, the man from abilene. never in history have so many americans known so much about the very essence of one man. >> 100 million americans know eisenhower the way you know a neighbor. we know him by heart. >> why do we cheer for him? not because he's a general but because instinctively we believe in him. we hail him as a hometown boy who is all the best of america. his roots are in the heartland, main street usa. >> i come here first to thank you, to say the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. i want to speak first of the dreams of a barefoot boy. frequently they are to be a streetcar conductor or he sees himself as the town policeman. above all he may reach the position of locomotive engineer. but always in his dreams is that day when finally he comes home, comes home to a welcome from his own hometown. >> the wheat fields of kansas claim ike as a native son. >> but the cotton and cattle state of texas stake first claim, hard were the railroad tracks in dennison, texas, that's where he was

eisenhower. mr. eisenhower discusses the integration problem at little rock, arkansas. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> good evening, my fellow citizens. for a few minutes this evening, i should like to speak to you about the serious situation that has arisen in little rock. to make this talk, i have come to the president's office in the white house. i could have spoken from rhode island, where i have been staying recently, but i felt that in speaking from the house of lincoln, and jackson and of wilson, my words would better convay both the sadness i feel and the action i was compelled today to make, and the firmness with which i intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at little rock can be executed without unlawful interference. in that city, under the leadership of demagogic extremists, disorderly mobs have deliberately prevented the carrying out of proper orders from a federal court. local authorities have not eliminated that violent opposition. and under the law, i yesterday issued a proclamation calling upon t

eisenhower, the man from abilene. never a history have so many americans known so much about the very essence of one man. >> 100 million americans know eisenhower the way you know a neighbor. you know him by heart. >> why do we cheer for him? not because he's a general but distinctively we believe in him. we hail him as a hometown boy who is the best of america. his roots are in the help land. always in his dreams is finally that day when he comes home. comes home to a welcome if his hometown. >> from the railroad tracks in denison, texas. that's where he was born. on the red river where texas shakes hands with oklahoma. >> dwight david eisenhower was one of seven sons. deeply religious parents. pennsylvania dutch who moved west and brought the bible with them. no matter where duty takes him, he always likes to get back to his home cooking. even in paris his kitchen was -- fishing was the farmer boy's first love. golf is a new love. only with first name stories does he exercise a fisherman's right to stretch the truth

eisenhower. mr. eisenhower discusses the integration problem at little rock, arkansas. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> good evening, my fellow citizens. for a few minutes this evening i'd sure like to speak to you about the serious situation that has arisen in little rock. to make this talk i have come to the president's office from the white house. i could have spoken from rhode island where i'd been staying recently, but i felt in speaking from the house of lincoln, of jackson and of wilson my words would better convey both the sadness i feel and the action i was compelled today to make and the firmness with which i intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at little rock can be executed without unlawful interference. in that city, under the leadership of demagogic extremists, mobs have prevented the carrying out of proper orders from a federal court. local authorities have not eliminated that violent opposition and under the law, i, yesterday, issued a proclamation calling upon the mob to disperse. this morning th

eisenhower. mr. eisenhower discusses the integration problem at little ar rock, arkansas.ck, ladies and gentlemen, the men, president of the united states >> good evening, my fellow citizens. minutes this evening i should like to speak to you aboutut the serious situation tt has arisen in little rock. to make this talk i have come to the president's office in the i' white house. i could have spoken from rhode island, where i have been staying recently..that but i felt that in speaking frol the house ofinco lincoln, of jackson, and of wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness i feel and the action i wass compelled today to make, and the firmness with which i inten to pursue this course until thee orders of the federal court at little rock can be executed without unlawful interference.u in that city, under the leadership of demagogic detremists disorderly mobs have deliberately prevented the carrying out of proper orders from a federal court. local authorities have not eliminated that viole

eisenhower answers america. the notion is that this would be 22nd spots. they would have different individuals asking eisenhower a question about his platform, his policies, what he would do as president. this is where eisenhower was really reluctant. this required him to spend an entire day in a television studio rehearsing all of these different lines. they made him take off his glasses. he could not see. but really large qcard's so he could read the lines. they put makeup on him to make him look attractive. this is where robert montgomery again played a role in terms of thinking about how do we present actors and using all of those tools of the trade to prevent ike here. eisenhower was not happy with this but he reluctantly agreed to do it because he saw the potential of reaching new audiences. he did grumble along the way, he was exasperated after an entire day after filming all of these commercials and said why don't you just hire an actor. it really does kind of foreshadow the changes to come. i'm going to

