eisenhower lesson number three on life. forgive. forgiveness is one of the most powerful forces in life. in "going home to glory" david describes the summer that he turned 13 and he was hired to work on his grandfather's farm. he had the great job of painting the fences, weeding the vegetables. he also had a two day a week job at gettysburg college and he was much more just in that job. you know he was a teenager and he admits he had several lapses of concentration when he was working on the farm. it cause particularly one lunch hour when he and a friend kept playing honeymoon bridge in the small been president eisenhower's small dent at the farm. they had mistakenly were under the impression that ike had gone back downtown so 12:45 became 1:00 and 1:00 became 1:15 and 115 became 1:30 and all of a sudden the office door crashes open. the general appears. his lips were moving but david was so paralyzed with fear that he could only process three words, you are fired. [laughter] ike and david had a golf game scheduled for that afternoo

david eisenhower and julie nixon eisenhower prison their book of the nixon presidential library in yorba linda california. the program is just over an hour [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. i salute the veterans and the people in the armed services who are still in uniform introduced in many different ways. julie eisenhower is about the best introduction by can think of. the hidden great friends through thick and thin. i think their next venture should be skin-care products because i've known them since 1973 and they do not look one day older than they did then. something is going on here. today is veterans day. we remember the men and women that of our war every single one of them and every single battle. today, not the actors who lives a few dozen miles west of here are the stars that keep america brent and the battles they fought and still fight or. of all battles america ever fought, we as a nation have never fought a bitter war mechem the invasion of nazi occupied europe. one of the great military ventures of all time, certainly one of the very most cons

plus david eisenhower and julie nixon eisenhower to share their memories of life with ike. >>> and a powerful voice of diplomacy is silenced. memories of the most unforgettable character we have known, richard holbrooke's long-time confidant joins us. >>> the fight over tax cuts is reaching a boiling point, not on the floor, the house or the senate but behind closed doors. house democrats will meet tonight to determine if they will keep on fighting. the rank and file and the leadership may not be on the same page. congressman john larson joins us now. thanks for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> steny hoyer today, the majority leader seemed to be warming up to the deal. where do you think it now stands as you go into this critical meeting tonight with your democrats? >> i think members of the democratic caucus still have major concerns, certainly over the kyle lincoln provision and the estate tax. but the other issue that has not been discussed much, andrea, is the whole issue of its impact, the payroll tax holiday and the impact on social security. clearly there is a desire and yo

if this happens, eisenhower writes to john eisenhower, i don't want you to worry about it. these things happen in war. it's an extraordinary testament to eisenhower's character, actually, and reveals something about his relationship with his son. so there's a lot hanging in the balance here including, you know, the future president's fate. my feeling is casrean was really a relatively small speed bump because what you found was after this driving defeat in february of 1943, three months later the german and italian force was utterly destroyed. they were completely defeated. and you had 250,000 axis prisoners bagged in tunis in the northeast corner of tunisia. it was a loss just in terms of stalin grad. now, nothing makes you recover from a thump in the head better than a good victory, and i think that success that came relatively swiftly after casrean menned the -- helped the army in particular to get past this existential moment really. and it, you know, it blooded those units, some of them quite literally. but what you see in the mediterranean generally starting in north

eisenhower. during that long illness, eisenhower and mccabe became friends, and as a result of that, mccabe was a friend of the eyesen hours -- eisenhowers, really, for the rest of her life. when anna may mccabe-hayes became the first woman in the united states' history of military history to reach the rank of brigadier general, mrs. eisenhower presented the stars that had been pinned on her husband when he made general years before. anna may hayes told us, i was very touched by mrs. be eisenhower's kindness and generosity. now, years later coast guard captain jane hartley had laughed at the very idea that she would ever have joined the military. she told us, i'm a child of the '60s. the thought of going into the coast guard or any other military branch was about as far from my be mind as it could get. however, during a dinner party at their home her husband's boss kept insisting that she should think about joining the coast guard because he said they really needed women, especially one with a ma

