Pres. Eisenhower on Face the Nation

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  • Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower said Vice President Richard Nixon had given him no indication he planned to run for president on the November 10, 1963 edition of Face the Nation. (CBS NEWS)

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  • @abrahamlincoln5185
    @abrahamlincoln5185 Před 4 lety +284

    I miss the eloquent speakers of old American politics

    • @briansauer7086
      @briansauer7086 Před 4 lety +18

      Even G.W. Bush was an eloquent speaker compared to Trump.

    • @TheDanrox110
      @TheDanrox110 Před 4 lety +1

      “These people are really the best, they’re doing a terrific job. Much better than the failing New York Times or that Pelosi”

    • @alejandroperez-yy9ym
      @alejandroperez-yy9ym Před 4 lety +3

      Same now we have a child in the whole house all the good old presidents are gone 😭

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety

      Dan Whooley still CIA Mockingbird propaganda. Why would Eisenhower actually be defending Nixon?

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety +1

      Thomas Paine wow the name Thomas Paine really does suit you. Wasn’t he a loyalist for a while before he finally got his head on straight? You are a biased Democrat who cannot see thru people like LBJ and FDR? Lol wow. Try learning economics and understanding the Federal Reserve first before spouting off Bull Sh*t

  • @mohammedjibril3745
    @mohammedjibril3745 Před 2 lety +81

    My respect for this man has increased tenfold since reading some amazing books on him. Don't be fooled by the genial grandfatherly look. He had a mind like a steel trap and was a political operator of the highest order.

  • @christopherthorkon3997
    @christopherthorkon3997 Před 4 lety +144

    The timing is pretty amazing. Just 12 days before the assassination of Kennedy -- just 12 days before Walter Cronkite would make one of the best known announcements of his career.

    • @paulettemaximun2505
      @paulettemaximun2505 Před 4 lety +3

      Wow! Thank you for sharing this information.👽☠️☠️👽♥️☮️☯️🇺🇸

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety +2

      And here he is defending Richard Nixon? The man who took us off the Gold Standard. Don’t forget that tid bit

    • @haroldiscool6410
      @haroldiscool6410 Před 2 lety +4

      @@actualideas8078 FDR basically killed the gold standard tbf

    • @davidhopeman9622
      @davidhopeman9622 Před rokem

      @@actualideas8078 And *$🇨🇳BuyDumbs'🇨🇳$* traitorous criminal puke *BIDEN-BUCKS* polices are about to take our dollar currency off of the paper *standard.* BIDINFLATION is what you get when you replace *"IN GOD WE TRUST"* with the new motto to be placed on our currency.
      The new motto on our currency ?
      👉 *YOU HAVE MY WORD AS A BIDEN*
      *🤚HEIL ! 🇨🇳BuyDumb🇨🇳*

    • @Tom-TV-vl4to
      @Tom-TV-vl4to Před 11 měsíci

      @@haroldiscool6410 i feel like nixon killed it off more

  • @mandykhoo2473
    @mandykhoo2473 Před 6 lety +91

    Honesty promotes clarity

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety

      tinwoods either lying or under qualified to be president

  • @UnhingedReviews
    @UnhingedReviews Před rokem +36

    I wish we could have a president as good as him nowadays

    • @patrickc3419
      @patrickc3419 Před rokem +2

      For sure!! He’s easily in my top 5.

    • @dag5852
      @dag5852 Před 11 měsíci

      Not a bad one but nowhere near the best

    • @andypandy4607
      @andypandy4607 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@dag5852your favourite is probably Buchanan or Andrew johnson

    • @garymorris1856
      @garymorris1856 Před 2 měsíci

      @@dag5852 The best in the 20th century.

  • @Lafayette320
    @Lafayette320 Před 4 lety +38

    And in Dec., 1969, a grown up David Eisenhower married Julie Nixon, Richard Nixon's older daughter, a marriage that has endured all these nearly 49 years later. The Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains is also named for David Eisenhower. President Roosevelt had originally named it Shangri la, but Ike renamed it Camp David and no other President has ever renamed it.

  • @michaelbarnhart2593
    @michaelbarnhart2593 Před rokem +13

    I would highly recommend watching the 1964 CBS Reports: "D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy." Powerful program.

