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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Searching for Eisenhower: Ike on War, Civil Rights, Big Government and Political Moderation (with William Hitchcock)

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We discuss all things Ike with William Hitchcock - author of "The Age of Eisenhower." We talk about how President Eisenhower was a surprisingly good politician, how he navigated Civil Rights, Social Security and other domestic programs, how he dealt with LBJ. We discuss the failure that upset him the most, and what he may have gotten wrong. We also get to the bottom of that Military Industrial Complex. (PREMIUM SUBSCRIBERS - get a special episode on the 1957 Civil Rights Bill). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7

I think he's a man for our times and I say this because I think we are

0:36.7

desperate for leaders who are unafraid to be sentrists.

0:42.4

There is a recurring temptation. afraid to be feel that some spectacular and costly action could become a miraculous solution to all a unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture. These and many other

1:05.4

possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way

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to the road we wish to travel.

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But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration.

1:21.0

The need to maintain balance. Oh, On the podcast today I'm speaking with William Hitchcock he is the author of the

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Age of Eisenhower America and the world in the 1950s. He teaches history at the

1:56.2

University of Virginia and he joins me on the podcast. William, thanks for coming on.

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Oh, thanks for having me, Bruce. You know what struck me reading your book something

2:06.0

that Theodore White said about Eisenhower. He makes people happy. No cavalcade I have followed in the entourage of any other political figure in this country.

2:17.0

Has ever left so many smiling, glowing people behind as an Eisenhower tour.

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The 70-year-old hero with his cherubic pink face drew from the crowds a yearning burst of cheers.

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