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I Like IKE

I Like IKE. In an age of uncertainty, Communist advances, war in Korea people want the reassuring, calm manner and smile of a father figure. Ikes opponent Is Adlai Stevenson is deemed a egg head. Not as likeable as Ike, and he's the same party as Truman

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I Like IKE

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  1. I Like IKE In an age of uncertainty, Communist advances, war in Korea people want the reassuring, calm manner and smile of a father figure. Ikes opponent Is Adlai Stevenson is deemed a egg head. Not as likeable as Ike, and he's the same party as Truman Ike picks anticommunist Senator Richard Nixon to be his running mate.

  2. Tricky Dick • Nixon will become embroiled in a scandal about a secret slush fund from contributors and may be thrown off the ticket • They buy time on TV and radio and he defends himself with the infamous Checkers Speech. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhQD2UFCIbY • 75 to 1 in favor of Nixon • They continue to hammer on the democrats for scandal. Ike promises to go to Korea and end the war. • Ike and Nixon win the Whitehouse

  3. Ike Presidency • Ike believes in consensus building “ no one has a monopoly on the truth” • Feels America should be run with business like efficiency. Appoints business leaders to cabinet. • Gets Atomic Energy Act passed beginning of building Nuclear Power plants.

  4. Re-election • Ike gets re-elected running against Adlai Stevenson again. Less energetic but people still liked him • Begins the interstate Highway System • Over 42,000 miles • Cost six times the estimate

  5. Also created St Lawrence Seaway system of locks connecting great lakes to Atlantic

  6. Ikes Legacy • Ike has problems with the “cold war” heating up. • Sputnik embarrasses us. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHaJDuq6tBM • Cuba goes commie(more on that later) • Social security extended.

  7. Foreign Policy • CIA led coups in Iran, Guatemala, the Belgian Congo, and the beginning of our involvement in Vietnam. ( more on that later also.) and they became the modus operandi of the US after that. • MAD Mutually assured destruction comes of age • Soon after the election of 1960 JFK vs. Richard Nixon ( more on that later also)

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