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To: wardaddy; Hojczyk

Eisenhower. IMO one of the best. The last of an extinct species, the Main Street president. Ended Korea. Kept us out of new hot wars. Balanced the budget through prodigious use of the veto. His warning about the military industrial complex was really part and parcel of his attempt to limit government spending. 50% of the budget then was defense. Today it is 15%, not because defense is smaller but because of the enormous growth of non-defense spending that began with LBJ. We walked through the socialism door in 1965 and have just kept going.


129 posted on 04/29/2021 10:08:02 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate the Democrats from their Communist occupation)
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To: Pelham

I put Ike as a solid #2 behind Reagan in terms of my all-time favorite Presidents.

Combined with his job during WWII, he was the Greatest American of the 20th Century.


130 posted on 04/29/2021 10:16:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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