Pres. Eisenhower on Face the Nation

Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower said Vice President Richard Nixon had given him no indication he planned to run for president on the November 10, 1963 edition of Face the Nation. (CBS NEWS)

[@abrahamlincoln5185]

I miss the eloquent speakers of old American politics

[@briansauer7086]

Even G.W. Bush was an eloquent speaker compared to Trump.

[@TheDanrox110]

“These people are really the best, they’re doing a terrific job. Much better than the failing New York Times or that Pelosi”

[@alejandroperez-yy9ym]

Same now we have a child in the whole house all the good old presidents are gone 😭

[@actualideas8078]

Dan Whooley still CIA Mockingbird propaganda. Why would Eisenhower actually be defending Nixon?

[@actualideas8078]

Thomas Paine wow the name Thomas Paine really does suit you. Wasn’t he a loyalist for a while before he finally got his head on straight? You are a biased Democrat who cannot see thru people like LBJ and FDR? Lol wow. Try learning economics and understanding the Federal Reserve first before spouting off Bull Sh*t

[@mohammedjibril3745]

My respect for this man has increased tenfold since reading some amazing books on him. Don't be fooled by the genial grandfatherly look. He had a mind like a steel trap and was a political operator of the highest order.

[@UnhingedReviews]

I wish we could have a president as good as him nowadays

[@patrickc3419]

For sure!! He’s easily in my top 5.

[@dag5852]

Not a bad one but nowhere near the best

[@andypandy4607]

@@dag5852your favourite is probably Buchanan or Andrew johnson

[@garymorris1856]

@@dag5852 The best in the 20th century.

[@mandykhoo2473]

Honesty promotes clarity

[@actualideas8078]

tinwoods either lying or under qualified to be president

[@christopherthorkon3997]

The timing is pretty amazing. Just 12 days before the assassination of Kennedy -- just 12 days before Walter Cronkite would make one of the best known announcements of his career.

[@paulettemaximun2505]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this information.👽☠️☠️👽♥️☮️☯️🇺🇸

[@actualideas8078]

And here he is defending Richard Nixon? The man who took us off the Gold Standard. Don’t forget that tid bit

[@haroldiscool6410]

@@actualideas8078 FDR basically killed the gold standard tbf

[@davidhopeman9622]

@@actualideas8078 And *$🇨🇳BuyDumbs'🇨🇳$* traitorous criminal puke *BIDEN-BUCKS* polices are about to take our dollar currency off of the paper *standard.* BIDINFLATION is what you get when you replace *"IN GOD WE TRUST"* with the new motto to be placed on our currency. The new motto on our currency ? 👉 *YOU HAVE MY WORD AS A BIDEN* *🤚HEIL ! 🇨🇳BuyDumb🇨🇳*

[@Tom-TV-vl4to]

@@haroldiscool6410 i feel like nixon killed it off more

[@user-ft2vf9lk7v]

General Eisenhower is my favorite US President. Was a good man. Never betrayed his country.

[@actualideas8078]

Except when he integrated the school system like the Liberal he was.

[@actualideas8078]

tinwoods hahah yeah Nixon... for Watergate... what about when Nixon took us off the Gold Standard?? You need to study up on that so you can begin to appear intelligent.

[@actualideas8078]

tinwoods don’t forget LBJ: Hart-Celler Act of 1965 Bill Clinton: Perjury and Background checks Obama: War in Syria and Quantitative Easing programs.

[@FC-rr5qo]

John Stuart Leibowitz democratics dont have memory.

[@michaelm4870]

@@actualideas8078 wait what? Integration is a good thing... Am I missing something or are you a segregationist pos

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

I would highly recommend watching the 1964 CBS Reports: "D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy." Powerful program.

[@Lafayette320]

And in Dec., 1969, a grown up David Eisenhower married Julie Nixon, Richard Nixon's older daughter, a marriage that has endured all these nearly 49 years later. The Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains is also named for David Eisenhower. President Roosevelt had originally named it Shangri la, but Ike renamed it Camp David and no other President has ever renamed it.

