47% of the people who vote for the president. the want lost. the term gained popularity 44 years ago this week, 1972. richard nixon s national security adviser has late news about the unpopular vietnam war. we believe peace is at hand. he s wrong. the war goes on and so does nixon s presidency and we have had october surprises ever since. 1980, many think that carter will be boosted over reagan by the release of the american hostages in iran. top reagan team member is indicted over the iran contra affair. bill clinton takes the white house.
democratic blowout. four years later, an audio tape of mitt romney characterizing half the voters as dependent on government hand outs. 47% of the people vote the term october surprise gained popularity 44 years ago this week. 1972. richard nixon s national security adviser, henry kissinger, has late news about the unpopular vietnam war. we believe it is at hand. reporter: he is wrong. the war goes on but doe does nixon s presidency. we have had october surprises ever since. 1980, many thing jimmy carter will be boosted over ronald reagan by the release of the american hostage in iran. it does not happen until after reagan has won. 1992, reagan s successor, george
up. in recoveries, wages tend to lag behind. we want to continue building on this progress to strengthen family income and job growth. that will help raise wages and income and extending the middle class tax cuts will help middle class families maintain higher after tax income. all right. alan kruger the chairman of the council of economic advisers. thanks for coming on this morning. thank you. we ll see you next month as well. just because the election happens doesn t mean we won t. thank you. trivia time we asked what is the last time minnesota voted for a republican in the presidential election. the answer 1972. richard nixon s landslide second election. before that you go back to 1956. giving the white house soup of the day, not many there to eat it, roasted vegetable.
one of the key strategists to america s success in world war ii. general douglas macarthur. what happened with them? that s more interesting. he called that decision one of the toughest of his presidency which is amazing, but macarthur was insubordinate. the korean war was not going well but he was still revered. he was practically a god in this country but truman couldn t take it anymore. he was insubordinate and he wanted to widen the war into china which truman was desperate to avoid so, he finally sacked him but he knew it probably would end his career because he was so popular and truman was right. in the new hampshire primary he did really poorly and that was the end of it. but history has proven truman to be right on that decision. let s jump ahead to 1972. richard m. nixon, china. talk about the significance of that trip and are we still feeling the ramification s of that? we are. nixon was a lot of things. he was paranoid. but he was brilliant. he was anti-communist but