Eisenhower left office popular with the public but viewed by many commentators as a “do-nothing” president. His reputation improved after the release of his private papers in the 1970s. Polls of historians and political scientists rank Eisenhower in the top quartile of presidents.

Campaign issues Many of his radio and television commercials discussed topics such as education, inflation, ending the war in Korea, and other issues that were thought to appeal to women.

In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft; Taft opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. Eisenhower’s main goals in office were to contain the spread of communism and reduce federal deficits.

Eisenhower served as the President of the United States. Eisenhower held office during the Cold War, a period of nuclear weapons as a deterrent to military threats, and the United States built up a stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems during Eisenhower’s presidency.

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88 years (1884–1972)

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president….

There have been 49 vice presidents of the United States since the office came into existence in 1789. Originally, the vice president was the person who received the second most votes for president in the Electoral College.

1940 United States Presidential Election

Campaign for vice president (1920) After Governor James M. Cox of Ohio won the party’s presidential nomination at the 1920 Democratic National Convention, he chose Roosevelt as his running mate, and the party formally nominated Roosevelt by acclamation.

In the 1940 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican Wendell Willkie, an internationalist who largely refrained from criticizing Roosevelt’s foreign policy. He went on to serve a third term and three months of a fourth term.

The bill came to be known as Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan,” a phrase coined by Edward Rumely. In November 1936, Roosevelt won a sweeping re-election victory. In the months following, he proposed to reorganize the federal judiciary by adding a new justice each time a justice reached age 70 and failed to retire.

Roosevelt’s acceptance speech Roosevelt accepted his party’s nomination after the convention had closed. Shortly after midnight Eastern time on July 19, 1940, Roosevelt delivered his acceptance speech from the White House in front of news radio microphones and newsreel cameras.

Democratic New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent President Herbert Hoover in a landslide, with Hoover winning only six Northeastern states.

Roosevelt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis. In 1926, Roosevelt’s belief in the benefits of hydrotherapy led him to found a rehabilitation center at Warm Springs, Georgia.

“Happy Days Are Here Again” – 1932 slogan by Democratic presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Roosevelt won the highest share of the popular and electoral vote since the largely uncontested 1820 election. The election took place as the Great Depression entered its eighth year. Roosevelt was still working to push the provisions of his New Deal economic policy through Congress and the courts.

In the presidential election, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt won re-election, defeating Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. Roosevelt took every state but Vermont and Maine, winning with the fourth largest electoral vote margin in American history.

The 1960 presidential election was the closest election since 1916, and this closeness can be explained by a number of factors.

May 12 – The Santa Fe railroad inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles. May 25 – Remington Rand strike of 1936–37 begins. A major heat wave strikes North America; high temperature records are set and thousands die. The first production model PCC streetcar, built by St.