Dwight Eisenhower: I Like Ike (1953 - 1961) 

They certainly did. Plus, Civil Defense fallout shelters galore. All built to survive a full-on thermonuclear exchange. The world might be destroyed, but the post offices and the kids sheltering under their school desks would still be in fine shape! What an era.

Eisenhower was surprisingly Bipartisan probably because he did not really care much for the party, he did support Nixon of course.

Give me politics over patriotism any day. My country isn't sacred, it's a patch of dirt. What makes it great is its policy and the ideological convictions of those who crafted it.

@@johnnotrealname8168 When the press asked for something important Nixon did as VP, he said he'd have to think about it, get back to them. Nixon had a slimy reputation then, and that did not sit well with Eisenhower.

@@SandfordSmythe That was in a Kennedy Presidential Advert. Eisenhower later said that he supports Nixon and definitely did for his 1968 campaign.

@@johnnotrealname8168 Eisenhower was a good soldier.

He was also born in my home town of Atlanta Georgia

Yeah bro

I don't think Teddy even compares to Eisenhower or Grant. Grant was head of the Union Army, and Eisenhower was supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe.

Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley. All Civil War veterans...

@@jakeharmon542 He didn’t say veteran, he said hero!

@@catofthecastle1681 All veterans are heroes in my book...

@@jakeharmon542 "Hero" has to do with public opinion. What you're talking about is personal heroes - those you consider worthy of admiration for their deeds and sacrifices.

I take it you think this video works well for a 14-minute summary (as opposed to a 20-hour history). If that's the case I agree.

We should implant polices from the 30s through 60s and expand government benefits and fund science and education and help the citizens of this great nation

Depended on where you were in the 50s, social change was already happening in some areas. If you lived in the South or certain major cities, then yeah...NOT a good experience, but if you lived in places like Iowa, you usually were better off, even as minority race. My father grew up there in the 1950s, he witnessed very little if any racism in his childhood farming town, and for a while the preacher at his family's overwhelmingly white Methodist church was a guy born in India (and of that race). Meanwhile, a few communities over, the University of Iowa had black football players as early as 1896, DECADES ahead of many other major colleges even outside the South. In 1958, the Hawkeyes won a share of the national championship and that integrated team also handed visting southern power #6 TCU (who was segregated) a shutout loss, 17-0. Half back Bob Jeter and Willie Fleming thrilled Hawkeye fans with their speed talent. By the late 50s, things were REALLY changing for the better (outside the South at least): the military had been desegregated for 10 years, MLB was more widely integrated, Brown V. Board of Education has been decided in 1954, the first Civil Rights Act passed in 1957, and even Hollywood was turning against racism at this time (two famous and highly popular films, Giant and South Pacific, even showed interracial marriage in a positive light). Obviously a lot of work still lay ahead, but America was MILES better for minorities in the 50s than it had been in the 20s-30s. Even in the South, cracks were beginning to show (a group of over 1,000 white women in Little Rock called on the governor of Arkansas to stop his resistance to desegregation after the Little Rock Nine). As for working women, World War II and the events that followed gave them a whole new level of respect and admiration (and in the early 60s equal pay laws would be passed). One cannot possibly look at the 50s and say they were not progressive.

So they made it a lot easier for us when we got there. Maybe that's why we conceded too much at Yalta, if we went in knowing we owed them for destroying Hitler's eastern front in Russia and then overthrowing his regime in Berlin. It gets tricky when the ally you're indebted to is ruled by a monster like Stalin.

Stalin killed more of his OWN PEOPLE BEFORE he entered WWII than America has lost in all of her wars combined.

@@alitlweird Meanwhile, in the US, black people were enjoying Jim Crow laws (and Tuskegee Syphilis "studies"), Japanese Americans were thrilled about being forced to move to internment camps, big shots at CIA were planning murders and wars for political gain and women were only allowed in the military as auxiliaries (in separate corps and without access to commissioned ranks). But, hey, you keep focusing on Stalin... I'm sure that'll keep all the crap the US was doing out of people's minds.

