Eisenhower
1. In 1952, the Democrats chose Adlai E. Stevenson, the witty governor
of Illinois, while Republicans rejected isolationist Robert A. Taft and
instead chose World War II hero Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for
president and anticommunist Richard M. Nixon to be his running mate.
2. Grandfatherly Eisenhower was a war hero and liked by everyone, so
he left the rough part of campaigning to Nixon, who attacked Stevenson
as soft against communists, corrupt, and weak in the Korean situation.
Nixon…
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