Certainly the Republican Party must identify itself with economic freedom and individualism. But “we must never be a party that is indifferent to the sufferings of a great community where, through some unusual cause, people are out of work, where people can’t educate their own children, where through any kind of disaster, natural or economic, people are suffering.” Eisenhower thought these ideas formed a “middle way” philosophy that could transform the Republican Party into the majority party in the United States—if only his loyalists would simply follow his advice.