  • @user-ft2vf9lk7v
    @user-ft2vf9lk7v Před 4 lety +84

    General Eisenhower is my favorite US President. Was a good man. Never betrayed his country.

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety +3

      Except when he integrated the school system like the Liberal he was.

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety +4

      tinwoods hahah yeah Nixon... for Watergate... what about when Nixon took us off the Gold Standard?? You need to study up on that so you can begin to appear intelligent.

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety +4

      tinwoods don’t forget LBJ: Hart-Celler Act of 1965
      Bill Clinton: Perjury and Background checks
      Obama: War in Syria and Quantitative Easing programs.

    • @FC-rr5qo
      @FC-rr5qo Před 4 lety +2

      John Stuart Leibowitz democratics dont have memory.

    • @michaelm4870
      @michaelm4870 Před 2 lety +2

      @@actualideas8078 wait what? Integration is a good thing... Am I missing something or are you a segregationist pos

  • @mosespray4510
    @mosespray4510 Před 2 lety +13

    The press hated Nixon well before Watergate.

  • @nov20five
    @nov20five Před 2 lety +7

    Wow, a civil exchange of dialog. I miss that.

  • @laurencebarton276
    @laurencebarton276 Před 2 lety +24

    Eisenhower was reserved with every word. Many feel he felt threatened by Nixon due to significant heart problems that plagued him during some of his White House years. Ike was a national hero but didn't want to share the spotlight with anyone. His Presidency was largely a guardianship of the country; the strong economy and innovations that emerged were because of the private sector, not his policies. But because he was a military genius with impeccable credentials, we stayed at peace as Russia didn't want to trigger him. They waited for the next occupant to pursue Cuba. That's just one person's take.

    • @edoardopesce9226
      @edoardopesce9226 Před 2 lety +5

      Nothing bad in being the guardian of the country. It's a political philosophy as great as liberalism (according to the American meaning of this word). Ike had strong views about government and community. Historians have realized that only a few years ago.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem +2

      Of course Eisenhower gave us the Interstate Highways, he raised Social Security, raised the Minimum Wage, and kept the corporate tax rate at 70 percent - basic liberalism. He went full speed ahead with the Hydrogen Bomb. Those moves by his administration shaped the nation as much or more than the private sector.

    • @abalogh87
      @abalogh87 Před rokem +2

      I would say his policies directly effected the trajectory of the economy. He created NASA, public dollars/investment into science, math and engineering, balanced budgets and no wars.

    • @ExVeritateLibertas
      @ExVeritateLibertas Před rokem

      I don't know about military genius -- his political role was more important even as supreme commander in WWII -- but definitely military stature.

    • @bchristian85
      @bchristian85 Před 9 měsíci

      That sounds exactly what a President should be.

  • @VicciWilliams
    @VicciWilliams Před 3 lety +16

    I was just only 16 months old when this was originally aired. I'm sure my Mom & Dad watched this interview at the time.

  • @sb416
    @sb416 Před rokem +4

    He signed the contract with the aliens

  • @shawnmalone9711
    @shawnmalone9711 Před 5 lety +83

    I like Ike!

    • @byronarnason6006
      @byronarnason6006 Před 4 lety +8

      I adore Ike.

    • @amitbhadra7537
      @amitbhadra7537 Před 4 lety +3

      Byron Arnason who doesn’t

    • @actualideas8078
      @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety +1

      He was not a Conservative. He was a Liberal.

    • @byronarnason6006
      @byronarnason6006 Před 4 lety +8

      Not Conservative or Liberal. He was a God-sent Prophet.
      He warned us against the Global Warming "Technical Elite".
      And he warned us against the LBJ-inspired Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex who killed JFK and Bobby and John Jr.

    • @DiveEntertainment47
      @DiveEntertainment47 Před 3 lety +2

      we all like Ike
      And even if you dont, you like Ike

  • @robbie_
    @robbie_ Před rokem +9

    Amazing man. Possibly the US's best President.

  • @darthbriboy
    @darthbriboy Před 5 lety +40

    I am a far left libertarian socialist and Ike is one of the few Republican president's I have a lot of respect and admiration of. He was a good principled man who wanted to protect our social services and protect us from the military industrial complex.

