Food for Thought.

[_The CCC]

SEE http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027718444

[_Dr. Shades]

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[_The CCC]

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Sorry. It won't happen again.

[_Some Schmo]

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And Eisenhower was a Republican.

I have a feeling that if I lived in those days, I would be too.

[_moksha]

And Eisenhower was a Republican.

I have a feeling that if I lived in those days, I would be too.

Hopefully more like Everett Dirksen and Earl Warren than Strom Thurmond or Cleon Skousen.

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+10

[_subgenius]

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And Eisenhower was a Republican.

I have a feeling that if I lived in those days, I would be too.

Don't confuse the power struggle lost by the government to private industry...the complex would still exist.
Eisenhower post-war guilt sentiment is reasonable but relies on context, a context that is not applicable to whatever utopian idea you are trying to smoke up here.

nevertheless, what "moral law" do you believe Ike was referring to here:
"We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose--the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails." - 1957 inaugural address

and of course, his caution against "creeping socialism"

"Q. John Herling, Register and Tribune Syndicate: In your trip out West, you referred in one of your speeches, I believe, to your intention to turn back creeping socialism of the past 20 years. That has caused some confusion in some minds, and I wonder whether you could give us some concrete examples of that creeping socialism.

THE PRESIDENT. Well, I will give you specific examples. Not long ago I had this appeal made to me in behalf of the expansion of Federal expenditures in the TVA region, and it was this: that since the Federal Government had seized and was practicing a monopoly in power down there, it was impossible for that locality now to expand unless the Federal Government spends more money down there. They quoted as one of their needs for more power that a number of industries from other sections of the country-New England and other places--want to come down there seeking cheap power. So we get to this curious thing in the socialistic theory: that we, all of us, provide such cheap power for one region--apparently it is subsidized by taxes from all of us all over the country--but then it can appeal and take away the industries from the other sections of the country. It seems to me that we have got to have some kind of reevaluation of all these things.

Now, please understand me. I have stated a thousand times, I am not out to destroy TVA. It is one experiment. I have also said that in other areas, when we repeat that thing, I want the local people to have a greater interest and a greater voice in it.

Now, that is what I say--getting on a middle-of-the-road trend and not merely go to the socialistic idea that the central government is the controlling factor in every one of these great economic things. "
-1953 press conference

[_The CCC]

I still like Ike over any Republican since then.