advertising in the 1950s, highlighting dwight eisenhower's political campaign. she examines what components made them successful. her class is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> nothing perhaps captures the popular memory of the 1950s like the slogan, i like ike. this idea, this pin that so many people wore around the campaign of 1952 and 1956, conveys a notion of nostalgia and simplicity. it really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity. and the american people were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. i like ike. it's so simple and it conveys that happiness. this idea, however, is a myth. and it is a political construction. the 1950s, in fact, it was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. it was a time in which anti- communism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and often anti-communists took away civil liberties. these are all areas of political pressure

and, in fact, the eisenhower administration was weakened by this commitment of eisenhower to end the war. i don't think it -- my involvement didn't have any effect at all, but his integrity had an adverse effect on his campaign because of korea. >> adlai stevenson iii served in the u.s. senate from 1970 until 1981 for the state of illinois. he voluntarily stepped down in 1980. ran for governor twice for this state. senator stevenson, what made you enter the family business? >> well, i was just born with an incurable, hereditary case of politics, if by business you mean my career. we never really thought of it as a business. i'm, by the way, paraphrasing my father, because he was asked the same question. >> and, of course, the first adlai stevenson served as vice president. the second as secretary of state here for the state of illinois, then, of course, we had adlai stevenson the governor and now we are joined by senator stevenson, who is adlai iii. he is in his father's study in the home, in the stevenson family home here in libertyville. we are over in what used to be the barn, and

caused some doubts on his mind about eisenhower, but he respected eisenhower. and my father was such a figure in the world, that john dallas, perhaps reluctantly, made him an official ambassador of the administration, so he could officially represent the united states around the world. if there had been a difference, and the real differences then between democrats and the eisenhower winner of the republican party, for the taft wing. eisenhower his problems were with taft, and the conservative wing of the republican party. if my father had been a president, he probably would've had a new friend here in the great society, and medicare, federal aid to education, others which programs take effect earlier. as it was, much of it didn't take effect until after the assassination of kennedy, when johnson very shrewdly, i remember him consulting my father, he said what do i do now? you, should be in the shoes, but you are not, so what is your advice? and my father was taken back, and he said well i guess you should take some time, now put your program in your administrat

eisenhower ran against taft. taft was his main opponent for the nomination in 1952, and to win taft's support, he promised he would support his conservative agenda and even give him some patronage. democrats called that the great surrender, eisenhower had surrendered to taft, and now, taft was controlling the nominee. the point is that they had fallen in love and taft has captured eisenhower. he is going to be the power behind the throne if eisenhower is elected president. host: the title of your book, "daisy petals and mushroom clouds." based on the daisy ads. let's go to that ad. the 1964 ad from the lyndon johnson campaign, and we will follow that with ads from the goldwater campaign. here is a look. [video clip] >> [indiscernible] 9, 9 -- 7, 6, 8, >> 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 , 0. [explosion] >> these are the stakes. to make a world in which all of god's children can live, or go into the dark. we must either love each other, or we must die. announcer: vote for president johnson on november 3. the stakes a

spots were these 20-second "eisenhower answers america," where eisenhower just looks in the camera and answers questions from average people off the street. and eisenhower thought it was humiliating. stevenson thought his spots were a humiliating exercise that really degraded the candidacy and the office of the president. they were both sort of dragged into doing this. host: two quick questions about the ads we just saw about eisenhower and stevenson. one, the donkeys in that animated ad for then-candidate eisenhower -- kind of a negative ad in that regard. and, two, who is "bob" in the adlai stevenson? guest: ok, so the donkeys that you see riding the -- going backwards, which, as you point out, is sort of a subtle negative ad, that is john sparkman, who was adlai stevenson's running mate. -- who was adlai stevenson's -- a democratic senator from alabama who was adlai stevenson's running mate. dean atchinson, who was the secretary of state under truman who was much reviled by conservatives and republicans and adlai stevenson, the nominee. in the other ad, the "bob and ike," the bob wa