there is substantial evidence that eisenhower thought that. there is no evidence that he actually ever said the words publicly even though they are attributed to him in dozens of history books. i actually had a bizarre experience early in the process of tracing those words and their, you know, from one book to the next and the next book cites another one and you go to another one and another one, and eventually yourself at the end of the line, and there's no source. it's miscitations and the words were said about something else, but having done that, i also found that there were several places where privately eisenhower expressed that sentiment, so i think he felt it, although i'm not sure he said the famous words attributed to it. >> i would just add that justice brennan while certainly more liberal than president eisenhower would have imagined, he wasn't looking for a bedrock conservative. this was 1956, the fall, he was about to run in the middle of a reelection race tighter than anyone expected, his health was at issue, he was looking for

nobody accuse accused eisenhower of being a socialist, but under president eisenhower republican, former general republican eisenhower, the form -- the highest tax was 91%. again, i'm not going there. [laughter] >> i'm not exhuming eisenhower. but i do -- i do want to remind people that we did think differently about this 30 years ago. and the big debate in washington now is to use a to the top 2% who got the lion share of the bush tax cuts in 2001 out of 2003 to keep you say bush tax cuts which were never intended to go beyond 10 years anyway, that's how they get through congress, by the way, you can't have intelligent to go back to the provisional tax rate of 39%. is that so bad? as i recall, the economy did pretty well under bill clinton. we have a long-term deficit if we don't say to the top 2%, i'm sorry, you've got to go back as expected to the clinton tax rates. then we are going to blow a $36 billion hole next year in 2011 in the federal budget. because that's the windfall at the top 2% would get stuck. [inaudible] >> i think if you look at the total -- i think where to look at t

in the 1950's, and i just preserved what eisenhower first set aside when alaska became state, and when i left office the only way you could do that is if the president and both houses of congress voted to let oil exploration be done in anwar and i never dreamed we would have presidents in both houses of congress it might do so but president ronald reagan and george h. w. bush and president george w. bush tried and sometimes came within two or three votes of getting the required legislative support. i hope it never happens in over a period of time i think more and more americans and alaskans are realizing we need to preserve the special area. >> host: what about offshore drilling i believe shell one storch orloff of the refuge. would you agree like offshore -- >> guest: i feel we need it because that's where some of the islands are and we saw on the peninsula that went out on that region. when we passed the alaska lands bill in late 1980, we opened up 95% of all of the coastal areas of alaska for the oil drilling. we only preserved 5% which is a special area we are talking about where w

i mean, nobody accused eisenhower of being a socialist but understand president eisenhower, republican, former general, the marginal income tax on the highest earners was 91%. now, again, east loop not going there. -- i'm not going there. but i do want -- i do want to remind people that we did think differently about this 30 years ago. and the big debate in washington now is do you say to the top 2%, who got the lion's share of the bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. well, i'm sure the bush tax cuts which was never intended to go beyond 10 years which is how they got through congress, by the way, you can't have them. you've got to go back to the clinton marginal tax rate of 39%, is that so bad? as i recall, the economy did pretty well under bill clinton. we have a long-term deficit. if we don't say to the top 2% i'm sorry, you've got to go back as expected to the clinton tax rates, then we're going to blow a $36 billion hole next year in 2011 in the federal budget because that's the windfall that the top 2% would get. >> long term, is there a case for going back of 40%? >> i think we have

and eisenhower did not. he's the president of the united states and he is the commander-in-chief of the american armed forces. and he said no, he basically bankrupted the british by saying we are not going to support the pound sterling. the president is an extraordinary way to change history if he or she one day time was an act of some political risk on his part. >> guest: and courage. looking across these 12 lines, one of the common themes for those presidents is definitely courage. you, i have seen a theme that runs throughout this period of these lives, being essential to leadership, under all circumstances. what do you learn collectively from these lives? >> guest: the first thing you learn is the first two years in >> host: that will probably come contrary to the incumbent. >> guest: exactly. if you think of the difficulties, almost every one of these presidents had, what you're talking about reagan in the first two years in office, there's this huge learning curve. and in that sense you think surely th

