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Eisenhower, although a moderate, won because he was a heroic military general.

He didn't campaign as a moderate but promised action on the issues of Korea, Communism and corruption. He also made peace with his conservative rival Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio).

He didn't campaign as a moderate

He did. Eisenhower was the epitome of a moderate Republican. The tax rates during the Eisenhower administration was at an all-time high. He did nothing about the emerging welfare state.

But...as I've stated Eisenhower can be excused because of his military service, and to a lesser extent, he deported the illegal aliens.

He didn't campaign as a moderate but promised action on the issues of Korea, Communism and corruption. He also made peace with his conservative rival Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio).

He was a greatly under appreciated President. The Interstate Highway System was an actual public works project that did make America great.

His so called warning about the military industrial complex has been misconstrued. He was also warning about the government scientific complex.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

He was a great President and prescient too.