Sharing My Story

What with the crushed Hungarian Revolt,
the rise of Castro, the U-2 incident,
Nikita Khrushchev pounding on the table
at the UN with his shoe and later declaring
to the West “We will bury you” and many
other things I (and my family) was
somewhat disappointed with Eisenhower’s
seemingly lack of strong response.

Still we had a stong affection for Ike but
felt in some ways that his presidency had
not lived up to our expectations. Our family
was for Nixon primarily because his
opponent John F. Kennedy was a liberal
Democrat and a Roman Catholic. We were
disappointed by the very close election
and the vote fraud reports especially in
the Illinois (Chicago) area. Part of the
dismay lay in the fact that Nixon chose
not to contest the election. Years later,
Al Gore did contest the 2000 election
with George W. Bush and the nation survived.