AUCW 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Tupperware, Communist Party Of Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson
28 Sep 2016
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Modern republicanism and suburban togetherness in the 1950s. Dwight eisenhower (president 1956)-republican, supreme commander of nato forces, commander of north african invasion and normandy landing in wwii. Republican divide: east was moderate internationalists while midwest was isolationist and conservative (led by robert taft) Running mate-richard nixon, but when press revealed nixon"s secret fund with california businessmen he did not defend nixon or trust him. Promoted national interest-economic growth, productivity, and foreign trade. Accepted rather than fought new deal principles of social security, organized labor, and regulatory role for government. Transferred control of offshore oil rights and lucrative tax revenues from federal government to states. Eisenhower relied on democratic leadership in congress (lyndon johnson), played a critical role in passage of civil rights act (1957) Robert oppenheimer-eisenhower approved atomic energy commission"s decision to cancel security clearance of physicist, as he had communist friends in 1930"s (influence of mccarthy)