but most eisenhower spots were these 22nd eisenhower answers spots where he would just look at the camera and answer questions from average people off the street. eisenhower thought it was humiliating. hisenson thought thoughts were a humiliating exercise that degraded the candidacy and the office of the president. host: two questions about the ads we just saw for eisenhower and stevenson. one, the donkeys in the animated ad for then-candidate eisenhower, kind of a negative ad in that regard. two, who is bob in the adlai stevenson add? guest: so the donkeys you see riding the elevator backwards, which as you point out is that of a subtle negative ad, that is the democratic senator from alabama who was adlai theenson's running mate, natural son secretary of state under truman, who was much reviled by conservatives and andblicans -- dean addison, stevenson, the nominee. in the other ad, bob was bob taft, leader of the conservative republicans and senator from .hio, son of president taft before -- eisenhower ran against , he was his main opponent for the nomination in 1952. to win taft's sup

president dwight david eisenhower was on vacation. he was enjoying a game of golf in denver, actually, near downtown denver. and the day reportedly started out more than fine. the president's doctor would later say that the president had been in a, quote, exuberant mood that day. it was fantastic! but things would eventually take a dark turn that exuberant day in 1955. president eisenhower's golf game that day ended up getting interrupted over and over and over again by phone calls, specifically, phone calls from the secretary of state, john foster dulles. every couple of holes, the president was dragged off the course to go take another call from dulles. now, even on a good day, president eisenhower was known to have a bit of a temper, but those interruptions of his golf game that day, which, apparently, the president considered quite unnecessary, they really just set him off, like, over the top set him off. according to one bystander, the president became so angry at one point that the veins, quote, stood out on his forehead like wh

and, of course, taft lost that nomination fight to eisenhower. my question is, what role did dewey play in getting eisenhower to run, convincing his people to pick nixon, and what role did he play in eisenhower's fall campaign? >> that's a huge subject. let me handle it as quick as i can. he was instrumental in getting eisenhower into the race and i'll tell you a story. when eisenhower at this point was over in paris, commander of nato, and he really didn't want to leave. he didn't want to come home, he didn't want to sully himself by campaigning actively for the nomination. and at one point dewey was a shrewd -- no copy exists, he writes the letter, she mailed it, it went to general eisenhower in paris and in it dewey says to eisenhower if you don't come home and actively seek this nomination my fear is that the delegates will nominate douglas macarthur. well, that was the ultimate hot button to push with dwight eisenhower and shortly after that letter was received he heard the call of duty and he came home. you were absolutely right. you talk a

eisenhower died. nixon knew all of these men, but he watched what they did in their retirement and what they did was very different than what he was going to do. they basically retired. eisenhower goes to palm springs after year. he writes his memoir and then he writes another book in the spring much it. he becomes a doting grandfather. johnson goes to his ranch. these are men that basically go away. nixon has no such choice. he has no such choice because he has to make a living. he has no money. he has to resign from the bar in california and the bar in california. he wants to resign from the bar in new york and they won't let him because they want the privilege of kicking him out. he has to find a way of making a living. what he does with no template is he invents the template that all ex-presidents to this day more or less follow. he writes books. he travels the country and world giving speeches. , he stays in contact with other world leaders. he stays in contact with political leaders in washingto

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 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. 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. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusadefor freedom in america and freedom in the world. i know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade. i have led one. [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. [applause] >> our

in 1956, blacks voted 40% for dwight eisenhower. and it looked like it could have held up that way in 1960. but towards the end, what happens is this. martin luther king has moved to atlanta, georgia from alabama. he is arrested and goes to jail for the night. it's the first time he spent the night in jail. and he would be out the next morning, not a big deal, except that not long before that he was pulled over for a moving traffic violation in georgia. and he had been released on parole. and when he is arrested for this sit-in, it's a violation of his parole and the judge in rural georgia decides, you are going to prison camp for six months for a traffic violation. this is pretty outrageous, it was also pretty tough prison camp. the king family, particularly dred scott king, feared for martin luther king's life. it was a question of what would you do? of richard nixon's black advisors said, you know, can you intervene? make a statement and speak out. and he reacts very realistically and says he can't interfere with the judge and sa

a biography on general eisenhower and i just finished jean edward smith's biography "eisenhower in war and peace." there are all these tidbits about nixon, and it does not seem like nixon was well-regarded by president eisenhower. i know one question was asked of general eisenhower -- what does nixon contribute to your administration? he said "give me a week and i will think of something." there's the 30 campaigning, the racial epithets caught on -- dirty campaigning, the racial at this caught on tape. he's a very checkered, dark, dark character. .ou talk about his redemption what is the heart of nixon? i cannot quite make out -- make out his objective in life? before i answer that, let me tell you my favorite story from the eisenhower book written by went to dallas to's he might former boss, the president, and i took him a copy of my book. man.a very blunt he said, what's this? i said, it's a book about eisenhower and civil rights. i'm surprised is not a shorter book. [laughter] kasey: that's what you need to read the book. in terms of what kind of hard did nixon -- heart did nixon ha

