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Too bad there aren't Republicans like this anymore... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Dec 2012
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Today, they would consider him a bald headed hippie in a suit, and kick him around. IMO
the GOP should change their name, they have morphed into a whole new sphere of evilness.
Vox Moi
(546 posts)2. His warning about the military-industrial complex was a moment of greatness.
It took guts and determination to do that. He went rogue.
Who would know more about this than Eisenhower, a five-star General and departing President?
This was not an FYI to the American public: it was a fire bell in the night.
[link:http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html|
DavidDvorkin
(19,480 posts)3. Yeah, yeah. I still wish Adlai Stevenson had won.
A lot of these ancient Republicans look good compared to modern Republicans, but at the time they looked pretty unsavory.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)4. Huge K&R!