Posted on 01/22/2024 11:26:33 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Ike did Operation Wetback, and he started the creation of the Internet, and he created the nuclear command systems we use to this day. Ike was a very smart man.
“Today’s Republican Party desperately needs a Patton.”
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This. We need to confront the enemy in every way, wherever they are, yank them out into the light, and take them to task with every resource at our disposal.
Trump is fine
The GOP needs more Pro Americans and less NeoCons (Trotskyites) in congress
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Yeah, you’ll notice The Hill never writes an article entitled: “Today’s Democratic Party desperately needs a Humphrey”
You know why? Because they drool over Barack Obama and the Clintons. They love leftism.
And Conservatism is the only thing that actually opposes and battles leftism. Moderate/Liberal Republicanism does not.
Trump drew blood against leftism. Roe vs Wade is gone, the media is a shambles, congressmen and Senators have been given the heave-ho or chosen to retire.
So they want a return to the nicey-nicey Republican party of old.
Oh, too bad!
Ike was continually underutting conservatives. He vetoed a bill to deregulate natural gas production. His foreign policy was pro-Arab. He undercut Senator Mc Carthy’s attempt to purge communists from the government. And when he left office, marginal income tax rates were still in the 90’s.
Better?
We have the Trump “card”
The statement that he never wanted Nixon as VEEP; doesn’t the candidate choose their VEEP? I am a little confused. Thank you.
President Trump was the Commander-In-Chief of the armed services of the United States of America for four years. He donated is salary! How did you serve?
Eisenhower had for his opponent in the general election (both 1952 and 1956) Adlai Stevenson II, who refused some of the help offered in Chicago and Kansas City. Eisenhower took 39 states, including California, New York, Illinois (Stevenson’s home state), Massachusetts, while Stevenson only nine smaller Southern states, that had voted for at most one Republican since 1856.
Stevenson famously said “Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.”
Eisenhower’s farewell speech was brilliant—and a confession of total failure as President. It takes a big man to admit failure.
Some key excerpts from that speech:
“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience.
The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.
We recognize the imperative need for this development.
Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields.
In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research.
Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and 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.”
I also said that he was "goodish", but he was NOT "great" and he wasn't !
Though I was a child when Ike was president, I was already a news and political "junkie". Also, way back then, we had current events in school, from grade 3-8 and had to know what was going on for class and actually discuss events in class.
There was inflation throughout Ike's presidency, massive Strikes, Nam was heating up, Ike refused to say or do ANYTHING at all for Hungary, in '56, re the Hungarian revolution, Castro was an ever growing menace, the USSR was rattling a LOT of sabre and getting "cozy" with Commie China, South American countries were exploding, and on and one and ON!
A few really good ( and the Internet was NOT his idea; it just went forward under him! ) going on during his administration,yes, but a "GREAT" and influential president, Ike was NOT!
SPOT ON!
Yeah…the candidate picks them. Yup. Just ask JFK. Or Reagan. Or Ike. Even FDR had little say on Truman.
The term "smoky back room" was a political term and often referred to what happened at a nominating convention, when the big guns of each party met and decided WHO should be the VEEP! There has NEVER been a public voting for a VEEP, as there is for the nominee.
JFK was forced to have LBJ, for instance.
“she hopes to get enough support from independents
Quit reading after than, If the author isn’t honest enough to talk about the democrat cross overs she is campaigning for, then he isn’t worth reading.
I’m happy Trump being himself. If he appoints better people who don’t betray him that would be great though.
I don’t know much about Eisenhower, except for that great speech he gave warning about the military industrial complex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
I am with you. Not a fan of Eisenhower, especially his treatment of Joseph McCarthy.
See my post above.
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