president dwight david eisenhower was on vacation. he was enjoying a game of golf in denver, actually near downtown denver. and the day reportedly started out more than fine. the president's doctor would later say that the president had been in a, quote, exuberant mood that day. it was fantastic. but things would eventually take a dark turn that exuberant day in 1955. president eisenhower's golf game that day ended up getting interrupted over and over and over again by phone calls, specifically phone calls from the secretary of state, john foster dulles. every couple of holes, the president was dragged off the course to go take another call from dulles. now, even on a good day, president eisenhower was known to have a bit of a temper. but those interruptions of his golf game that day, which apparently the president considered quite unnecessary, they really just set him off, like over the top set him off. according to oneby stander. the president became so angry at one point that the veins, quote, stood out on his forehead like whipcor

it went to general eisenhower in paris and in it, dewey says to eisenhower, if you don't come home and actively seek this nomination, my fear is that the delegates will nominate douglas macarthur. well, that was the ultimate hot button to push with eisenhower and shortly after that letter was received, he heard the call of duty. and he came home. talking about the split between taft and dewey, it was never more dramatic that night than when he wagged his finger and said you took us down the road of defeat twice. dewey, however, typically, had the revenge, because the next night he was able to announce 87 of 92 new york delegates for eisenhower. finally, yes, he was more responsible for everyone else for nixon being on the ticket. he had spotted nixon as a young talent. first during his case in 1948. he brought him to new york to speak to the annual dinner of the republican party. which was tryout. when nixon finished, he sat down. dewey took the cigarette holder out of your mouth and said make me a promise. don't get fat, don't get lazy, and some day you can be president. >> we'll go b

it went to general eisenhower in paris and in it, dewey says to eisenhower, if you don't come home and actively seek this nomination, my fear is that the delegates will nominate douglas mcarthur. well, that was the ultimate hot button to push with eisenhower and shortly after that letter was received, he heard the call of duty. and he came home. talking about the split between taft and dewey, it was never more dramatic that night than when he wagged his finger and said you took us down the road of defeat twice. dewey, the next nikt, was able to announce 87 of 97 new york delegates for eisenhower and finally, yes, he was more responsible for everyone else for nixon being on the ticket. he had spotted nixon as a young l talent. first during his case in 1948. he brought him to new york to speak to the annual dinner of the republican party. which was a try out. when nixknicks finished, he sat down. said make me a promise. don't get f. don't get lazy and some day, you can be president. >> we'll go back to those moments later in the show and talk more about dewey's legacy in the republican p

then eisenhower handed dewey the baton. opposed to that where the conservative midwesterners, many of them isolationist's rolling around bomb, cast the son of former president taft, who with dr had precipitated the split. that never healed. so in 1946 what to congress, it was the conservatives who became the face of the party. then on the other hand, you had people like dewey, many of the governors for example who are much less hostile to the media. much more willing to work with this process. >> thomas dewey with our contender. tonight he ran, he lost, he changed political history. anyway here is thomas eat dewey launching his campaign in 1948 and his criticism of the trump administration. >> the campaign will unite all americans. on january 2020, will enter in a new era. next january 2020 -- there will begin in washington the biggest unraveling, untangling operation in our nation's history. [applause] >> richard norton smith. what do you make of what he says there? and snarling. >> that goes into dewey his's heart of weak

eisenhower and myself for the warmth of your welcome. for this is our first entry into a political convention, and it is a most heart warming one. thank you very much. and before i proceed with the thoughts that i should like to address previously to you, may i have the tomarity to this convention for their selection for vice president. a man who sha shown statesman like qualities in many ways, but has an ability to ferret out any kind of subversive influence wherever it may be found and the strength and persistent to get rid o. it. >> 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. i pick up this task therefore in the spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its burdens and of its decisive importance, i accept your summons. i will lead this crusade. our aims, the aims of this republican crusade are clear. to sweep from office an administration

