Obviously Ike, a real leader, not an academic theoretician.
The same Eisenhower who was sympathetic to segregationists and refused to take a stand against McCarthyism even after Joe McCarthy started trying to paint George Marshall as an unpatriotic Soviet sympathizer? Yeah, that guy sure was a real leader 
Eisenhower was a great *military* leader/General. However, he was a pretty mediocre *political* leader.
It is funny, because you could have just as well been talking about JFK there.
Nice try, but although it is true that both John and Robert Kennedy were awful on McCarthyism, the idea that either was sympathetic to segregationists is simply absurd. Thanks for playing though, better luck next time!
He was lukewarm on the issue of Civil Rights for a long time. At least until the events in Birmingham in 1962-1963. Above all Kennedy was a pragmatist. That is why it took him so long to throw McCarthy under the buss, and it is also why he didn’t cut loose the segregationists in his own party earlier.
So you can’t really claim that Kennedy was any better than Eisenhower. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas in 1957, he signed a (although weak) Civil Rights bill and pushed forward the desegregation of the Armed Forces that Truman had started.
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