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Dwight Eisenhower gives First color TV broadcast (Original Post)
steve2470
Jul 2017
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roamer65
(36,745 posts)1. Wow...an actual real, sane president.
I miss one of those.
sandensea
(21,624 posts)2. And a Republican at that!
Hasn't happened since.
JHB
(37,158 posts)3. And, (especially if you use Republican standards of evidence)...
...the last one to get into office without some form of treason.
Golden Raisin
(4,608 posts)4. Ike wouldn't be allowed into today's Republican Party.
Too liberal and would never pass their far-right, conservative "purity" test. I suspect he'd be pretty damn horrified to see what's going on today and what the Republican Party has become.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)5. The last decent
Republican.
LudwigPastorius
(9,137 posts)6. Nice thought concerning the media, Ike, but...
a buttload of people these days are going to be latched onto TMZ, Breitbart, or FOX News like mentally defective remoras, sucking in the spiritual poison of hate.