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[my_window_seat]

"Every gun that is made,
every warship launched,
every rocket fired,
signifies, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower-

Coming, not just from a former President, but also the former Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, I think this means an awful lot.

I want another President like this.

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[johnnybrainwash.livejournal.com]

Ike also desegregated the military, which paved the way for the rest of America.

[my-window-seat.livejournal.com]

One of many accomplishments. We need another one...

I was a kid during the Eisenhower years...

[hillbillie.livejournal.com]

...it was a good time, in many ways.

He was a Republican, but you wouldn't know it by today'sstandards of that Party.

True, there was too much conformity, and Edward Scissorhands' neighborhood is an accurate satire of that era, but at least we had ideals, not jingoism, and we had optimism and altruism, not anger and greed.

Nope, I wouldn't mind another prez like that, not one bit.

I don't know if Kerry's it---he might be.
I do know that Biush is not it. At all.

Too many people forget that the fifties were really a time of high ideals in this country.
Then with JFK, even more so.
Since then, we've lost something.

Thanks for posting Ike's fine words.

Re: I was a kid during the Eisenhower years...

[my-window-seat.livejournal.com]

You know, I only wish I knew what I missed. It's weird, being nostalgic for seomthing I never actually experienced, but I am.

Re: nostalgic for seomthing I never actually experienced

[hillbillie.livejournal.com]

Oh, I understand that, perfectly.
Can you believe it, I feel the same way about the twenties, and up through WWII?
I especially liked the different and IMO better way that women were seen in those decades, before the returning-from-the-war fiasco that changed our image, the repurcussions of which we are still living with today.

I do love old movies...


But back to the era(s) under discussion: I wish it too, that I could take some people back in time, to see what's missing from Now.
We used to be taught about The Future!, in school...it sure wasn't THIS.