you're an eisenhower republican. and so are you, mr. inglis, perhaps a more conservative version, and eisenhower republican was for free trade, fiscal responsibility. strong defense. i mean, why don't just say you're eisenhower republicans instead of pretending that you don't have a label? because all of you guys seem to be -- even bloomberg fits that category. >> i think that's true and say okay to stay republican or a democrat. >> rock feller. >> rockefeller, eisenhower and even republican reagan, i mean here was a guy. >> no, no, you're not a reagan republican. no you're not. >> he understood at least civility which is so important. he and tim o'neil who was speaker much of his term probably didn't agree on much of anything and yet they the common sense, if you will, and the civility to be able to get together after hours, a couple of irishmen and have a cold one, and you know we have to get back to that point where there can be personal relationships where you know, some people in one party and those in another party are really trea

this was an area that was first set aside by president eisenhower in the 1950's. and i just preserved what eisenhower had first set aside. that's when alaska became a state. when i left office the only way you could do that was if the president and both houses of congress voted to let oil exploration be done. i had never dreamed that we would have presidents in both houses of congress that might do so. president reagan and george h. w. bush and president george w. bush tried and sometimes came within two or three votes of getting the required legislative support. i hope it never happens. over time more and more americans and more and more alaskans are realizing we need to preserve the special area. >> host: what about offshore drilling? and believe shell wants to drill up there. off shore up there? >> guest: i don't think so. i think we need it. that is where some of the islands are. the peninsula went out in the region. when we passed the alaska land built in late 1980 we opened up 95 percent of all the coastal areas of alaska for oil drilling. we only preserve 5

againing don't accuse me of being dwight eisenhower. i'm not going there, but john leonard kane in 1946 in the general theory admitted we need and an economy based itself on equality otherwise there's not an incentive for people to build businesses, but the question is how much inequality do you need in john was looking at the degree of inequality in britain in the late 20s saying we don't need nearly this degree. that was a problem with capitalism that it tended too overtime move to more and more concentration of income and wealth. i'm just saying trickle down economics as supply ciders have tried to sell it doesn't work. the bush tax cuttings did not trickle down. the median wage after 2001 and 2003 actually dropped adjusted for inflation. there were not a lot of new jobs created. in fact, between 2001 and 2007, a very tiny fraction of jobs created, so don't buy the ideology -- i mean, i think, and i mean this, we have to get beyond the labels and name calling and look at the data and i think anybody looking at the data would say our

you're an eisenhower republican. so are you, mr. inglis. an eisenhower republican was not too big on the right wing social issues. strong defense. why don't you say you're eisenhower republicans, instead of pretending you don't have a label. even bloomberg fits that category? >> i think that's true. >> a rockefeller republican. >> even a reagan republican. >> no, no, you're not a reagan republican. >> he understood civility, which is important. he and tip o'neill, who was speaker during much of his term probably didn't agree on much of anything, yet they had the common sense, if you will, and the civility to be able to get together after hours and have a cold one. we have to get back to that point where there can be personal relationships, where some people in one party and those in another party are really treated as traitors if they dare to break bread with somebody else. especially in this season, that's not the right thing to do. we need to come together for the country and put the country ahead of the party. in order for the people to

omar bradley and george patton barton says that speaker john boehner is our dwight eisenhower in the battle against the obama administration what jordi leader eric cantor is our omar bradley and i want to be george patton put anything in my scope and i will shoot it wonderful wonderful so congressman barton is actually comparing the g.o.p. to world war two leaders and the obama white house as the enemy regimes of that era was born you know who the enemy was during world war two you know the nazis that's a really tasteful they at least he isn't calling democrats socialists right sounds like joe barton has done of the get made another dumb and irresponsible comment and that's why his nights to a time where. now for the holiday season how would you like to get your hands on the hottest item out there it's shiny it flies without a pilot and it can do a whole lot of damage any guesses yet well if you're thinking drones then you're right according to wired dot com several countries are looking to the united states to fulfill their christmas wish list it turns out the countries ranging from

