Well .. I don't loathe him - because he was smart enough to hire a real military man to WIN the war - unlike the wimmpy dims of today. And .. his prayers for America were much more grandiose than those of George W. Bush.
However, what people seem to forget is that CONGRESS was totally controlled by the democrats. The repubs didn't have any say in anything, except for Civil Rights. It was the repubs who put that legislation into action - while it was people like Byrd (southern dems) who were against it.
True, but he got himself twisted around Joe Stalin's little finger and lost half of Europe to communism. It wasn't until Truman that Stalin's global ambitions were halted and until Reagan that they were destroyed.