Was Dwight Eisenhower the last good Republican President?

Question

I can't think of a good one since Eisenhower. Nixon broke the law. The Bush's and Reagan doubled the National Debt.

Ford pardoned Nixon.

DD - http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/history.gif

Uhlan - I agree

Answer 1

Yes, I think so as well.

Eishenhower himself was, in a moral perspective, is contreversial, though. For example, when the U2 spy plane with Gary Powers was shot down over the USSR, Eishenhower was very angry at Powers becuase he didn't commit suicide. CIA agents are supposed to commit suicide if faced with capture (I'm not sure whether they teach that today, still, though).

He was deeply disturbed at the build up of nuclear arms. He noted that the WWII and the Cold War had the unintentional effect of creating the true multinational corporation, and the much more powerful lobbyists it brought with it. Nuclear arns, as he wrote in his diary, had became an end to themselves. There were more than enough for mere deterrent by the time he left office. He realized that it was more about how to make the defense contractors more profits (and acquire a first strike ability at the USSR in the process), rather than deterrent.

Ike was an interesting guy. I think that he was perhaps the best US ground commander in WWII, and certainly better than McArthur, who was too arrogant for me. As for his successors, not a single president that has suceeded him has not gone through office without breaking US law.

Answer 2

It is a disgraceful fact that the last good republican president was Teddy Roosevelt.

The GOP is not what it used to be. Since TR split the party in 1912 and the Dixiecrat's moved into it in the 1960's, it far better to think of the GOP as "the party of Warren G. Harding" rather than anything else.

If Lincoln was alive today, he would assuredly be a democrat. I'm certain that Honest Abe starts rolling over in his grave whenever a corrupt, warmongering neocon of today makes the preposterous claim that the modern republican party is still "the party of Lincoln."

Lincoln would kick Bush in the nuts, if he could, for bringing down the once proud republican party to such an ignominious and shameful place.

Answer 3

Not at all -- Gerald Ford was a good man; Nixon was a good President if a bit of an ****** personally and even Reagan and George HW (Bush 41) had many good points. And I've voted for many, many Republicans over the years.
That said, however, because the Republican Party twice nominated George W. Bush, our first anti-American, anti-people, anti-God President, I can never again vote for ANYONE for ANY office who would still claim to be a Republican. Bush II ends the Republican Party as a viable American institution.
Or to paraphrase those old Oldsmobile commercials, "This is NOT your father's Republican Party!"

Answer 4

I think of Eisenhower as the best, at least best suited temperamentally for the time. It was a very frighting and divisive time, but by saying little and staying calm he he lead by example. It retrospect the thing I admire most was his decision to sent the national guard to little Rock to enforce the court ordered school integration, ever though he personally disapproved of the Brown ruling and the court's order. He enforce the law because that was his job, and did not criticize the ruling. Libertarian and scholars both rank him higher than anyone that came after

libertarians scholars----ordered by sum of rankings
19 Eisenhower 9
30T Kennedy 12
32 Reagan 15
33 L. Johnson 14
27 Clinton 21
34 G. H. W. Bush 25
29 Nixon 32
36 Carter 28T
37 Ford 28T

edit: libertarian ranking on objective measures of fiscal responsibility and size of government

Answer 5

Doubled the National Debt? Wow, you should really study your politics a little more. Start with something they call the "trickle down effect", then go on to learn about how the different forms of government work and then finally do a bit of research on the greatest president of your lifetime, Ronald Reagan.

Once you fully understand how government works and all of the accomplishments each of the presidents you have mentioned have made then I think you can answer your own question.

Please don't tell me that you think bill clinton was a good president. I bet your gonna vote for hillary clinton too. If you like crooks, embezzlers, liars, flip-floppers, and cheaters than you will probably say that it was clinton.

Quick rebuttal question for ya. What happened to all of those promises that the democraps made and what exactly have they done since they have taken over congress? Answer, absolutely nothing, and they have the lowest approvel rating that any congress has ever had.

Answer 6

Reagan was the best president in modern times. As far as doubling the National debt, the president doesn't write the bills.

Answer 7

Nixon was a very good president, he just also happened to be a crook.

Reagan was also a very good president.

Answer 8

The last good President? I'm not sure we really had one, all of the ones we lift up, like Kennedy are frauds.

Answer 9

Ford pardoned Nixon,because the country needed to heal. I remember back then.

Old school dems are gone. They died with JFK (as bugeyes stated,he was the last great one).

Answer 10

That's about it. Lincoln before him. Today's neo-con led Repub party is 180 out of touch with the founders of the party. They were one of the greats. Now neo-cons are bleeding them dry.