Rate the Presidents, Installment #34: Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Blair]

4 stars, but looking back at my rating probably 3. He was a good President, probably the best example of an elder statesmen President who took a more loffy view. His domestic policies like the Highway Building, and sending troops to little rock has to be praised. His foreign policy showed a willingness to be tough, and fair in foreign policy-stopping the Chinese invading Taiwan should be praised.

However, people shouldn't be throwing out 5 stars-he was relatively limited in civil rights, and didn't show the fight the LBJ and JFK showed. He let cold war hawks like Dulles run the state and CIA-leading to awful decisions like Bay of Pigs and Operation Ajax. Make no mistake his action in Iran pretty much set in stone the 1979 coup

[Blair]

Eisenhower should be praised not for bringing up the infamous Military industrial complex, but using the speech to cover up the fact he played a major role in empowering it

[Blair]

...and he's going to beat FDR and Truman too. Joke forum.

It's a combination of him being 'non partisan' and the granddad of 1950's America. No doubt JFK will get dismissed as a warmongering do nothing President whilst Ike is a saint I like Ike, but heck he's no FDR

[Blair]

...and he's going to beat FDR and Truman too. Joke forum.

"Other people disagree with my opinion so they are jokes".

4 stars for being better than Truman and the best post-WW2 president. He -

-Accurately warned the US about the military-industrial complex.
-Withdrew safely from Korea
-Took a very brave and principled stand on the Anglo-French-Israeli War of Aggression Suez Crisis. This was probably one of the last times the United States stood up in defense of the third world against blatant imperialism.

As I said before, he warned of it after building it up for 8 years