not back to the eisenhower. buff i think -- we've had football since forever. football wasn't as professorrized in the '50s. if the gentleman who called thought it was bad in the '50s, it's worse now. all of the other colleges are going further with their recruiting. we feel we have to as well. the larger question of is it appropriate to produce officers with this what i call the situation of micro control that is -- that we do have at the academies and we don't have at roxy. there's no evidence that it produces better officers. it's much more expensive. why have them at all? i'm supposed to be the big picture guy. that's what professors do. it's the reason we get tenure. why have them at all? >> host: washington, michael. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. i'm very familiar with the affirmative action on the naval academy. i'm wondering if there's any legal remedy on the horizon. the michigan cases of a couple of years ago absolutely forbid a second track. the school could consider diversity, but could not have a second track of lower standard for minority. as

by 1960, with eisenhower in the white house, baby-boomers had surged the population to 179 million. when reagan was elected in 1980, there were 226 million of us. 281 million by 2000. and 308 million today, bigger than ever but the slowest growth rate in 60 years. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> to something a bit more basic. the weather, especially we go to southern california now, day six of the torrential rain that's turned huge areas into a flooded dangerous mess. our own miguel almaguer is in l.a. for us. good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. river banks across california are on the rise and here in los angeles the l.a. river which snakes through so much of the city is also on the rise. earlier today, water threatened lives. now it's threatening homeless. raging waters and flash flooding in orange county four hikers were rescued after being trapped and in orange county, four hikers were rescued after they were trapped by a swollen creek overnight. >> they're cold, they're wet. >> near san diego, three men were pulled to safety from rising rapids below a bridge

i think the caller mentioned two presidencies, eisenhower and reagan that had pretty big reassessments. both were seen as presidents who were light hearted, not serious, presidents driven and controlled by their advisors, rather than very dominant figures. we learned that was wrong. and i think what happened in both cases, and in those cases, archives really mattered. as we discovered, for example, that ronald reagan during the 1970s, you know, worked on every single radio address that he gave and really worked through the ideas. and they covered the handwriting and how, you know, he really refined and honed everything. we started to see, you know, he was pretty serious about developing the arguments that he would put together in his presidency. the national security documents showed that ronald reagan was taking charge in those meetings. so that takes about five to ten years to really start seeing the archiveal data. some of it is literally processing. we need people to go through it in folders. my guess is five to ten years from now, when we start to see what's in, what happened behi

i am actually going back to eisenhower -- item q. i forgot that we give five minutes of public comment for the first reading items. i believe that there are two speakers? when speaker? -- one speaker? great, two minutes. >> good evening. okay. i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak briefly about the proposal for a new charter school in san and cisco. with me -- sandra it is. with me are some of the volunteers -- san francisco. with me are some of the volunteers. and also, there are a number of other members on the team that could not be here this evening. but we have been working diligently on this. we are eager to work with the committees and all of the commissioners to bring it our alternative choice to families and students in san francisco. the proposal that we have submitted through the office -- includes a strong, diverse cultural influences. the teacher facilitated program with an emphasis on group processes and related skills resulting in powerful learning teams and including exemplary participation on many levels.

had after the blair house shooting, and we had no threats whatsoever or attempts against president eisenhower. >> so that's one of the things that changed as a result of dallas. >> absolutely. >> presidents don't ride in open cars. >> yes, that's right. i had an opportunity at our luncheon to take a look at president obama's car. i hardly had the energy to open the door. [laughter] >> it's not obama's car, it's a secret service car prepared for the president of the united states who happens to be, at the present, obama. [laughter] >> clint, you were going to add something. >> well, you mentioned this particular building, why wasn't this building secured, were the windows open or closed? we came down main street, all the windows were open on every building down main street. people were hanging out the windows, people were on balconies, rooftops, which building should we have secured on main street or at the corner of houston and elm? if you're only going to have a building secure, how about the rest of them? so you just couldn't do it. >> isn't it true, though, that the public perception you g

now, at that time we were at peace when eisenhower spoke those words. but of course we have men and women losing their lives in uniform for our benefit and our freedom and we should as eisenhower said remember them in prayer both for their safety and thanksgiving. president kennedy had wonderful, wonderful christmas messages, as did other presidents. but let me make sure people understand who don't understand christianity, and don't understand that it is possible to love someone and not agree with their lifestyle. that it's possible to even lay down one's life for people they love, even though they disagree completely with their lifestyle. i served with -- i serve with colleagues here, because the gentleman from massachusetts pointed out, who serve here and are openly avowed homosexuals and i understand that. and i have friends who practice homosexuality. people i love, care about, there are people who practice adultery as heterosexuals and in all of those cases, as a member of the military, i would gladly lay down my life for them and their freedom bec

