(REPLAY) Hour of Decision: Eisenhower: Gatekeepers

Lew begins a series on President Dwight Eisenhower with a general discussion of “gatekeeping,” the effort the Establishment undertakes to prevent populist rebellion by bleeding support off to politicians who are actually doing their bidding, despite representations that may be made. Lew uses the example of William F. Buckley as an establishment gatekeeper operating within the conservative movement.

He then moves to setting up the historical situation that required an Establishment intervention into the presidential election of 1952, through the candidacy of Dwight David Eisenhower. A populist rebellion fueled by the successes of communism abroad and revelations of communists operating at the highest levels of government at home threatened internationalist projects like the UN. The Republicans appeared to be ready to nominate America First candidate Robert Taft, and that effort had to be stopped.

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