"Rockefeller was often considered to be liberal, progressive,
or moderate. .
In an agreement that was termed the Treaty of Fifth Avenue, he persuaded Richard Nixon to alter the Republican Party platform just before the 1960 Republican National Convention.
In his time, liberals in the Republican Party were called "Rockefeller Republicans".
After unsuccessfully seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968, .
Rockefeller was appointed vice president of the United States by President Gerald Ford in December 1974.
Rockefeller was the second vice president appointed to the position under the 25th Amendment, following Ford himself.
Rockefeller did not seek a full term in the 1976 election with Ford, who named
Kansas Senator Bob Dole as his running mate
instead of Rockefeller that year. Rockefeller retired from politics in 1977 and died two years later."
Eisenhower.... Kansas
Truman..... Missouri
Dole.... nope
Bush.....Maine, er....Texas
Bush 2....Texas, er.... Saudi Arabia
Gore....nope McCain....nope
Obama.....Hawaii via Kansas via Iowa via Harvard
Biden....Delaware, DOH
"Truman was raised in Independence, Missouri, and during World War I fought in France as a captain in the Field Artillery.
Returning home, he opened a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri, and was elected as a judge of Jackson County in 1922. Truman was elected to the U.S. Senate for Missouri in 1934.
Between 1940 and 1944, he gained national prominence as the chairman of the Truman Committee, which aimed to reduce waste and inefficiency in wartime contracts.
Truman was elected vice president in the 1944 presidential election and became president upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. .
Only then was he told about the ongoing Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb. "
" In 1948, he proposed that Congress should pass comprehensive civil rights legislation.
Congress refused, so Truman issued Executive Order 9980 and Executive Order 9981, which
prohibited discrimination in agencies of the federal government
and desegregated the United States Armed Forces."
"His middle initial, "S", is not an abbreviation of one particular name.
Rather, it honors both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young, a somewhat common practice in the American South at the time"
J"ohn Truman was a farmer and livestock dealer. The family lived in Lamar until Harry was ten months old, when they moved to a farm near Harrisonville, Missouri. They next moved to Belton and in 1887 to his grandparents' 600-acre (240 ha) farm in Grandview.
When Truman was six, his parents moved to Independence, Missouri, so he could attend the Presbyterian Church Sunday School. He did not attend a conventional school until he was eight years old.
While living in Independence, he served as a Shabbos goy for Jewish neighbors,
doing tasks for them on Shabbat that their religion prevented them from doing on that day."
immediately after World War I, Truman became active in several business ventures. These included a lead and zinc mine near
Commerce, Oklahoma, a company that bought land and leased the oil drilling rights to prospectors, and speculation in Kansas City real estate.
"Truman is the only president since William McKinley (elected in 1896) who did not earn a college degree."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
(born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)
was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.
During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army.
Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch
in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943
and the invasion of Normandy in 1944."
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"Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, and raised in Abilene, Kansas. "
"1892, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, which Eisenhower considered his hometown"
"his mother was against war, it was her collection of history books that first sparked Eisenhower's interest in military history "
"later decision to attend West Point saddened his mother, who felt that warfare was "rather wicked",
but she did not overrule his decision. Speaking of himself in 1948, Eisenhower said he was "one of the most deeply religious men I know"
"In athletics, Eisenhower later said that "not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest".
He made the varsity football team and was a starter at halfback in 1912, when he
tried to tackle the legendary Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians.
Eisenhower suffered a torn knee while being tackled in the next game,
which was the last he played; he reinjured his knee on horseback and in the boxing ring, so he turned to fencing and gymnastics"
"He married Barbara Jean Thompson and had four children: David, Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named,
married Richard Nixon's daughter Julie in 1968."
"He began oil painting while at Columbia University"
"Throughout 1945, the allied armies liberated numerous Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe.
As the allies learned the full extent of the Holocaust, Eisenhower anticipated that, in the future,
attempts to recharacterize Nazi crimes as propaganda (Holocaust denial) would be made,
and took steps against it by demanding extensive photo and film documentation of Nazi extermination camps."
"He reclassified German prisoners of war (POWs) in US custody as Disarmed Enemy Forces (DEFs), who were no longer subject to the Geneva Convention.
Eisenhower followed the orders laid down by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in directive JCS 1067 but softened them by bringing in 400,000 tons of food for civilians and allowing more fraternization.
In response to the devastation in Germany, including food shortages and an influx of refugees, he arranged distribution of American food and medical equipment.