eisenhower was a soviet d. agent, one of my favorites. you know, i'm sorry if you thiny that general and president eisenhower is a communist spye i then you are not welcome in ourat conservative movement. he stood up. theth problem is we don't seeda. enough of that today.s our political leaders are the afraid. ecognize or fear that the fringe is blurring with the base and are afraid that if they stand up they will alienate their baseal and lose a close partisan primary.É there are somse political resonance that add credibility to that fear.o what we need to do to restore our some balance and backbone to our politics is start standing up to the extremes on both sides. i really believe that is the tht only way that we are going to cc stop the cycle of incitement that we are in before it gets even uglier. any that is not to claim that at an given time there is quality ofat extremes in our politicaltreme,b debate, but if you buy into thit idea that only one side and blay party is to blame you compound the problem.bout. that is what i am conc

it goes back to, the story goes, the eisenhower ministries and where president eisenhower, who of course had spent some time over in the pentagon in the military, to put it mildly, he got to the white house in 1953 and said where is my legislative affairs officer? what are you talking about? well, you know, who is the person responsible for implementing, you know, working with me on congressional affairs we don't know what you are talking about. over at the pentagon. we have an officer in charge of everything, and there is somebody over there who does, you know, congressional relations. oh, yeah, that is new. we can set up that office and ss sort of diffused throughout the government, but beginning sometime in the early 50s the white house legislative affairs office was set up and one of the early incompetence of the office called it -- his job was to build bridges across the yawning constitutional chasm, being the executive branch and the legislative ranch. he also said it was his job to unchecked the checks and unbalanced the balances. it is a pretty apt description are certainly poeti

way more advanced than us like ten times more money in like in a better society and then you look at eisenhower like whore and nothing and those struggling to survive in town are that the country they believe took their jobs from them is now the one they're looking to for help preassure either party millinocket mean. or you can always find more news blogs and analysis and interviews on our website just sneak here's just a sneak a look at what's online. right now prime minister putin takes to the mat in st petersburg to show young wrestlers that you can't beat a black belt even if you use fifty eight you can join his master class online right now. and muslims in the usa since nine eleven terror obsessed mainstream media has been typecasting followers of their faith as enemies find out who is really behind the headlines. the israeli government is up reading some arab tribes from the desert they've lived in for more than a century but it says the bedouins built their homes without permission activists claim the crackdown on arab villages a mystery place them with jewish settlements parties policy

way more advanced than us that ten times more money in like in a better society and then you look at eisenhower like whore and nothing and those struggling to survive in town are angry that the country they believe took their jobs from them is now the one they're looking to for help preassure either party millinocket maine. coming your way at six thirty pm g.m.t. join us as we travel across american soil to a part that was once very much a piece of rushing. into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition language. this is the first to compete could be. in culture. to think. that the have the dems are still unaware of what's going on in their mind you still asking me what it's like. i don't know anything about. the great. israeli government is up rooting nomadic arab tribes from a desert they've lived in for more than a century the jewish state says the bedouins built their homes without permission but there is deep suspicion that the crackdown on arab villages is to replace them with jewish settlements more from artie's paulus leader of the negev desert. in the middle of nowhere the

torch marshall etd, that 1885, eisenhower 1890. and it's not that far removed from their boyhood to the british as our hereditary enemy, with the british tried to keep us in getting their independence paper in the capital on the war of 1812 and so on. they're pretty and deeply imprinted on that. there were other reasons, too. world war i experiences and so on. but this surprises me. and clearly coalition warfare is the gain. the best team is going to win world war ii. eisenhower understands that in his bones really and that's really his job. he's a middle infielder marshall at best. but that's not his job. his job is to hold together this fractious, disparate coalition, which has many centrifugal forces pulling on it. and one of the centrifugal forces is this deep-seated animus that many of our generals in particular feel towards the british. and so the price me. you know, there are many surprises about kerry or a lack of character that you come across. i continue to find things -- one of the great things about researching a subjec

