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The last decent Republican president.
Is thar "greatest prosperity without war" bullet supposed to be mean outside a wartime economy?
Because the comparative boom of the '50s was partly a direct result of WWII's devastation of European industry.
But but … the shareholders
New Deal Coalition was strong, indeed.
He could've run as a democrat but there had been a democrat president for like 15 years at that point so they thought they'd mix it up
How do you feel about operation wetback?
I get it, he may seem decent compared to those who came after him… but honestly I’m not sure I’d describe any US president as fundamentally decent.
Grading on a sliding scale, one presumes
Was it "decent" when he slashed the GI Bill right before Korean War vets came home, telling all those conscripted men to pound sand when they came home with PTSD and no access to healthcare, higher education, or job programs?
Eisenhower reduced veterans' college benefits in favor of expanding college access to low-income demographics in general, and this only after a period of marked abuse of the GI Bill by predatory for-profit colleges - something a bipartisan commission in Congress had been studying for half-a-decade at that point and concurred with the course of action chosen.