Posted on 07/23/2002 4:21:14 PM PDT by jennyp
He wasn't - it was his name that was the problem. His political opponents used it to smear him; in fact, there were dark mutterings during the early days of WWII that someone named Eisenhower couldn't be trusted to fight the Germans and hence certainly shouldn't be in command of the ETO. (These were the same sort of folks who referred to the president as "Rosenfeld" for similarly spurious reasons at the same time). During the presidential elections of 1952 the same crapola came up - they were doing the "politics of personal destruction" back then as well. It was a non-issue, but it sure ticked Ike off.
LOL! You got that right.
The statement that a higher percentage of black women than whites were married as late as 1950 was very surprising. I had heard that the higher illegitimacy rate among blacks was another echo of slavery - but it turns out it's just another side-effect of FDR's & Lyndon Johnson's dreams. Thank you liberals!
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