05-02-2020, 05:56 PM
(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.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
