It's official: Ike Will Run!!!!

[AshevilleGuy]

I was researching something else today in old newspapers, and that was the headline for the March 1, 1956 edition of the Asheville Citizen. Now, Ike wouldn't say just yet if he would let VP Nixon run with him again (he made him wait for weeks!). On the Dem side, Sen. Estes Keefauver (TN) was struggling against Adlai Stevenson for front runner.

My point is, it was March of the election year and the main candidates were just starting to run!! Here it is, March of the year BEFORE, and we already are saying that it's getting very late to ANNOUNCE! Isn't amazing how things have changed in 51 years???

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I like Ike

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Ike - Far to The LEFT of Today's DEMS

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Flaming Liberal

[Bozita]

6. Repugs very rarely even mention Ike's presidency.

[rebel with a cause]

11. the last good republican.

and one reason I stayed republican way too long.

[Bozita]

13. Ike knew war. Think D-Day. What would Ike say about America today?

I don't think he'd be very proud.

[rebel with a cause]

15. No, he warned us about this type of government.

to bad his own party did not heed his warning. :cry:

Oh, and Goldwater was probably the last honest republican. His children/grandchildren have come out and said how much he would have been against the present republican party/government.

[Bozita]

16. Goldwater warned us. He really feared the religio-nuts

[originalpckelly]

7. Of course Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy's for me...

and me and me!

[Lex]

2. Yes, things have changed in 51 years.

That is certain.

[Counciltucky]

3. It's all about more prevalent media.

When there's only three channels on TV, there's less time to speculate.

[AshevilleGuy]

5. Yeah, if you had three TV antennas!

You had to have one for each station - they were shaped differently, and had to be pointed towards the transmitters. We had one for Charlotte (CBS) and one for Asheville (ABC). NBC was in Greenville, SC, and we didn't have that, they were expensive.

And the news was only on for 30 minutes each evening, 15 minutes of that was local.

[dflprincess]

10. And you probably got more real news from the national networks

in those 15 minutes than you get in a month from them now.

[Counciltucky]

18. Yeah, but it's more entertaining now!

Who gives a shit about what's going on in Congress or the White House when we have Anna Nicole Smith to bury?

:eyes:

[AshevilleGuy]

19. Maybe. I was five at that time.

Wasn't much into the news yet. I do remember grownups talking about "Korea" in negative terms, and before that it *seems* like there was something they whispered about - could it have been McCarthy?

I mostly was into I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners (I liked their theme song). Thought Howdy Doody was dumb; it never stood still. :)

[misanthrope]

20. Melancholy Serenade by The Jackie Gleason Orchestra...

...Just the initial strains of it bring to mind big convertibles with tail fins and palm trees in the moonlight.

[AshevilleGuy]

22. Was that the name of it??

I love it. Brings back all sorts of memories, all good: Saturday nights back at home. No school the next day. Wish I could go there...

[BuelahWitch]

8. With the candidates they've got for '08

They might be better off running a dead man :hide:

[BlueStater]

9. It's annoying, is what it is

I don't think I can handle nearly two full years of election coverage. I'll go out of my goddamn mind.

[rebel with a cause]

12. Nah, we'll get tired of it by the primaries and

start tuning them out. We will have picked who we will vote for and just coast until the election. Those who don't care now, will then become involved. At least that is what I suspect will happen. :shrug:

[TahitiNut]

14. In those days, we didn't pay much attention until Labor Day, either.

The parties would hold their conventions in August and the Democratic nominee (in particular) would 'launch' the active campaign with a key speech on Labor Day, usually with organized labor.

[Bozita]

17. The expanded time-frame is paid in full by corporate money.

[Clarkie1]

21. It's both amazing and sad. nt