[ReignOfError]

When the Soviets launched Sputnik in the 1950's (thanks to captured German rocket scientists from WW II) liberals used the event to say there might be something we could learn from the Soviet system and initiated federal funding of public schools for the first time in American history.

Yeah, liberals like Eisenhower.

[Nextrush]

Congressional Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson worked with the President on this one.

And in the wings Senators like Hubert H. Humphrey (Democrat-Minnesota) and Jacob K. Javits (Republican-Liberal Parties New York).

Ike played the GOP Establishment get along with em game back then. Times change but the tune stays the same.