Eisenhower

Eisenhower's Politics

Sharon Lewis

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021/12/2011

University of Phoenix

Eisenhower's Politics

While Eisenhower was president, he followed a fairly strict social and economic

Conservatism.

He made deficits to the defense budget after the Korean War. He then proceeded to make

increases in Social Security. He is most widely known during his administration for the

Interstate highway system which proved to be one of the largest public works projects ever noted

in the history of America. He also worked diligently to avoid the use of nuclear weapons and

cautioned the country that their use termed “the military-industrial complex,” all the time he

thought it was aiding and abetting the arms race that was ongoing between the U.S. and the

Soviet Union.  Of the three years out of eight that President Eisenhower was in office, he

achieved a

balanced budget and only one of eight that President Eisenhower was in office, he achieved a

balanced budget and only one

other time has that been accomplished by LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson), and only

once Eisenhower was able to take pragmatic 

Soviet Union the three years out of eight that President Eisenhower was in office, he achieved a

balanced budget and only one of eight that President Eisenhower was in office, he achieved a

balanced budget and only one

other time has that been accomplished by LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson), and only

once Eisenhower was able to take pragmatic

stands based on the Highway Act and the St. Lawrence Seaway Act due to these would add to

the country’s economy by creating much needed jobs. He remained steadfast against big

government and rejected liberal proposals on housing and universal health care that would go

through the Social Security System. One of his main confidences was that when individual

stands based on the Highway Act and the St. Lawrence Seaway Act due to these would add to

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