more advanced than us think ten times more money and like in a better society and then you look at eisenhower like poor and nothing and those struggling to survive in town are treated the country they believe took their jobs from them is now the one they're looking to for help preassure either r t millinocket mean. right now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.n. has recognized the ivory coast opposition leader on a sunday otara as the winner of the country's disputed presidential election income of la ronde barber both inter and declare that all nine thousand u.n. peacekeepers in the country are enemy combatants you know national body accuses good dog bo of obstructing access to the suspected mass graves of at least one hundred seventy three people killed in post-election violence is comes just a day after opposition knocked the country's only t.v. channel offline depriving the incumbent of an important propaganda tool. italian anarchist group has claimed responsibility for carrying out two blasts in rome on thursday melbourne of exploded in the hands of employees a

i think in the eisenhower years it was less than 1%. there were three or four years where eisenhower actually ran surpluses. and it was true in the 1960's. we began to develop chronic deficits in the 1970's. the only exception to the chronic deficit problem is that it's increased and that divided government in the 1990's, when we actually ran a surplus or two and were balancing the budget. the kansian problem is that if the state runs chronic deficits year after year in periods of growth and prosperity, it loses the capacity to run those deficits in periods of slumps. so you will accumulate, over a period of years, such a debt that you won't be able to exercise that latitude in times of slump. and that's a kind of a political problem. our deficit now is close to $14 trillion. it's approaching 100% of g.d.p. if we only ran those significant deficits in times of slumps, well, we could probably manage it. but the political process makes that very difficult. a second points i would make that is we've developed what i would call the moral ha

a small chance of a passing eisenhower. highsgain tomorrow only 30 degrees. still frigid thursday. could get flurries in virginia. partly cloudy. milder on friday but still cold. over the weekend there is a chance we could get a snowstorm saturday night, into sunday. stil preliminary outlook. this could change. >>> things could be very, very tough. folkin damascus, route 27, germantown, brink road, this is what road conditions rely look like. as you approach the light, give yourself plenty of extra breaking distance. let's head over and give you a couple other savings. takoma park, stretch of philadelphia avenue, that's at it looks like there. colesville at franklin doing okay. here's the american legion bridge. let's go over and check the rails and see how we're doing at this hour. red line delays on metro. we'll detail that in just a second. but red line delays just in. metro no delays. joe, eun. >> jerry, thank you. >>> well, you can now take the mega bus from d.c. to ten new cities. it mainly traveled between washington and new york. startingomorrow it will include boston, char

>> i think the best recipe is probably mamie eisenhower's fudge. when she married ike, she told my husband she didn't know how to cook, even policy water, and after she married him, he was the chef. she ran across this recipe, and it's so good even kids can make it. fantastic. and my second favorite is probably ronald reagan's pumpkin pecan pie because it's just like pumpkin pie pie, but it's got the nuts on top. >> you also have a recipe in here from harry reid. >> yes, i do. it's chicken breast and paprika cream sauce, and it's very good. i have ron paul, too, and michele bachmann, so you have every kind of political persuasion you could want. >> "capitol hill cooks" is the name of the book, linda bauer is the author from the white house. congress and all of the past presidents. >> coming up, thomas allen presents a history of torrey americans during the american revolution. the author recounts the torrey strongholds of new york and philadelphia, the civil war that took place among the american populace and the migration of 80,000 tories most of

here is a live shot of beltway at eisenhower avenue. both the outer and inner loop holding steady. no problems reported between springfield and the wilson bridge. your lanes are open northbound on i-95 leaving woodbridge and the prints william parkway continuing up towards lorton. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> a five-star luxury hotel may be coming to the heart of adams morgan but there is a catch. there are complaints mounting about a possible $46 million tax break for the developer. the project is slated for the corner of euclid and champlain streets. our careen gray houston went there to sort this whole thing out. >> reporter: it is a project that would change the vibe in the changing yet trendy adams morgan neighborhood. a fancy boutique hotel called the addition hotel would have 174 rooms, underground parking, a swimming pool, bars and restaurants that could compete with the ritz and four seasons. >> it will an absolute delight. >> reporter: sean owns three bars on 14th street. he didn't see a down side to the new hotel. as proposed, the project who take up