[@laurencebarton276]

Eisenhower was reserved with every word. Many feel he felt threatened by Nixon due to significant heart problems that plagued him during some of his White House years. Ike was a national hero but didn't want to share the spotlight with anyone. His Presidency was largely a guardianship of the country; the strong economy and innovations that emerged were because of the private sector, not his policies. But because he was a military genius with impeccable credentials, we stayed at peace as Russia didn't want to trigger him. They waited for the next occupant to pursue Cuba. That's just one person's take.

[@edoardopesce9226]

Nothing bad in being the guardian of the country. It's a political philosophy as great as liberalism (according to the American meaning of this word). Ike had strong views about government and community. Historians have realized that only a few years ago.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Of course Eisenhower gave us the Interstate Highways, he raised Social Security, raised the Minimum Wage, and kept the corporate tax rate at 70 percent - basic liberalism. He went full speed ahead with the Hydrogen Bomb. Those moves by his administration shaped the nation as much or more than the private sector.

[@abalogh87]

I would say his policies directly effected the trajectory of the economy. He created NASA, public dollars/investment into science, math and engineering, balanced budgets and no wars.

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

I don't know about military genius -- his political role was more important even as supreme commander in WWII -- but definitely military stature.

[@bchristian85]

That sounds exactly what a President should be.

[@robbie_]

Amazing man. Possibly the US's best President.

[@nov20five]

Wow, a civil exchange of dialog. I miss that.

[@shawnmalone9711]

I like Ike!

[@byronarnason6006]

I adore Ike.

[@amitbhadra7537]

Byron Arnason who doesn’t

[@actualideas8078]

He was not a Conservative. He was a Liberal.

[@byronarnason6006]

Not Conservative or Liberal. He was a God-sent Prophet. He warned us against the Global Warming "Technical Elite". And he warned us against the LBJ-inspired Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex who killed JFK and Bobby and John Jr.

[@DiveEntertainment47]

we all like Ike And even if you dont, you like Ike

[@darthbriboy]

I am a far left libertarian socialist and Ike is one of the few Republican president's I have a lot of respect and admiration of. He was a good principled man who wanted to protect our social services and protect us from the military industrial complex.

[@6h471]

darthbriboy A far cry from what the republican party has degenerated into today. Ike shook my hand at a campaign stop in late 1955. I was 2 yrs old at the time and naturally don't remember it, but I've always been proud of that.

[@GrymgaRPG]

I beg to differ he did not protect us from the military industrial complex he helped create it.

[@chrissnyder3430]

Any other labels you wanna place on yourself ya effin idiot? Take yer free loadin utopian ideas and get on outta here nah! Go to Venezuela and live the dream.

[@TheL4LMusic]

It's easier to just tell people you're a communist

[@chrissnyder3430]

@@GrymgaRPG It made him what he turned out to be. Lol. I always found it odd that he would offer a warning.

[@briang.7206]

Walter Cronkite a well respectful reporter who gave truth in reporting especially about the Vietnam war.

[@Wesker226]

One of my favorite Presidents

[@mosespray4510]

The press hated Nixon well before Watergate.

[@philliphsieh83]

I support and will obey Dwight D. EISENHOUR forever!

[@redjirachi1]

Five years later, they would be connected by marriage.

[@joshuaherpolsheimer4699]

Who would?

[@johnfarr2738]

David (Eisenhower’s Grandson) and Julie (Nixon’s Daughter) married

[@BillyBob-ec5ox]

Nixon loved Ike, and has always regarded him as one of his personal heroes. He always spoke of him with the utmost reverence.

[@VicciWilliams]

I was just only 16 months old when this was originally aired. I'm sure my Mom & Dad watched this interview at the time.

[@marbury2403]

Ok

[@BGTuyau]

Cool cat, Eisenhower. Just gets better with age -not least in comparison with the current [2023] occupant of his former post.

[@sb416]

He signed the contract with the aliens

[@chech5774]

12 days before JFK assassination.

[@zerocool1344]

Wow, JFK only has 12 days left.

[@Nerdtendo6366]

This man is legitimately my favorite President. I watched a movie with an I Like Ike joke and out of desperation for merchandise(it’s practically non existent) so I bought an Ike shirt. After starting to do research about him, he slowly became my favorite president

[@leannetompkins9498]

Bless his heart 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@edwelndiobel1567]

Its funny how much more eloquent they were despite the pauses and uhs. I think I sound like a entitled 16 year old girl when I talk. How do I learn to speak this way?