nixon, who now says he also supports the eisenhower policy. nor is the question all americans want peace and security in this campaign. question is, are we moving in the direction of peace and security? is our relative strength growing? is, as mr. nixon says, our prestige at an all-time high, as he said a week ago, and that of the communists at an all-time low? i don't believe it is. i don't believe our relative strength is increasing. and i say that not as a democratic standardbearer, but as a citizen of the united states concerned about united states. i look at cuba, 90 miles off the coast of united states. in 1957, i was in havana. i talked to the american ambassador there. he said he was the second most powerful man in cuba. and even though ambassador smith and ambassador gardner, both are public and ambassadors, both -- both are republican ambassadors, both castro and marxist influences, both of them have testified that in spite of their warnings to the american government, nothing was done. our security depends on latin america. any amer

eisenhower answers america where eisenhower just looks and the cameron answers questions from people off the street. eisenhower thought it was humiliating. stevenson thought his thoughts were humiliating exercise that degraded the candidacy in the office. two quick questions about what we saw. ad fornkeys in that candidate eisenhower. kind of a negative in that regard. two, who is bobby echo -- who is bob? guest: the donkeys you see going backwards -- which as you point out is a subtle negative -- that is john's markman. democratic senator from alabama who was adlai stevenson's running mate. dean atchinson, secretary of state under truman who was reviled by conservatives and republicans. bobhe other outcome of the robert, the bob was taft. leader of the conservative republicans. senator from ohio. son of president taft. eisenhower ran against taft. taft was his main opponent in 1952. to win taft's support, he promised he would some port his -- support his conservative agenda. greatats called that the surrender, eisenhower had surrendered to taft and now taft was controlling the nomin

eisenhower's turn to vote. boating hours and regulations vary from state to state. in maryland, the ambassador of japan and his wife are among diomatic representatives of every nation, to observe election procedures in various communities. the ambassador is among the observers where voting machines are used. another famous signature on the election legislators is that of vice president nixon. with his wife pat, he cast his ballot in a small town of wood year, california, where both went to school. ty were married and were today, they cast the most important both of their lives. senator kennedy and his wife jacqueline, voted in boston, massachusetts. photographers and reporters around them. this is the man in the next 24 hours, may become president of the united states, and she first lady of the land. in the cities of america, in thousands of election presents, the signs of the special they are everywhere. with quiet pride, people go to the polls. today, perhaps more than any other day, they feel deeply conscious of being part of their country. deeply committed to it

eisenhower and party and vice president nixon mrs. nixon, the president's mother-in-law and his daughter in law. also at the airport or cabinet members, congressman and diplomats. reporting on the historic meeting at the summit the president said -- will be the result of the conference, of course no one knows what the coming months will tell. but in the meantime, we do know the new context of an established and there is evidence of a new friendliness in the war. civil war and saigon, south vietnam's capital reminded the war that enduring peace was still far away. royal troops fought in the streets against a rebel outlaw army. the rent aimlessly anywhere to escape for their lives and their loved ones. the american-backed government was victorious but site gone lace card under the smoking devastation of civil war. sovereignty for west germany signified a return to a place of trust in the community of three nations. the allied occupation ended, west germany was again mistress of her destiny. ceremonies opening a new era of german history

so kennedy kept bashing the eisenhower administration on that. so, unemployment was high for the time, in the 6%, 7% range. civil rights, clearly an issue. both candidates wanted to shy away from it of the bit not to put the south off, but they obviously wanted to attract the african-american vote. that was another issue. farm prices medical care for the , aged. kennedy hit hard on that. those were the basic issues foreign and domestic in 1960. host: who was considered the better debater as they stepped into this new medium to have a debate? guest: i would say nixon. in fact, nixon had been a champion debater in college. he went to whittier college. a quaker college near where he was born. he had gotten into harvard, but he did not have the money to travel there. he had gotten a scholarship, but his family was poor and they could not send him. they just did not have the money to send him there, and they did not have the money for incidentals either. he always had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because of that, but he was an excellent debater. if

eisenhower is by far the best eisenhower biography ever written and there been some good ones. he died in 2019. right now just got into it may have been his best book was on fdr, something called the parkman prize which they choose the best book of the year. back in 2007. it's been around a while. it's been sitting on my bookshelf. i just had not gotten to it. it is quite a read, six or 700 page read. we lost smith last year about a year ago september actually. almost precisely a year ago. i happen to just think about that and pulled out the book. and ordered his last book which i've not read yet on the liberation of paris which was published in 2019. kind of have been doug that. earlier this summer i got on by accident a binge biographies of ambassadors. and eric larson also wrote a great biography of a guy named william dodd who is the american ambassador in germany. in the 1930s. it was quite an eclectic and their experience of being not see germany as it was consolidating power in what was going to be truly a dark period in world history was becoming evident. and then, i re

