More and more, lately, I have been coming around to this conclusion. Aside from the anomalies of Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Reagan, the Republican party's presidents have been a load of swillwater losers, perfectly happy with evergrowing, overbearing, totalitarian government. I have to conclude that the Party is as the Party does. If that's what the GOP stands for then I am not GOP - except to raise a little ruckus in the primaries.
Give some credit to Ike. His administration saw the dismantling finally of the wartime regulations and business hampering that unleashed finally the postwar boom.