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D.c. a monument honoring one of our greatest military leaders and president. president dwight d. eisenhower. a five star general served as supreme commander of the allied forces in europe even planning d-day. he was elected in 1952 during his time the in the oval office. president eisenhower supervised the desegregation of our military and of our schools. former senator bob dole and senator pat roberts are now trying to get that very deserved memorial for their fellow kansans. >> you got a great project going a memorial for president eisenhower; is that right? >> that is correct. dwight david ...

By german gunfire in combat in italy in 1945. now dole was near death on the battlefield, spent years languishing in the hospital recovering from the combat wounds that left him with permanent injuries. now senator dole was my guest that night buzz he was the chairman of the world war ii memorial campaign and led the effort to fund the memorial honoring those brave veterans. i don't have to tell you what they did for us by winning world war forii. but i suddenly had a horrible realization how disappointed i was with my own generation including me. why would it take the world war ii heros to fu...

Said to the president. he said, we're not dealing with a five star general here. so i think that gave you a sense of how much influence priebus will have on trump. this is a real mess. one as crystal said they had not done very much on immigration, for example. but any efforts they made to try to get back some decent share of the latino vote. this just blows all of that right out of the water. secondly none of these other candidates can get through. the document nanld news story is trump. we'll have a little talk about jeb bush and hillary clinton debating economics. but trump has knocked all ...

Generation needs more honesty and humility. he explores the lives of president dwight d. eisenhower, dorothy day and five star general george c. marshall and how life's stumbles can ultimately be the building blocks of success. i was especially taken i always liked this. you think of it as character. character is constancy. sticking to what you really believe no matter how much the wind blows against you. and ike didn't take us into indochina in '64 and he didn't go along with the clamor for war in the late '50s. he fought against the industrial military complex being pushed by jack kennedy an...

He learned it growing up and as commander in world war ii. he showed as president, he has a nice modesty and humility to get things done. >> how does that reconcile with a guy who ranks being a five-star general, you have to have an ego to do that. >> sure. he learned how to control it. he used to work for general mcarthur. he was glorious and that. eisenhower learned not to be that way. he said he got ahead by concealing his ambition. he did. it worked for him. >> if these great virtues include patient, confidence but not self-important, how does our current president stack up? >> i think he'...