As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.
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I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
I have been a Republican since 1966.
You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.
I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.