The election of 1956, 48 states were in the union at that time and Dwight Eisenhower was president. Even though Eisenhower had not made and major changes during his first term he was still the publics for choice for the next election. In a poll taken in 1954, 65% of Americans had approved of the job he was doing. Some critics reflected his as lazy. Saying he rather be golfing, one of his own speech writers once described his …showed first 75 words of 696 total…

…showed last 75 words of 696 total…party did not win the house majority also. Eisenhowers’ campaign was full of items, they had everything from pantyhose to umbrellas, bearing the “I Like Ike” and other slogans. The American people apparenty believed in Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bibliography Students Atlas Of American Presidential Elections (1789-1996) Congressional Quarterly Incc., Washington DC 1997 Dwight D. Eisenhower, HTTP://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/president/HTML/de34.html Eisenhower Presidential Library HTTP://sunsite.unc.edu./lia/president/eisenhower.html