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Let's put that on the pediment of his library. Chisel it into white Vermont imperial Danby marble. Gold leaf it.

 

Yes, but before that Eisenhower dithered and dallied and looked for every way possible to let Faubus do his thing. Only when Faubus lied to him, which Eisenhower took as a personal affront from essentially (in Ike's eyes) a junior officer, did Ike act. Ike gets too much credit for finally stepping in and addressing a mess for which he was partly to blame.

Also, Eisenhower sent Warren to the S.C. in part because Nixon pushed him to ... Warren would have been a formidable national candidate, particularly in contrast to Nixon, who had his own overweening W.H. ambitions.

 

Noted squishy liberal media member weighs in on all the generals in the White House these days.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/03/not-good-see-many-generals-white-house/

 

All true and as I alluded in the original post, I'm sure Eisenhower had no overt intention to overthrow years of segregation in one fell swoop, but my impression is he felt institutional segregation was eventually going to go down and he was not averse to letting SCOTUS take some of the lead on it rather than leave it all to legislation, which would be a lengthy messy process. (As it certainly turned out to be anyway.)

 

One thing's for sure ... if you'd told me 20 years ago that one day I'd be comparing/contrasting Donald Fucking Trump to Dwight David Eisenhower I'd have told you you ate the wrong mushrooms at the dinner party.

 

Libs have worked themselves into a frenzy by claiming every Republican president since Roe vs. Wade would overturn it. None of them have even tried.

 

Seems like I write this every day, but, not surprising coming out of this White House. The "But Hilliary" crowd is gonna have a field day.

 

Why am I not surprised he doesn't know how much milking is not done by hand any more. Not that he's ever set foot on a real farm ...

 

No shit on that for sure.

Of course, anybody who followed sports closely enough in the 1980s to remember the basics of the USFL saga knew long long ago what a fuckup Trump was.

 

I can't imagine being on this grand jury.

Special Counsel Mueller Impanels Washington Grand Jury in Russia Probe

 

It begins.

 

Donald Trump is not a president but he plays one on TV. And a terrible one at that. Watching him last week during what were, arguably, the worst of many horrible days of this presidency, was to see pure, rampaging id. Aggressive, needy, without logic or reason, Trump continues to rule with ignorance and incoherence, seemingly oblivious to the havoc he causes or maybe just thoroughly enjoying it. ...

“I’m back in the center of the American heartland, far away from the Washington swamp to spend time with thousands of true American patriots. … I’m here this evening to cut through the fake news filter and to speak straight to the American people. Fake news. Fake, fake, fake news. Boy oh boy, people. Is there anyplace that’s more fun, more exciting and safer than a Trump rally?” ...

“Sometimes they say he doesn’t act presidential. And I say, hey look, great schools, smart guy, it’s so easy to act presidential but that’s not gonna to get it done. In fact, I said it’s much easier, by the way, to act presidential than what we’re doing here tonight, believe me. And I said with the exception of the late great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s ever held this office. That I can tell you. It’s real easy. [Cheers] But sadly, we have to move a little faster than that.”

Three Trump Speeches and the Death of a Nation