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Forward with Eisenhower-Nixon #nn
This 1956 campaign comic presents a political narrative featuring discussions of President Eisenhower's foreign policy achievements, including his pursuit of world peace through proposals like atoms-for-peace, open skies inspection, and nuclear weapons freezes following the Geneva Summit Conference. The story highlights domestic accomplishments under the Eisenhower administration through the perspectives of ordinary Americans—a small business owner, a farmer, and workers—who credit Republican policies with improvements in health, education, welfare, minimum wage, Social Security, farm prices, and job creation. The narrative contrasts these Republican achievements with Democratic obstruction, arguing that voters should support Eisenhower, Nixon, and Republican congressional candidates in the November 6th election to continue "peace, prosperity, and progress."