I wonder if he's a flat-earther, too.
Speaker Mike Johnson supports the belief in the Adam and Eve story and is associated with Young Earth Creationism, which holds that the Earth is around 6,000 years old.
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val70 · 56-60
Nothing wrong with that. It's been there for donkey years. Just think of tha celebrated Scopes Monkey Trial. There's only one way to govern such a vast country and that's how "Ike on the golf course again" did it
rinkydinkydoink · M
@val70
Truman didn't like the way Ike (who cheated on Mamie with his wartime secretary) treated George Marshall (of The Marshall Plan)... the man who probably should've been POTUS.
Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery reprehensible. As a military man he had been able to distance himself from petty political crusades in the name of the greater cause. But in 1952, as a first time candidate for the office of the presidency, he found it would be a good deal more difficult to maintain his political purity. When McCarthy delivered a blistering attack against former Secretary of State George C. Marshall, calling him "a man steeped in falsehood," candidate Eisenhower was faced with a dilemma. A popular member of his own party was publicly disparaging a man Ike considered a valued mentor. Eisenhower's personal and political instincts came into conflict during a campaign stop in McCarthy's home state of Wisconsin. Eisenhower was prepared to deliver a defense of Marshall, praising him "as a man and a soldier," and condemning the tactics of McCarthy as a "sobering lesson in the way freedom must not defend itself." But noble intentions gave way to political reality. Aware of McCarthy's huge base of support and not willing to risk losing votes in a crucial state, Eisenhower delivered his speech minus the defense of Marshall and the condemnation of McCarthy. It was a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Truman didn't like the way Ike (who cheated on Mamie with his wartime secretary) treated George Marshall (of The Marshall Plan)... the man who probably should've been POTUS.
Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery reprehensible. As a military man he had been able to distance himself from petty political crusades in the name of the greater cause. But in 1952, as a first time candidate for the office of the presidency, he found it would be a good deal more difficult to maintain his political purity. When McCarthy delivered a blistering attack against former Secretary of State George C. Marshall, calling him "a man steeped in falsehood," candidate Eisenhower was faced with a dilemma. A popular member of his own party was publicly disparaging a man Ike considered a valued mentor. Eisenhower's personal and political instincts came into conflict during a campaign stop in McCarthy's home state of Wisconsin. Eisenhower was prepared to deliver a defense of Marshall, praising him "as a man and a soldier," and condemning the tactics of McCarthy as a "sobering lesson in the way freedom must not defend itself." But noble intentions gave way to political reality. Aware of McCarthy's huge base of support and not willing to risk losing votes in a crucial state, Eisenhower delivered his speech minus the defense of Marshall and the condemnation of McCarthy. It was a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
val70 · 56-60
@rinkydinkydoink I know. Personally, I've had a bust up with an historian once over the fact that Marshall wanted to remove Patton over his remarks about concentration camp survivors. Ike was a politician before he truly knew it. The distain towards Truman at the end of his presidency was absolutely uncalled for. The man did so much during his presidency. I guess that Ike knew how the wind was racing through the country more than Honest Harry