this is a live shot of traffic on the outer loop and inner loop to and from eisenhower avenue and so far without delay. lanes are open out on 66 coming in from manassas coming in towards the capital beltway. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. >> thank you. >>> the big story we are following this morning, a virginia man is under arrest this morning. police say that he was going to blow up metro trains. according to the fbi, this man's name is awais younis. he made those threats via facebook to a person who had friended him on the site. federal authorities say the tipster told him he used the alias sunny ghilzai and he vied how to build pipe bombs. >> this guy looks like he was a big talker boasting to someone he met on facebook about what he was going to do. but it is also people like that that suddenly get the urge and question out and actually do something. if it wasn't a bomb in the metro, maybe he would go out and buy a gun and start shooting people. >> we should point out that he does not yet face terrorism charges. he is charged with making threats over state lines. he

looking now at a live picture of the auditorium in the eisenhower executive building, the president moments away from coming out along with the vice president and the revelation, the signing, the implementation of what will be known as the obama tax cuts. ultimately seen as a very beneficial political deal by most political analysts, again, the republican party getting a lot of things that were valuable to them, most notably, a less aggressive estate tax, not to mention containuation of the tax rates for the wealthy. the democrats gettingç a lot o what they wanted, a continuation of the tax cuts for the middle class along with an extension of the unemployment benefits. what is unclear in the political deal is whether this political deal, which is perhaps beneficial to the short-term longevity of democrats and republicans will do anything to actually enhance the prosperity of america. remember, all of these tax give away, whether to the rich, the poor or middle class, are being funded with borrowed money from the future prosperity and future wealth creation of this country. $900 billion al

on november 13, president eisenhower responded to this by delivering a speech, a major speech. he said "the soviet union now has the combined category of scientists and engineers in greater number than the united states. it is producing graduates in these fields at a much faster rate. this trend is disturbing. indeed, according to my scientific advisers, this is, for the american people, the most critical problem of all. my scientific advisers place this problem well above all other immediate tasks, over producing missiles, of producing techniques in the armed services. we need scientists for the 10 years ahead. -- ed." said he took a long view of this moment of crisis -- ahead." so, he took a long view of this moment of crisis. i was the beneficiary of that. in high school, i went to science programs during the summer. when i went to college, there was money being poured into investments for universities. i got a fellowship when i went to graduate school. i got a post doctorate scholarship. many of my scientific colleagues were trained in a similar sort of way. the united stat

is it bush, gerald ford, jimmy carter or eisenhower? the answer is coming up answer. so you think about that one? >> okay. i didn't know i was going to be quizzed. >> there you g. snowing outside. dale city, virginia, you're seeing it right now. and it's just probably moments away, tucker says, from the immediate d.c. area. >> tucker, put your pants on, you have to get to work. wa >>> it is time for our garden grow segment. our favorite gardening expect derek thomas is here to talk about just decking the halls. and really deck our ating our homes for the holidays. even though it's just nine days left until christmas. >> it's unique ideas to take some decor that you would use elsewhere and repurpose it. >> great. >> it's time for the dinners. the holiday dinners are coming up. what about if you were to turn a wreath and a miniature poinsettia ora -- or a grouping of them into the perfect holiday centerpiece for the table. >> that's gorgeous. >> yes, i took the wreath at the centerpiece and what i did was i just sit the plants until the center of the wreath and that's t

eisenhower: in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed... >> john lennon: ♪ you may say ♪ i'm a dreamer ♪ but i'm not the only one >> ( blowing whistle ) >> ♪ i hope someday... >> good night, baby. >> ♪ ...you'll join us ♪ and the world ♪ will be as one >> woman: together, we are the human network. cisco. i love working with animals, but my allergies put me in a fog. so now, i'm claritin clear! claritin works great on all my allergies like dust, mold, pollen, or pets without making me drowsy, cause i want to be alert around this big guy. live claritin clear. indoors and out. >>> good afternoon to you. nice to see you. house of cards indeed. liberal democrats in the house vowing to fight the president's tax cuts deal with republicans. will they back down and is this really the best way to create jobs in this economy with this sort of tax shenanigan? plus, new fallout from the controversial ruling declaring the health care law constitutional. the obama administration filing an appeal about with whether the judge had conflict of i