truman reads this report and writes his letter immediately to eisenhower and says to eisenhower, you've got to take care of this. this is inhumane, this is impossible, this is un-american. and eisenhower, you know, goes to work. >> that's great. i wanted to, you mentioned before the -- i want to move to the cold war aspect of this. and could you say a little bit more about sort of the soviet interest in this whole situation? how does it look from moscow as they're looking at this problem, and how does this drift into the beginning stages of the cold war from the east? >> the sow can yets know -- the soviets know that large numbers of collaborators and war criminals is have escaped from the east, have escaped from the baltic nations, from belarus, from ukraine and made their way into germany. and, you know, i -- in the book i tell many stories of war criminals and collaborators who throw away their uniforms and all the papers that they have, invent new histories for themselves, find their way into the displaced persons camps. what's in the displaced persons camps -- [inaudible] armory wo

eisenhower and adlai stevenson. ads have been essential to every campaign sense. here is a look. ♪ >> it is time for an honest look at the problem in the united states. dissent is a necessary ingredient of change but in the system of government that provides for peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence. let's recognize the first civil right of every american is to be free from domestic violence, so i pledge to you, we shall have order in the united states. >> [laughter] >> if you like politics, you can find archival ads, presidential debates and more on c-span.org. >> you are looking at the time let's video recorded -- a time lapse video showing the process constructing an exhibition about jacob riis. next on american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the library's thomas jefferson building to learn about the le

. >>> coming up on american history tv, dwight eisenhower's speech accepting the nomination for president in 1952. >>> the next president of the united states. mr. chairman, my fellow republicans -- [ cheers and applause ] before i proceed, with the thoughts i should like to address briefly with you, many i i congratulate the convention on the selection for the nominee for vice president. a man who has shown qualities in many ways but as a -- ladies and gentlemen, you have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade for freedom of america and freedom in the world. i know something of the responsibility of leading a crusade. i have lead one. [ cheers and applause ] i pick up this task, therefore, in the spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its burdens and precisely the importance. i accept your sons. i will lead this crusade. our aims, the aims of this republican crusade are clear to sweep from office an administration which has fastened on every one of us the arrogance and corruption in high place places that any burden from the anxieties, which are

eisenhower. [cheers and applause] eight years ago, i had the highest honor of accepting her nomination for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] tonight, i again accept that nomination for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> i have news for you. this time there is a difference. this time, we are going to win. [cheers and applause] >> we're going to win for a number of reasons. first, a personal one. eisenhower as you know, lies critically ill 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. [cheers and applause] >> 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 nomi

admiredink he ha thatat about president eisenhow. amy: president eisenhower got sick in the white house. it is the beginning of the 25th amendment. he had written a letter to his vice president, who he had excluded from decision-making when he was sick stuff yet a kind of teamam of f few advisors around him, definitelyly not the vice p president richardrd nixo. but ultimately, when he got really sick, hee wrote a letter to him to say you will take ovover. but this led to the e 25th amendment. p presidentr talk about eisenhow g getting sick and what thatat meant in the white house? m, not realllly. when president eisenhower r t sick, he w w not in the whitee house. he was somewewhere- i foforget exacactly where e he was. he w was somewhere enjnjoying te holiday,y, you know, playiying . hehe wasas stricken. i t think by the e time he gogok to the white house, he had m moe or less s convalesced anand he s in pretty goodod shape. around mr.nk he was eisenhower that much when he was bedridden. let me put it that way. amy: w what rights di

