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to mamie with music, 160 million join in our chorus. to mamie with music, to mamie, with love. susan swain: a birthday tribute to mamie eisenhower, televised nationally by cbs in march of 1956, just a few weeks after her husband, president dwight eisenhower, announced his bid for reelection. tonight, 1950s america and the life and times of first lady mamie eisenhower. good evening and welcome to c-span series, first ladies: influence and image. tonight is mamie eisenhower s turn. and here to tell us about her life are two people who have spent a lot of time with first ladies, and in particular in marilyn holt s case, mamie eisenhower. she s a historian and author of a biography called, mamie eisenhower, the general s first lady. we also welcome back edith mayo to the table. edie s been one of our guiding forces among academic historians on first ladies for this whole series. it s nice to see you again. edith mayo: nice to be back. susan: well, what should we tak ....
at penn station, arthur chi en, fox 5 news. ernie: thank you very much for that. let s continue to talk about this. two outstanding guests joining me. meet tony herbert, community activist. you ve been on before. thank you for being here. and darren porcher, former nypd lieutenant, and now with pace university. tony, another incident. why can t we stop this? purely economics. we have and have not continued the battle. we have a lot of people who are looking for a way to be able to term. at the end of the day, they d rather take than work for it. no one is saying it s okay to get a real job and to have access to resources we re putting in your community, which they re not doing. ernie: we have tough gun laws in new york city. where are the guns coming from? new york city and chicago have the toughest gun legislation laws in the country. these guns are coming from a place referred to as the iron pipeline. the iron pipeline comes through places like virginia, north car ....
the answer was there is no plan. i blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. it was criminal, said the president. the truth was the united states and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the united states still did not know who was running the soviet union. they sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like colonel sanders from kentucky fried chicken, clearly, a figure head. the head of the red army, ike s ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. eisenhower spent his son, john, to do some spying. subdued and shaken, just whispered, things are not as they seem. presidentize president eisenhower found out who was in charge on the fifth day of the conference. the big pier of the nuclear age wa ....
thank you to everyone here at the lyceum. and then thank you for everyone on zoom and joining through c-span as well. before we start i would like to inform everyone that this lecture will be recorded and available for lat viewing. my name is angelique moss and i m the chairwoman of the alexandria khan sister city committee. we are a volunteer city committee that promotes educational and cultural exchange between the city of kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. this is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of d-day. tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. holian. for our 12th annual d-day commemoration lecture dr. kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late john marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. he is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the northern virginia associatio ....
kahn and normandy and the city of alexandria here in virginia. this is the first of two programs that we will be hosting this year for the 78th anniversary of d-day. tonight is my pleasure to welcome back dr. holian. for our 12th annual d-day commemoration lecture dr. kim bernard holian was a professional historian with the us army for 34 years where he received commendations from the late john marshall secretary of the army and president ronald reagan. he is the recipient of the 2008 joseph l harsh history award for the northern virginia association of historians and the clover recipient of the 2016 t michael miller alexandria history award from the alexandria historical society. his father served in the us army medical as a medical officer during the second world war and took care of many d-day wounded on their return to england later serving under president dwight eisenhower s medical staff. we were fortunate to have dr. holian. join us as a lecturer last year and in ....