We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people. We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.
…The spirit of our people is the strength of our nation.
America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.
Government must have a heart as well as a head.
Courage in principle, cooperation in practice make freedom positive.
Romney was right: the past was indeed an idyllic one.
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Seriously? No historical context? This is only twenty years after Herbert Hoover, you know. That’s why the platform was written that way, to cast off Hoover’s shadow.
And please, must we cite the early-postwar social democratic ideals of the American elite? It’s only been 60 years. Their vision of society crashed and burned in the inflation of the 1970s. If those ideas were capable of working, people like Chris Blattman wouldn’t be doing development research today; the problems he solves would have been solved, already.
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RT @akhilak: Wow. Check out the GOP platform in 1956! via @cblatts http://t.co/FfkODluT
I guess hate replaced GOP compassion “@akhilak: Wow. Check out the GOP platform in 1956! via @cblatts http://t.co/WWbdz2Pm”
RT @akhilak: Wow. Check out the GOP platform in 1956! via @cblatts http://t.co/FfkODluT
Wow. Check out the GOP platform in 1956! via @cblatts http://t.co/FfkODluT
GOP platform in 1956 | Chris Blattman http://t.co/dZSxHy5S
Oh for the Days of Eisenhower Republicans https://chrisblattman.com/2012/09/05/gop-platform-in-1956/
GOP platform in 1956 @ChrisBlattman Shocking 1956 GOP platform. Eisenhower must have been a RINO http://t.co/VrGSJW5h
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
Wow. I blame that leftie Eisenhower. RT @magnusvk: GOP platform in 1956. Fascinating and a little depressing. http://t.co/y0rv7nIu
GOP platform in 1956. Fascinating and a little depressing. http://t.co/tEGfJA3Y
“America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper.” — GOP platform, 1956. No, really. http://t.co/DJ8IzDTm
GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/HNKx0xX9
http://t.co/4TpWhvYV < very enlightening!
GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/7MicNpaR
@cblatts I liked this gem long forgotten by the GOP: “We shall continue vigorously to support the United Nations.”
RT @adelaigue: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/qe2TTUAR
“continue expansion of social security, coverage unemployment insurance, better health protection” GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/6RG7YhS6
Le programme des républicains américains en 1956 : autres temps, autres moeurs ;-) http://t.co/wWGrc6Bc
GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/qe2TTUAR
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
“America does not prosper unless all Americans prosper” Oh really? I guess ‘all’ and ‘prosper’ don’t have the same meaning since 1956.
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
“@cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/jmmtWUtZ” & 1956 VP Nixon later as Pres signed amendments to CRA–Title 9 in 1972.
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
1956 GOP platform called for expanding Social Security, “better health protection for all our people”: http://t.co/8t9Gn6Xk from @cblatts
Well, there’s been regression.
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RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
@cblatts communists
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@blakehounshell, I think you’ll like this: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
RT @cblatts: GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/fuc2GSpl
“expansion of social security–broadened unemployment insurance–health protection for all people.” GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/Dx5ymkTB
Times, they are changing RT | GOP platform in 1956 http://t.co/IFitx1PA