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1952 Election • (D) Adlai Stevenson – Very bright, very academic – Did not relate to people well * (R) Dwight Eisenhower VP – Richard Nixon •“I like Ike”
1952 Election
• (D) Adlai Stevenson– Very bright, very
academic– Did not relate to
people well
* (R) Dwight Eisenhower
VP – Richard Nixon
•“I like Ike”
Eisenhower• Went to Korea, brought
troops home• 1956 Interstate Highway
Act• “Brinksmanship” foreign
Policy w/ USSR– Tough stand … “to the
brink of war”
•Support for Civil Rights
•Support was, at times, reluctant
•Baby Boom
•Rock and Roll
1956 – Different election … same guys … same result
Ike and Nixon
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver
The Baby Boom• Generation born between
1947 – 1963• Largest generation in
U.S. history• Peak in 1957 … 1 baby
born every 7 seconds• Reasons?
– Men returning from War– Younger marriage age– Prosperity– Culture– Medicine and Science
