Dwight D Eisenhower was a republican from pensilvania and was elected twice during the cold war.
1952
His first election in 1952 when the soviet union and USA had high tension in the war.The New York Times newspaper and many other newspapers endorsed Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower said he would get the United states out of Korea. and would clean up the government especially on the bribery issues uncovered by the Truman appointees. They both used a lot of television and radio campaigns. He only needed 266 to win but he exceeded that and reached 442. He won over 39 of the 48 states, especially down in the south west. He beat stevenson in popular votes by 11% and Electoral votes by 66%.
1956
For this election the Republicans had 5 million in the bank and Democrats only had 100,000. Eisenhower was very popular besides the health care which was rarely talked about. It was the biggest war since FDR. Eisenhower beat Adlai Stevenson by around 9 million electoral votes. He won in electoral votes by almost 400.
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My Thoughts
I Thought he sounded like a pretty good president. He was defiantly a popular one back then.
Comments
Good Zach! Expand a bit more on personal thought next time!
in 1956 paragraph war is supposed to be win and care is supposed to be issues. I was really tired.