[@perdog9859]

Read books, history, and speeches. Practice writing articles or speeches.

[@MrLazyKeith]

Why did they take down the American Experience full Dwight Eisenhower documentary. Most of the stuff on this president is gone.

[@andrewhoyle1521]

That was one of the better ones especially about any president. He was a very good president to. One of the last moral, competent men to occupy the white house

[@paranormal33]

"Why did THEY take it down"?????? Really? Most of the Eisenhower info is gone????? Oh my!!! You are an idiot!!!

[@andrewhoyle1521]

@@paranormal33 why am I an idiot?

[@andrewhoyle1521]

@@paranormal33 and I think it's back up their

[@chrissnyder3430]

Probably cuz he might be the last honest POTUS we have seen???

[@bradyfry8031]

Eisenhower was a good man and president, unfortunately I feel like his presidency was overshadowed by JFK. Even though Kennedy is mostly remembered for his speeches.

[@bradkennett7504]

Sure miss the days of Walter, they have so much respect unlike today and fake news

[@geoffwalker4764]

even the church's quit teaching scripture. instead Tommorrow going to be better than today. and thats the way it is oct 1 2019

[@MikeSmith-tm3zq]

In the original farewell speech text, Eisenhower wrote it as _MICC_ ... Military Industrial _Congress_ Complex Politicians were able to convince him to change that prior to the speech. Patton wouldn't have caved.

[@brianarbenz1329]

And Eisenhower wouldn’t have slapped a wounded soldier.

[@wmbrown6]

The opening announcer sounds like Roger Forster.

[@2021kyoto]

Why did Dwight David Eisenhower really appoint Richard Milhouse Nixon as Vice President?I do not fault Eisenhower for giving Nixon the Vice Presidency.Ike could never anticipate that in over a decade later,the Watergate break-in would occur,and end the Political career of Richard Milhouse Nixon.

[@garymorris1856]

One of the greatest American patriots in history, and the best president in my lifetime, by a wide margin.

[@musicmatty67]

There’s a reason why Eisenhower served two terms and there’s a reason why our country was at its strongest with prosperity and peace during his administration. There has always been and will be forces of evil within our political establishment on both sides of the aisle that try to disparage great people who love our country such as Eisenhower, Nixon and Trump.

[@nightowl5475]

I would of love to see Ike’s reaction if Walter Cronkite asked him, “Mr. President, what is your reaction to a CBS news poll we gave to 1,000 registered voters about Richard Nixon. Most people wouldn’t vote for a man they don’t feel comfortable buying a used car from?” Ike would start stuttering, “Ahhhh, well, ahh…”

[@onlyMistaZ]

Is this the full interview? Please post it if it’s not

[@sterlingpless9280]

Hes a great governed from center man and didn't listen to Democrats and Republicans... Top five President and quickly got us out of Korea

[@moboutmen]

The last of the days before everything changed. Everything.

[@DinoZecchini]

GREAT COMMANDER

[@hugo_kruger]

I've always wondered who the Frenchman is.

[@groundhopeunder717]

Damn Nixon was playing him. What a cunning man

[@cy9152]

Was he? or have you been played? Find a combat veteran of Vietnam and ask them what they think about Nixon

[@brianarbenz1329]

I knew several Vietnam combat veterans who despised Nixon. They saw him as the traitor he was.

[@joeiiiful]

If anyone thinks "Fake news" is a new phenomenon, listen to these hosts.

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@criminalnchief5989]

Yeah this is way before the HOAXFOX starting destroying America. HOAXFOX didn't exist until after the fairness doctrine was eliminated

[@zachrizzo6525]

Walter Cronkite is a legend

[@kennethbode2017]

Little did he know David would become a Nixon family member

[@nickhanlon9331]

Didn't exactly rush to endorse Nixon.

[@PeterFlanagan0987]

Nick Hanlon in fairness it would have looked bad for whoever won had it not been Nixon

[@insanepyro322]

He was wishy-washy on Nixon his whole career. He says some pretty hilarious insulting stuff about him then praise him 5 minutes later.

