Is there evidence of the Auto Industry lobbying for this act? Many people believe that America is very car-centric because America's Auto Industry and wanted to see if there is historical evidence of the Car Industry pushing for this despite low public support supposedly.
This post is separated into two major sections; one on a brief overview of the Eisenhower Presidency's relevant actions and the other on USA Demographics in 1962. I hope the length/formatting isn't too much of a pain, enjoy.
The Year is 1962, Richard Nixon is into his Second Year as President of the United States following his landslide victory after the popular 2 term Republican-Democratic Hegemony of the Eisenhower Administration. Throughout the 1950s, Eisenhower and the R-D's pragmatic leadership led to several foreign policy victories from the reinforcement of Scotland, Iceland and Australia alongside the controversial but bold dismissal of the Akagi Accords took the wind out of the sails of the National Progressive Party's claims of R-D weakness, which alongside the ideologically confused Southern Ticket of the Floridian Progressive Claude Pepper and Stalwart Segregationist Strom Thurmond spelled doom for the NPP's chances to challenge the establishment of American Politics. Between the Popular Stability of the Nixon/Kennedy Administration (with Kennedy's brilliant handling of the Hawaiian Missile Crisis bringing him lauds as he returns) and the legacy of Eisenhower, the United States for the first time in years is experiencing political stability and a moment of reprieve from the repeated humiliations and failures that has defined it since the market crashed in October of 1929.
Eisenhower Presidency and the R-D Hegemon
Eisenhower, for his popularity and unifying rhetoric, was a President truly in the mold of Washington and Grant; a War Hero to serve as the face of a political establishment forming a new status quo, with the Republican-Democratic domestic leadership being mostly handled by Senate Leadership and State Governments. Lyndon Johnson, alongside other liberal Republicans such as Nelson Rockefeller and George McGovern attempted to forge legislation alongside Western Conservatives and Southern Dixiecrats who had fled to the NPP-FR under Thurmond's leadership to avoid crippling filibusters which would further divide the R-Ds during a time of detente. As a result of this, similar to the previous administrations of Dewey and Truman which were wracked with wartime budgets and political considerations, the nature of reforms during this time period would uniformly see Bills come out of the House and go into the Senate only to be torn apart and put back together again with special provisions, stimulus spending and more. This was onl
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Why was he of all people selected instead of a politician or CEO for the post?
Like was he respected in the American agricultural community or Republican politics to be selected?
His religious position must have also been controversial during a time of Protestant domination. Not to mention the fact that some would have raised concerns about the fact that he was a religious leader taking a role in government. The Eisenhower Administration seems to have risked scandal and controversy to appoint him to the cabinet.
I'm currently reading Alistair Horne's book A Savage War of Peace and it leaves me wondering how the US reacted to this unrest.