. >> well, let's just start with eisenhower and nixon. i mean, eisenhower was very slow to come into the field on behalf of nixon. in fact, there's this terrible moment in august of 1960 when a reporter asked him to give some idea of the ideas nixon had supported and put forward in the administration, and he said, well, give me a week and i'll come back up with one. i can't remember one right now. nixon was so hurt by that he didn't ask for eisenhower's help. finally he humbled himself like 15 days before the election for him to intervene. and finally eisenhower came into the field and he gave speeches in philadelphia and new york. huge throngs came out to see the departing hero. and it changed the campaign. my late husband richard goodwin my god, i've never said late before. but my late husband richard goodwin said he was in a small team there with kennedy. they felt every day the waning power of kennedy because eisenhower was so popular. the real question is given how close that election was, perhaps it might have made a difference beca

eisenhower was known as i like ike. eisenhower was the first president to open up medical record. but when a bad event happened, they went into a cover-up mode, sherman adams and upon the foster dulles and the rest. i think it's an instinct, when the president is sick, the team want to minimize it. in eisenhower's case in '55, he had to run for re-election in 1956. so the team wanted to make sure people don't think he's weak. donald trump with the election days away, i think you can get doctors, but if you are press to say anything, if they're your personal doctor or working in your sphere. so i think mark meadows was the one trying to shed some truth that the president is having a very, very hard time. this is all politics mixed with this and the debate october 15 secretary that day that donald trump has to be looking to emerge as the comeback kid, like a bill clinton type of comeback, kind of show up there and shock people that he's back in the act. >> all right. well, let's chew on this for a second, ron. we know with eisenhower, what was the legacy of that short term worked ou

in 1957 eisenhower suffered a small stroke. at that point he realized that it was irresponsible of him not to have set up a system and at that point he signed a letter which said that in the case of his incapacity, all of his power would flow directly to vice president nixon. it was as a result of that experience that eisenhower became a proponent that there be a constitutional amendment so this wouldn't be a matter of a letter from a president to a vice president, but there would actually be a system in place so congress understood and the american people understood that there was a chance a president would not be up to his duties or her duties someday and the power to be constitutionally transferred to the vice president. >> thank you very much. i add about trump, the one difference is a heart attack is not infectious. in the case of donald trump, this is all colored by the fact that the president perhaps, because of his own irresponsibility, may have exposed himself in a way that he, that other presidents, it's not quite com

admiredink he ha thatat about president eisenhow. amy: president eisenhower got sick in the white house. it is the beginning of the 25th amendment. he had written a letter to his vice president, who he had excluded from decision-making when he was sick stuff yet a kind of teamam of f few advisors around him, definitelyly not the vice p president richardrd nixo. but ultimately, when he got really sick, hee wrote a letter to him to say you will take ovover. but this led to the e 25th amendment. p presidentr talk about eisenhow g getting sicick and wt thatat meant in the white house? m, not realllly. when president eisenhower r t sick, he w w not in the whitee house. he was somewewhere- i foforget exacactly where e he was. he w was somewhere enjnjoying te holiday,y, you know, playiying . hehe wasas stricken. i t think by the e time he gogok to the white house, he had m moe or less s convalesced anand he s in pretty goodod shape. around mr.nk he was eisenhower that much when he was bedridden. let me put it that way. amy: w what rights di

. >> well, let's just start with eisenhower and nixon. i mean, eisenhower was very slow to come into the field on behalf of nixon. in fact, there's this terrible moment in august of 1960 when a reporter asked him to give some idea of the ideas nixon had supported and put forward in the administration, and he said, well, give me a week and i'll come back up with one. i can't remember one right now. nixon was so hurt by that he didn't ask for eisenhowers help. finally he humbled himself like 15 days before the election for him to intervene. and finally eisenhower came into the field and he gave speeches in philadelphia and new york. huge throngs came out to see the supporting hero. and it changed the campaign. my late husband richard goodwin said he was in a small team there with kennedy. they felt every day the waning power of kennedy because eisenhower was so popular. the real question is given how close that election was, perhaps it might have made a difference because eisenhower was so popular, transcended politics. if he had come in ea

because i, in my first book, was about dwight eisenhower, and i spent a lot of time studying eisenhower, at the eisenhower library, reading everything i could read about dwight eisenhower, and trying to sort of recreate the man from the paper trail that was left behind. and at the time i was writing, there weren't very many people left, who had known eisenhower. so i didn't really get a chance to talk to people who knew him. and for the historians, that can be absolutely crucial. there are times when it is utterly impossible. when i wrote about beng mijamin franklin, nobody was alive who knew benjamin franklin so you do what you can. but when i met ralph, he could tell me what kind of commander eisenhower was and i heard it from other people but this was someone i could ask questions of and to fill in the personal human detail that often falls between the cracks, was immensely valuable to me. actually, i wish i had known him when i was writing the book about eisenhower. but he was wonderful to talk to. he was very approachable. and you'll hear more i think about his career, but i would

