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CTyankee

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12. I never saw him that way, but I was a kid during his presidency.

Fri Aug 12, 2022, 08:17 PM

Aug 2022

I do remember the fanatics, like Joe McCarthy, and how Ike was a fatherly figure and highly regarded for his WW2 service, undoubtedly a true leader of the democratic world. Republicans today would throw him out of the party. I never got the religious vibe from him. If anything his leadership was calming and without the crazies. Joe McCarthy was one of the crazies.

I had family members who fought in WW2 so that memory was strong. Eisenhower had great stature with them.

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I keep thinking: What would Dwight Eisenhower say about any of this? [View all] thucythucy Aug 2022 OP

Not much, IMHO. no_hypocrisy Aug 2022 #1

McCarthy was publicly ruined by Dec 1954, less than 2 years into Eisenhower's 8 years. Celerity Aug 2022 #4

The last honorable major Republican. gibraltar72 Aug 2022 #2

You mean the guy who added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and Raven123 Aug 2022 #3

I didn't know about that. thucythucy Aug 2022 #5

As a man of his time, he was understandably anti-Communist. Raven123 Aug 2022 #7

Didn't he call his memoir of World War II thucythucy Aug 2022 #10

I never saw him that way, but I was a kid during his presidency. CTyankee Aug 2022 #12

I also have WWII veterans as family. thucythucy Aug 2022 #14

And integrated Southern schools Hekate Aug 2022 #11

He was appalled at the current state of some of his party even back then. JHB Aug 2022 #6

ANTIFA Ike BlueIdaho Aug 2022 #8

Any tremors near his grave? He must be spinning like a top in there yellowdogintexas Aug 2022 #9

I think he'd assemble a firing squad liberaltrucker Aug 2022 #13