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A very trite comparison. Ike and Harry both loved America. Neither one was a pervert personally or would have thrown their lot on with deviant men who want to chop their penis off and nominated one as asst Sec of health. Both would have been repelled by Buttgig kissing another man on stage. Both would have been sickened at molesting their own daughter like Biden did. Neither would have thought an 8 year old who should be allowed to decide to medically try to change sexes. Both would have been sickened at abortion, and especially secret abortions in middle school and high school hidden from the parents. Neither though communism and Marx were virtues. Both were honorable Army men, Truman in WWI and Ike in WWII.

There was so little distance between Truman and Ike that there really was very little reason they couldn’t be friendly after the election was settled.

You can call the comparison whatever you want. It doesn't change that they had little contact with each other after 1952 and for much of that time, they weren't friendly. During that time, communism steamrolled thru eastern Europe and cultural decay through rock and roll commenced. Indeed, it reads like Kennedy's funeral was when their thaw started, a good 10+ years after Ike's election.

My point remains - newly-minted ex-presidents' aren't ipso facto besties.