why was dwight eisenhower was a horrible president?

Question

i need facts, not just made up stuff
and i know he was actully a good president, i just cant find anything for my civics project.

Answer 1

he put the first troops in Vietnam back in the early 1950's if not for him we probably would not have been involved in that war..................make no mistake about it, he sent our troops to south Vietnam to train them if not for that we would not have been there in 64' when the torpedo supposedly hit our ship.

Answer 2

He wasn't. He really doesn't get credit for a lot of things.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

In 1957, President Eisenhower sent Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation. The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. It also established a federal Civil Rights Commission with authority to investigate discriminatory conditions and recommend corrective measures. The final act was weakened by Congress due to the lack of support among the Democrats.

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/Civil_Rights_Civil_Rights_Act/CivilRightsActfiles.html

Answer 3

I agree he was a good president. Try to take a couple of the good things he did, then argue against them as if you think they were bad. Here are two:

He accepted the ideals and programs of FDR's New Deal including the social safety nets. He authorized a lot of spying on Russia including the U-2 flights, and NSA wiretapping of Russian embassies.

Answer 4

He was called the do nothing president in the 50s.That is what America needed at that time after WW11 and the Korean Conflict. Americans liked him.They need a down time and the economy was starting to grow again after a very long time.

Answer 5

Last reduction in the total federal debt was Eisenhower's last budget, he created the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department. Started Interstate Highway system.

First advisors sent to Vietnam by Trueman, first troops sent by LBJ.

Answer 6

Ike refused to get sucked into Vietnam. He refused to evacuate the French who were surrounded by the North Vietnamese and had to surrender. No doubt he remembered when DeGaul told him to get all the American troops out of France. Ike answered that it would take a while to dig them all up. Later Kennedy sent 600 advisors to Vietnam then several thousand. When we were in up to our necks after taking over for the French, the French were are greatest critics aside from the communists. Ike sent federal troops to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce court ordered integration but you won't hear about that from the lefties running government schools. Google Little Rock, it is there. The democrate governor tried to stop him. He OKed a plan to train Cubans and have them overthrow Castro. They were to land at three different places, non of which was the swampy Bay of Pigs which Kennedy chose after the defeat of Nixon. They were to have air cover which Kennedy cancelled after the first day. On the history channel the invasion is presented as a risky scheme left over from the Eisenhour administration. There was no mention that Ike was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious invasion in the history of the world even up until today on June 6. 1944. There is no way he would have screwed up this little invasion like Kennedy did. The weakness shown by Kennedy enboldened the Soviets to put missles in Cuba almost starting WW3. Ike closed the southern border without a fence with the politically incorrectly named "Operation *******." The only embarrassment of his administration was when the U2 plane was shot down over Russia. Ike denied it then the Soviets produce the plane wreckage and the captured Francis Gary Powers who was later traded for a Russian spy. If you put this stuff in your report in a government school you will be considered to be some kind of child neocon! Just say Ike dreamed up the ill fated Bay of Pigs disaster and played golf too much.

Answer 7

He built the interstate highway system (to allow trucks carrying nuclear missiles to be able to freely move about the country making them less vulnerable to a Russian first strike). He also appointed at least one justice to the Supreme Court that was responsible for the civil rights decisions of the 1960s.

Answer 8

He did enough for America during the war.

He did more for America and the world than most people dream of doing for America and the world.

He was and is a hero. He will forever be one of the greatest Americans. So it didn't matter how good or bad of a job he did as president.

He built our interstate highway system. That was one of the biggest achievements in human history.

Answer 9

He talked Canada into killing the Arrow project in 1959.
It was way ahead of anything US or Russian at the time.
The engineers went on to build the Concord & Shuttle.

Answer 10

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