As our 34th president , he was the most recent and probably the last general to become president of the United States. During world war ii, he served as supreme allied commander, the brilliant military military strategist who defeated the nazis. Later, he treated new strategies to fight against communism. As president , he took strong stands to ensure equality and opportunity for americans of all races, genders, and creeds. Many of the agencies they came into being under dwight nasa,ower, faa, surrounded this site, which will now be known as eisenhower square. There are many people here today who we want to recognize who played a role in making the special day a reality. We want to recognize labor secretary, the transportation secretary. We are delighted to have several members from both sides of the aisle. Marcy kaptur, rob bishop, darrell issa, mike gallagher, kevin yoder, and betty mccollum. And from the great state of , we are happy to welcome sam brownback. It is a special honor t
Latest history news. Our cspan cities tour takes American History tv on road to feature the history of cities across america. Heres a recent program. In the years before the arrival of the trans continental railroad, tacoma was not d dissimilar from the other communities around puget sound and the northwest. The population was predominantly native american. By the end of the 19th century coming over the oregon trail and then some by sea, small little villages really of american, of europeans, had arrived. But mostly along the shoreline and that was because the primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber that was then sent down to san francisco. So that prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventurers to come up and begin to build cities and so seattle, bellingham, townsend, olympia, all were small, smallish communities of 50 to a few hundred people, really. Pride prior to the coming of t trans continental. But at the concl
American history tv in prime time focusing on the American West and cowboy culture. Up next how president Dwight Eisenhowers west upbringing noounsed his personal code of behavior and his actions as a military and political leader. We are pleased to have our own tim reaves here. He is our Deputy Director and our super vizry archivest. He is my goto guy for all archives and administrative records questions. I rely on him greatly. Hes here to speak to you today on the western influences on our dwight eisenhower. Hes a graduate of Wichita State and served in the United States army for five years. Thank you for your service. Tim is the author of many articles on a variety of subjects. These include eisenhower, of course, the presidency of ulysses s. Grant and prison baseball. Of course. So i hope that you enjoy our program today. Please welcome with me tim reaves. [ applause ] well, thanks everybody. And great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week, and really appreciate
Nativeamericans. Coming over the trail and then some by sea small little villages really of americans and europeans had arrived. But mostly along the shoreline, and that was because the primary purpose here for people that were settling was cutting timber and milling timber. That was then sent down to san francisco. So that prompted a lot of entrepreneurs and small investors and adventures to come up and begin to build cities. And so seattle, bellingham, olympia, all were small, sma smallish communities of 50 to 100 people. Really the pride of the transcontinental. But after the conclusion of the civil war and the announcement really that the railroad was coming, every community, you know, hoped that they would be the terminal sit a, that they would be chosen for the railroad. So it came down to really being between seattle, tacoma and olympia. And so by 1873, by early 1873 the transcontinental obviously was being built in two directions. So it didnt just have one rail. But a big decis
Iste house chief of staff first famously the gatekeeper, which means giving the president time and space to think. He is the broker of information, he made sure everything is teed up with information on every side. Takinghe heat shield, the incoming artillery for the president , getting all the blame and none of the credit. At the end of the day, the chief of staff is someone the president counts on to execute his agenda. Him importantly, to tell what he does not want to hear. Host you begin the book by writing about what appears to be an extraordinary answering of chiefs of staff from the past. They were meeting with rahm emanuel, who was working for barack obama. Tell us about that meeting. Extraordinary scene that took place in december 2008, when rahm emanuel was about to start is Barack Obamas chief of staff. We were on the verge of the great depression. Two wars, a bloody stalemate. It was a real crisis and former white house chiefs of staff on every side of the aisle from the ch