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28. Eisenhower to Chief Justice Warren at a party for white Southerners after Brown v.

Board of Ed.: "See, Earl? These are not bad people. They just don't want their little girls sitting in school next to some big black gorilla."

The incident was described in the autobiography of Warren, whose appointment Eisenhower called the biggest mistake of his 8 years in office.

To all my fellow Democrats who think Ike was a prince among Presidents--

Warning: Presidents in the rear view mirror may appear better than they actually were.

In contrast.....

http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1956/equal-opportunity

I post that not because I know Adlai Stevenson to be perfect. I don't know. However, when I criticized Eisenhower elsewhere, a Democrat 'splained to me that times were different then. Yep, times were different in 1800, too. Even then, though, some were more racist than others.