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In reply to the discussion: Do you know who's utimately responsible for our current situation? [View all]keep_left
(1,783 posts)I forgot about the post he held under Eisenhower...guess I should have read my link more thoroughly. I'm not sure when he started to become so problematic with all the Trumplike behavior, casual racism, etc. Maybe he was just one of those people who couldn't make the adjustment into the civil rights era.
It would be interesting to know when he got the really bad ideas about agriculture (mentioned in my earlier post). Maybe those came after he went back to Purdue and started the academic and political ladder-climbing. Eisenhower was quite hostile to anyone who tried to dismantle New Deal programs (for example, see Eisenhower's remarks about Social Security). He probably wouldn't have been too happy with a Sec of Ag who favored gigantic collective-farm-sized corporate farming.