    • @6h471
      @6h471 Před 5 lety +12

      darthbriboy A far cry from what the republican party has degenerated into today. Ike shook my hand at a campaign stop in late 1955. I was 2 yrs old at the time and naturally don't remember it, but I've always been proud of that.

    • @GrymgaRPG
      @GrymgaRPG Před 5 lety +1

      I beg to differ he did not protect us from the military industrial complex he helped create it.

    • @chrissnyder3430
      @chrissnyder3430 Před 4 lety +3

      Any other labels you wanna place on yourself ya effin idiot? Take yer free loadin utopian ideas and get on outta here nah! Go to Venezuela and live the dream.

    • @TheL4LMusic
      @TheL4LMusic Před 4 lety +11

      It's easier to just tell people you're a communist

    • @chrissnyder3430
      @chrissnyder3430 Před 4 lety

      @@GrymgaRPG It made him what he turned out to be. Lol. I always found it odd that he would offer a warning.

  • @briang.7206
    @briang.7206 Před 2 lety +7

    Walter Cronkite a well respectful reporter who gave truth in reporting especially about the Vietnam war.

  • @Wesker226
    @Wesker226 Před 4 lety +15

    One of my favorite Presidents

  • @chech5774
    @chech5774 Před 5 lety +63

    12 days before JFK assassination.

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 Před 5 lety +24

    Five years later, they would be connected by marriage.

  • @zerocool1344
    @zerocool1344 Před rokem +4

    Wow, JFK only has 12 days left.

  • @edwelndiobel1567
    @edwelndiobel1567 Před rokem +5

    Its funny how much more eloquent they were despite the pauses and uhs. I think I sound like a entitled 16 year old girl when I talk. How do I learn to speak this way?

    • @perdog9859
      @perdog9859 Před rokem +3

      Read books, history, and speeches. Practice writing articles or speeches.

  • @BGTuyau
    @BGTuyau Před rokem +4

    Cool cat, Eisenhower. Just gets better with age -not least in comparison with the current [2023] occupant of his former post.

  • @BillyBob-ec5ox
    @BillyBob-ec5ox Před rokem +3

    Nixon loved Ike, and has always regarded him as one of his personal heroes. He always spoke of him with the utmost reverence.

  • @MrLazyKeith
    @MrLazyKeith Před 5 lety +12

    Why did they take down the American Experience full Dwight Eisenhower documentary. Most of the stuff on this president is gone.

    • @andrewhoyle1521
      @andrewhoyle1521 Před 5 lety +9

      That was one of the better ones especially about any president. He was a very good president to. One of the last moral, competent men to occupy the white house

    • @paranormal33
      @paranormal33 Před 4 lety +1

      "Why did THEY take it down"?????? Really? Most of the Eisenhower info is gone????? Oh my!!! You are an idiot!!!

    • @andrewhoyle1521
      @andrewhoyle1521 Před 4 lety +1

      @@paranormal33 why am I an idiot?

    • @andrewhoyle1521
      @andrewhoyle1521 Před 4 lety

      @@paranormal33 and I think it's back up their

    • @chrissnyder3430
      @chrissnyder3430 Před 4 lety +4

      Probably cuz he might be the last honest POTUS we have seen???

  • @joeiiiful
    @joeiiiful Před 4 lety +21

    If anyone thinks "Fake news" is a new phenomenon, listen to these hosts.

    • @zenodotusofathens2122
      @zenodotusofathens2122 Před 3 lety +3

      I was thinking the same thing.

    • @criminalnchief5989
      @criminalnchief5989 Před 2 lety

      Yeah this is way before the HOAXFOX starting destroying America. HOAXFOX didn't exist until after the fairness doctrine was eliminated

  • @kennethbode2017
    @kennethbode2017 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Little did he know David would become a Nixon family member

  • @bradkennett7504
    @bradkennett7504 Před 5 lety +26

    Sure miss the days of Walter, they have so much respect unlike today and fake news

    • @geoffwalker4764
      @geoffwalker4764 Před 4 lety

      even the church's quit teaching scripture. instead Tommorrow going to be better than today. and thats the way it is oct 1 2019

  • @MikeSmith-tm3zq
    @MikeSmith-tm3zq Před 2 lety +2

    In the original farewell speech text, Eisenhower wrote it as _MICC_ ... Military Industrial _Congress_ Complex Politicians were able to convince him to change that prior to the speech. Patton wouldn't have caved.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem

      And Eisenhower wouldn’t have slapped a wounded soldier.

