The republican party platform of 1956

[guno]

And 60 years later see what the republican party has become verses what it once was



“The Eisenhower Administration will continue to fight for dynamic and progressive programs which, among other things, will:

Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers;

Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers;

Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;

Protect by law, the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so that workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits;

Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;

Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;

Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;

Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;

Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment;

Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public.

The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration.”

 

[SuperDemocrat]

I would like to see a link on this.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

I just found a link. I couldn't find anything in there that you mentioned above.

Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1956

 

[g5000]

The Republican and Democratic parties had both liberal and conservative wings back then. The Northeast was the liberal bloc of the GOP. The South was the conservative bloc of the Democrats.

Nothing has changed, come to think of it, except the party affiliation of the liberals and conservatives. The Northeast is still liberal, and the South is still conservative. But now the old time Northeast Republicans are Democrats, and the old time Southern Democrats are Republicans.

 

[g5000]

Hubert Humphrey was a young rising liberal star of the Democratic Party back then, strongly advocating for civil rights for blacks.

LBJ was an old school defender of the South, and had opposed every single civil rights legislation that came to Congress, including even one which would have banned lynching.

But LBJ wanted to be President in a bad way, and he made a fumbled attempt at the nomination in 1956. He was a brilliant political strategist but he fucked up big time in 1956 and made an ass of himself.

It was the conventional wisdom, and a fact of life, at the time that a Southerner could never be President because of the South's intransigence toward taking their boot off the necks of blacks.

But since LBJ wanted to be President in a bad way, he knew the only path to that office for him was through civil rights legislation. He had to get some kind of civil rights legislation passed.

The last time any civil rights had been passed had been 82 years previously, with the South steadfastly blocking any further advances since then.

LBJ did some incredibly brilliant political maneuvering to get a voting rights act passed in 1957. He stripped out other civil rights sections from the bill which the Southern bloc would never have allowed, and this pissed off the Republican liberals and Democrats like Hubert Humphrey, but LBJ's reasoning was "half a loaf is better than no loaf".

This was a fascinating period, especially for the philosophical transition of LBJ from a die-hard racist to a civil rights champion.

 

[g5000]

I just found a link. I couldn't find anything in there that you mentioned above.

Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1956

Every bit of the OP is in that link.

 

[francoHFW]

The GOP has gone to hell since 1964, and especially since 1980, taking the middle class and the country with it. RIP Bill Scranton.

 

[francoHFW]

Nothing but thievery and bs propaganda and dupes now. Trump/Palin!

 

[playtime]

 

[francoHFW]

Goldwater didn't see how big money liars would take over the GOP. Family and religious values and small gov't my ass, dupes.

 

[francoHFW]

Plenty of GOP compromise lately...pfffft!

 

[Hutch Starskey]

I would like to see a link on this.

^Doesn't know his own party's history.

 

[NYcarbineer]

I just found a link. I couldn't find anything in there that you mentioned above.

Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1956

Stop trolling.

 

[guno]