Posted on 10/14/2010 8:45:04 AM PDT by Michael Zak
Grand Old Partisan salutes Dwight Eisenhower, born this day in 1890. Though the Democrat leadership offered him their party's presidential nomination in 1952, General Dwight Eisenhower declared himself a Republican and contested for the GOP nomination.
His administration opposed the Democrats’ segregationist policies...
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The day after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, President Eisenhower ordered public schools in Washington, DC desegregated immediately, not waiting for judges to make “all deliberate speed.”
Not that I disapprove, but of curiousity what was his authority to do this? I thought running DC was Congress's business.
Ike was one of the Twentieth Century's more consequential presidents, if only for an Interstate Highway System that has transformed the country.
In those days, DC was a territory, and the President had direct authority over city employees.
which eventually led to forced busing and over 90% of whites in black controlled areas going to private schools while they still have to pay property taxes anyhow
Ike..whom I admire in many ways....immediately desegregated the DC schools?
Well how did that turn out?
I can just hear Northerners now who live in mostly white communities thinking “But Wardaddy, don't be a hater...are u lauding segregation?”
No but what I am doing is telling you as someone who went to schools before forced desegregation, during the break up and after that schools were better before ...there is no question of that.
and I will go further...when they brought in 70% black kids into my Jr High in 1970, it was pandemonium because too many of them came from fatherless homes where they simply have never been trained to behave properly
so it just brought everyone down which basically explains what all this racial redress in general has done since the 1950s more often than not
and folks in whitelandia just don't have any clue what it's really like
Ike meant well I guess but it bore bitter fruit
The confederate democrats of the south were never conservatives. They were libertarians though the term wasn’t used. They had a much more radical view of liberty that included the liberty to enslave others or deny equal rights to representation to others as well.
He was less effective in fighting and removing the Marxist/Communist infiltrators assisted into the US and US government, by FDR and tolerated by Truman.
It was these communist agitators that conned and used the black Americans to bolster the Marxist, DemoRat traitor party and destroy their own families and education.
You'll understand Eisenhower better when you consider that his family roots were Lancaster County, Mennonite Pennsylvania Dutch.
His ancestors settled there in 1741 and moved to Denison, Texas before Ike was born in 1890 -- in other words, after the Civil War.
Mennonites are pacifists, do not serve in the military, and normally don't even vote -- so Eisenhower was not himself a Mennonite (eventually became Presbyterian).
But "Mennonite family values" are at the core of our Founding Fathers' ideals -- self reliant and community oriented, Mennonites (and the closely related Amish) are as independent of government at any level as they can possibly be.
That is the ideal imagined by our Founders, which Eisenhower brought to the White House.
By the way, Mennonites are pacifists but many did find ways to support both the American Revolution and the Union in the Civil War.
Among other things, Lancaster County was a supply base for Washington's forces at Valley Forge.
Young Eisenhower's joining the Army was not so unusual for Mennonite boys, especially during wartime.
I still remember when President Eisenhower had the words "under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and "In God We Trust" added to paper currency in 1957.
Thank you. BTW, Eisenhower went to West Point after failing to get into the Naval Academy.
Don’t forget the four recessions during his term in office.
What are these ‘civil rights’?
Affirmative Action? Job quotas? College entrance preferences? Minority owned government contract opportunities?
Not being forced to attend a certain school because of the color of one’s skin — that’s a civil right.
And it’s a shame that a guy like Eric Holder holds the same office that was once held by Herbert Brownell, a real hero of true civil rights for all.
Yes, Herbert Brownell was a great, great man.
Four? Three maybe.
In the old days the US economy went through recessions every few years:
So Eisenhower's economy was about average for a time of relative peace, and no major tax cuts (at least none I know about).
By the way, Eisenhower's maximum unemployment rate was 7.5% in July of 1958.
A pretty mild recession, I'd say.
I like Ike. (pun intended)
The only problem I have is with liberals who use his IHS to rationalize all kinds of government spending as “good” for the economy.
Oh, those were Bush's fault. ;^)
Republicans have to plead "guilty" to the charge of historically supporting major infrastructure investments. For examples:
Dems, of course, look at all government spending, including infrastructure, as being forms of welfare, intended to create jobs if possible, sure, but more important to buy votes for Democrats.
And as we saw with Obama, their sudden interest in "shovel ready projects" turned out to be nothing more than a smokescreen -- to cover up trillions of dollars going to government employees and favored business bailouts.
Shovel ready?
What Dems were really shoveling was not dirt, but something shall we say, more organic? ;-)
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