significantly, eisenhower was also in every election year in 19 55 and 1956. i do think that the 25th amendment gives the american people some comfort that they will be a transition of leadership and i agree we are ina of leadership and i agree we are in a better state as a result of it. professor, thank you so much. thank you for having me, james. now for a round up of all today's sports news. hello, welcome to the bbc sport centre. we start with football, and everton of the english premier league after making their best start to a top—flight season since 1969. carl angelotti's side beat brighton 4—2 with dominic albert limit scoring in the same week that he got an england call—up. a fourth straight win for everton. last time they did that in the top—flight they won the league. i think we manage well, the situation of the game, because they had possession, we had composure, with composure defensively, we had the opportunity to score and counter—attack. we ran good set pieces, as usual. and so i think the performance was com plete think the performan

eisenhower. eight years ago, i had the highest honor of accepting your nomination for president of the united states. tonight, i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the united states. but i have news for you. this time, there's a difference. this time, we're going to win! we're going to win for a number of reasons. first, a personal one. general eisenhower, as you know, lies critically ill in the walter reed hospital tonight. i have talked, however, with mrs. eisenhower on the telephone. she tells me that his heart is with us. and she says that there is nothing that he lives more for, and there is nothing that would lift him more than for us to win in november. and i say, let's win this one for ike. we're going to win because this great convention has demonstrated to the nation that the republican party has the leadership, the platform, and the purpose that america needs. we're going to win because you have nominated as my running mate a statesman of the first rank who will be a

eisenhower. [applause and cheers] eight years ago, i had the highest honor of accepting your nomination for president of the united states. [applause and cheers] tonight, i again proudly accept that nomination for president of the united states. [applause and cheers] but i have news for you, this time there's a difference, this time we're going to win! [applause and cheers] we're going to win for a number of reasons, first a personal one. general eisenhower as you know, lies critical ill in the walter reed hospital tonight. i have talked with mrs. eisenhower on the telephone, she tells me that his heart is with us. and she says there is nothing that he leaves more for, and there is nothing that would lift him more, then for us to win in november. i say let's win this one for ike. [applause and cheers] we are going to win because this great convention has demonstrated to the nation that the republican party has the leadership, the flip the platform, and the purpose that america needs. we're going

day one of eisenhower taking office. eisenhower's brother mton whispered in dwight's ear, "bring down the bully." eisenhower instead said, "we're going to wait for mccarthy to do himself in." in that year and a half that he waited, lives were ruined. careers were crushed. but the ultimate enabler was us. it was the american people. we're the ones, in wiscons, who elected mccart overwhelmingly to be a u.s. senator, twice. and by the beginning of 1954, mccarthy's popularity rating was at 50%. he was the second-most popular public figure in america, trailing only our war hero, president dwight eisenhower. but i think that, while my book is the story of one of the most malevolent characters in american history, it is counter- intuitively a good news story. and the good news is that in our long history of demagogues, given enough rope, every one of them hung themselves in an our long history of buying into bullies-- given enough time, the american people have seen through and discarded those bullies. >> woodruff: such an impo

general dwight do we the eisenhower's first communicate from air force headquarters on december 4 stated only damage was done. adding insult to injury the first real account of the air raid came from the germans, a berlin propaganda broadcast on december 5 gloated over the missions back the success getting the crowded harbor was so poorly protected german bombers and been able to pick off the allied ships like sitting ducks . the sneak attack on bari which the press dumped a little pearl harbor shook the complacency of theallied forces . left them convinced of their air superiority. all told nazis 17 allied ships and destroyed more than 31,000 tons of vital cargo area within 1000 american and british servicemen were killed outright and almost as many wounded and an untold number ofcivilians . rumors abounded that officials were covering up and embarrassment of harassing incidents. there was news of a new german weapon, a glide bomb. congressional concern was underscored by eisenhower's announcement he had asked a special senatesubcommittee to investigate .every scott land responsible for

eisenhower. to my own wife, my family, and to all of my fellow republicans here, 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. [cheers and applause] i accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. i accept the responsibility that goes with it, i seek your continued halep and your continued guidance. our fellow republicans, our were 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. i promise you tonight, that every fiber of my being is consecrated to our cause, that nothing shall be lacking from the struggles that can be brought to us 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 vic