Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ahhh…Eisenhower. Remember the presidents of old, the Washingtons and Grants and Jacksons…the ones who were military commanders and faced combat and bullets and shit? Well, Eisenhower is not one of those guys. While he was a four star general and the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during WW2, he never actually saw combat.
He was an avid golfer, and in an effort to ban the squirrels from fucking up his golf game on the White House lawn, he ordered them to be shot on sight. He once said, “I could stand in the middle of fifth Avenue and shoot all the squirrels, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” No, he didn’t actually say that. No squirrels however, were actually harmed while he was president.
He considered discrimination against minorities an actual national security issue, desegregated the military and when the Secretary of the Navy pushed back and said it wasn’t a good idea, Eisenhower told him to fuck off and said, “there must be no second class citizen in this country.” Eisenhower proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 & 1960, and when Arkansas refused to integrate they schools, Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne Division like a fucking boss.
Unfortunately, he was homophobic as fuck and over 5000 employees were fired on suspicions of being gay. Total Salem Witch Trials bullshit if you ask me.
Read more fun adult facts about President Eisenhower and all the presidents in my upcoming book - The Big Book of Presidents for Adults.
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