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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI like Ike
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."- President Dwight Eisenhower
Newsjock
(11,733 posts)Let alone as a Republican.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)be thrown out of the Democratic party, today.
Hell, even most DUers would wring their hands and say that Ike was too extreme... To the left.
flamingdem
(39,335 posts)really truly and he even spoke to me.
edit: don't get the wrong idea this was a public event and he ruffled my hair
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)He warned us. JFK tried to defuse it. And, here we are, 50 years later with Authoritarian after Authoritarian in power.
enough
(13,268 posts)Adlai Stevenson for President (1956), and my parents were crying, so I was too. I was in 6th grade.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Both were far more admirable than almost anyone of either party nowadays.
elfin
(6,262 posts)Saw national needs and addressed them, from highways ( yes, from a defense perspective) and the beginning of a righteous national movement on desegregation, foreshadowing future events as to voting rights etc.
Military background that led him to truly appreciate the excesses that may befall his beloved republic.
If he were among us today, I would "Like Ike."
winetourdriver
(196 posts)Thank you! I made a positive comment about Ike on another post a couple of weeks ago and got my ass handed to me. His list of "flaws" are a joke compared to some presidents I could mention, and on the plus side he paid down the war debt and built the national highway system. The man was intelegent, subtle, and had the nations best interest at heart.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)She said that she thought he was just as bad as Hoover, he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
So, I asked her if she liked Eisenhower, and she said not really. She told me that she thought that the last good Republican president the Republicans had was Teddy Roosevelt.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)Nixon ran way too many black ops, much like Poppy Bush did for Reagan.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)I had read about Prescott Bush over at the Counterpunch site, which is a really good site with a lot of material, and a lot of thought-provoking articles written by some very knowledgeable authors.
But, we were not allowed to link to Counterpunch at the old DU2 because there was a secret, unpublished list of sites that the admins created that prevented most of the Counterpunch articles from being linked to at the old forum to inform DU members of what they had written about on their site.
I did not know that Prescott Bush was a Nazi sympathizer until I went to the Counterpunch site a decade ago.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)If this book by former Nixon aide Roger Stone is what he says it is...your mother will be a stellar judge of character.
It is a book where he claims to have proof of Nixon's and LBJ's ties to Jack Ruby. If true that will be quite a bombshell.