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kenfrequed

(7,865 posts)
13. You have to give him some tiny shred of credit
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 10:48 AM
Feb 2013

The EPA. Among other things.

But Nixon was up to his eyeballs in redbaiting and was a crook.

Dwight Eisenhower Was A Liberal [View all] AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 OP
IKE was a good President. iandhr Feb 2013 #1
Indeed AProgressiveThinker Feb 2013 #2
Unless you happened to be Iranian or work on a banana plantation. Heywood J Feb 2013 #11
you do great stuff, young man! stlsaxman Feb 2013 #3
Good Job! Excellent Arguments! mckara Feb 2013 #4
Great list LeftInTX Feb 2013 #12
NO. Modern Dems are Conservatives. snot Feb 2013 #5
Eisenhower appointed five pro civil rights justices to the Supreme Court aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2013 #6
Truman (D) desegregated the Armed Forces by issuing Exec Order 9981 on 7/26/1948. AnotherMcIntosh Feb 2013 #7
What I had read is that despite the order it was only desegregated on paper aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2013 #8
The only kick against Eisenhower.... jjewell Feb 2013 #9
Dick may have been paranoid, delusional, racist, even... but he beat the pants off any stlsaxman Feb 2013 #10
You have to give him some tiny shred of credit kenfrequed Feb 2013 #13
aside from being all that you mentioned- a few of his policies were pretty damned liberal! nt stlsaxman Feb 2013 #18
Grew up w/Ike in the Whitehouse and loved him, now I know why. joanbarnes Feb 2013 #14
I was born during the Eisenhower years. Thanks. mmonk Feb 2013 #15
President Eisenhower was much more liberal imo than most Democrats who are now in indepat Feb 2013 #16
Please read the statement below my signature..A great statement by Ike.. Stuart G Feb 2013 #17
No, he wasn't. MrSlayer Feb 2013 #19
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