Henry Wallace endorsed Nixon in 1960

[Paul Kemp]

What was that all about?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What was that all about?

From what I've read (don't remember exactly where ATM so pardon my lack of citation) Wallace considered Kennedy too young and inexperienced to be President. He also endorsed Eisenhower both times so endorsing Nixon doesn't seem so strange in this light.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I find that quite ironic given how Nixon started his career.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What was that all about?

He saw in Nixon a fellow fellow traveller.

[Paul Kemp]

I find that quite ironic given how Nixon started his career.

It struck me as very odd.

What was that all about?

From what I've read (don't remember exactly where ATM so pardon my lack of citation) Wallace considered Kennedy too young and inexperienced to be President. He also endorsed Eisenhower both times so endorsing Nixon doesn't seem so strange in this light.

Did he go to a leadership camp or something? What made him like Ike so much?

I don't know too much about Wallace but am intrigued by such decisions by someone who would be considered a communist sympathizer by some.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I find that quite ironic given how Nixon started his career.

It struck me as very odd.

What was that all about?

From what I've read (don't remember exactly where ATM so pardon my lack of citation) Wallace considered Kennedy too young and inexperienced to be President. He also endorsed Eisenhower both times so endorsing Nixon doesn't seem so strange in this light.

Did he go to a leadership camp or something? What made him like Ike so much?

Don't know. My wild guess is his obvious lack of warm feelings for Truman (Stevenson was hand-picked by Truman after all) as far as 1952 is concerned. But I can't back it with sources.

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Maybe that's the key. After being painted as a communist sympathizier Wallace maybe wanted to create a diffrent image. In fact after 1948 he became pretty pro-cold war in his writing.

[minionofmidas]

The 1950s Wallace was a Cold Warrior. He remained a Progressive on race issues. His base convictions had never anything to do with Leftism, at least not as someone from a Social Democratic tradition would term it. His 1956 endorsement is only right and logical. 1960 less so (the Democratic platform included the stronger civil rights plank that year), but I think it was quite lukewarm - and may have been based on the assumption that Kennedy would need the Southern unpledged electors to win, and govern accordingly.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Keep in mind that Wallace began his political career as something you young whippersnappers may never have seen: a liberal Republican.

[Paul Kemp]

Keep in mind that Wallace began his political career as something you young whippersnappers may never have seen: a liberal Republican.

Not only have I seen them but I was one in the days of my youth...

[Maxwell]

Nixon is pretty liberal in terms of economic policy, so i'm really not surprised.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Nixon is pretty liberal in terms of economic policy, so i'm really not surprised.

Based on the debates, Nixon very much comes across the more conservative of the two, but a bit less belligerent toward the Soviets.

[© tweed]

he was obsessed with repenting for perceived sins.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Nixon is pretty liberal in terms of economic policy, so i'm really not surprised.

STOP. SAYING. THAT. PLEASE.

No-one in 1960 thought Nixon was a 'moderate', well except the traditional hack journalist who love bigging up "centrism" and possibly members of the John Birch society.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Nixon is pretty liberal in terms of economic policy, so i'm really not surprised.

As far as anybody was concerned in 1960, Nixon was economically centre-right, and if nothing else to the right than Kennedy. The only people who criticized him as "liberal"--which in itself wasn't even used, more likely to be moderate--were the Goldwaterites and such, and Goldwater gladly bowed out in deference to Nixon. And Nixon is the most ironic person for Wallace to endorse, so I'd say it's pretty surprising.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I find that quite ironic given how Nixon started his career.

And especially since Ike did such a good job of keeping his campaign promise to stand strong against Communism.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It seems that he really wanted to redeem himself from his past communist sympathies.