  • @wmbrown6
    @wmbrown6 Před 4 lety +1

    The opening announcer sounds like Roger Forster.

  • @leannetompkins9498
    @leannetompkins9498 Před 4 lety +4

    Bless his heart 🤦🏼‍♀️

  • @freelywheely
    @freelywheely Před 2 lety +9

    Eisenhower: I like Richard as a person, but he scares me as a politician.

  • @2021kyoto
    @2021kyoto Před rokem +2

    Why did Dwight David Eisenhower really appoint Richard Milhouse Nixon as Vice President?I do not fault Eisenhower for giving Nixon the Vice Presidency.Ike could never anticipate that in over a decade later,the Watergate break-in would occur,and end the Political career of Richard Milhouse Nixon.

  • @moboutmen
    @moboutmen Před rokem +1

    The last of the days before everything changed. Everything.

  • @nickhanlon9331
    @nickhanlon9331 Před 4 lety +17

    Didn't exactly rush to endorse Nixon.

    • @PeterFlanagan0987
      @PeterFlanagan0987 Před 4 lety +3

      Nick Hanlon in fairness it would have looked bad for whoever won had it not been Nixon

    • @insanepyro322
      @insanepyro322 Před 4 lety +5

      He was wishy-washy on Nixon his whole career. He says some pretty hilarious insulting stuff about him then praise him 5 minutes later.

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 Před 4 lety

      Eisenhower had launched Operation Dixie in the late 50's which Goldwater was actually using by then for his '64 campaign. 'course in less then 9 months LBJ would stage his Gulf of Tonkin false flag, and just needed to run the Crazy Goldwater nuclear bomber ad one day on TV to beat Barry Goldwater by Nov. 64. Nixon started developing the Southern Strategy by '65, hedging the bets on civil rights. Reagan was beating his bongos in the south about the TVA soo much, General Electric didn't like him anymore!

    • @TravelinBand747
      @TravelinBand747 Před 3 lety +1

      Eisenhower usually played his cards close to the vest. Nixon was never a close adviser of Eisenhower's, but he dutifully played the attack dog role against the press and opponents of the administration and took a beating, allowing Eisenhower to seem like he was mostly above the fray. The way that Nixon got treated by Eisenhower's inner circle was pretty bad, particularly in the run up to the 1956 reelection campaign, where Eisenhower was urged to drop Nixon to run with someone else. They let speculation dangle in the press for months and Nixon was deeply affected and depressed by reports of his impending replacement.Though Eisenhower was one of the most shrewd and legendary military leaders of the 20th century, he could be oddly wishy washy and indecisive on some political matters (dealing head-on with Joseph McCarthy, for example), or so it seemed. I don't think Eisenhower cared at all for the dirty business of Washington politics.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 Před rokem

      That's because he really didn't want Nixon. Eisenhower publicly made it clear he wanted Reagan to be his successor in the Republican Party (In a 1967 speech, Ike said that Ronald Reagan was one of the men he most admired in the world and that he would make a fine presidential candidate). He basically put his mantle on him before he died.

  • @bradyfry8031
    @bradyfry8031 Před rokem +3

    Eisenhower was a good man and president, unfortunately I feel like his presidency was overshadowed by JFK. Even though Kennedy is mostly remembered for his speeches.

  • @hugo_kruger
    @hugo_kruger Před 4 lety +1

    I've always wondered who the Frenchman is.

  • @philliphsieh83
    @philliphsieh83 Před 2 měsíci

    I support and will obey Dwight D. EISENHOUR forever!

