[ichabod1]

And, like Bush later, for all the coals they heaped upon his head, he was never all that damn conservative in the first place.

[nopardons]

Unlike the Bush clan, oh hell YES, Mr. Nixon was a Conservative. Not the way in which we think of one, today, or even even 20 years ago, but he was much MORE Conservative than Ike ever was.

Ike, like Colin Powell, was looked up to by BOTH national parties and BOTH wanted him to be their candidate, prior to the primary season of '52.

I don't know how old you are, nor when you first became interested in politics, but the Ike V. Stevenson election season was the first one that I paid concentrated interest in and I was but a rather little kiddo. OTOH, my family and their friends were VERY involved, and I enjoyed listening to them discuss and debate it all and it was also around that time, that my mother got me hooked on watching the news.