This would be Ike’s Republican party, wouldn’t it? Maybe things really were better back then.
C’mon k, you had to have peeked, right? As for Ike and the Republican Party back then, I think it’s important to recognize that 1) the country was FAR less culturally/ethnically diverse than it is today, and 2) the media was much less influential and broad. And in this regard, consider how off-base it was for the media to delve into and report on a President’s “private escapades”. It was, indeed, a different time where a party could afford to espouse what we would now realize as ‘liberal” politics. But hey, Lincoln was a Republican also, and he had the nerve to free the slaves—-how much more progressive can you get?
Of course I peeked.
I wonder if this is what my dad was talking about when he said whatever that crap is about when you get old you become a republican.
I knew it was the Eisenhower platform from the infrastructure platform.
I also remember all the “I Like Ike” buttons being given away in both the 1952 and 1956 campaigns. [Dating myself here I think. Started high school at Camden Catholic in 1956.]
Both parties wanted Ike to lead their ticket in 1952; knowing whichever party he chose would win the presidency. And at the end of his two terms Ike foresaw the threat of the military-industrial complex growth and warned us about it. A shame we didn’t take it seriously.
This would be Ike’s Republican party, wouldn’t it? Maybe things really were better back then.
C’mon k, you had to have peeked, right? As for Ike and the Republican Party back then, I think it’s important to recognize that 1) the country was FAR less culturally/ethnically diverse than it is today, and 2) the media was much less influential and broad. And in this regard, consider how off-base it was for the media to delve into and report on a President’s “private escapades”. It was, indeed, a different time where a party could afford to espouse what we would now realize as ‘liberal” politics. But hey, Lincoln was a Republican also, and he had the nerve to free the slaves—-how much more progressive can you get?
Of course I peeked.
I wonder if this is what my dad was talking about when he said whatever that crap is about when you get old you become a republican.
I knew it was the Eisenhower platform from the infrastructure platform.
I also remember all the “I Like Ike” buttons being given away in both the 1952 and 1956 campaigns. [Dating myself here I think. Started high school at Camden Catholic in 1956.]
Both parties wanted Ike to lead their ticket in 1952; knowing whichever party he chose would win the presidency. And at the end of his two terms Ike foresaw the threat of the military-industrial complex growth and warned us about it. A shame we didn’t take it seriously.