  • @onlyMistaZ
    @onlyMistaZ Před 3 měsíci

    Is this the full interview? Please post it if it’s not

  • @Nerdtendo6366
    @Nerdtendo6366 Před 3 měsíci

    This man is legitimately my favorite President. I watched a movie with an I Like Ike joke and out of desperation for merchandise(it’s practically non existent) so I bought an Ike shirt. After starting to do research about him, he slowly became my favorite president

  • @smilanesi98
    @smilanesi98 Před 25 dny

    Going on Face The Nation then was an honorable experience. The moderators were true journalists and showed respect for the guests. Today, you do not Face the Nation. You face a bunch of hacks.

  • @dw9932
    @dw9932 Před 10 měsíci

    Im so happy about being related to most of the Presidents from george Washington to nixon nixon did bad choices but the ones before were great men who fought for our freedoms and did it mostly with great graces and held respect

  • @groundhopeunder717
    @groundhopeunder717 Před 3 lety +6

    Damn Nixon was playing him. What a cunning man

    • @cy9152
      @cy9152 Před rokem +2

      Was he? or have you been played? Find a combat veteran of Vietnam and ask them what they think about Nixon

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem

      I knew several Vietnam combat veterans who despised Nixon. They saw him as the traitor he was.

  • @nightowl5475
    @nightowl5475 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I would of love to see Ike’s reaction if Walter Cronkite asked him, “Mr. President, what is your reaction to a CBS news poll we gave to 1,000 registered voters about Richard Nixon. Most people wouldn’t vote for a man they don’t feel comfortable buying a used car from?” Ike would start stuttering, “Ahhhh, well, ahh…”

  • @zachrizzo6525
    @zachrizzo6525 Před 2 lety +2

    Walter Cronkite is a legend

  • @sterlingpless9280
    @sterlingpless9280 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Hes a great governed from center man and didn't listen to Democrats and Republicans... Top five President and quickly got us out of Korea

  • @musicmatty67
    @musicmatty67 Před 2 měsíci

    There’s a reason why Eisenhower served two terms and there’s a reason why our country was at its strongest with prosperity and peace during his administration. There has always been and will be forces of evil within our political establishment on both sides of the aisle that try to disparage great people who love our country such as Eisenhower, Nixon and Trump.

  • @jamesstewart8377
    @jamesstewart8377 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Wow 12 days later the world would change.

  • @daleravic
    @daleravic Před 10 měsíci

    He warned us and we didn't listen.

  • @garymorris1856
    @garymorris1856 Před 2 měsíci

    One of the greatest American patriots in history, and the best president in my lifetime, by a wide margin.

  • @loggerman8928
    @loggerman8928 Před 6 lety +11

    The media even then hated Nixon.

    • @troubledsole9104
      @troubledsole9104 Před 4 lety +4

      They smelled a rat.

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 Před 4 lety

      Nixon brought in the McCarthy era with his masters the Bush's, that was where he picked up media dislike. Of course Cronkite hated JFK, but you didn't have news back then like we've had since they changed the FCC laws in '87 to make room for Rush Limpdong.

    • @zerocool1344
      @zerocool1344 Před rokem

      @@troubledsole9104 rat? He was a great president. Tapes destroyed him, at least he wasn't Obama using the FBI to bug Trump tower. Ohhhhhh, that's okay, but recording a hotel office isn't???

    • @troubledsole9104
      @troubledsole9104 Před rokem

      @@zerocool1344 That’s not what did him in. It was his own paranoia in covering up the break in.

  • @fazbell
    @fazbell Před 10 měsíci +1

    I like Ike.

  • @paulbadoo9326
    @paulbadoo9326 Před 2 lety

    He actually disliked Niton.

  • @Dana_inc
    @Dana_inc Před 5 měsíci

    It better be aliens! To be this fearful! 🤬

  • @bobbycraig6168
    @bobbycraig6168 Před 5 lety +4

    What Would General George Patton have actually thought of or have even said about Eisenhower and his Political and Primary Role And Status as The President Of The United States for eight long years going from 1953 - 1961 had he lived on past December of 1945 had he never been killed from those Severe and Life Threatening injuries that he had suffered in that Car Accident and Collision Itself I wonder ?
    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ?

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 Před 4 lety

      Patton never got a fifth star. Ol' Blood 'n Guts could sure run with the Intel Ike would give him huh?

    • @spectrum10
      @spectrum10 Před 2 lety +1

      @@robertrichard6107 The soldier slapping incidents damaged his career.

