D. C. E here in washington, at the northwest corner of the new, president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower. Starts about 1000 miles west of washington, d. C. In abilene, kansas. Inle eisenhower was born texas, his family moved back to kansas when he was just a toddler. He stay there through high school. I wanted direct your view to speech that is inscribed in this wall in the memorial. When world war ii ended, eisenhower came home and was given a heros welcome, and in a humble way, he started talking butt not that he was a hero what you dreamed of doing when he was a young boy in abilene, kansas. And ended with the proudest thing i can claim is that im from abilene. I come here first, to thank the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. [applause] that first paragraph of that speech was a primary inspiration for the designer of the memorial, frank gary. He has expressed that here in this statue of Young Eisenhower as a teenage boy, sitting on a stone block, looking i
75 years ago, the scene across america and europe is quite different than weve seen intoday. Thousands of people are waving flags, hugging, kissing in the streets, all covered and in the Early Morning hours 1945 the supreme allied commander science nazi germanys surrender. For the First Time Since 1941, the u. S. Capitol was made again in light. Most military historians agree it was eisenhowers unique skills and persuasion that enabled the allied effort to be successful. There was only one thing worse than fighting with allies and that is fighting without them. Simply put, i led the effort to present the western democracy and freedom and later as president in 1953 america experienced eight years in peace and prosperity. Tomorrow on the 71st anniversary of the victory of europe with legal victory in europe the Eisenhower Memorial Commission was set to dedicate the long awaited memorial just two blocks away. Eisenhower once said plans may end up but planning is everything. The Commission
Upcoming book fairs and festivals. And watch our previous full coverage, but the book fairs down on her website. We put tv. Org. Cspan2. [background sounds] good afternoon. Thank you for coming to our last panel. The 4 00 oclock panel. World war ii. Im professor we put the university, this will last about 45 minutes. Then well have about 15 minutes for q a. An responses for our panel, bank representatives, do we have any in the room. Lets take them. Now i have the pleasure [applause] now i have the pleasure of introducing our moderator. James, who its not only an attorney we put the jackson law firm, but recently retired as a regular general we put the Mississippi Air National Guard. Thank you for your service. [applause] loud [applause]. Welcome everyone to this panel of the afternoon. We want to extend a special welcome to those who might be watching us on cspan2. Im not sure how i ended up being the moderator hereur, i understand that john evans the owner of the bookstore from whom
To jump ship. 7 were going to to jump ship . Were going to have richard in the studio, but Katherine Forster has more. Katherine forster has more. Yes, he came from labour, the conservative party offered him a home, but could lee anderson now go over to the reform party . Go over to the reform party . Ill bring you the details of that meeting shortly. That meeting shortly. No thanks. Emmanuel macron britain has rejected a draft french plan to send nato troops into war in. Ukraine and the into war in. Ukraine and the Royal Protection verdict. Royal protection verdict. The duke of sussex will learn whether hes won a high Court Challenge over a decision to change the level of his personal security during our show this morning, well bring you that when we have it. When we have it. And theres a huge farmers demonstration in cardiff , demonstration in cardiff, tractors descending on the Welsh Parliament building. Remember, wales has been run by labour for 20 years and they are very, very unh
president roosevelt s not going to complete his fourth term in office the question is when and who s going to take on this responsibility? so to help us talk about or think about this period of truman assuming the presidency and then ending the war there are three main questions that we re going to try to answer. the first one is why harry truman is the vice presidential vice presidential candidate in 1944? and the second question is what is a post-war europe look like and then the third one? how is truman going to end the war? in the pacific when we think about truman as a vice presidential candidate. he would have been. the most surprised person to be on the ticket in fact going into the convention 1944 truman is a sitting senator from missouri. he s there to give a nomination speech for james burns. for the vice presidential nomination he doesn t aspire to be president. his wife doesn t aspire for him to be a president. he s perfectly happy. being a senator and that s real