================ When the 10 post ww2 recessions are examine the following is discovered:
Recession President party November 1948 ? October 1949 Truman D July 1953 ? August 1954* Eisenhower R July 1957 ? April 1958* Eisenhower R May 1960 ? February 1961* Eisenhower R Nov 1969 ? Nov 1970 Nixon R Nov 1973 ? March 1975 Ford R January 1980 ? July 1980 Carter D July 1981 ? Nov 1982 Reagan R July 1990 ? March 1991 GBush R December 2007 ? ? WBush R
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*collectively know as the Eisenhower prosperity years" :-< # of Rs -- 8 # of Ds -- 2source:
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
------------------------------------------- He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).