[@robertrichard6107]

Eisenhower had launched Operation Dixie in the late 50's which Goldwater was actually using by then for his '64 campaign. 'course in less then 9 months LBJ would stage his Gulf of Tonkin false flag, and just needed to run the Crazy Goldwater nuclear bomber ad one day on TV to beat Barry Goldwater by Nov. 64. Nixon started developing the Southern Strategy by '65, hedging the bets on civil rights. Reagan was beating his bongos in the south about the TVA soo much, General Electric didn't like him anymore!

[@TravelinBand747]

Eisenhower usually played his cards close to the vest. Nixon was never a close adviser of Eisenhower's, but he dutifully played the attack dog role against the press and opponents of the administration and took a beating, allowing Eisenhower to seem like he was mostly above the fray. The way that Nixon got treated by Eisenhower's inner circle was pretty bad, particularly in the run up to the 1956 reelection campaign, where Eisenhower was urged to drop Nixon to run with someone else. They let speculation dangle in the press for months and Nixon was deeply affected and depressed by reports of his impending replacement.Though Eisenhower was one of the most shrewd and legendary military leaders of the 20th century, he could be oddly wishy washy and indecisive on some political matters (dealing head-on with Joseph McCarthy, for example), or so it seemed. I don't think Eisenhower cared at all for the dirty business of Washington politics.

[@thunderbird1921]

That's because he really didn't want Nixon. Eisenhower publicly made it clear he wanted Reagan to be his successor in the Republican Party (In a 1967 speech, Ike said that Ronald Reagan was one of the men he most admired in the world and that he would make a fine presidential candidate). He basically put his mantle on him before he died.

[@dw9932]

Im so happy about being related to most of the Presidents from george Washington to nixon nixon did bad choices but the ones before were great men who fought for our freedoms and did it mostly with great graces and held respect

[@Dana_inc]

It better be aliens! To be this fearful! 🤬

[@freelywheely]

Eisenhower: I like Richard as a person, but he scares me as a politician.

[@daleravic]

He warned us and we didn't listen.

[@jamesstewart8377]

Wow 12 days later the world would change.

[@fazbell]

I like Ike.

[@paulbadoo9326]

He actually disliked Niton.

[@johnherlihy2259]

I like Ike!!👍🤓😁

[@francesrude3007]

I remember those "I like Ike buttons" and "hats" and "banners"they'd be collectables today. lol.

[@spectrum10]

Dewey or don't we?

[@bobbycraig6168]

What Would General George Patton have actually thought of or have even said about Eisenhower and his Political and Primary Role And Status as The President Of The United States for eight long years going from 1953 - 1961 had he lived on past December of 1945 had he never been killed from those Severe and Life Threatening injuries that he had suffered in that Car Accident and Collision Itself I wonder ? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ?

[@robertrichard6107]

Patton never got a fifth star. Ol' Blood 'n Guts could sure run with the Intel Ike would give him huh?

[@spectrum10]

@@robertrichard6107 The soldier slapping incidents damaged his career.

[@RobBCactive]

Like Buchanan the most experience didn't end well, Ike's faith in Nixon was unjustified.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I don’t really think he had any faith in Nixon, but picked him in 1952 because of the momentary need to quell a right wing rebellion over his centrist policies. It was short term expedience.

[@rickredmond9847]

Eerie that this interview was conducted 12 days before JFK was assassinated.

[@paulettemaximun2505]

Thanks

[@Craig_Montalbano]

Will Nixon run next year. Sadly this was 12 days before JFK’s assassination. Leaving us stuck with LBJ

[@loggerman8928]

The media even then hated Nixon.

[@troubledsole9104]

They smelled a rat.

[@robertrichard6107]

Nixon brought in the McCarthy era with his masters the Bush's, that was where he picked up media dislike. Of course Cronkite hated JFK, but you didn't have news back then like we've had since they changed the FCC laws in '87 to make room for Rush Limpdong.

[@zerocool1344]

@@troubledsole9104 rat? He was a great president. Tapes destroyed him, at least he wasn't Obama using the FBI to bug Trump tower. Ohhhhhh, that's okay, but recording a hotel office isn't???

