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"I still like Ike" – 1956 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Dwight D. Eisenhower "Peace and Prosperity" – 1956 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Dwight D. Eisenhower "Adlai and Estes – The Bestest" – Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver
Eisenhower won the election with 55.2% of the popular vote, defeating Stevenson by a margin of 353 electoral votes. [44] Rosser Reeves, the advertising expert of the Eisenhower campaign, later said, the election "...was such a landslide that (the commercial) didn't make a goddamn bit of difference". [45]
I like Ike – slogan for the Draft Eisenhower movement, the only successful political draft of the 20th century; the movement persuaded former General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president in 1952; Let's Go Brandon – slogan used as a euphemism for "Fuck Joe Biden" by Republican politicians and those opposed to President Joe Biden
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In 1956, Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson again and won by an even larger landslide, with 457 of 531 electoral votes and 57.6 percent of the popular vote. His campaigning was curtailed out of health considerations. [166] Eisenhower made full use of his valet, chauffeur, and secretarial support; he rarely drove or even dialed a phone number.
"I like Ike", campaign slogan for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. [8] The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy - said by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar Bradley to the U.S. Senate in opposition to extending the Korean War into China.
As you may have seen before in the National Archives, General Eisenhower had doubts in the face of a "well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened" enemy. If the invasion of Normany failed ...
Eisenhower publicly opposed these ideas, even though in private he was working on a proposal to ban atmospheric nuclear testing. Eisenhower had retained the enormous personal and political popularity he had earned during World War II , and he maintained a comfortable lead in the polls throughout the campaign.