Fineman Lauds 'Amazing Statesmanship' of Eisenhower Advising LBJ to Push 'Sweeping Liberal Agenda'
Appearing as a panel member on the weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, Huffington Post editoral director Howard Fineman - formerly of Newsweek - praised former President Eisenhower's decision to advise then-President Johnson to "carry out Jack Kennedy's agenda" in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination.
Fineman ended up referring to Eisenhower's advice as "amazing statesmanship and foresight." Fineman:
(Video can be found here.)
But more important and interesting is the advice that Ike gave to Lyndon Johnson about what LBJ should say before a joint session of Congress. Ike was a Republican President and really more of a conservative one in certain respects than we remember.
But what he told LBJ was that LBJ should promise to carry forth the sweeping liberal agenda of Jack Kennedy, who had been assassinated, that the best thing that LBJ could do for the country and for LBJ's own standing within his party than the presidency, was to promise to carry out Jack Kennedy's agenda.
So here, you really have, at a pivotal moment, a Republican President advocating a Democratic agenda for the good of the country. Amazing statesmanship and foresight really on Ike's part.
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I marvel at the number of liberals
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 11:49am.
holding up Republicans and conservatives as the model to which we should all aspire - and then setting about to do the exact opposite. It's as if they concede that their policies and historical leaders all sucked, so they place their political opponents on pedestals and suggest we should all take a page from their playbook. Then they burn the playbook.
Correct BK and...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 2:01pm.
That is why they run to the RIGHT when they want to win close elections. Should they win, they go back to their liberal ideologies, and should they become the majority, they go as far left as they can! Even the current democrat president likens himself to Abe Lincoln! What a joke!
So a liberal telling
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 1:49pm.
So a liberal telling conservatives to act like liberals for the good of the country?
Funny we never hear a liberal saying, "Liberals should follow conservatives for the good of the country!"
The reason they HATE the Tea Party is because the don't roll over like RINOs! And they are not use to that!