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Red Tide Rising: Fears from the 1950s Haunt Obama in 2012
The Blue Review
  • Todd Shallat, Boise State University
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Publication Date
10-12-2012
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Abstract

On August 20, 1952 over the cheers of 19,000 people at the foot of the Idaho Statehouse steps, Republican presidential nominee Dwight Eisenhower tarred the party of Harry Truman with an attack that haunts Democrats to this day.

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Originally published in The Blue Review, an online journal of popular scholarship published by the Boise State University College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs. Provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs license. Details regarding the use of this work can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

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Todd Shallat. "Red Tide Rising: Fears from the 1950s Haunt Obama in 2012" The Blue Review (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/todd-shallat/8/