re: #227 sagehen

And as soon as Buckley was dead, the Birchers came roaring back. Did you know they were founded by Fred Koch? Father of the Koch Brothers? They’ve been waiting their whole lives for an opening to continue their father’s work.

It’s the left that loves Eisenhower — for the highways, for Earl Warren, for sending the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, for his Cross of Iron speech, for his farewell speech that warned of the military-industrial complex, for his 1957 Civil Rights Act (which didn’t pass, but he gave it a good college try), for saying that those who would try to get rid of Social Security “are few in number, and they are stupid”.

The right loves his military career, but not his presidency. Not at all.

Nixon and Eisenhower were close. Nixon was instrumental in trying to get the Civil Rights Acts passed in the 50’s and early 60’s. A lot of people don’t know that.

LBJ came and stole it out from under him.