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Related: About this forumEisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=8y06NSBBRtY&feature=emb_logosandensea
(21,677 posts)Never mind that Ike - though not without his faults - is the last GOP president to leave positive and significant accomplishments.
It's been downhill for the GOP since then - big time.
brush
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except maybe Daddy Bush.
sandensea
(21,677 posts)The rest of them have all been elected either through dirty tricks or outright fraud.
1968: Kissinger's sabotage of the Paris peace talks
1972: Legitimate - but merely a re-election
1980: Daddy Bush and Bill Casey's 'October surprise' - the secret arrangement to have Iran hold the hostages until Jan. 20.
1984: Legitimate - re-election
1988: Legitimate - though marred by the Willy Horton ads
2000: Liver Lips and the Supreme Court one-off
2004: Blackbox Blackwell and the 'Ohio miracle'
2016: MI and WI votes electronically flipped like pancakes by way of hacked (Bush-era) tabulation machines
brush
(53,918 posts)for meNixon and Reagan's second terms.
sandensea
(21,677 posts)Cui bono? The only one who benefited was Nixon: Wallace would've run on a right-wing 3rd party ticket like in '68 (this almost cost Nixon the election).
And the Arthur Bremer story has a lot of loose ends: a n'er-do-well who somehow had the cash to follow Wallace from city to city, knew exactly where and when he'd be ahead of time (this was, of course, in the pre-internet age), etc.
brush
(53,918 posts)sandensea
(21,677 posts)Like so many such controversies, we'll probably never know.
We do, however, know Cheeto's trying to provoke a war because he thinks it'll save his re-election chances. No grassy knoll/911 mystery there.
Mike Nelson
(9,970 posts)... we've pretty much been at War since the end of WWII. I think War is probably our biggest business.
tirebiter
(2,539 posts)It was a sideswipe against JFK who was running on a nonexistent missile gap. Ike did not like Nixon so he kept his criticism indirect.
brush
(53,918 posts)It reads like something Dems of today would champion. Of course today's repug are threats to humankind and the planet.
1. Provide federal assistance to low-income communities;
2. Protect Social Security;
3. Provide asylum for refugees;
4. Extend minimum wage;
5. Improve unemployment benefit system so it covers more people;
6. Strengthen labor laws so workers can more easily join a union;
7. Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of sex.
tirebiter
(2,539 posts)the MIC provide contracts that provide jobs, but I see nothing in that platform that calls for decreased military spending.
Submariner
(12,511 posts)Although an American icon, he was more of a warrior than a president.
He may have golfed as much as Trump. As a little kid I recall always seeing him golfing on TV or in newspaper photos.