I think he is the President Republicans who hold that office strive to be like and Democrats do not talk a lot about. For most of the Eisenhower administration the economy was booming and his biggest achievement in some opinion is the interstate highway system. I think beginning in another 5 years or so GWB will begin to look a lot like an Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower got to the presidency the old fashioned way. He earned it.
How the economy is doing is generally unrelated to who is President and how he governs.
Wasn't actually the economy modestly weak in the late 1950s? Thus the landslide of 1958?