@@dontaylor7315 I always find it funny when people say that the Western Allies "allowed" the Red Army to take Berlin... as if they could've done anything to stop them. The Soviet Union had more soldiers, artillery and tanks in Europe than all the Western Allies combined (and a considerable number of aircraft as well). Besides, the Red Army was extremely battle-hardened and capable, after many major operations, which put most operations in the western front to shame. You have to keep in mind that the German forces in the eastern front constituted the largest and most deadly invasion force in the history of humanity... yet they were crushed by the Red Army, after 4 years of hell. They inflicted utter destruction and death to the Soviet Union (which suffered more casualties than the rest of Allies combined, including the Pacific theater). It would've been unwise for the Western Allies to try to stand in their way, not only because the Red Army was crazy strong, but also because the Soviet people had earned the right to put an end to Nazi Germany.

Yeah a who was the best and most important one of the allies argument.

Truman could speak and write English!

Thats because FDR and Truman left things so they couldnt do anything but go up.Too bad we dont have Ike and JFK here together now.

He can’t explain why i cant get a girlfriend

@@jakejohnson6954 That's on you, bro!!

@@wilnerolivier7971 😔

nope

@Raging S The very bad ones, but the globebusters think they did a good Jobb so I think it is time to put them back in the dumpster. .

SAD FACT: Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton smashed the veterans protests (after they got rowdy because police shot some veterans) in DC called the 'Bonus Marches', which were supported by Marine General Smedley Butler, read his book titled 'War is a Racket' and look up 'The Bonus Marches'.

I love Ike

SAD FACT: Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton smashed the veterans protests (after they got rowdy because police shot some veterans) in DC called the 'Bonus Marches', which were supported by Marine General Smedley Butler, read his book titled 'War is a Racket' and look up 'The Bonus Marches'.

By today's standards would call him a socialist. lmao

The Left would HATE Eisenhower today. They'd call him a theocratic and heartless bigot for making "In God We Trust" the national motto as well as his mass deportations of illegal immigrants. He literally began his 1953 inaugural address with a prayer, which shocked many in the press. He also had pretty socially conservative views, despite improving African American civil rights and other stuff. They'd accuse him of being a more polished Trump. By the way, Ike IS still respected greatly by many folks on the Right, even though Reagan is the favorite.

AMEN TO THAT.

No, that was accurate.

He was on the dollar coin.

@@MisterItchy Yeah, I'm pretty sure he was on that. But loads of people misremember him being on the dime. But this is actually impossible since he was alive at the time people say he was on the dime, and living people cannot be on currency that is in circulation.

@@scptime1188 TBH, I had to look it up. I was like, isn't he on the dime? But, if he were, you wouldn't have said that!

@@MisterItchy It confuses me too. People who talk about the Mandela Effect usually refer to pieces of evidence, called residue, for the old memory. One piece of residue for the Eisenhower dime (which apparently never existed) is a song from a few years back. I'll try and find it EDIT: Found the residue: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FSbOpFDl64E.html

Google!

No space? Than why I do I see stars and the moon?

@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI It's kinda an inside joke...

uTube486 oh ok

@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI Pls check out Dave's flat earth videos, they are TCFW.(To Cool For Words) I've watched all of them at least 5 times.

uTube486 ik I have watched them. Love seeing Dave destroy them.

"It's propaganda!" - Every idiot who blindly swallows conservative propaganda, about any factual information ever.

Coolidge?

From the 25 Mio that the sowjet propaganda tells in real life they lost about 15 Mio and about 10 Mio were murderd by the NKWD/GPU of Stalin!

Pay attention, it wasn't the whole war, it was only talking about taking Berlin. Slow down and take your time next time before you rush to the comments over something you THINK is a mistake.

nope sorry

I would say he was a "moderate" of the 50's. By today's standards he would be where Sanders is today or so.