Was Dwight Eisenhower a conservative?

[Bozo the Clown]

Him and Nixon were both moderates as was the custom for politics in the middle 20th century. To use Newt Gingrich terminology, John F. Kennedy would've been a Massachusetts moderate and Ford was very moderate as part of the New England Republican faction. Roosevelt and Johnson were and would now be left-wing liberals. Reagan was the first modern day conservative we had. Other than those three, presidents from the early 1930's to the early 1990's were very moderate. Even Clinton and Bush became more moderate the longer they were in office. Obama has done the exact opposite.

[Rockefeller GOP]

A moderate more appropriately, but he certainly ran to the right of his opponents in both elections.

[WorkingClassBro]

He was a puppet of capitalism. 'Nuff said.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Eisenhower can be compared to British "One Nation Tories". He accepted and in some cases even expanded the New Deal, just as they accepted a post-war consensus.

In context of his day he was a moderate conservative (a conservative, as opposed to reactionaries such as Robert Taft or later Barry Goldwater).

Taft and Goldwater are not reactionaries.