Eisenhower appears in a dream
Posted: February 23, 2017 Filed under: America Since 1945, politics, presidents Leave a comment
Last night in my dream Dwight Eisenhower appeared. What would he make of all this? We didn’t have a chance to discuss it.
A golfer. A university president. Chosen over other generals to command the Allied Expeditionary Force because of his understanding of and gift for diplomacy.
100% white men around him. What would’ve been his view on trans bathrooms?
A Republican who invested the government in big projects, like the interstate highway system, and warned against defense spending in his farewell speech, which is thought-provoking:
Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Confidence, competence.
The current president like a clown version of him, a grotesque vision from a nightmare.
Source: the Wikipedia article on “grotesque”
Eisenhower was from Abilene, Kansas.
First president to ride in a helicopter.
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