The Election of 1956

Dwight Eisenhower was president. Even though Eisenhower had

not made and major changes during his first term he was still the

publics for choice for the next election. In a poll taken in 1954,

65% of Americans had approved of the job he was doing. Some

critics reflected his as lazy. Saying he rather be golfing, one of his

own speech writers once described his as an “oaf”. But never the

less he was unanimously nominated for the Republican ticket in

1956 along with Richard Nixon for vice president, who won with

457 electoral votes and 57.6% of the popular vote. For the

Democrats Adlai E. Stevensons was anomously nominated and

excepted the nomination. This campaign was won of the calmest

in American history, for the same candidates ran in the election of

1952. Not many people thought the democrats even had a

chance against Eisenhower. at a picnic at Eisenhowers’ farm in

Gettysburg, where he officially began his campaign, He addressed

. . .

the leaders attending on the top two issues: his health and

Richard Nixons place on the ticket. In the 1956 election people were sure he would be

re-elected, but they were not sure if he would accept the

Republican parties nomination. As a great World War II General people saw him as

a sign of hope for peace in the post war era. The democratic

platforms were pretty much the same except the we for

disarmament. And the citizens of

Hungary tried to over throw the communist government there. His a

few of his concerns were foreign policy and national defense,

space exploration, civil rights and NATO. In

turn the Soviet Union sent troops to support the dictator there. html

. He had a strong running in

African-American districts which was odd for a republican at that

time.

And Richard Nixon assured them he would be able to fulfill the

duties of president. They were for stopping testing of the H-bomb. First the Leader of Egypt nationalized the Suez

Canal, which caused great Britain, France, and Israel to attack

Egypt.

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