[@troubledsole9104]

@@zerocool1344 That’s not what did him in. It was his own paranoia in covering up the break in.

[@suechun8871]

Cornkite was under much better rule...a true man of honoe never twisting the truth...need that back again never to be undone. Obama gets sredit for our news mess.

[@Tom-TV-vl4to]

wow this was recorded on November 10, 1963, just weeks before jfk's assassination

[@thegambler2196]

Ike is the greatest man to exist

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

He had an affair with his secretary for years. He knew jfk was in danger and did nothing to warn him

[@KleWdSide]

Was Trump a better POTUS than Eisenhower?

[@tomsullivan6032]

Joe Biden so much more on the ball then Ike!

[@michaelglazewski4884]

Haha

[@Amick44]

Definitely more than the previous guy!

[@zenodotusofathens2122]

Notice how the media was Left-leaning even then. Walter Cronkite was trying to drive a wedge between Eisenhower and Nixon after Eisenhower said Nixon was capable and courageous. Cronkite tries to suggest that Eisenhower was cool to Nixon or did not like him.

[@TravelinBand747]

There had always been speculation on that, and it came to a boil when Eisenhower made a flippant remark at a press conference to "give me a week and I might think of one" when he was asked to name a major decision to which Nixon had contributed in the eight years. It was a foolish remark, and Eisenhower had his share of verbal gaffes. He did not want Kennedy to win at all and tried to walk it back later.

[@SandfordSmythe]

There was a well-known story there.

[@edwardanthony7283]

The last great President.

[@Paulpatine]

The last good Republican president

[@geoffwalker4764]

Ronald Reagan.and trump great leaders

[@rorojara001]

I think Nixon, with all of their flaws.

[@geoffwalker4764]

Reagan and TRUMP both made america great again

[@geoffwalker4764]

@@rorojara001 nixon did nothing compared to obama.obama spyed on the whole world nixon just did Democrat convention at watergate

[@troubledsole9104]

@@geoffwalker4764 Trump lies constantly even over the dumbest things. He also made a lot of dumb decisions that will cost us dearly. Reagan was a great communicator, but his policies on unions ultimately lead to the income inequality we have today.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Back when conservatives didn't storm out of interviews when the questions got tough.

[@echt114]

@Brian Arbenz: Back when "conservative" didn't mean scumbag (though there were some).

[@JeanValjean875]

He wasn't a conservative. He was a Republican, but not particularly conservative.

[@Payable_Upon_Death]

So even presidents back in the day were endorsing nominees that they disliked while in office. Like how Hillary Obama disliked each other until Obama left office. Then Obama then approved of Hillary. Strange.

[@brianarbenz1329]

He chose her as his Secretary of State.

[@christophermcd9845]

Just 12 days later, we lost a legend. One of the greatest Presidents ever

[@goodguyty941]

If you think cheating on your wife and starting Vietnam is great lmao

[@LessTrustMoreTruth]

Kennedy was Meh and I mean that as being at best. Only in office for two years. His VP was a racist Dixiecrat. Got into Vietnam. One in a long line of Democrats seeking to capitalize on the basest instincts of human nature.

[@criminalnchief5989]

@@goodguyty941 Eisenhower administration with vice president Nixon started sending U.S special forces advisers to train the south vietnamese military and the Eisenhower administration with vice president Nixon didn't hold the elections in south Vietnam in 1956. So Eisenhower started the Vietnam war and it happened right after the French lost at dein bein phu. Those elections should have taken place in south Vietnam in 1956 but Eisenhower wanted the Vietnam war and his speech about the military industrial machinery was just Eisenhower feeling guilty about increasing the military industrial complex during his 8 years. Diem was a OLIGARCH gangster puppet installed by the Eisenhower administration and no 1956 elections in south Vietnam

[@criminalnchief5989]

The Eisenhower administration installed OLIGARCH puppet diem in 1955

[@ohio72213]

@@goodguyty941 you dont know anything about how politics work. If anyones to really blame for Vietnam its Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was a war profiteer and was too stubborn to pull out

[@JPJ740]

as olde duggie macarthur once allegedly quipped, "best clerk i ever had".

