Pretty sure things were bad before then and Eisenhower went in naive, as to be expected of a wartime general.
He was too popular for the entrenched bureaucrats to mess with too much though, but to Eisenhower's chagrin, we ended up with a leftist majority in the courts.
From his farewell speech, he seemed to know what was up by the end of his two terms.
Pretty sure things were bad before then and Eisenhower went in naive, as to be expected of a wartime general.
He was too popular for the entrenched bureaucrats to mess with too much though, but to Eisenhower's chagrin, we ended up with a leftist majority in the courts.
From his farewell speech, he seemed to know what was up by the end of his two terms.