  • @RobBCactive
    @RobBCactive Před 3 lety +5

    Like Buchanan the most experience didn't end well, Ike's faith in Nixon was unjustified.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před rokem

      I don’t really think he had any faith in Nixon, but picked him in 1952 because of the momentary need to quell a right wing rebellion over his centrist policies.
      It was short term expedience.

  • @rickredmond9847
    @rickredmond9847 Před 4 lety +3

    Eerie that this interview was conducted 12 days before JFK was assassinated.

  • @christophermcd9845
    @christophermcd9845 Před 5 lety +20

    Just 12 days later, we lost a legend. One of the greatest Presidents ever

    • @goodguyty941
      @goodguyty941 Před 4 lety +5

      If you think cheating on your wife and starting Vietnam is great lmao

    • @LessTrustMoreTruth
      @LessTrustMoreTruth Před 3 lety +6

      Kennedy was Meh and I mean that as being at best. Only in office for two years. His VP was a racist Dixiecrat. Got into Vietnam. One in a long line of Democrats seeking to capitalize on the basest instincts of human nature.

    • @criminalnchief5989
      @criminalnchief5989 Před 2 lety

      @@goodguyty941 Eisenhower administration with vice president Nixon started sending U.S special forces advisers to train the south vietnamese military and the Eisenhower administration with vice president Nixon didn't hold the elections in south Vietnam in 1956. So Eisenhower started the Vietnam war and it happened right after the French lost at dein bein phu. Those elections should have taken place in south Vietnam in 1956 but Eisenhower wanted the Vietnam war and his speech about the military industrial machinery was just Eisenhower feeling guilty about increasing the military industrial complex during his 8 years. Diem was a OLIGARCH gangster puppet installed by the Eisenhower administration and no 1956 elections in south Vietnam

    • @criminalnchief5989
      @criminalnchief5989 Před 2 lety

      The Eisenhower administration installed OLIGARCH puppet diem in 1955

    • @ohio72213
      @ohio72213 Před rokem +4

      @@goodguyty941 you dont know anything about how politics work. If anyones to really blame for Vietnam its Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was a war profiteer and was too stubborn to pull out

  • @DinoZecchini
    @DinoZecchini Před 2 měsíci

    GREAT COMMANDER

  • @Tom-TV-vl4to
    @Tom-TV-vl4to Před 11 měsíci

    wow this was recorded on November 10, 1963, just weeks before jfk's assassination

  • @brianarbenz7206
    @brianarbenz7206 Před 6 lety +31

    Back when conservatives didn't storm out of interviews when the questions got tough.

    • @echt114
      @echt114 Před 4 lety +5

      @Brian Arbenz: Back when "conservative" didn't mean scumbag (though there were some).

    • @JeanValjean875
      @JeanValjean875 Před 2 lety

      He wasn't a conservative. He was a Republican, but not particularly conservative.

  • @Craig_Montalbano
    @Craig_Montalbano Před 2 lety +1

    Will Nixon run next year. Sadly this was 12 days before JFK’s assassination. Leaving us stuck with LBJ

  • @baronvonnembles
    @baronvonnembles Před 3 dny

    Here is an example of Walter Cronkite playing the media game of "get Nixon". With a chance to interview Ike and ask some serious questions what does he do but go off on gossipy nonsense? Eisenhower was the last GOP President that the media gave half a break to, and that was only because he was virtually unassailable given his position in WW2.

  • @johnherlihy2259
    @johnherlihy2259 Před 4 lety +1

    I like Ike!!👍🤓😁

    • @francesrude3007
      @francesrude3007 Před 4 lety +1

      I remember those "I like Ike buttons" and "hats" and "banners"they'd be collectables today. lol.

    • @spectrum10
      @spectrum10 Před 2 lety

      Dewey or don't we?

  • @KleWdSide
    @KleWdSide Před 2 lety +1

    Was Trump a better POTUS than Eisenhower?

  • @thegambler2196
    @thegambler2196 Před 9 měsíci

    Ike is the greatest man to exist

  • @suechun8871
    @suechun8871 Před 3 lety +2

    Cornkite was under much better rule...a true man of honoe never twisting the truth...need that back again never to be undone. Obama gets sredit for our news mess.