[@actualideas8078]

It seems to me that he is either covering for Nixon here or Nixon convinced him he was a good man

[@averagejohnson3985]

How was Nixon a bad president? He was actually a very liberal president, against the war in Vietnam, took usa off the gold standard, pong diplomacy with Maoist China, furthered Great Society programs, etc. People that say Nixon was unpopular are utterly uninformed, he won reelection in '72 by a complete LANDSLIDE. Watergate was a witch hunt, a way to remove a democratically elected leader on technicalities and it has set a terrible precedent in the usa since

[@MassinissaIbrahimi-qv3dv]

@@averagejohnson3985 What about Indians and Pinochet? He also started the war on drugs. Not gonna mention watergate.

[@SandfordSmythe]

He didn't get to be Supreme Commander for nothing. He did very well with Churchill, Montgomery, Patton.

[@perrycummins2717]

The last good Republican president.

[@hawkeyeten2450]

You DO know Eisenhower endorsed Reagan and touted him as a presidential candidate, right?

[@georgewyman1992]

Cronkite was Leading "like a Lawyer"

[@robertrichard6107]

He was practicing to say "Three shots rang out!" so Jerry Ford would get it straight.

[@asfdghkjxzcvnbm2580]

back when usa was pure

[@asfdghkjxzcvnbm2580]

sadly they went through a great ordeal to bring abt their own demise

[@roybatty6368]

Trump 2024

[@jamesdunn9714]

The USA's present leader isn't even fit to shine Ike's shoes.

[@ShawnLamont1997]

Amen !

[@hawkeyeten2450]

Try the least FIVE leaders. Bush Sr. was honestly the last leader of the USA the world TRULY respected, IMHO.

[@GregoryRoyal]

The unsightly fruit formerly waste because plier operationally bump worth a chemical decrease. silly, graceful seal

[@thatguyoverthere468]

I can’t stop watching Ike’s eyes.... they’re so distracting and noticeably darker compared to the rest of him

[@matthewmiller9526]

Looks like the interview happened in his house in Gettysburg, can still be seen today , exactly like that. For many years Ike was a hero of mine but now with all that’s been unveiled in the last few years it appears he was simply a front. He did what he was told by the owners and allowed a lot of problems that we are still dealing with today to get out of hand. The main one being the CIA. When he was first elected the CIA was just starting out and there was a window of opportunity to get some kind of control of it but he allowed Dulles to do whatever he wanted and it ended up costing JFK his life and this country it’s freedom. Not to mention the wars, the takeover of the media, and astronomical corporate corruption .He is a disappointment.

[@Ma007rk]

That is a very interesting Segway. I was born during the Eisenhower administration and would like to know where you get your information from. I'm not going to challenge anything, Because i don't know enough about what you are saying to do that, But I am curious.

[@harvestusher1938]

Miller is right, he was a military genius. He was not presidential material. Listen to his farewell address to the nation. He realizes he has created a monster in the"C.I.A" and he was trying to warn the nation. It was too late!!!

[@matthewmiller9526]

harvest usher I seriously doubt he was a military genius either, overall I don’t think he was a very bright guy at all, he was useful to the powers that be. He was pliable you might say. Patton was a military genius, MacArthur but not Ike. He simply had control of overwhelming force. Patton argued with him to be more daring but he just lined them up and pushed ahead, losing a good many men where maneuver may have saved them. When asked about Ike MacArthur said “he was the best clerk he ever had”. Not much of an endorsement.

[@harvestusher1938]

Miller, when i say"military genius" I'm trying to give him credit for something because he was not a good pres. He had no speaking skills and was not a good off the cuff Speaker. He is almost in the"Trump camp".

[@robertsvorinich890]

@@Ma007rk Indeed, I would like to be informed.

[@georgefranklin4872]

Dude makes a lot of excuses

[@robertrichard6107]

Goldwater was his man, but LBJ wasn't going to let that happen.

[@cibida1]

Eisenhower reminds me of the crooked Irish cop from The Godfather. McCluskey.

[@loggerman8928]

The media even then hated Nixon.

[@jimhanold9026]

True, Logger Man! :(

[@liecrusher3506]

Because he exposed communists, which they hated, since they, themselves, were communists.

[@SandfordSmythe]

@@liecrusher3506 He tended to expose people who were not.