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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBy todays standards, Eisenhower would have been a great Democrat!
I remember Ike, but I needed to be 21 to vote at that time, so missed out. But, looking back I can remember there were some big investigations pretty good tax rates, even for the millionaires, plenty of jobs for labor and strong fed building programs for the infrastructure. And I don't remember him wanting to change domestic programs like Soc. Sec.. (of course Medicare wasn't started yet.) Compare him to our modern Dems, and we can see how far adrift are the so-called left wing in this country.
byeya
(2,842 posts)brothers; "Engine" Charlie Wilson; and he didn't put up much of a fight to pick someone other than Nixon.
I even remember Oveta Culp Hobby(Hah) who wasn't so hot either.
More importantly, Ike didn't take a leadership role in shutting up McCarthy.
Ezra Taft Bensen?
But to end on a positive note, Ike was more like Clinton than any current Republican with any following.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)followed by the installment of the Shah and the subsequent radicalization of Islam. The CIA was only a few years old but already off to a bad, and prophetic, start.
For oil of course.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)our times, as well as heredity, and environment. That's why playing these anachronistic mental games is so pointless.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)Repubs would say he is too liberal and Dems would say he was a DLCer.
Personally, I think he was a good president.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Can anyone imagine Obama trying something like wage and price controls?
byeya
(2,842 posts)in my opinion.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)And they address such different issues.
I think the 2012 dem platform was pretty progressive. the problem is that the party needs to do more than put up a pretty platform.