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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.

— Robert Dold

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Eugene Jarecki

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

— Robin Williams

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

— Bob Ney

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

— Ron Paul

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

— Robert Dallek

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

— Clint Eastwood

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

— Noam Chomsky

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

— Ed Begley, Jr.

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.

— Charlie Crist

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

— Charles H. Percy