Via Kos comes David Sirota's fantastic find among President Eisenhower's presidential papers--Ike's letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, 8 November 1954:
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
As is so obvious one's tempted to leave it unstated: Ike clearly didn't imagine one of those Texas oil millionaires becoming President. As Sirota points out, the Texas oil millionaire occupying The White House currently, "is trying to abolish social security as we know it, starve unemployment programs, weaken labor laws, and gut rural/farm programs."
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