he spoke at the eisenhower executive office building. skwraoeurbgs for the past few weeks there's been a lot of talk about taxes and a lot of political positioning between the two parties. around kitchen tables americans are asking just one question, are we going to allow their taxes to go up on january 1, or will we meet our responsibilities to resolve our differences and do what is necessary to speed up the recovery and get people back to work. there is no doubt that the differences between the parties are real and profound. ever since i started running for this office i have said we should only extend the tax cuts for the middle class. these are the americans who have taken the biggest hit, not only from this recession but from nearly a decade of costs that are gone up while their paychecks have not. it would be a grave injustice to let taxes increase for these americans right now and it would deal a serious blow to our economic recovery. now, the republicans have a different view. they believe that we should also make permanent the t

. >> reporter: if you fell asleep during the eisenhower administration and just week una trip to stow lake would reassure you that things haven't changed very much. >> like twilight zone. >> reporter: in a good way, that's what the general managers of the boathouse and other people think anyway. >> the pink popcorn has been on that side of the shelf for 50, 60 years. >> reporter: not the same popcorn? >> uhm, probably not. >> reporter: but it is that pink popcorn, hot dogs, it's- its and the old-timers ordering them. to make a visit today look like a picture frozen this time a summer campy feel. >> i was just a baby with my mother and father and shot of the boathouse. it was about 1934, '35. >> reporter: and jerry has been coming here since. i have my memories of stow lake, pink popcorn, birds, and the paddle boats where i would get halfway out on the lake and realize i still got go back. and i'm exhausted. >> it's an amazing place full of character, charm tracks digs but needs some love and attention. >> reporter: so they put out bids to fix it. long-time operators the family offered

eisenhower who once said, "go forth and protect in emergency only justice, fairness, and consideration and cooperation can finally leave men to the dawn of eternal peace." by repealing "don't ask, don't tell" today, we take a big step towards fostering justice, fairness, and consideration, and that real corporation president eisenhower spoke up. this fulfills an important campaign promise the president and i made and many here on this stage made and many of you fought for for a long time. repealing a policy that actually weakens our national security, diminishes our ability to have military readiness and violates the fundamental american principle of fairness and equality. that exact same set of principles that brave gay men and women will now be able to openly defend around the world. [applause] it is both morally and militarily simply the right thing to do. it is particularly important that this result was fully supported by those within the military who are charged with a blinding it. i want to pay particular respects with a personal note -- i used to be allowed to say in the senate

that is the real cooperation that president eisenhower spoke of. this was an important campaign promise that the president and i made. and many of you have fout for it for a long me. repealing the policy that actually weakens our national security, diminishes our ability to have military readiness, and violated the fundamental american principle of fairness and equality. the same set of principles that brave gay men and women will now be able to openly defend around the world. [applause] >> it is both morally and militarily the right thing to do. it is particularly important at this result was fullyupported by those in the military who are charged with implementing it. i want to pay particular respect -- a point of personal privilege, admiral mullen. you're a stand-up guy. [applause] i tnk they like you. [applause] he already has enough power. [laughter] it could not have been done without these men and women leading our military. it certainly could not have been done without the steady, dedicated, and persistent leadership of the president of the

the eisenhower interstate system would have gotten built with this kind of opposition? >> that's the analogy that came to my mind. we'd still be driving on two-lane highways. from coast to coast. if we had this. look, anyone who travels abroad knows that american infrastructure, which once was clearly the best and most advanced and sleekest and neatest in the world is no longer any of those things. i mean, in not just china, but go to france. go to places that we don't think of as having better infrastructure than we do. we're behind everybody in rail. and you know, the idea that we could ever do something as grand and as productive as the interstate highway system, right now, just kind of seems like a grim's fairytale. you can't imagine it with this total anti-government attitude that we're getting from scott walker. >> gene robinson of "washington post," as always, great, thanks. i'll meet you at the railroad deep powe. >> let's synchronize watches. >> thank you, gene. >>> this man decided where to play baseball next year. because of that a reporter may have to cover

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