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His son, the late Brigadeer Gen. John Eisenhower, voted for John Kerry in 2004, and his granddaughter Susan endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Ike ran on a platform in 1956 that boasted of the expansion of Social Security and the raising of benefits during his first term, and which called for changes in Taft-Hartley to protect labor unions.
Tax rates, both nominal and effective, during Eisenhower's administration were but one of many measures by which Eisenhower's policies were significantly to the left of policies currently advocated by "Third Way Democrats" today.
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