His actions reflected the new American attitudes
of the German people as Nazi victims not villains,
while aggressively purging the ex-Nazis"
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"Eisenhower had opposed the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese, writing, "First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.
Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon."
___
"In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, an Ivy League university. Within months of becoming university president, Eisenhower was requested to advise Secretary of Defense James Forrestal on the unification of the armed services. About six months after his appointment, he became the informal Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington"
"Columbia University's liberal faculty members became disenchanted with the university president's ties to oilmen and businessmen. The Institute of War and Peace Studies thus became one of the projects which Eisenhower considered his "unique contribution" to Columbia."
"The trustees of Columbia University declined to accept Eisenhower's offer to resign in December 1950, when he took an extended leave from the university to become the
Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and he was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe"
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"Throughout his presidency, Eisenhower adhered to a political philosophy of dynamic conservatism.
He described himself as a "progressive conservative", and used terms such as
"progressive moderate" and "dynamic conservatism" to describe his approach.
He continued all the major New Deal programs still in operation, especially Social Security.
He expanded its programs and rolled them into the new Cabinet-level agency of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, while
extending benefits to an additional ten million workers. "
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"On August 26, 1959, he was aboard the maiden flight of Air Force One, which replaced the Columbine as the presidential aircraft."
"Eisenhower championed and signed the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956.
His subsequent experience with the German autobahn convinced him of the benefits of an Interstate Highway System. The system could also be used as a runway for airplanes"
"The Eisenhower administration used propaganda and covert action extensively, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
"supported two military coups: the 1953 Iranian coup d'état and the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. "
1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, sparking the Suez Crisis, in which
a coalition of France, Britain, and Israel attacked Egypt"
"The Cuban Revolution broke out during Eisenhower's second term, resulting in the replacement of pro-U.S. military dictator Fulgencio Batista with Fidel Castro.
In response to the revolution, the Eisenhower administration broke ties with Cuba and
Eisenhower approved a CIA operation to carry out a campaign of terrorist attacks and sabotage, kill civilians, and cause economic damage.
The CIA also trained and commanded pilots to bomb civilian airfields. The CIA began preparations for an invasion of Cuba by Cuban expatriates, ultimately resulting in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion after Eisenhower left office"
"Early in 1953, the French asked Eisenhower for help in French Indochina against the Communists
Eisenhower stated prophetically that "this war would absorb our troops by divisions."
Eisenhower did provide France with bombers and non-combat personnel. After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft
to drop napalm for clearing purposes. "
"Even before he was inaugurated Eisenhower accepted a request from the British government to restore the Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) to power.
He therefore authorized the CIA to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
This resulted in increased strategic control over Iranian oil by American and British companies"
"in July 1958, he sent 15,000 Marines and soldiers to Lebanon as part of Operation Blue Bat, a non-combat peacekeeping mission to stabilize the pro-Western government and to prevent a radical revolution "
"On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance inside Soviet territory. Flown by American pilot Francis Gary Powers, the aircraft had taken off from Peshawar, Pakistan "
"From 1947 to 1961 the number of firings based on sexual orientation were far greater than those for membership in the Communist Party,
and government officials intentionally campaigned to make "homosexual" synonymous with "Communist traitor" such that non-heterosexual people were treated as a national security threat"
"an unprecedented step by Eisenhower to protect communication beyond the confines of a cabinet meeting,
and soon became a tradition known as executive privilege.
Eisenhower's denial of McCarthy's access to his staff reduced McCarthy's hearings to rants about trivial matters and contributed to his ultimate downfall"
"The Democrats gained a majority in both houses in the 1954 election. Eisenhower had to work with
the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (later US president"
"Eisenhower began chain smoking cigarettes at West Point, often three or four packs a day."
"He was the first president to release information about his health and medical records while in office,
but people around him deliberately misled the public about his health.
On September 24, 1955, while vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack. "
"During a visit to England on August 29, 1959, he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked; however, his physician, Snyder, recalled that before dinner at the prime minister's manor house Chequers the next day,
Eisenhower "drank several gin-and-tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner".
Eisenhower had seven heart attacks from 1955 until his death."
'The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which set a two-term limit on the presidency, was ratified in 1951.
Eisenhower was the first president constitutionally prevented from serving a third term."
"continued with a warning that
"we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought,
by the military–industrial complex"
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry
can compel the proper meshing
of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense
with our peaceful methods and goals,
so that security and liberty
may prosper together