05-03-2020, 03:57 PM
(05-02-2020, 05:56 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-02-2020, 05:36 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The definitive moderate Republican may have been Dwight Eisenhower, and I have heard plenty of Democrats praise the Eisenhower Presidency. He went along with Supreme Court rulings that outlawed segregationist practices, stayed clear of the McCarthy bandwagon, and let McCarthy implode.
Nitpick. Eisenhower came out of the army. The Army McCarthy hearings may not have been on as equal a footing as history remembers. To some degree, Ike may have had enough.
But in general, I’m with you.
The Armed Services or demagoguery? I would have made the same decision. I would be 4-F due to a bad back and Asperger's.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.