Compare and contrast the domestic policies of Eisenhower and TrumanHarry S Truman and Dwight David Eisenhower were both presidents of the United States from the 1940s to the 1950s, with the latter succeeding to Truman. Both of these presidents served two consecutive terms, despite the fact that Truman's first term was awarded by default due to bad luck, which earned him the nickname "Accidental President", and suspicion and doubt on the part of many on his abilities as president. Truman and Eisenhower are both from the South, although both were born into significantly poor families, Truman had actually experienced poverty while Eisenhower was more privileged, to receive a more protected start; their social background greatly influenced their overall beliefs and positions, policy implementation, and their views on internal affairs. Despite the social setback, Truman engaged in law and politics, and became a career politician during the Interbellum period, while Eisenhower a career soldier, who rose to prominence and became a general known for his planning of the Operation Overlord, taking into account his similarity and favor with the Americans, but demonstrated him as an inexperienced politician. Truman and Eisenhower belonged to opposing parties, however Eisenhower originally had no political position. It was only after siding with the Republican Party that he received the nickname "Middle Way", due to the moderate political position and similarity of both parties. Despite his party affiliation, Eisenhower's liberal side manifested itself most notably in his actions regarding health care, education, and welfare, such as the expansion of Social Security, which similarly paralleled Truman's attitude toward of social welfare. Despite such yes...... half of the document ......w on social well-being derived from his social background having been born into a considerably poor family, therefore sympathizing by relating from experience; its public works programs as a result of the lack of better alternatives and ulterior motives arising from its military history. Nonetheless, it is evident in his attitude towards civil rights that Eisenhower is more conservative at heart and that the differences in the domestic policies undertaken are less than the similarities with Truman, whose unachieved goals, very timid changes and agenda were mainly due to government hostility. , Conservative/Republican-dominant Congress, a relationship that would severely impede the progress of an administration, as well as antagonism toward any proposals that connote socialism due to the paranoia and hysteria caused by McCarthy in his witch hunts and in his smear campaign.