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Lights are on but nobody's home. >> look at some republican numbers. >> we're good. we survived the faux filibuster. we are more united now as a party than we have been in a long time. >> here with us now former news week editor at large and princeton university professor evan thomas. >> now that's not a lesser ivy. right? so let's get it clear. ted cruz would not study with people from lesser ivies. so you have harvard, yale, princeton. >> ooh. >> those are the three ivies. ted cruz would -- >> they are not talking a lot about ted cruz at princeton. >> or harvard. >> no. >> really? >> princet...

David did for john adams. >> i hope so. >> david eisenhower, evan thomas, the new book is called and this bluff reinforced a status quo. it was invoked in berlin. where the apples have fallen. >> i get the point. i think about ike, i think about him as humble and how can a guy from kansas be where i am at right now and some things i really think are great about that guy and you're doing what david did for john adams. >> i hope so. >> david eisenhower, evan thomas, the new book is called "ike's bluff." post world war ii history, it's the best. anyway, we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] we ...

But in that period, the idea that -- >> okay. >> the united states and the soviet union would have a general nuclear exchange over differences, say, regarding berlin or cuba was to some degree a bluff. but it was something that rested, i think, on a hard-nosed understanding that the soviets did not, in the final analysis, want war, nor did we. and this bluff reinforced a status quo. it was invoked in berlin. where the apples have fallen. >> i get the point. i think about ike, i think about him as humble and how can a guy from kansas be where i am at right now and some things i really think are...

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Bickering and gridlock in congress, so today we thought we'd take a look back at a figure who was so popular both parties wanted him as their candidate for the presidency. dwight david eisenhower was the man who commanded ally troops to victory in world war ii. he ultimately ran as a republican, of course, in 1952 and won becoming this country's 34th president in what was arguably the most dangerous period following the end of the second world war. the details are in a new book "ike's bluff: president eisenhower's battle to the save the world." the author is joining me now. good sunday afterno...