Where did the Republican Party Go?
The 1956 Republican platform, adopted during Dwight D. Eisenhower's re-election campaign, embraced 'Modern Republicanism,' featuring strong support for New Deal social welfare programs, labor rights, and federal infrastructure. You can read the complete text at the Republican Party Platform of 1956 hosted by The American Presidency Project The following are exact quotes from that document: 'Our Government was created by the people for all the people, and it must serve no less a purpose. The purpose of the Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares.
We believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of public service. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever it appears. We shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free land.
The farmers of America are at last able to look to the future with a confidence based on expanding peacetime markets instead of on politically contrived formulas foredoomed to fail except in a wartime economy. The objective is to insure that agriculture shares fairly and fully in our record prosperity without needless Federal meddlings and domination.
We have balanced the budget. We believe and will continue to prove that thrift, prudence and a sensible respect for living within income applies as surely to the management of our Government's budget as it does to the family budget.