  • @JPJ740
    @JPJ740 Před 4 lety

    as olde duggie macarthur once allegedly quipped, "best clerk i ever had".

  • @actualideas8078
    @actualideas8078 Před 4 lety +1

    It seems to me that he is either covering for Nixon here or Nixon convinced him he was a good man

    • @averagejohnson3985
      @averagejohnson3985 Před 4 lety +4

      How was Nixon a bad president? He was actually a very liberal president, against the war in Vietnam, took usa off the gold standard, pong diplomacy with Maoist China, furthered Great Society programs, etc. People that say Nixon was unpopular are utterly uninformed, he won reelection in '72 by a complete LANDSLIDE. Watergate was a witch hunt, a way to remove a democratically elected leader on technicalities and it has set a terrible precedent in the usa since

    • @MassinissaIbrahimi-qv3dv
      @MassinissaIbrahimi-qv3dv Před 3 lety

      @@averagejohnson3985 What about Indians and Pinochet? He also started the war on drugs. Not gonna mention watergate.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe Před 2 lety +1

      He didn't get to be Supreme Commander for nothing. He did very well with Churchill, Montgomery, Patton.

  • @stevemiller4292
    @stevemiller4292 Před 14 dny

    Top 5 American

  • @tomsullivan6032
    @tomsullivan6032 Před 2 lety

    Joe Biden so much more on the ball then Ike!

  • @opticscolossalandepicvideo4879

    He had an affair with his secretary for years. He knew jfk was in danger and did nothing to warn him

  • @Paulpatine
    @Paulpatine Před 5 lety +24

    The last good Republican president

    • @geoffwalker4764
      @geoffwalker4764 Před 5 lety +6

      Ronald Reagan.and trump great leaders

    • @rorojara001
      @rorojara001 Před 4 lety +1

      I think Nixon, with all of their flaws.

    • @geoffwalker4764
      @geoffwalker4764 Před 4 lety +3

      Reagan and TRUMP both made america great again

    • @geoffwalker4764
      @geoffwalker4764 Před 4 lety +3

      @@rorojara001 nixon did nothing compared to obama.obama spyed on the whole world nixon just did Democrat convention at watergate

    • @troubledsole9104
      @troubledsole9104 Před 4 lety +5

      @@geoffwalker4764 Trump lies constantly even over the dumbest things. He also made a lot of dumb decisions that will cost us dearly. Reagan was a great communicator, but his policies on unions ultimately lead to the income inequality we have today.

  • @DrtyDan88
    @DrtyDan88 Před 4 lety +1

    So even presidents back in the day were endorsing nominees that they disliked while in office. Like how Hillary Obama disliked each other until Obama left office. Then Obama then approved of Hillary. Strange.

  • @zenodotusofathens2122
    @zenodotusofathens2122 Před 3 lety +2

    Notice how the media was Left-leaning even then. Walter Cronkite was trying to drive a wedge between Eisenhower and Nixon after Eisenhower said Nixon was capable and courageous. Cronkite tries to suggest that Eisenhower was cool to Nixon or did not like him.

    • @TravelinBand747
      @TravelinBand747 Před 3 lety +1

      There had always been speculation on that, and it came to a boil when Eisenhower made a flippant remark at a press conference to "give me a week and I might think of one" when he was asked to name a major decision to which Nixon had contributed in the eight years. It was a foolish remark, and Eisenhower had his share of verbal gaffes. He did not want Kennedy to win at all and tried to walk it back later.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe Před 2 lety

      There was a well-known story there.

  • @georgewyman1992
    @georgewyman1992 Před 4 lety +1

    Cronkite was Leading "like a Lawyer"

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 Před 4 lety

      He was practicing to say "Three shots rang out!" so Jerry Ford would get it straight.

  • @asfdghkjxzcvnbm2580
    @asfdghkjxzcvnbm2580 Před 4 lety +1

    back when usa was pure

    • @asfdghkjxzcvnbm2580
      @asfdghkjxzcvnbm2580 Před 4 lety +1

      sadly they went through a great ordeal to bring abt their own demise

  • @edwardanthony7283
    @edwardanthony7283 Před 11 měsíci

    The last great President.

