Dwight David Eisenhower born October 14, 1890

[Jack Rabbit]

To the last good Republican president: Happy birthday, Ike.


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[SeattleGirl]

1. Happy Birthday, Ike!

You were President when I was born, and your birthday is one day before mine!

:toast: :party: :toast:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That he was!

Happy Birthday, Ike!

He would be aghast at what the Republicans are pulling these days...


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[TreasonousBastard]

3. All those Republican Presidents in the 20th Century, and...

only two good ones in the whole bunch.

And those are two that they NEVER mention. One might think they're down there with Harding and Coolidge with all the respect they get from modern Republicans..

Happy birthday, Ike-- you didn't do a damn thing about McCarthy, but we shoulda listened better when you warned us about the Pentagon taking over the country.

(And thanks for being a REAL war hero.)

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Would Teddy be the other one? nt

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Who else? (sure as shit not Reagan) n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

8. good...

just checking :)

[Captain Hilts]

10. He HATED being called 'Teddy'. It was 'Theodore', 'Ted', or 'Tee'. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

14. Maybe so...

but because of his sense of fair play, we now have Teddy bears.

[Captain Hilts]

15. He HATED the moniker for them. nt

[Wapsie B]

4. Happy Birthday Ike!!

You were Prez when I was born.

[struggle4progress]

6. Consummate military bureaucrat: his organizational brilliance helped win WWII

Quiet about his personal views: Truman offered to step aside in favor of an Eisenhower run, not knowing Ike was Republican. Not inclined to peek out of the foxhole in political fights: he never took a stand on McCarthy until invoking executive privilege during the Army-McCarthy hearings. A humanist: who can read his comments on the costs of war without wet eyes?

He did us a grave disservice by launching Nixon on the road to the White House

[Captain Hilts]

11. Yes, I like Eisenhower, BUT he sat on a platform with Sen. Jenner while Jenner questioned George C -

Marshall's patriotism. He should have shut him up. Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt - and I - will never forgive him for that.

Ike could have stopped a lot of the McCarthyism crap also rather than let it burn out over time while lives were being ruined.

[whistler162]

18. And don't forget the CIA during IKE's term helped

restore the Shah and start the whole middle east mess. Nor forget his handling of Vietnam and Cuba!

[struggle4progress]

19. Yes, in some sense the Iranian theocracy is blowback against Ike's dirty tricks

And he began a fifty year slaughter in Guatemala

[Captain Hilts]

20. Theodore's son, Kermit Roosevelt did the deed in Iran! nt

[Captain Hilts]

9. My mother knew him well. Great guy. Everybody loathed Mamie. nt

[peekaloo]

12. but his VP was a real Dick!

[PVnRT]

13. A good Repub president yes, but awful at foreign affairs

Iran and Honduras both happened under his watch, when the CIA was basically allowed to do whatever the hell it wanted.

[bmbmd]

16. Right here in Denison, Texas USA.

Heh.

[NightHawk63]

17. I didn't know that...just happens to be my mom's birthday too

:)