Eisenhower Republicanism

Dwight Eisenhower – hidden hand president

Election of 1952

Robert Taft – Mr. Republican

Domestic Affairs

“Eight millionaires and a plumber”

Charles Wilson, “What’s good…”

Keynesian

Welfare state

McCarthyism

Army/McCarthy Hearings

HUAC

Richard Nixon

Foreign Affairs

End of Korean War

John Foster Dulles

Brinkmanship

Massive retaliation

Liberation

Rollback

“More bang for the buck”

Military-Industrial Complex