  • @jamesdunn9714
    @jamesdunn9714 Před 4 lety +3

    The USA's present leader isn't even fit to shine Ike's shoes.

    • @ShawnLamont1997
      @ShawnLamont1997 Před 4 lety

      Amen !

    • @hawkeyeten2450
      @hawkeyeten2450 Před rokem

      Try the least FIVE leaders. Bush Sr. was honestly the last leader of the USA the world TRULY respected, IMHO.

  • @thatguyoverthere468
    @thatguyoverthere468 Před 5 lety +2

    I can’t stop watching Ike’s eyes.... they’re so distracting and noticeably darker compared to the rest of him

  • @perrycummins2717
    @perrycummins2717 Před 2 lety

    The last good Republican president.

    • @hawkeyeten2450
      @hawkeyeten2450 Před rokem +1

      You DO know Eisenhower endorsed Reagan and touted him as a presidential candidate, right?

  • @roybatty6368
    @roybatty6368 Před 11 měsíci

    Trump 2024

  • @GregoryRoyal
    @GregoryRoyal Před 2 lety

    The unsightly fruit formerly waste because plier operationally bump worth a chemical decrease. silly, graceful seal

  • @cibida1
    @cibida1 Před 2 lety +1

    Eisenhower reminds me of the crooked Irish cop from The Godfather. McCluskey.

  • @georgefranklin4872
    @georgefranklin4872 Před 5 lety +3

    Dude makes a lot of excuses

    • @robertrichard6107
      @robertrichard6107 Před 4 lety

      Goldwater was his man, but LBJ wasn't going to let that happen.

  • @matthewmiller9526
    @matthewmiller9526 Před 5 lety +1

    Looks like the interview happened in his house in Gettysburg, can still be seen today , exactly like that. For many years Ike was a hero of mine but now with all that’s been unveiled in the last few years it appears he was simply a front. He did what he was told by the owners and allowed a lot of problems that we are still dealing with today to get out of hand. The main one being the CIA. When he was first elected the CIA was just starting out and there was a window of opportunity to get some kind of control of it but he allowed Dulles to do whatever he wanted and it ended up costing JFK his life and this country it’s freedom. Not to mention the wars, the takeover of the media, and astronomical corporate corruption .He is a disappointment.

    • @Ma007rk
      @Ma007rk Před 5 lety +1

      That is a very interesting Segway. I was born during the Eisenhower administration and would like to know where you get your information from. I'm not going to challenge anything, Because i don't know enough about what you are saying to do that, But I am curious.

    • @harvestusher1938
      @harvestusher1938 Před 4 lety +3

      Miller is right, he was a military genius. He was not presidential material. Listen to his farewell address to the nation. He realizes he has created a monster in the"C.I.A" and he was trying to warn the nation. It was too late!!!

    • @matthewmiller9526
      @matthewmiller9526 Před 4 lety +2

      harvest usher I seriously doubt he was a military genius either, overall I don’t think he was a very bright guy at all, he was useful to the powers that be. He was pliable you might say. Patton was a military genius, MacArthur but not Ike. He simply had control of overwhelming force. Patton argued with him to be more daring but he just lined them up and pushed ahead, losing a good many men where maneuver may have saved them. When asked about Ike MacArthur said “he was the best clerk he ever had”. Not much of an endorsement.

    • @harvestusher1938
      @harvestusher1938 Před 4 lety

      Miller, when i say"military genius" I'm trying to give him credit for something because he was not a good pres. He had no speaking skills and was not a good off the cuff Speaker. He is almost in the"Trump camp".

    • @robertsvorinich890
      @robertsvorinich890 Před 4 lety

      @@Ma007rk Indeed, I would like to be informed.

  • @loggerman8928
    @loggerman8928 Před 6 lety +7

    The media even then hated Nixon.

    • @jimhanold9026
      @jimhanold9026 Před 5 lety

      True, Logger Man! :(

    • @liecrusher3506
      @liecrusher3506 Před 5 lety +5

      Because he exposed communists, which they hated, since they, themselves, were communists.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe Před 2 lety

      @@liecrusher3506 He tended to expose people who were not.