Guess the president

[jpgray]

We cannot afford to reduce taxes, reduce income, until we have in sight a program of expenditure that shows that the factors of income and outgo will be balanced.

All of us have heard this term 'preventative war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.

A few families are fabulously wealthy, contribute far less than they should in taxes, and are indifferent to the poverty of the great masses of the people.... A country in this situation is fraught with continual instability.

I'm not trying to shove anything in anyone's face here, and this is certainly no idolizing endorsement of the speaker--the only thing this goes to show is how far our political discourse has changed on these issues.

[Arkana]

1. Guessing Eisenhower?

[jpgray]

2. ...

Yep. Probably too easy--the more famous quotes had to be avoided. (Military industrial complex, Social Security and Texas millionaires, etc.)

[Arkana]

3. To be fair to Eisenhower, he wasn't a Republican out of any sort

of a fealty to an ideology. He was a Republican because a) he was pissed at the way Truman handled Korea, and b) he knew that getting elected President would be easier on the GOP ticket, even if it meant swallowing Richard Nixon as VP AND trying to take on the crazy isolationist wing of the party.

[jpgray]

4. He was a more reasonable stripe of small-government conservative

As far as social and domestic issues went, anyway. Of course, the bar has been set very low on that, but Ike certainly vaults right over it.